The Automatic Message
The Automatic Message (1933) (Le Message Automatique) was one of André Breton's significant theoretical works about automatism. The essay was first published in the magazine Minotaure, No. 3-4, (Paris) 1933.
In 1997 it became the title of a compilation of surrealist writing of André Breton, Paul Éluard and Philippe Soupault, amongst others. The book includes two vital “automatic” texts of surrealism.
Breton’s prefatory essay The Automatic Message relates the technique to the underlying concepts and aesthetic of surrealism.
The Magnetic Fields (Les Champs Magnétiques) (1919) by Breton and Soupault, was the first work of literary surrealism and one of the foundations of modern European thought and writing. The Automatic Message contains the authorised translation by the poet David Gascoyne, himself a member of the group, and a friend of both authors.
The Immaculate Conception (1930) traces the interior and exterior life of man from Conception and Intra-Uterine Life to Death and The Original Judgement, and includes a section with a series of “simulations” of various types of mental instability.
[edit] Literature
André Breton, The Automatic Message. In: The Message. Art and Occultism. Ed. by Claudia Dichter, Hans Günter Golinski, Michael Krajewski, Zander. Walther König: Cologne 2007, p. 33-55, ISBN 978-3-86560-342-5. (singular illustrated translation of Breton's Essay)
Breton, André; Eluard, Paul; Soupault, Philippe (2001). The Automatic Message, the Magnetic Fields, the Immaculate Conception. UK: Atlas Press. ISBN 0-947757-99-6.
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[edit] Music + Video
The Automatic Message is also a live audiovisual group from Vancouver, Canada.
The Automatic Message is Trevor Jacobson and Tanya Goehring. They are based in Vancouver, Canada and have been working together since 2007, creating music, performing live audiovisual sets and producing music videos. Their music ranges from hard, dark techno to jazz-influenced minimal and experimental electronic. Their video work exemplifies their interest in ideas that hover on the edge of normalcy, darkness and surreality.
They have performed live at several festivals and events around the Pacific Northwest, including the New Forms Festival, Photosynthesis, SWARM, and The Drift Festival. They have also created several concept-driven projects for event such as Fake Jazz and the Signal & Noise Festival.
Most recently, their video for the CLR artist Tommy Four Seven was screened at the 2011 Antimatter Festival in Victoria, BC. Additionally, they were awarded a Neighborhood Small Grants Project grant from the Vancouver Foundation to curate and perform at a live audiovisual event. It was held at VIVO Media Arts on November 4th, 2011.
The Automatic Message is currently working with the labels: From 0-1, Machine Box, CLR, Kalimari Musique, Monsieur Musique and are part of Berlin's UNOIKI collective.
http://www.theautomaticmessage.com
- January 2012.
