295:...library of glass bottles rather than books, the "Pharmacia" is a reliquary of the easily overlooked and unnoticed. Mysterious organic substances along with obsolete materials and artifacts reside in deeply hued ambient fluids. Plant-like fibers and filaments are as illusory as memories floating on the edge of consciousness. Other vessels include recognizable objects--magnetic cassette tape, typewriter erasing ribbon, wooden blocks with letters, fragments of untranslatablr language in liquid elixirs. The bottles come in various shapes and sizes; several contain tiny bottles inside larger ones like little sunken vessels.
352:...a Homler family relic: the immense--indeed as she puts it, womblike--turquoise 1960 Cadillac Homler inherited from her aunt and uncle, and in which she floated through life until coming into a more practical vehicle. But Homler could not simply give up or destroy The Whale, as she called it; like any good artist, she made an installation out of it. The transformation is appropriately aquatic, right down to the ambient sound and typically Homlerian barrier reef of personal artifacts.
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401:(The Orchestra Pit Recordings) made by Homler with London based violinist and multi-instrumentalist Sylvia Hallett, you can hear the dedication to...everyday magic. This is music that's involved with amusement, enchantment and adventures close to home. It's unassuming in scope, playful in spirit and entirely refreshing.
226:"Anna Homler, L.A.-based but not often heard locally (she's a popular-in-Europe type), sings, in an invented language that 'nobody knows but everyone understands,' and plays a nice little assortment of wind-up clocks, toys and other mechanical doodads; her output is filtered through electronic devices..."
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is a resplendent shimmering turquoise beast with huge tail fins that suggest both a rocket ship and an oversized creature of the sea, be it mechanical or mammalian. Enter the belly of the beast and we are transported into an underwater piscean realm that is both mythic and magical, a temple of the
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first art incarnation was in an installation/performance at Espace DBD, December 11, 1981, in which we were taken in groups of four or five from an 'underwater' grotto waiting room replete with live mermaids and lots of fish food, on a magical mystery tour in the newly transformed Whale car,
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419:"With ears wide open, Homler haunts toy shops, hardware stores, and thrift shops, ever on the prowl for all manner of noise-makers, sonic gizmos, and other potential instruments." Dean Suzuki continues his review in
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1068:1948 births
750:L.A. Times,
591:subtitled:
507:Discography
444:Steve Roden
440:Ethan James
358:The Whale's
245:L.A. Weekly
224:L.A. Weekly
192:Los Angeles
188:Anna Homler
84:and may be
75:reads like
1062:Categories
968:The Whale,
947:Musicworks
837:2012-09-11
646:References
637:Split 12"
626:RVNG Intl.
493:Kate Crash
485:Rika Ohara
428:Pavel Fajt
421:Musicworks
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320:Breadwoman
196:California
150:Wikisource
39:improve it
897:May, 2012
895:The Wire,
798:May, 2012
796:The Wire,
497:LA Woman,
448:free jazz
346:The Whale
338:The Wire,
146:Wikiquote
133:contains
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870:The Wire
489:Yoko Ono
291:Homler's
158:May 2021
107:May 2021
97:and add
1043:YouTube
1018:, ed.,
863:Artweek
849:Sources
872:, 1997
641:, 2018
628:, 2016
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214:Career
375:Voice
367:Whale
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1014:and
278:Wire
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