"The ancestors of the Inca reportedly said that 25,000 years ago two deities came down from the sky to them in large boats, landing in Lake Titicaca, the Earth's highest lake. In this alternative myth, the two founders emerged from the waters there, carrying the body of the original ancestor transformed into stone (huaca, meaning "sacred"). In 2003, an international team of archaeologists discovered in Lake Titicaca a huge underwater structure, later identified as a stone temple, perhaps built by the same Incas responsible for Macchu Piccu. The underwater temple seems to date to between 1,000 to 1,500 years ago but the divers reported there was not enough evidence to suggest a city, even though they followed what they said was a "long road" to get to the temple. There is growing controversy over the issue.
Satellite photography studied by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna from the Politecnico di Torino, revealed many more structures there which bear too many right angles to be considered natural geological formations and which may indeed have once been large agricultural terraces. Other archaeologists working recently in--or rather over--Egypt with infrared satellite photography have detected what they believe might be two or three buried pyramids that were thought lost and perhaps this technology will be trained on not only the submerged structure in Lake Titicaca but on the many other enigmatic underwater megaliths, including that off the coast of Japan's westernmost island of Yonoguni, which may in fact be the oldest structure on the planet, dating beyond the Egyptian pyramids and possibly (controversially) more than 10,000 years, a time when geologists and archaeologists believe there was no such level of civilization capable of building them. The Yonoguni site has been associated with the legend of Utsoro Bune, in which a woman descends from the sky in a ship, carrying a sacred head in a box.
You can undertake your own researches based on these few clues. Whether or not some of these structures are in fact sunken catastrophe cities, post-glacial farming projects or in fact point to older human civilizations that preceded the Great Ice or appear fantastically as evidence of docking points for space-crafts, I am nevertheless intrigued and inspired by these phenomena to imagine the range and skill of intelligent life forms and contemplate them through my music. There is an intimate archetypal relationship between stone, flooding, heights and access to the guidance of the stars and messengers from the stars, as if these elements commanded the measures of form in the arts that are still with us.
My approach is intuitive in Circling Lake Titicaca, partly planned out sequences of sounds with improvisational detours. Materials used in the piece are stones gathered from various places on the Earth, prepared guitar, mini-theremin and laptop running a mixture of Pure Data and Audiomulch patches." JG
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ABOUT JEFF GBUREK
Jeff Gburek is composer, improviser, sound artist, visual artist, poet, working with prepared guitar, unprepared guitars, stones and other objects, phonography, electronics, sampling, digital manipulation. He studied Javanese (Jogja) and Balinese (Ubud) gamelan music and worked for some years as percussionist, strongly influenced by Harry Partch. In NYC he played with Neel Murgai, Daniel Carter, Graham Haynes and did studio work for Joe Claussel and Nithin Sawney. He first lived in Berlin in 2000, playing with Joe Williamson, Michael Vorfeld, Marcelo Aguirre, Annette Krebs, Konrad Bauer, Tobias Vethake and others, thusly setting the tone for his paradoxical poetics of sound, while working on dance/theater with Ephia in Djalma Primordial Science (www.djalma.com).
In New Mexico (2001 -2004), he worked in relative isolation on the physiology of sound, recording three radically experimental CDs released on his own label and with Ephia taught numerous workshops, making two cross country tours, played with Keith Rowe, Kyle Bruckmann, Luperci, Raven Chacon, Bob Bellerue, Tom Carter (Charalambides), Bob Marsh and others, returning to Germany to work with various musicians each year, realeasing his first “official” CD with Nur Nicht Nur in 2003. It was in this time he visited the Tarahumara of Northern Mexico to study their music and religious rituals.
Since 2005, living in Berlin, he has toured widely in Europe, playing with Tetuzi Akiyama, Lucio Capece, Pascal Battus, Yannick Franck, Olivier Pé, Christine Sehnahoiu, Stephane Rives, Guillaume Viltard, Rinus Van Alebeek (and at numerous editions of Das Kleines Field Recordings Festival), Madame P., Olivier DiPlacido and others and was given a residency at STEIM in Amsterdam and presented sound installations in Darmstadt 2006, where he met Helmut Lachenmann. At the request of Noé Cuéllar, he composed a soundtrack for an invisible film which was subsequently released by Yannick Franck’s Idiosyncratics net-label. CD releases with Tetuzi Akiyama, Raven Chacon and his solo cd recorded in 2003 released by Foxy Digitalis followed. Many performances with Djalma Primordial Science took him far afield in this period: festivals in Amsterdam, France (twice in Rodez at Espace Antonin Artaud), Copenhagen, twice at Odin Teatret (Hostelbro) and two appearances at the UNIDRAM in Potsdam.
His CD "red rose for the sinking ship" was released by Triple Bath in 2007 to great praise and "virtuous circles" released by Absurd Records was also warmly received in 2006. Since living in Poznan he has been performing solo and at the Ad Libitem Festival in Warsaw with John Tilbury, Eddie Prevost and Phil Durrant. The cd "remote provinces" was released in 2009 on Aural Terrains and was hailed by Dan Warburton as "one of the year's most satisfying releases." (that you never heard!). The French label N.O.T. released his acoustic guitar cd entitled "Impatience" featuring one collaborative track with Tetuzi Akiyama. Current projects include collaborations with Rafal Iwański, Ayankoko, Denitsa Mineva, and an upcoming CD with Tetuzi Akiyama and the trio "meltwater" (Karolina Ossowska, violin, Joanna Zielecka, flute). He had also been organizing 3 editions of Retrograde in the Dromosphere Festival at Galeria ON in Poznan. This summer he and Karolina Ossowska will lead a group of young musicians to close encounters of the first kind with improvisation, extended techniques and graphic music at the Experyment Festival, 2011 in Zbąszyń, Poland."LINK
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