mmm048 Sunday, November 16, 2014
m(usic(ian's)m(eeting) 48
Attendees:
tENT
Hyla
Rob
Liz
tENT sit out front in the not completely inhospitable 40°F drinking a Breckenridge Oatmeal Stout from 6:55 to 7:24. Around 7:20 he txts Rob to ask if he's coming.
Rob calls at 7:23 to say he didn't realize it was happening & sd he'd be over soon
Hyla arrives at 7:35
Rob arrives at 7:37 - Rob talks about seeing music movie called "Whiplash" - intense movie about a drum student & an abusive teacher - "unbelievable" & "overdone"
tENT mentions "The Piano Teacher" on a similar theme by the same director who did "Funny Games" the latter of wch both tENT & Rob both found unbearably sadistic - making neither of them ever wanting to see another movie by the director
tENT plays a scene from "The Manster" movie that was thought to have musical saw but then realized that it must be in a different scene wch he then didn't bother to try to find
tENT plays the opening credits of another horror movie called "The Head" wch has Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures in the soundtrack
Rob plays his song "Attractive Ladies of the Emergency Room" performed by his new group called "All Kinds of Wrong" then plays another song by the same group called "I Can Read Your Mind"
Hyla plays Taraf de Haïdouk's "Briu" wch is so damned lively it's hard to sit still during it - this is followed by "Hara din Caval" & Spune, spune, mos batrin" - the group's a Roma one from Roumania/Hungary
Rob plays 2 songs from a recent mix CD he put together called "Come On Down To My Boat Baby": "Chase the Ringing Sun" (maybe?) & Joan Osborne's "Right Hand Man" wh Rob interprets as a masturbation song
tENT plays "Roumen Bodoski" from "The Music of Bulgaria" record & asks Hyla & Rob to guess what country it's from.
Hyla guesses Afghanistan, Macedonia, & Scotland
& Rob guesses Brazil & Italy
tENT's question was a tricky one b/c the music is like strange bagpipe music that sounds very different from the more well-known Bulgarian vocal music
tENT plays 1st cut of Fred Lowry's "Whistling For You" 10"
tENT plays the beginning of an NPR record meant for radio-play of the Minnesota Opera Company's "The Newest Opera in the World" that used a wheel-of-fortune to make decisions
tENT plays François Bayle's "L'Oiseau Chanteur" from the "Musique Concrete" record in honor of Sylvaine Bellec
tENT plays Joey Molinaro's "The Inalienable Dream Less"
tENT plays the 1st few minutes of the movie of the 2nd rehearsal of his new(ish) piece "A Catamaran Animist Vigor". In case it's humanly possible that any of you escaped my media barrage promoting that, here's the URL & EMBED for it online:
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tENT plays "Mel Bay Presents Juan Serrano The Flamenco Tradition" DVD's beginning
tENT gives Rob "Pleasures of the Court" record
Liz arrives 9:21
tENT gives Rob "Pastimes & Piano Rags" record
Rob talks about "Café Society" venue in NYC in 1938 (?) where blacks & whites mixed freely - unlike places like the Cotton Club where black entertainers performed to white audiences w/o intermingling allowed
tENT gives Hyla Jefferson Starship's "Spitfire" record
tENT gives Rob the Pieree Henry issue of Point d'Ironie
tENT shows 1st movie on G. X. Jupitter-Larsen's DVD "Selected Videos 1983-2006"
Rob & Hyla leave around 9:40
tENT plays Moisei Yakubovish "Improvisations" record for Liz who takes it to give to her boyfriend
tENT replays the beginning of the afore-mentioned "A Catamaran.." movie for Liz
mm 48 ends.
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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)