mmm012 Sunday, June 3, 2012
12th music meeting (June 3, 2012)
Attendees:
tENT
Spat
Frank
Ben Opie
Rob
Matt
Frank magnanimously pronounces himself the scribe of the night (to relieve tENT of the duty) but tENT goes ahead & does it too anyway so these notes will alternate between both versions of the minutes
Frank's minutes:
Ben arrives and brings copy of Source, Issue 11. It features some 50 artists, and is heavily fluxus-flavored.
tENT's minutes:
maybe guest-edited by Ken Friedman
Ben talks about Cage Chicago piece that a friend of his performed & recorded
Rob arrives & brings Secret Music Society CD-Rs for tENT & Frank b/c those 2 participated in the session at a recent BBQ @ Rob's house
Frank's minutes:
tENT plays "Blabber and Smoke" by Captain Beefheart (1973) and offers a small blurb for the East End Brewery who recently produced a beer with the Blabber and Smoke namesake.
tENT's minutes:
"Blabber 'n Smoke" is from "The Spotlight Kid" (1972) by Captain Beefheart
tENT shows the cover of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica" album so that people can see that the next-to-be-shown beer label design is taken from that cover
tENT shows the East End Brewery's label design for a new smoked ale called "Blabber and Smoke" & then shows their website announcement for it
Frank's minutes:
Rob arrives and mentions that his favorite Captain Beefheart song is about Carson City.
tENT's minutes:
The song in question is called "Owed T' Alex" & is from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)" LP (1978) - note that the later Magic Band is "the" & the earlier one is "his"
Frank's minutes:
tENT mentions the Fraternity of Men
tENT's minutes:
More specifically tENT talks about Winged Eel Fingerling (aka Elliot Ingber) b/c he played on "The Spotlight Kid" & on The Mothers of Invention's "Freak Out!" AND had a band called "The Fraternity of Man" who tENT's never heard
Frank's minutes:
and displays his glow-in-the-dark Safe as Milk bumper sticker.
tENT plays his first wind-off record which repeats the word bang in order to call attention to the human population explosion. The artist, Anthony Gnazzo, is featured in Ben's Source, Issue 11. The album is 10+2:12
tENT's minutes:
Anthony Gnazzo's piece is called "Population Explosion"
The album's full title is: "10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces"
Rob talks about Roxy Music cut w/ Eno using effects for the 1st time
Frank's minutes:
Ben brings two giveaways!
tENT takes "Teper Nac Dvoe" (This Time We are Both) by Rova, who have shown interest in language writing and improvisation.
tENT's minutes:
Rova Saxophone Quartet CD known in English as "This time we are both" recorded in Russia - Russian intro not sampling of Lenin's wife as Frank initially speculated but of uncredited woman specifically introducing Rova as from California, etc
tENT tells story of Lynn Hejinian telling story in a blog about how Rova 1st got invited to Russia
Frank's minutes:
Frank takes the CRI recording of Tenney and Melby.
Ben mentions "Removal of Secrecy" on Metalanguage Records, who also published Rova.
tENT's minutes:
"Removal of Secrecy" is an early Rova record on Metalanguage Records that has liner notes by language poet Lyn Hejinian who's married to Rova's Larry Ochs
Frank's minutes:
General talk about who played at Graffiti; all agree that Graffiti was an excellent venue.
tENT's minutes:
Ben tells us that the Ganelin Trio, an avant-garde jazz group from Russia, performed at Graffiti - not their usual fare wch was more rock & blues oriented
Frank's minutes:
Rob plays "dada" by tENTATIVELY, a CONVENIENCE and performed by the Secret Music Society, which opens with fascinating instructions given by the composer.
tENT's minutes:
Strictly speaking, the title of the piece is also its score:
"dadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada" - tentatively, a convenience (the piece was created in 1976 before tENT started using tOGGLE cASE
Frank's minutes:
Rob plays "memorial day" by the Secret Music Society and "a major seventh" by Charlemagne Palestine.
tENT's minutes:
"memorial day": tENT remarks that only Rob cd get him to attempt to play rock guitar in a jam session, as he does here - this seems to impress no-one
Frank's minutes:
Frank plays "China Gates" by John Adams.
tENT's minutes:
ie: on the piano - Frank explains that the left-hand notes always occur simultaneously w/ the 2nd or 3rd notes of the right hand ones
Frank's minutes:
General talk about Reich and his East/West Coast roots.
Frank plays Rzewski's People United and continues a tradition of protest by stopping the minutes. (It's hard work! Let's give tENT a virtual round of applause for his continued minute-taking!!)
tENT's minutes:
Thanks Frank!
Full title: "The People United Will Never Be Defeated + Theme + 36 Variations + Cadenza + Theme - on ¡El Pueblo Unidos Jamás Será Vencido!" (1971-1976)
Ursula Oppens is the pianist on the above
Ben plays "Cardboards" PGH No-Wave band from 1981 - record entitled "Greatest Hits Volume 2" - the only record they ever put out
- the cover's hand-assembled
Spat says this LP sells for alot now
tENT plays excerpt from Vujicsics Tihamér's 1970s "Zenés Paródiák" parody on the Hungarian "Qualiton" record label
Ben plays Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention's "Flower Punk" & asks us what it's a parody of - Rob knows right away that it's a parody of "Hey Joe" wch neither Ben & tENT had realized before despite their having know this song for decades
tENT plays Bernd Alois Zimmermann's "Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu" (1966) & asks people to guess what the excerpt played pastiches from - included are Stockhausen's "Klaviersrück IX" + Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyrie" (that's the English version in the liner notes - I've always thought of it "Flight of the Valkyrie") + Berlioz's "March to the Scaffold" from his "Symphonie Fantastique" (wch Matt recognizes)
Ben plays "The Five" 7" EP - 1983 Pittsburgh - includes electronics - as continuation of PGH musician theme - Ben plays their cover of "Angel of the Morning"
Ben plays WRCT sampler 7" w/ Weird Paul & Telecorps - sometime after 1991
Ben plays Special Ed punk band PGH K7 - 1985
Ben plays another PGH LP that shows PPG Place being constructed in background of cover - the text is all in Czech (tENT's best guess)
Matt plays a pastiche piece of his called "On Geraldo"
Matt plays some of David Lynch's new release
Matt plays his own "Wallpaper Music" for bass & bassoon while tENT projects his (silent) "Wallpaper Video" of the News American bldg being wrecked in BalTimOre
Rob reads "To This Day" poem he wrote today
Rob plays a snatch from Magnetic Fields Album "69 Love Songs" - 3 CDs released in 1999 that Rob loves & that he sd were very popular
Rob wants us to listen to it "emotionally"
He plays a bit of a sad one, then 2 happy ones, then a sad one, then a happy one
Frank plays a bit called :Sour Angelica" from a Puccini opera entitled "Senza Mamma" as an example of another highly emotional piece
Talking about Roger Dannenberg & his relationship w/ Finalé software
Talking about alternative currencies
Playing "The Death of Ferdinand de Sassure" by Magnetic Fields
tENT plays Charles Dodge's "Earth's Magnetic Field"
tENT plays Sandy Hurvitz as an example of emotional music released, bizarrely enuf, on an early (1967) version of Zappa's Bizarre label
Ben plays the WHIP IT OUT part of Ian Underwood from the Frank Zappa & the Mother of Invention "Uncle Meat" LP wch Ben & tENT both commiserate on being an important early influence
As Unfinished Symphonies says, A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!
to the mm index
forward to mm 13
backward to mm 11
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)