mmm003 Sunday, December 25, 2011
3rd music meeting (December 25, 2011) minutes (mmm03):
Attendees:
tENT
Amy
Hyla
Mark
Spat
Wendy
tENT demonstrates his new singing christmas tree thrift store acquisition by having it play its complete repertoire:
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
"Jingle Bells"
"Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
tENT shows Amy's X-Mas present to him: a bk called Surreal Friends
Mark & Hyla talk about seeing the Fabergé Eggs exhibit at the Frick
tENT brings up The Haters & Hyla describes seeing them perform in Seattle, Portland, & maybe Olympia
Hyla brought Small Cruel Party 10" (wch tENT also coincidentally has), Blowhole's "Stumbling Southward" LP (wch she's on), He Said pop LP & Der Plan pop LP
Hyla talks about Key Ransome (the guy of Small Cruel Party) having a nice octopus tattoo & about him being a good cook - we listen to a little of his 10"
Amy likes the Butthole Surfers, Madonna, & Monster Magnet
Hyla expresses solidarity w/ Amy over Madonna
tENT plays Haters 7" w/ colored vinyl that looks like flames - it's the sound of something burning
Amy discusses "Is it music?" in relation to the Haters record & in relation to things like people questioning whether sound poetry: "Is it poetry?"
Mark talks about how the Houston Funeral Museum displayed coffins w/ speaking tubes for the prematurely buried
tENT unsuccessfully tries to find the Der Plan cut that Hyla wants us to hear that has the sound of the morning routine - like brushing teeth
Hyla plays He Said's "Pump" from "Hail" LP (1986)
Discussing Electro-Pop
tENT plays "Catastronics" 45 by Monty Cantsin, Neoist Open Pop Star
Hyla plays Blowhole LP side 2 (1996) on wch she plays violin, KB, megaphone
Hyla talks about "Firewalking & Decapitation" music festival in Seattle
tENT plays short bit from Divine's picture disc
tENT plays Gary Numan in continuation of electro-pop theme
tENT plays "Epidemia" 45 by Joel Hubaut as part of veering into sound poetry
tENT passes around "DOC(K)S" magazine no. 23 "Russes" issue b/c of its editor's connection to Hubaut
tENT plays Dufrène-Baronnet's "U 47"
Amy talks about Conceptual Poetics
Spat & Wendy appear after 9PM
Spat gives tENT a tiny frog rasp - making this his 6th (& the smallest!)
tENT plays Katalin Ladik sound poetry 45
tENT plays Henri Chopin & Arigo Lora-Totina sound poetry 7"
Hyla & Mark leave sometime around here
Amy leaves meeting to talk on phone w/ relatives
Spat talks about DJing during local poet (John Thomas Menesini) release event
Spat plays tENT Chinese instrument: the Halusi (sp?)
tENT plays Mad Magazine's floppy disc: "It's a Super-Spectacular Day" - wch is a novelty record that begins the same every time but has 8 different ending - tENT plays 4 of these
tENT plays hexagonal 10" soundtrack to "Andromeda Strain" by Gil Mellé
tENT projects the beginning of Anne McQuire's "Strain Andromeda The"
Spat & Wendy leave around 10:15
to the mm index
forward to mm 04
backward to mm 02
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE movie-making "Press: Criticism, Interviews, Reviews" home-page
to the "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - Sprocket Scientist" home-page
to the "FLICKER" home-page for the alternative cinematic experience
to find out more about why the S.P.C.S.M.E.F. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sea Monkeys by Experimental Filmmakers) is so important
for info on tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's tape/CD publishing label: WIdémoUTH
to see an underdeveloped site re the N.A.A.M.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Multi-Colored Peoples)