minutes from mm 56: Invecticon! - Sunday, June 21, 2015
The movie from this one is here: http://youtu.be/WP4epHOpha4
Attendees:
tENT
Ben
6:00 tENT sits outside
7:15 Ben arrives w/ chips
8:00 Ben explains Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns by Nicolas Slonimsky wch he's also brought w/ him
8:10 tENT projects the online version of Scriabin's "Prometheus: Poem of Fire"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3B7uQ5K0IU&spfreload=1
about wch it's written online that:
"In February 2010, Anna Gawboy, a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Music and scholar of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, attempted to realize the composer's final work: a symphony of sound and light called "Prometheus: Poem of Fire". To accomplish this, Anna worked closely with Toshiyuki Shimada, conductor of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, and Justin Townsend, an award-winning lighting designer.
"Anna and Justin spent a year developing ideas and preparing for the performance, but a majority of the lighting work was done just days before the concert. This documentary covers the events of that week and the performance itself."
tENT reads 2 critiques of this piece from Slonimsky's "Lexicon of Musical Invective".
8:35 tENT projects the "mmm055" movie abridged for YouTube ( http://youtu.be/uFleYGfWMrs ) & gives Ben his copy of the feature-length scholar's version
8:50 Ben plays the "Prometheus Chord" (in the piano) that Slonimsky shows in his 'Thesaurus of Scales and melodic Patterns" book as part of his Scriabin's "Prometheus" analysis
8:55 tENT plays Slonimsky conducting Varèse's "Ionisation"
(French spelling &, supposedly, the spelling on the original score)
& Ben reads hostile reviews of it
9:00 tENT plays Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1" & reads hostile reviews of that taken from the Lexicon (again)
9:05 tENT plays Henry Cowell's "Synchrony" while Ben reads a hostile review of it from that same source as the above
9:10 tENT plays Milhaud's "La Creation du Monde" & reads a hostile review of it
9:15 tENT plays Charles Amirkhanian's "Heavy Aspirations" wch uses Slonimsky's voice while Ben reads A-C entries in the "Invecticon" index in the Lexicon
9:25 Ben plays Slonimsky playing his own "Thesaurus (50 Minitudes)" while tENT reads Z-S of the Invecticon
9:35 Ben plays Slonimsky playing his own "Studies in Black and White" while Ben reads from C-H in the Invecticon
9:45 tENT plays Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" while Ben reads a hostile review of it
9:50 tENT plays Varèse's "Hyperprism" while he reads hostile reviews of it
10:40 tENT plays a little of "Gaslini meets Ponty" & points out that in one version of the record a sticker was used to give top billing to Jean-Luc Ponty on a record that had originally given top billing to Gaslini
10:45 tENT then shows a different version of the record where they both get prominent billing
10:48 Ben leaves
to the mm index
forward to mm 57
backward to mm 55
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)