Gristleism Shadow #2 (A.D. # 11)

Audible Drawing Nr. 11 is my second "Gristleism Shadow" drawing - actually it's the shadow of the outer packaging of the Gristleism, while the Gristleism itself was standing aside and watching me draw, and playing track number 2, "Hamburger Lady", originally a Throbbing Gristle composition from 1978 or so.


The complete recording of the drawing process (45 minutes) will be available soon on a CDR together with the original drawing (as the inlet of the CD).

Gristleism Shadow (A.D. # 10)

My tenth Audible Drawing shows the shadow of a Gristleism (among some thyme shadows). The red part is the position of the Gristleism, I colored it red once I removed the device from the paper...


Drawing dimensions 12 x 24 cm, pencil and color pencil on Bristol paper, folded in the middle (to fit into a CD case).

The audio is about 31 minutes long: Pencil sound, some vehicles passing by at a distance, sometimes there's a bird, and there's the sound of track one of my red Gristleism : "Persuasion" (composed by Throbbing Gristle, of course). Here's just a two minute extract of my "audible drawing":

La Brague (Audible Drawing #9)

This is my ninth Audible Drawing, it shows the Brague, a little creek between Châteauneuf de Grasse and Antibes. (Full length 52 minues - I mean, the audio, not la Brague, which is 21 km.)

Mon neuvième dessin audio montre la Brague, un 'fleuve côtier' pas très loin de mon lieu de travail. Je l'ai fait jeudi dernier.

Meine neunte Hörzeichnung zeigt die Brague, einen kleinen Fluss zwischen Châteauneuf de Grasse und Antibes (die Stelle, die ich hier - letzten Donnerstag - gezeichnet habe, ist in Sophia Antipolis).

Squirrel (Audible Drawing #8)

Sure, this is a very sad drawing. What makes me think most when I see such scenes is that the driver might as well have been me.
On the recording, of course, you hear a lot of cars passing by while I was drawing.

Je sais que c'est un dessin triste, sinon macabre. Ce qui me rend le plus pensif quand je vois une scène pareille, c'est que moi aussi j'aurais pu être à la place de l'automobiliste.
Evidemment, sur l'enregistrement on entend surtout des véhicules qui passaient lorsque j'étais en train de dessiner.

Dies ist natürlich eine eher makabre Zeichnung. Was mich dabei nachdenklich macht, ist, dass das auch mir hätte passieren können.
Auf der Aufnahme hört man passend dazu noch eine ganze Menge Autos vorbeifahren, während ich zeichnete.


(As usual, this is an extract - full length: 18 minutes)

Silent rain (Audible Drawing #7)

Pluie silencieuse (Dessin audio No. 7) / Stiller Regen (Hörzeichnung Nr. 7)
I made this drawing on the 19th January, but as always, the post-production took some time ... below is a two-minute-extract of the recording (the entire recording is 39 minutes).
You probably don't see it from the drawing, but it started to rain after a few minutes, and I did most of the drawing holding my umbrella ... it was a very silent rain though, you don't really hear it on the recording.

Voici mon dessin audio du 19 janvier... il a commencé à pleuvoir quelques minutes après que je m'étais installé, et j'ai tenu mon parapluie pendant la plupart du temps, mais c'était une pluie assez silencieuse - sur l'enregistrement on ne l'entend presque pas.

Dies ist also meine Hörzeichnung Nr. 7 vom 19. Januar. Wenige Minuten nachdem ich angefangen hatte zu zeichnen, fing es an zu regnen - aber es war ein sehr stiller Regen, auf der Aufnahme hört man ihn kaum.