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Language Scraps

by Liam Witter

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1.
Tommy Crayeuse Pt.2 02:47
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We had a conversation, i spoke in english you spoke in French, you said “ Qu’est qu’il fait beau” . “ok”, I said “ Where are you now” and you ran away... Chalk it up, Chalk and Cheese, by no means faux amis, not by a long chalk faux amis, you ran away before i said.. Storyboard, Cheeseboard, reaching the point of Christmas day everyday, the ultimate wealth aspiring to a handy everyday fromage kit. I got so bored, I bored through the swiss with a brillo, i ground it down, I smudged it around the cheeseboard. Dusty foggy PH level is changing. The Cheese turned to dust and my head became foggy. I scattered the other cheeses around; camembert, chevre, reblochon, took a preliminary slice to warm the knife. Kaiser king, cheese daddy, Fromage lord. I sunk it down and they all crowded around the crown in the middle, the peak, la coeur soft et molleux d’oré , the sovereign close to the surface, grated sovereignty of angles, distinguised parts that allow one or another storyboards to begin, gestalt yer words From Age, cow’s milk makes herds...
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Tommy Crayeuse Pt.1 03:01
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Storyboard, Cheeseboard, reaching the point of Christmas day everyday, the ultimate wealth aspiring to a handy everyday fromage kit. I got so bored, I bored through the swiss with a brillo pad, i ground it down, I smudged it around the cheeseboard. Dusty foggy PH level is changing. The Cheese turned to dust and my head became foggy. I scattered the other cheeses around; camembert, chevre, reblochon, took a preliminary slice to warm the knife. Kaiser king, cheese daddy, Fromage lord. I sunk it down and they all crowded around the crown in the middle, the peak, la coeur soft et molleux d’oré , the sovereign close to the surface, grated sovereignty of angles, distinguised parts that allow one or another storyboards to begin, gestalt yer words From Age, cow’s milk makes herds... We had a conversation, i spoke in english you spoke in French, you said “ Qu’est qu’il fait beau” . “ok”, I said “ Where are you now” and you ran away... Chalk it up, Chalk and Cheese, by no means faux amis, not by a long chalk faux amis, you ran away before i said.
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Liquid Worlds 02:33
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Liquid worlds, and flotting times the mamo spoils corbusier roof am f# fm Bb liquid gesture in a liquid gimic visual arts advantage of the language flotting past the barrier climing over fences and crop up on the other side communicating… Distance makes it easier Michelin men, flotting times Michelin men in wet suits.. liquid worlds mamo spoils the corbusier roof climbing over fences on another barrrier liquid worlds and flotting times advantage of the language, flotting past the barrier distance makes it easier liquid worlds, flotting times climbing over fences flotting past other barriers gestures just a gimic fluid times
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Ô Brink 05:44
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Can you pullover please pullover into the layby the deed is set, the necessary is to be meta does walking bring it in to focus get you here to margin of the page to the city sleeping auto moto zone to the squirel and pigeons home éclarcissement on the brink d’eau On the break of: sirop à la mente au bord d’eau Brinks the great river ouse Suinte sweet brink the sluggish flow of water oozes, goûte à goûte, l’eau s’écoule On the marge, the line brinkishly puts nowt into focus although it’s the width of my hand it’s éclair to understand the art-music brink restin a pull over the shoulder rend ta chat à la rue ton copain est relou raconda dans ta vue Grand question ampoule allume bonne question l'ampoule allume Ton crâne fondant comme ça use il est destin de t'enfermer il faut que tu t'envole
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Dilettante Frustratta 04:15
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Ne peut pas s'en tenir à une seule tâche The cloud is bouncing round like a vache la dilettante vue la dilettante est vue les panonceaux indiquaient au forgeron: Lay Pan on So In Decay ô For her on Lapin on sue Indigo boufferons Nap on sue indigo blue Na De la ton ton vu La del a tant ay voo La dilet-tante est vous La dilettante est vue Ne peut pas s’en tenir à une seule tâche The cloud is bouncing round like a vache Donc il est hors il est où dehors? Donkey eh ore eh ore eh ore the strangeness….it is is not, in the, picturesque plan ou séquence? What is relevance? Anticipate diversity in nonsense ( rap on repeat) Poetry lines: adoptive tones strive to tangle up inside their minds Donc il est hors il est où dehors? Donkey eh ore eh ore eh ore Voir le dilettante at work and don’t do him no harm Allume-feu ou artifice will get him off the ground La vue qu’il voir est magnifique from higher up it sounds Je suis content de faire le non-sens stumbled oh i’m clumsy, i’m a diletante at work dilettante au boulot Dans l’absurdité tu trouves aussi du sens exerce une activité de manière fantaisiste ; Vivre en dilettante.
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Misaccordieusementalisation 05:01
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L’autre jour, j’ai pris un livre, Je n’avais pas vraiment envie de le lire ou de comprendre de quoi il s’agissait. Il s’agissait plutôt d’une pratique de ce que j’appelle “ le glossing “. J’ai passé mon doigt de haut en bas et de page en page sans rien trouver dans ce livre de Franz Kafka. J’ai porté mon attention sur les notes du traducteur. On y lit : Dans le texte allemand, il y a un rythme d’une merveilleuse fluidité, la métamorphose n’est pas tout à fait achevée Dans le text anglais il y a ryhthm d’une merveilleuse fluidité la metamorphose n’est pas toute à fait achèvée (accents: french,mine, scottish, irish, geordie) 6.Done latex in grey, yarn-reel, doom-of-a-yours, flu add the tea, lamb ate-a-more-foes, nay-pat-toot-he-fay, ash-eve- hay 7. 8.-9Don’t let text only Ne laissez pas le text uniquement Yanmar vs fluidity Yeah never yours fluidity Younger years fury dead Ouais jamais ta fluidité sam editor no photos 10.la metamorphose metamorphose de l’agneau later to turkey in the factory a shaver ash tv 11.Online text, combustion, 1 year ago, flowers. simple golf, the state of permission, the statue that is charged, you only have an HDV bill. 12.In the french text there was a TV salesman, with ties to the government, they seem sad about an explosion that happened…
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Tight and Jammy 01:20
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Left: TIGHT AND JAMMY CONFLICT IN THE WEST BEDs INBEDED COLD WET SAND IN BED Right: UN POT DE CONFITURE CONFIT DE BREST BED’s INBEDED COLD WET SAND IN BED
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Baptiste Sardinal 04:44
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La vague en lui, La vague le lui avait montré l’obscurité, Ses facultés... intactes? l’homme au singe, du singe au lézard, Crustacé, Trilobite. Parallel to him Between the air and sea floats gigantic sardine Baptiste Sardinell tied a double bowline Show me that painting again! Provencal peintre au bord de seine Sartine Anti-fisherman La Sardine mêlée aux vagues et aux ciel capturée à l’huile par un pinceau ventre moucheté d’emeraude Au bord de seine le peintre est en grêve corporel son sang froid est bloqué/ne flow plus/ le soleil en etat d’eclipse permanent, brown with grey I can’t stand no no, I can’t stand oh no … les impressionistes Rejection theory, niether here nor there It’s washed out échouée Au diable Claude, bon, Fickle fish suffer under the sun Sun, there ain’t no sunshine in that fish arachon du cou au cul, dorsal to anal fin cherchons le prisme de lumière, the passion fruit within A dab-handed modernist Une limande pour son main left -eye out of sync I feel he’s taking the piss on the otherhand O Jean Baptiste Sardinell O Jean Baptise Sardine why o why’s it blocking the vieux port A playful little critique of his coup de coeur, they thought It’s oily Olive painted skin so fresh and so bright a classic midi-terre-and painter of light So reel it in, and feel it’s emerald eye but how on earth could it stay there between water and sky
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Fisch für Spiel 03:37
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Fisch für spiel Fish c’est l’avenir de poisson voix vox voix est la voix J’attend la voix elle me retrouvera Entendons, tandis… Tête à tête, C’est à dire, c’est comme ça, Tu m’etonne, N’avait t’il donc pas, Parmi eux, La douce voix, souple, superflue et franche Fisch für spiel Je vais venir vous voir chez vous Sous un déguisement d’un insecte, composé d’insectes déguisés en humain un scarabée ( sous-mer/marine) bien malade Leffe Pranktus ,Bic Feather, hammerhead, Mozza Fella Stone Cruise – friend of Bigorné Weaver Scandanavian Comet Flamant/– drifting on the warm current stream Le bruit inondait ses oreilles en vague…. vaguement balayer ses pensées Fisch für spiel
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Trans en Provence/ Beef to Sail 02:50
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Right: DId you hear , did you hear it did you get it get the beef for sale I got some beef to sail Sail, going to sail with the beef, i’m gunna sail with the beef and some ale For sail, to sail Left: Beg your pardon, bégayer = stutter Trans en Provence Madame du roche dur Pastis at the gaf 16 years trying to get to grips with those 1970’s music trips... tricks Gentle ryhmes with metal I dreamt that I threw a stone at a donkey Marianne..Faithful, Fesseful ça me crévice! Trans en Provence Madame du roche dur Pastis at the gaf I am relaxed i hit every note i am invincible. Breeze /slash/ beef Moronic activités
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Fickle Fish Suffer 03:26
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I dreamt of flying fish/ Tickling fish of all sizes and colours LEAMING A cuboid tank of seawater suspended In a Daliesque waterland Odes to lost fishermen, They were found by waterland species When men die they sink and when fish die they leap out of sight hoisted by invisible threads Ô but what odes for a fish Fickle Fish Suffer and then some.. Flotsam fresh Supper another ones Fortune Fortuna Saké For fuck sake Fist Fished Sole Land up on plates Ô but what odes for a fish? Fake Fish Swimming in tank above us Tickling fish of all sizes and colours

