Graham Watling, solo: “What is Not There” is a performance
about its title
One man with speakers. No band. All songs, aside from the tracks
which cross over with other projects, are only available live at the
performance (there), and nowhere else.
Short songs crafted for the format. A mini musical
1) Leider Habe Ich Niemals Abendessen 03:00
Not there: immediate, material needs—
physical, earthbound reality
2) Livorno 00:36
Places—idealized.
What they are not.
Or?
3) Heaven is Black, Hell is Grey 01:14
An interlatticed framework of units, none of which are 100% in
existence— hell is grey
A sum of the percepts which are not there
4) Trocken Genug 01:23
Shoot for the absence
Zero-ness as something-ness. Subtract the wetness
zero sum
5) Two More Sheets of Foam 01:54
Desire for what is not there
6) Jive Talkers Killed My Brothers 01:30
Who is not there.
7) It’s a Bitch 01:12
This feeling of absence. Not feeling how one wants to
feel
8) Smoothie: You Mess Around, You Mess Around 00:58
Undefinable ontological entities
The what is there, undefinable as what it is, and undefinable
as what it is not
Gertrude Stein: “There is no there there”
In this case, there is no “what” there.
What is it?
9) Let’s Get a Slice 00:55
A slice of the good life, a slice of the great life
Non-geographical where you are at, idealized.
There is no place there.
10) We got to load this shit, stick it on the fuckin’ truck 01:01
More literally, what is not done yet.
What is not there yet in the back of the truck, but still at
curbside
11) I want Sky 00:25
Was Mir gefällt
12) Jetpack with a Helicopter Blade on it 00:52
Is not there
Is not tangible
Neither is heaven
13) Spricht Mal Von Der Polizei 01:56
“The degree that the world is a world just outside your front
door”
14) Unavoidable. Unthinkable 01:42
The possibility of calamity ever present, hanging in the background,
emergent. “Who let the dogs out?”
15) Fade into the Background 03:34
The show is ending. One’s SELF disappearing from the world / from reality
16) Under the Laotian Sky —around 03:00
17) Lad Mich Nicht Ein is a “German” musical project with more horns / disco /
Genesis Abacab integral to its concept
rundown
1) Etwas Etwas
2) Excitement
3) Reality in Spite of Reality