Thank you so much for your post. Having done some cataloging of the old over recent years, your description elicits those strange and familiar feelings from listening. It also made me think of film recently saw “The case of the three sided dream” about Rahsaan Kirk. Greatness displayed in the liquid ability to go anywhere with music.
Thank you for the mention of Cardew! I had never heard of him prior to reading your article--but then I've never really delved into classical much less avant garde classical! I went on to read an article on Cardew and his Treatise in Medium and felt at home with the guy, at least in the way he stepped outside of institutional forms. For almost 60 years I have lived inside these forms and it's only recently that I woke up to see them for what they are--stories that provide us with a degree of comfort and security, but they are stories that grow beyond the simple narrative and eventually they turn us into them. For some reason Charles Williams' book The Place of the Lion comes to mind because the forms that people worship eventually turn to devour them in that story too. Anyway, I woke up less than a year ago to my complacency and complicity and it's been a wild learning experience ever since--"branching possibilities" indeed!
I've actually been involved in a long-running project (long mainly because of how little time I generally have to do it!) of going through *my* old band tapes -- cassettes -- from the early 1980s on up through the mid 90s or so. Lots of tapes from old/long lost/some passed friends, as well. Actually, last year, a cassette album I had put out of one of my bands in the mid 1980s somehow got into the hands of a guy in Portland, OR whose record label specializes in putting such old cassettes out on vinyl, which I still kind of have a hard time believing (https://moonlove.bandcamp.com/album/may-never-happen). Music does "happen in time," but hearing these old tapes collapses all the time in between then and now for me. I'm so glad I persisted in recording as much as I did back then!
Cardew! My parents gave me a copy of his book Scratch Music when I was a teen (still have it), and yet they were somehow surprised when I ended up becoming a weirdo composer. #gofigure
Hybrids of the year include a doctor who writes, a writer who draws, a coder who reports and writes (me) and a drummer who writes.
For Christmas I just bought myself your "Ways of Hearing" in paperback. I read it standing up in the University Press bookstore in 2018 and that store is now shuttered. But I remember that little book well.
Thank you so much for your post. Having done some cataloging of the old over recent years, your description elicits those strange and familiar feelings from listening. It also made me think of film recently saw “The case of the three sided dream” about Rahsaan Kirk. Greatness displayed in the liquid ability to go anywhere with music.
Thank you for the mention of Cardew! I had never heard of him prior to reading your article--but then I've never really delved into classical much less avant garde classical! I went on to read an article on Cardew and his Treatise in Medium and felt at home with the guy, at least in the way he stepped outside of institutional forms. For almost 60 years I have lived inside these forms and it's only recently that I woke up to see them for what they are--stories that provide us with a degree of comfort and security, but they are stories that grow beyond the simple narrative and eventually they turn us into them. For some reason Charles Williams' book The Place of the Lion comes to mind because the forms that people worship eventually turn to devour them in that story too. Anyway, I woke up less than a year ago to my complacency and complicity and it's been a wild learning experience ever since--"branching possibilities" indeed!
Thank you. Love it when folks share their thoughts while sorting through old krapp.
A musician that collects boots? Who do you like to see live recordings of the most?
I've actually been involved in a long-running project (long mainly because of how little time I generally have to do it!) of going through *my* old band tapes -- cassettes -- from the early 1980s on up through the mid 90s or so. Lots of tapes from old/long lost/some passed friends, as well. Actually, last year, a cassette album I had put out of one of my bands in the mid 1980s somehow got into the hands of a guy in Portland, OR whose record label specializes in putting such old cassettes out on vinyl, which I still kind of have a hard time believing (https://moonlove.bandcamp.com/album/may-never-happen). Music does "happen in time," but hearing these old tapes collapses all the time in between then and now for me. I'm so glad I persisted in recording as much as I did back then!
Cardew! My parents gave me a copy of his book Scratch Music when I was a teen (still have it), and yet they were somehow surprised when I ended up becoming a weirdo composer. #gofigure
Hybrids of the year include a doctor who writes, a writer who draws, a coder who reports and writes (me) and a drummer who writes.
For Christmas I just bought myself your "Ways of Hearing" in paperback. I read it standing up in the University Press bookstore in 2018 and that store is now shuttered. But I remember that little book well.