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HA!NEWS 22
Jan 2025 | Kicking off!
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Dear
all
So today, actually, I will be "talking" to
the Donald on a theatre stage in Pretoria, kicking off a four-week South
African tour. Look out for events in Gauteng, the Northern Cape, Western
Cape, Southern Cape and central South Africa.
On
the HA!-online smorgasbord, where there is a release for each of the
nine categories, there is a recording of a live show opening, improvisational
drawings, the restful "Quiet Hills" recording, a chunky funky
and somewhat surreal story as told by Mira, of a cat in jail wanting
to learn French, complete with full page drawings (perhaps this is what
they call a comic!), the forward moving "Stringasong", two
poems - one in Afrikaans ("skapies”) and then "tears",
of which we are in short supply. Finally a drawing by Joke of a homely
guest house in Prince Albert (Karoo town, South Africa) where we once
stayed and performed.
And
then, for lovers of Afrikaans - and Dutch - there is a conditional release
of "Driepunt Poësie" - which is a live recording of this
production, where I collaborated with the off-beat Belgian poet Andy
Fierens and Afrikaans stage luminary, Grethe Fox, to bring together
Flemish and Afrikaans poems, in a symphonic structure. Note that the
Afrikaans poems are by Ingrid Jonker and Breyten Breytenbach, whose
recently passed away.
Well,
there, you have lots to chew on. And a new year that brings with it
a whole new dimension of insecurity around the world.
I
wish you wisdom, and creativity, especially.
Francois
(HA!Man)
"You
were able to give me the opportunity to look at life from a
whole new perspective. Continue what you are doing, because
you have given me something in my soul and heart to take with
me. Others deserve to experience it too."
(Nicole Nel, National Schools Festival 2002)
HA!-ppenings
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upcoming
(anywhere
you are - book now, help shape the next HA!ppening
in your area)
South
Africa (Jan-Feb)
Europe
(Mar-Apr)
Europe & UK (May)
South Africa (Aug-Sep)
North America (Oct-Nov)
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latest releases
(now
with free access to all, but kindly support our creativity by contributing)
1-1 MYSTICAL
- RECORDING
| first
glimpse | 03:57 | voice and whistling alternate as they questioningly
fly on winds of sustained padding sounds, during an opening improvisation
of a performance way back in 2003 (HM Dec 2003)
1-2
EXPRESSIVE
- DRAWING
| delicate
| part map, part structure, part organism, it delicately tries to
hold together (HM Feb 2020)
1-3
CONNECTIVE
- RECORDING
| Quiet
Hills | 04:47 | Part of the "Whistle Away" album, recorded
at a friend's house, in the garden, close to the see, at night.. (HM
Mar 2003)
2-1 EXPLORATIVE
- PROSE
| cat
in jail learns french | 13 pages by hand, illustrated | Joke aassisted
Mira to write and illustrate her tale of a jailed cat, iwshing to
speak French (ML Nov 2024)
2-2
EXTRACTIVE
- RECORDING
| stringasong
| 06:24 | From the album "Chasing Time", a forward moving
techno-orchestral dance piece (HM Jul 2013)
2-3
CONSTRUCTIVE
- GEDIG
| skapies
| 83 woorde | 'n loflied aan dierlikheid (HM Feb 2010)
3-1 EMOTIVE
- POEM
| tears
| 113 words | an ode to tears (HM Nov 2010)
3-2
DISTRIBUTIVE
- DRAWING
| you
look beautiful | suggestive of gentility cloaked in elaborate
riches (HM Jul 2013)
3-3
ALL-EMBRACING
- DRAWING
| Prins
Albert | drawing of Die Stoep guesthouse in Prince Albert, where
we stayed and performed (JD Feb 2016)
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ALBUM
3-1 EMOTIVE
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COLLABORATIONS | Driepunt Poësie (Afrikaans)
LET WEL
Hierdie album is nie gelys in die HA!Shop nie. Ek stel dit beskikbaar
aan diegene wat dit spesiaal
versoek.
BESKRYWING
Hierdie was 'n projek deur myself geinisieer, in samewerking met Belgiese
verhoogdigter Andy Fierens en die Suid-Afrikaanse aktrise, Grethe
Fox. Die idee was om Vlaamse en Afrikaanse gedigte byeen te
bring. Ek het dit so benader: 3 dele, eerste deel Afrikaanse gedigte
met 'n donker kleur, tweede deel Vlaamse gedigte meer eksperimenteel
en ekspressief en derde deel, 'n ontmoeting tussen die tale rondom
die tema van liefde en lewe. 'n Volledig-simfoniese musiekklankbaan
is geskep na aanleiding van keuses uit gedigte soos verskaf deur
Grethe en Andy. Andy hoofsaaklik sy eie, Grethe met die werke van
Ingrid Jonker en Breyten Breytenbach, waarvoor spesiale toestemming
verkry is. Albei medewerkers was vol probleme met die klankbaan en
dit het baie oorhaal gekos om dit so op die verhoog te kry - vyf optredes
in Suid-Afrika in die jaar 2003. Die opname op die CD is van
die laaste optrede by die Universiteit van Tshwane, Pretoria. Die
dawerende gehoorreaksie daar het hopelik my kritici se monde tydelik
gesnoer..
'n
Knippie LUISTER:
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