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Zorn List Digest      Thursday, December 6 2001      Volume 03 : Number 635



In this issue:
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       Re: squarepusher's Go Plastic!
       Re: Anode - Jojo's Requiem for Losers.
       Boulez the terrorist
       Re: Squarepusher
       Re: Boulez the terrorist
       Re: Zorn at Miller Theatre
       Re: Zorn List Digest V3 #634
       Re: Jojo - Brief Question Long Answers.
       Re: Jojo - Brief Question Long Answers.
       Re: Jojo - Brief Question Long Answers.
       Re: Jojo - Brief Question Long Answers.
       New music in RealAudio on Mappings, week beginning November 27, 2001
       Pierre Boulez- terrorist?
       taken from Billboard
       [CT promo spam] nmperign, Talbot/Stelzer, self-satisfied college brats; this Friday.
       FREE FREEJAZZ SHOW
       Re: Pierre Boulez- terrorist?
       Re: FREE FREEJAZZ SHOW

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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:35:36 -0800
From: "Doug Tapia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: squarepusher's Go Plastic!


> Just a personal note...with the exception of "my red hot car" and the last
> track, I thought "go plastic" was pretty crappy...
>
> andrew
>
i find that very interesting.  i think _go plastic_ is one big statement of
genius.  really.  very spastic on the surface, but really logical, in a
curiously zorny or zappa-ish way.  squarepusher is one of the few composers
i know who can jump into 20 completly different musical ideas in under a
minute, and still make them sound completly conected, as if everything that
unfolds is related to what came immediatly before it and was the only thing
that could logically come next.  ya know?

this is one album that absolutly requires repeated, attentive listening, as
well as a healthy obsession with the breaks, i think.  for me, i think _go
plastic_ might be his most important work since _Big Loada_, and sucessfully
fuses that album's agressive, breakthrough programing with the
late-60's-miles-like jazzyness of _Music is a rotted one note_.  for those
of us waiting for Squarepusher to make another album as mind blowing as _Big
Loada_, i think this is it. but then, that's just my opinion.



Doug Tapia

roger.                                   Breakbeat Architects

roger World Headquarters:                    www.roger-hq.com

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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 01:09:13 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Anode - Jojo's Requiem for Losers.

thanks for the fleshing out of the jojo/otomo comments. one question:

<< jojo's harsh but very well thought out and exquisitely written criticism
regarding jazz >>

have any of his critical writings been translated into English? are they
available anywhere? I know that Otomo has also done some critical writing,
which I'd love to read English translations of.

Jon
www.erstwhilerecords.com

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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 22:23:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Craig Matsumoto <[e-mail]>
Subject: Boulez the terrorist

I've found most of the overzealous "anti-terrorist" actions to be a bit
scary, but I have to admit this is more funny than worrisome:
Swiss police detained Pierre Boulez due to his past "terrorist"
connections.  Busted him in his hotel room, even.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4313619,00.html

I guess the moral is: Never piss off a critic ...

- -- Craig Matsumoto
   Jazz Director, KZSU-FM (Stanford University)
   [e-mail]

   KZSU - 90.1 FM
   P.O. Box 20510
   Stanford, Calif. 94309
   [phone]
   http://kzsu.org



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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 03:53:48 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Squarepusher

In a message dated 12/4/01 4:20:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Just wondering, does anyone here have Hrvatski's Oiseaux album? >>

This person has.  D'n'B for crackheads on acid.  Insane stuff.

- --
=dg=

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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:07:55 +0100
From: "Remco Takken" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Boulez the terrorist

> I've found most of the overzealous "anti-terrorist" actions to be a bit
> scary, but I have to admit this is more funny than worrisome:
> Swiss police detained Pierre Boulez due to his past "terrorist"
> connections.  Busted him in his hotel room, even.
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4313619,00.html
>
> I guess the moral is: Never piss off a critic ...
>
Boulez the terrorist reportedly said in the sixties that 'opera houses
should be blown up'. I heard this statement before, but I don't know where
to find the exact printed quote and the exact context of his quote.

Closest I can find, is
'I once said that the most elegant solution of the problem of the opera was
to blow up the opera houses, and I still think this is true. Opera is the
area before all others in which things have stood still.' (Pierre Boulez,
Orientations, p. 485)

In the sixties Boulez did make different interesting statements about
classical opera, notably in WHERE ARE WE NOW, (Orientations, p. 445). This
May 1968 lecture indirectly led to the beginning of IRCAM, Boulez' own
experimental music space.