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'Language Scraps'

With the texts I write, I explore a field of language that lies between English and French, looking for parallels, false friends, morphing, code-switching and mixing, looking for accidents and misunderstandings. Moments of accident and misunderstanding can be the most fruitful for producing poetic or transcendental meaning. I mix all sorts of subjects, from the everyday to art, music, culture, political criticism and a level of absurdity for which I am often indebted to 20th century Irish writers such as Flann O'brien.
Comparisons between music and art are frequent and the hybrid use of French and English forms a kind of metalanguage in the texts. Sometimes I explain the experience I'm trying to make. For example, 'Ô Brink' is about both a margin between art and music and the side of the habitats of animals on the side of the motorways.
Music can be formed around the concept, like 'misaccordieusementalisation' or 'Dilettante Frustratta', where the sound is organised in a very geometric way to follow the process of morphing, degeneration and reformation.
There's a lot I could tell you about the music as well... it's quite often the subject of my abilities; there are a lot of rough edges. I tend to build compositions in layers by using a drum machine to start a rhythmic structure, then adding a flow of spoken or half-sung text. These are normally the first elements, then I build around that with guitar, analogue and electric synths, granular samples, backing vocals etc.
The accumulation of these layers often leads to a distortion of the text and adds texture.

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released June 6, 2021

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Liam Witter Marseille, France

I take the position of a dilettante, experimenting with sounds and bilingually merged texts (french and english). My sound works envelop the conceptual and the poetic as well as performative gestures.

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