John Cage - Cage Edition Vol. 15: The Lost Works
Avant-Garde | EAC (FLAC+CUE+LOG+M3U) | 223 MB (WinRAR - 3% Rec.) | 1996
Essential Music • John Kennedy & Charles Wood, artistic directors
Avant-Garde | EAC (FLAC+CUE+LOG+M3U) | 223 MB (WinRAR - 3% Rec.) | 1996
Essential Music • John Kennedy & Charles Wood, artistic directors
| “ | "This wonderfully imaginative, surreal, and entertaining radio piece for percussion, sound effects, and voices, with a text by Kenneth Patchen, was originally presented as part of a Columbia Workshop (CBS Radio) program on May 31, 1942 (and recently re-released on the organ of corti label). It is re-created on this Mode recording by the talented Essential Music group with 14 voices and a five-person "sound orchestra," with the whole ensemble directed by John Kennedy and Charles Wood. The orchestra includes tin cans, muted gongs, woodblocks, alarm bells, oxen bells, temple gongs, water gong (a gong slowly dipped in water, resulting in sweeping harmonics), tamtam, bass drum, Chinese tomtom, bongos, cowbells, maracas, claves, marimbula, Chinese and Turkish cymbals, steel coil, washboard, ratchet, pod rattle, whistles, automobile horn, foghorn, metronome, steel pipes, music stands, thundersheet, string piano, telephone, buzzer, and the recorded sounds of an automobile, airplane, rain, wind, variable oscillator frequencies, a baby's cries, and the ocean. There are also bits of music interwoven into sounds of daily life: someone whistles My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean, and there's boogie woogie in the nightclub scene. Essential Music realizes these parts with vigor, taste, and more than a bit of droll humor. Patchen's text is surreal but normal, slangy, and "average American" in style. The main character, known simply as The Voice, has odd precognitive abilities and wanders through discontinuous situations that come straight out of a film noir B-movie. This part is perfectly realized by Paul Schmidt. The final scene on the rocks in the sea is particularly heartfelt." - AMG | ” |
Tracklist
1-14) The City Wears a Slouch Hat (1942) A radio play by Kenneth Patchen
- Introduction
- Opening Stroll [rehearsal #1]
- Holdup [rehearsal #4]
- Passersby [rehearsal #7]
- Along the river [rehearsal #10]
- Phone call [rehearsal #11]
- Streetfight [rehearsal #12]
- Up in the sky [rehearsal #14]
- Woman in the rain [rehearsal #15]
- Kidnapping [rehearsal #16]
- Mirthogram [rehearsal #17]
- Street poetry [rehearsal #18]
- Off in the ocean [rehearsal #20]
15-21) Fads and Fancies in the Academy (1940)
- I. Axioms
- -- a) The pupil is eager to learn
- -- b) The pupil is constitutionally lazy
- -- c) We deal with the total child
II. A Short Historical Sketch
- -- a) Reactionaries
- -- b) Revolutionaries - Pitched Battle
III. Vistas of the Future
- -- a) Pessimist
- -- b) Optimist
22) A Chant with Claps (n.d.)
Served thru RS
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
mode 55
