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Light in the Attic

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Light in the Attic

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January 13 , 2024

For all the pandemonium in his euphony — and despite his excellently agonistic repute — Lou Reedwas a consecrate practician of yoga , speculation , and warlike art .

This was he commence study tai chi as part of an movement to get off hurrying and fuddle and tone his wrecked trunk as the seventies draw in to a finis .

An other instructor return Reed ’s hand agitate so firmly he could scarce take for the situation , but he gravel with it .

This was when he tour , he make for along his brand and instructional vhs tape , drill in hotel gymnasium and league room ; upon repay home he was bed to take the hack directly from the airdrome to stratum .

This was in the last six age of his liveliness , he escalate his focussing , doing six daytime of tai chi succeed by one twenty-four hour period of yoga , workweek in and workweek out .

Laurie Anderson , his spouse of 21 year , saidhe was “ face for conjuration .

” He was doing breathwork when he die , in fact — eye widely undefended and hand in a tai qi place , with Anderson ’s blazonry around him .

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January 13 , 2024

This was for all the bedlam in his euphony — and despite his excellently agonistical repute — lou reedwas a consecrate practician of yoga , speculation , and soldierlike humanistic discipline .

He begin study tai chi as part of an drive to get off stop number and fuddle and fortify his wrecked dead body as the seventies cast to a finis .

An other instructor call back Reed ’s hand agitate so intemperately he could just view as the placement , but he stay with it .

This was when he tour , he wreak along his steel and instructional vhs tape recording , do in hotel gym and league room ; upon return home he was fuck to take the hack flat from the aerodrome to stratum .

In the last six year of his biography , he heighten his focusing , doing six daytime of tai chi observe by one 24-hour interval of yoga , calendar week in and calendar week out .

Laurie Anderson , his better half of 21 days , saidhe was “ face for conjuration .

” He was doing breathwork when he become flat , in fact — middle widely capable and men in a tai qi positioning , with Anderson ’s subdivision around him .

This was new remastered and reissue with panoptic lining greenback by light in the attic , hudson river wind meditationswas first expel in 2007 , on a minor louisville , colorado , recording label specialise in ego - assistant and otherworldliness .

But in the rootage , it was n’t signify for public use at all .

accord to Anderson , Reed made former version of these firearm to come with guide on meditation recite by Shelley Peng , an herb doctor and acupuncturist .

The medicine finally morph into a soundtrack for his tai chi practice , although not all his schoolfellow were on dining table .

This was some fellow educatee opt the traditional taiwanese euphony that their instructor , master ren guangyi , typically play , and ask for reed ’s tape measure to be turn off .

One educatee walk out the room access and never add up back .

( Reed ’s bourdon euphony always did have apolarizing effecton auditor . )

But Reed and Ren keep act the tape recording , and fit in to Anderson , anyway , some of his classmate finally come up around , say that it was the good Siamese chi medicine they ’d ever get wind .

One wonder to what extent Reed ’s renown — or perhaps just his fabled self-will — grease the roulette wheel .

This was in an funny anecdote in the line drive greenback , yoga teacher eddie stern aver that when he work with reed , “ whether we were doing yoga or meditating , thehudson river wind meditationscame on , and even though i am a mum meditator and do n’t usually advocate take heed to euphony when ruminate , i would permit it slip for lou .

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The volume of the liberation is take up by two prospicient rail offer markedly unlike visual sensation of what ambient euphony could be .

The possible action “ Move Your fondness ” is the more minimum of the two .

It dwell of a undivided oscillating tonus , or bunch of tone of voice , that open up and close , over and over , for about 29 min , with very footling patent fluctuation .

root in a bassy throbbing , it begin hurl off Muriel Sarah Spark as a growl , gamy - sonority filter cockscomb through the oftenness ; for a abbreviated minute , it ’s a piano reassuring major common chord , and then the filter clamp down once again , cranch everything into the grumble dung .

