VINTERFIN (w/NorthWind)

when the snow-covered forest lies motionless 

beneath the faintly darkening sky

it is completely still 

if it then begins to snow and the air fills with snowflakes 

it is still completely silent - but the silence is different 

it seems to grow denser, more concentrated

 

and that sound, which is no sound, only a nuance of the nothing 

is a kind of intensifying or deepening sonic expression 

of winter

Karl Ove Knausgård

V I N T E R F I N

music by Tim Clément

voices by Jim Lamarche

https://www.timclementmusic.com/

Karl Ove Knausgård

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/knausgaard-devours-himself/570847/

see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/

see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/

see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/

see the TEMPLE REDUX album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/jimlamarche-templeredux/

N O R T H  W I N D

volume up . 1080p

music composed & performed by Jim Lamarche

flute by Jody Terio at amber studios

queen west, toronto, 1984

paintings by Tom Thomson

animated by Tim Clément

from the album SPEARMINT LAKE

special thanks to GRADO LABS in Brooklyn NY

for understanding how headphones

should be made

https://gradolabs.com/

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FUTURA (the reckoning)

this is the way the world ends
not with a bang but a whimper

 

T. S. Eliot

F U T U R A

the reckoning

volume up . 1080p

optimized for night vision

a jim lamarche remix

from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

source music w/tony anderson

https://www.tonyandersonmusic.com/

see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/

see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/

see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/

see the TEMPLE REDUX album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/jimlamarche-templeredux/

read more of Jim's blog posts here 

http://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/

F U T U R A

the reckoning

volume up . 1080p

special thanks to GRADO LABS in Brooklyn NY

for understanding how headphones

should be made

https://gradolabs.com/

jimlamarche.ca

SWEET SALVATION

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds

J Robert Oppenheimer

S W E E T  S A L V A T I O N

volume up . 720p

optimized for night vision

a remix of a remix

it's nuclear cartoons

I just ran w/it

a jim lamarche remix

from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

source music w/sid acharya

https://sidacharya.com/

read more of Jim's blog posts here 

http://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/

see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/

see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/

see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/

 see the TEMPLE REDUX album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/jimlamarche-templeredux/

read more of Jim's blog posts here 

http://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/

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MONDAY MORNING

Nature doesn’t keep time - it’s random; 

there is NO predicting which way any of this goes.

My second week at Spearmint, late Aug/92.

My 36th birthday a month away. 

Alone (day 5), sun and clouds, mostly clouds but clearing.

Cool temps and VERY windy/coffee; maybe 12C thinking.

 Weather fuck. Coat. I mean, it's frikkin' August man!

Grey, rain - since my arrival (my first semi-clear day).

M O N D A Y  M O R N I N G
volume up/1080p

 

I decided to walk out into the woods w/my recording gear mid morning guessing.

I didn’t have a watch and wasn’t sure - maybe 10? 

My first real test of this expensive rental.

A portable Sony digital recorder and a brand new Calrec Ambisonic mic

from the friendly folks at Vistek on Queen E. in Toronto.

Setting up to capture the wind in the trees; battery? check.

Something musical here. Decent headphones - cool.

Recording and listening. Nice. Wow.

Sitting and leaning back against a tree pondering;

 most of the world is at work right now, approaching lunch 

in the office or the shop, dealing w/stress (office politics), 

thinking about what they’ll have for dinner.

What shows they’re going to watch on TV tonight - the state of their relationships;

and I’m here in the middle of nowhere - looking straight up and absorbing everything …

Returning to the tent studio that afternoon and adding this in about an hour. 

Listening to the wind and extending it … a new mix

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recommended listening: volume up, 

good headphones after dark - it's a long-throw 

and all very slow

spearmint lake

30 year anniversary edition

1993 - 2023

optimized for night vision

composed & performed by jim lamarche

from the album SPEARMINT LAKE

assembled in logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland U220, S550 & System 8 synthesizer/samplers

this music clip was made possible by:

Toronto Arts Council

https://torontoartscouncil.org/home

Ontario Arts Council

https://www.arts.on.ca/

read more of Jim's blog posts here 

http://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/

see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/

see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/

see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/

Spearmint Lake w/John Theriault - August 1992

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PENDULUM - from the album spearmint lake

in June 1992

I received a grant to visit a fly in lake

50 km northeast of Chapleau Ontario

for 3 weeks

In August I arrived w/a whack of gear

and a rather loose agenda - my mission

to write & record an album of music

It was a blast

recommended listening: volume up, 

good headphones after dark - it's a long-throw 

and all very slow

spearmint lake

30 year anniversary edition

1993 - 2023

P E N D U L U M
volume up/1080p

optimized for night vision

composed & performed by jim lamarche

from the album SPEARMINT LAKE

assembled in logic audio & final cut

featuring the roland system 8

this music clip was made possible by:

Toronto Arts Council

https://torontoartscouncil.org/home

Ontario Arts Council

https://www.arts.on.ca/

N O R T H  W I N D

spearmint lake

volume up/1080p

paintings by Tom Thomson

animation by Tim Clement

read more of Jim's blog posts here 

http://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/

see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/

see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/

see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/

Spearmint Lake w/John Theriault - August 1992

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