minutes from mm 55 - Sunday, May 17, 2015
Attendees:
tENT
Frank
Joey
Soren
Ben
Greg S.
My apologies in advance for my piss-poor minutes - they are, at best, an outline (tENT note)
The highly abridged YouTube movie version of this is here: http://youtu.be/uFleYGfWMrs
6:30 tENT sits out front
6:35 Frank arrives w/ mango & coconut frozen fruit bars
7:10 Joey arrives
7:25 We go indoors & tENT starts camcorder 1
7:30 tENT shows 2 Joe Coleman bks & 1 record
7:32 tENT shows all 6 volumes of Brainpang's "Satanic Jazz Meditations" comp tapes
7:35 tENT shows his "Anemia of the Paparazzi" movie ( https://youtu.be/HucBwEMz3A ) of the wedding of Joe Coleman & Whitney Ward w/ Brainpang officiating thru his ventriloquist figure
7:40 Soren arrives
7:47 tENT plays 1st 4 tracks of volume 1 of "Satanic Jazz Meditations"
tENT & others are particularly impressed by the oddity of the Mingus track wch no-one there had ever heard before
7:50 Ben arrives
7:56 tENT starts camcorder 2
7:58 Ben gives tENT 2 organ records
8:00 tENT gives Joey DVD of Spielberg's "Munich"
8:07 Joey plays Timeghost + Laurie Amat Nexykl01 tape Laurie Amat: Voicee, Loops, & Acoustics A. Morosky: Synthesizers & final mix recorded in Jine of 2013
tENT points out that "Timeghost" = "Zeitgeist"
Joey talks about what a great show Timeghost puts on
Ben knows of Amat as a San Francisco based musician
8:17 Ben shows record that's 2 records glued together that have silent grooves + an exacto knife for cutting into the grooves w/ - the packaging is very sparse & doesn't say who put the record out
8:20 Ben talks about Conglomerate Records: "Rosie & the Dirigibles presents 3 Transposed Functions": sleeve made from folded 7" flexi-discs enclosing a photocopy of a 7" record
Ben shows "Rrose Selavy's 100 Grooviest Corporate Hits"
Ben shows an incredible collection of mostly deliberately unplayable Conglomerate Records tapes & a photoalbum of covers by the same publisher
8:35 Greg S. arrives
8:40 tENT shows "Dreamweapon / Aspen #9" (1970) edited by Angus & Hette MacLise
tENT talks about MacLise as the 1st drummer in the Velvet Underground, etc..
8:45 Joey leaves
We move into music room to play records
8:47 tENT plays 7" flexi-disc that comes w/ Dreamweapon accidentally @ incorrect speed of 45rpm..
8:50 tENT plays end of side 1 of Lasry's "Chronophagie" accidentally @ incorrect speed of 45rpm..
8:55 Frank plays Mario Lanza imitating Caruso singing something from "I Pagliacci"
9:02 Ben plays G.X.Jupitter-Larsen/The Hater's "A Basic Introduction to T.N.U." wch is a 7" 33rpm record w/ one side cut w/ grooves overlapping
camcorder 2 tape runs out
9:04 Ben plays elaborate horror movie soundtrack records: "In the Wall" (splatter vinyl) main theme to "Cannibal Holocaust" wch is pretty schmaltzy (green vinyl w/ sunburst green out from center)
9:12 tENT plays Joe Coleman's "Infernal Machine" beginning of side 2
9:17 tENT talks about Kommisar Hjuler & plays a bit of one of his records made in collaboration w/ his wife & PVA
9:21 tENT plays Alkan's "Sonate de Concert - for violoncello & piano"
Frank exclaims something to the effect of 'Finally, something good!'
9:24 Ben shows Boullarca (sp? - I can't read my handwriting here) square picture disc 7"
9:25 Ben plays i/O - a Rick Gribenas 7" record that has lock grooves - Rick was a Pittsburgh-based sound artist that tENT collaborated w/ that unfortunately died in 2009
We go back into the screening room
9:33 Greg plays Peter Ablinger's "Voices & Piano" CD Nicolas Hodges playing piano We listen to the tracks w/ recordings of the voices of: Brecht, G. Stein, M. Feldman, Ilya Prigogine (sp?) There are many other interesting folks whose voices are heard & mimicked by the piano part
9:54 Greg plays Helmut Lackenmann "Klaviermusik" - Roland Keller: piano
10:00ish Frank leaves
10:11 Greg plays Stockhausen's "Invisible Choirs"
10:18 Greg plays more Peter Ablinger piano stuff
10:29 tENT plays ""A Catamaran Animist Vigor" @ Babyland" - the movie of this can be witnessed here: https://youtu.be/cn3U055X-2U
10:33 tENT plays 1st 2 tacks from his "Speech Defect Synthesis Kit"
10:39 Greg plays Morton Feldman's "Piece for Four Pianos" by the Barton Workshop
At some point during all this, Ben notices that there're piles of Japanese recordings & scores laying around & he starts looking at those
Ben mentions Jo Kondo
tENT says the name's vaguely familiar & asks if he played trumpet in Group Ongaku
Ben provided this later by email:
This was the work by Jo Kondo on CP2 Records I was trying to remember: https://soundcloud.com/newmusiccollective/jo-kondo-standing
Not to be confused with Toshinori Kondo: http://www.discogs.com/artist/143942-Toshinori-Kondo
tENT was, indeed, confusing Jo w/ Toshinori
Soren notices Yoko Kurimoto's "Stolen Footsteps" score & is very entertained by the Imaginary Marimba part
11:06 tENT plays the Secret Music Society's "iPavlov"
11:15 Ben, Soren, & Greg leave
A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL! (probably)
to the mm index
forward to mm 56
backward to mm 54
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)