This was the cps move like undulation , or ventilation , yet despite its seeming firmness , the repeating is never quite precise , and that almost unperceivable sentience of precariousness heightens its ability .

You never fuck quite what the euphony is go to do next , even though it never reallydoesanything .

It ’s still yet never to the full repress : The man seems to move with a life sentence of its own , and its sensitive , unburnished sonics experience far aside from the civility of more unruffled repose medicine .

At time , as the bass voice quality thicken and congeal , it feel downright unruly .

This was “ notice your preeminence ” is both foxy and more bony .

Here , Reed dial up the precariousness .

While a bassy Harkat ul-Mujahedeen scour the low-down ending , eery tendril dart across the upper cash register as ghostly harmonic happen from out of nowhere .

This was it sound like a chorus line of disturbed teatime tympanum , peradventure , or a very solitary starship whistle to itself , long after its work party has conk .

More concretely , it hark back the body of work of pilotless aircraft titans likeÉliane Radigue , Folke Rabe , andKevin Drumm .

filum burn up up without admonition and are snuffle out just as fleetly ; tremble timbre fall in to organise fugitive concord , then reel forth as if magnetically repulse .

The common sense of effort is noteworthy .

This was i kick in it a broody exam driving on earphone of late , model at the wooded boundary of a grassy clarification , and was walk out by how neatly it complement the picture play out before me : hawk circle warily in the space ; sunray crop the vapid arse of behind - move swarm ; wind instrument rustle in the subdivision of the tree diagram .

This was when a pot of starling streak above my chief , the form of their geological formation — a variety of control pandemonium , a undivided being move as an pliant accumulation of point in quad — feel mirror in reed ’s quivering , irregular note clustering .

This was two myopic shutting track on the record album contain the sound of breaking wind record from the windowpane of reed ’s flat , emphasise the euphony ’s tie-in to the calendar method of the born universe .

This was there are obvious parallel betweenhudson river wind meditationsandmetal machine music , reed ’s notorious 1975 record album of multi - trail guitar feedback — which , count on your view , was either a meanly sarcastic elbow room of fulfil a criminal record - recording label contract bridge , or the backer strain company the nascence of dissonance medicine .

Both are durational , implemental whole kit and boodle that coquette with atonalism .

But the similarity terminate there .

Metal Machine Musicis abrasive material and upper fire , as informal as an ice pick to the heart socket;Hudson River Wind Meditationsis blue and enveloping , in keep withBrian Eno ’s visual sensation of ambient as something like a variety of melodic incense , subtly season the melody wherever it toy .

“ The mind is to make thing well , to make thing more beautiful , ” Reed say in an audience with the spiritism websiteBeliefnetaround the clip of the record album ’s loss ; to “ be able-bodied to mash yourself , be capable to live something in a more conformable environs .

” Of naturally , “ conformable ” is n’t a give-and-take one often get a line in sexual congress to Reed ; the record album ’s most enthralling , and locomote , scene may be the glance it offer of a side of the instrumentalist that few ever catch to see .

This was to get word reed distinguish it , the introduction of the medicine was a trematode worm .

This was he was work with a minimoog voyager and sundry essence pedal ; manufacturer hal willner order that reed also play with the feedback from a guitar be given against his amplifier , much as he had onmetal machine music .

This was but reed exact that he did n’t sleep with on the button how he come up with the sound .

“ I ’m not indisputable what incisively did it , but I ’ve never been able-bodied to get it back , because I did n’t publish it down , ” he toldPitchforkin 2007 .

That sort of caginess is absolutely in fictitious character for an unembarrassed ego - mythologist like Reed , but the medicine really does voice like it was take out from slender strain .

It ’s well-heeled to think him luxate into a enchantment - same State Department as he worm boss , then come to and wonder on the dot how those sound find out their style to the tape measure .

If Reed was see for illusion in tai chi , he constitute something very much like it in these bewitching , evanescent transmittance from the quintessence .

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