mmm058 Sunday, August 16, 2015
minutes from mm 58: Latin America theme (Sunday, August 16, 2015)
Attendees:
tENT
Lia
Hyla
There was a time when I'd tried to have these minutes out to you by no later than the Wednesday after the mm. Those days are gone! There was a time when I thought I'd continue holding the mms at my house for an indefinite period of time.. now I'm thinking I'll stop at 72. Why 72? B/c there are 72 Philosopher's Union Member's Mouthpieces (a project I started in 1988) & there were 72 HiTEC sessions (2008-2010). That was coincidental. Why not make it some sort of special personal number? Yes, I love having the mms but in order to keep myself interested I have to keep upping the ante. mms 55-57 all had movies made of them. I'm quite happy w/ the movies but they're so much work to make! Maybe it's time to move on to some other labor-intensive project. Maybe I'll get past this mood. ANYWAY:
6:35 tENT sits outside drinking a Church Brew Works Pipe Organ Pale Ale & reading Bill Luoma's "Some Math" poetry bk & waiting for arrivals [my review of the poetry bk is here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12464043-some-math )
7:00 neighbor Mark O'Connor comes out to work on his sidewalk
7:10 Lia shows up w/ a record & drinks a Church Brew Works Pious Monk Dunkel wch tENT then also drinks one of as his 2nd beer
7:25 Hyla arrives w/ beer too
7:30 Hyla goes to Mark's to get some records from his Columbian mom's collection
7:40 tENT reads the liner notes for Silvestre Revuelta's "Ocho por Radio" from a record from his collection called "Spanish and Latin-American Music for unusual instrumental combinations" from about 1954 - Here's a brief quote:
"In it, we find a phantasmagoric aural view of Mexican radio music-as heard perhaps on a slightly defective set with a great deal of station-to-station interference."
7:46 tENT plays the recording of the above piece
7:51 tENT plays a recording of Heitor Villa-Lobos's "Choros No. 7" (1924) from the same record & explains that he thinks it's one of the best pieces by Villa-Lobos he's ever heard - there's a part that reminds him of Terry Riley's "In C"
8:02 Lia plays the 1st cut, "Temptation", of "Exotic Percussion" by Stanley Blackburn & his Orchestra - Lia particularly likes how hot the recording of the percussion is - this is one of those stereo demonstration era records that shows off the quality of its recording techniques
8:06 tENT picks "Caravan" from the same record; Lia requests "Miserlou"; Lia requests "Jungle Drums" - it's not strictly speaking Latin American music but it's partially inspired by it
8:19 tENT shows his movie "Boota" ( https://youtu.be/19_pe-nT9u0 ) of him singing his rearrangement of "Taboo" in München
8:40 Hyla talks about David Bernabo's latest performance at the New Hazlett Theater
9:09 tENT plays side 1 of "In Praise of Oxalá And Other Gods - Black Music of South America" esp for the leaf-blowing featured on "Oigame Juanita"
10:05 Hyla talks about the illegal founding of the FOP (Fraternal Order of Police - the policeman's union) in Pittsburgh in 1915
10:09 Hyla plays one of Mark's mom's records - cut 4, "Las Mañantas" (w/ Mariachis) of Nat "King" Cole's "Cole Español" - again, not strictly speaking Latin American but marketed to Spanish speaking people
10:13 tENT plays side 2 of "New Music from South America": Oscar Bazän's "Sonogramas", Manuel Enriquez's "Diptico I", Alcides Lanza's "Penetrations II"
10:50 Hyla leaves
10:55 tENT plays "Oda para un hippie - Astor Piazolla" CD tracks 1-5 - this isn't Piazolla playing it's the Fortuna Quartett featuring Helmut Abel playing bandoneon who does a pretty incredible job of living up to the quality of Piazolla's example
11:20 Lia leaves
to the mm index
forward to mm 59
backward to mm 57
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)