excerpts from a london travelogue

[diefungi]

(Yes, I went to UK Microfest 2, and it was bitchin'.)

(eavesdropping on the bus) "You don't know who's been usin' recycled paper..."

(at the airport) the sound of 125 nearly-identical green-t-shirted high-school dance-team girls yapping away

(overheard cell phone conversation on a train) "You shouldn't be addicted to someone, Simon.  You're addicted

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[radio2io]

Ceccarelli is indeed impressive, though it's not apparent why Birds was at microfest. How much of the piece is that excerpt? Browsing Gann, his L'itoi Variations interested me most, though he got me to look into La Monte and Marian's purple piano project, which makes me curious whether Wyness had a rationale for that scale--slendro?
When I was in a London of another century, we attended a spectacular production by a trio of players/sculptors of monstrous, metal, sometimes remote-control percussions called the Bow Gamelan Ensemble. They had things like a group of bagpipe-vacuum cleaner hybrids on tracks overhead that would scream and spin propellers and a remote controlled auto carcass rigged to sound its klaxon, flash its brights into the audience, and slam its doors, bonnet and boot on command. We got ourselves invited to the home of one member of the group the next day and he told us about a performance that night advertised by word-of-mouth where several filmmakers had designed multi-screen pieces projected against five windows of a flat--the audience watched from across the street. But these took 2 weeks of getting on the nerves or our building-restoring friend to find.
Did the attendees of microfest get to hear your work?

[diefungi]

Birds is maybe 5x as long as that excerpt. It was the only solo-instrument-and-tape piece out of the 12 or so over that weekend that kept me awake; excited even.

I think Wyness mentioned slendro - he certainly did a lot of auditioning traditional scales for himself. Probably Greek in origin though.

Your past London experience sounds thrilling. I hope it's not a long time until I can return. Donald Bousted suggested that I could do udderbot for one of his Wild Dog music-and-video events...

I handed out CDs to like 3 people, but that was all I had. At the udderbot presentation, which was a slightly different group of people, people heard the udderbot sextets and the Elitist Rumba.

This is more of an email question than a journal question, but how is the 17-tone thing going? I have a concert date nailed down: May 7th. Is't possible?

Anyone else? (Igliashon)