words and music
How about that? That's one of my thoughts. I have dozens of them. If you take a bunch of short ideas. and arrange them so that they overlap, that's one long idea. That's a thought. One time one short idea is slightly ahead of another and another time it's not, but they always overlap, that's the rule. So you get a large number of different thoughts, because one time one short idea is slightly ahead of another and another time it's not.from Robert Ashley's opera Dust.
Artists exploring text-based sound pieces, especially those who were big in the 80's, seem more relevant than ever. Laurie Anderson's Big Science album looks to be nearly prescient in this post 9/11 world. I listened to it again for the first time in years a couple of months back and I remember thinking that it seemed like it finally had the depth that I could never find in it before, not because it wasn't written in there but because the world had not caught up with Anderson's vision of it yet. Maybe now it has.
When justice is gone, there is always force. Here come the planes, they're American planes.O Superman
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dude i'm right there with you on the big science premonitions... and it was kinda burned into my naive subconscious as the background music of hearing of the death of princess diana on a routine email check one undergrad august evening after seeing -ugh- "in the company of men", at the esquire cinema in cincinnati...
Posted by: nathan | March 12, 2005 8:03 PM