Boulez criticises the conservative attitude towards newly built concert
halls. Those copies of 19th century architecture were not fitting for new
music like elektro-acoustic etc.

Regards, Remco Takken


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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:22:12 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Benjamin Pequet)
Subject: Re: Zorn at Miller Theatre

Apparently an article appeared in the nytimes this morning. Jeni's review
was better, and less the Starbucks ads.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/05/arts/music/05ZORN.html?pagewanted=print

PS: the article starts by stating that zorn was long-haired in the 70's?


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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 11:29:05 +0000
From: "Bill Ashline" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Zorn List Digest V3 #634

>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: Weather Sky/Erstwhile

>it's actually all set already. it'll be at Star Pine's Cafe in Tokyo from
>th=
>e=20
>18th-20th, with the following lineup:
>
>10/18
>
>Sugimoto Guitar Quartet-Otomo, Nakamura, Sugimoto, Akiyama
>Cosmos-Sachiko/Yoshida
>Rowe/Lehn/Schmickler
>Stangl/Kurzmann
>
>10/19
>
>Otomo/M=FCller
>Lehn/Schmickler
>Stangl/Kurzmann/Sugimoto
>Rowe/Nakamura
>
>10/20
>
>Astro Twin-Kawasaki/Yoshida
>Stangl/M=FCller
>Nakamura/Sachiko
>Rowe/M=FCller/Sugimoto

Great!  I'll consider myself there already.  I look forward to meeting you
Jon, and I hope to see other denizens from here as well.  It should be a
dynamite festival.  Be sure to bring some more CDs to sell; I'm a little
behind on my Erstwhile collection.  :-)

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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 11:44:33 -0800
From: "Revue des Fossiles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Jojo - Brief Question Long Answers.

Jon -

To the best of my knowledge the writings of Takayanagi, which appeared for
the most part in Japanese magazines devoted to Jazz (Swing Journal, etc.);
have not been translated into any other language.

Hideo Ikeezumi did reprint some very crucial material along with new
unpublished writings from Jojo during the 1990s within the context of
retrospectives on Takayanagi in the pages of G-Modern.

The paucity of both Jojo's available recordings and translations of his
writings is an extremely unfortunate situation that is most probably due to
Jojo's still rather unfavorable reputation in Japan.

Henry Kaiser is fond of recounting a tale where once interviewed by the
Japanese press he was asked to name his greatest musical influences.  When
Henry started the list with the name Masayuki Takayanagi, the person
conducting the interview noticeably blushed and quickly changed the subject.
  Evidently the recordings and transcripts of the interview were later
censored to remove any mention of Jojo.

Hopefully the major label interest that sparked reissues as well as new
releases of archival duets with Kaoru Abe will help spark enough curiosity
so that a proper study of Takayanagi is one day published.

I fear that until such a work is published, any greater understanding of
Takayanagi beyond his rather dubious dual reputation as either a cult "Noise
Guitar Hero" or cult "Cool Jazz Guitar Hero" will never occur.

A translation of anything written by Otomo Yoshihide would also be very
welcome event.  Otomo's retrospective on the Japanese Free Jazz scene
written for Resonance/LMC continues to be one of the most often cited
sources of information in the English language for this remarkable period of
creative activity.  Indeed, given Otomo's unique background coupled with his
own tremendous artistic achievements it may very well behoove him to author
a historical text on the roots and radicals of Japanese Free Jazz.  There is
a sense of critical logic, confidence and an air of candor in what I have
read from Otomo that leads me to believe that he could certainly shed light
on the problematic issue of improvisation originally being perceived as a
force of nihilism (Takayanagi amazingly paraphrases Heidegger during a
Coltrane review!  Also, cf. interviews with Nariata, Haino, and Tori Kudo on
this subject) inside the field of creative arts in Japan.  Otomo could also
better emphasize and contextualize the "Onkyo" aesthetic by taking a close
examination of previous pioneers in this area including Masahiko Togashi,
Takehisa Kosugi, Hirosi Siotani, Masami Tada, and Masayuki Takayanagi.

In closing, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention improviser and writer Yoshiaki
"Onnyk" Kinno whose penetrating critical writings never cease to offer
anything less than  amazingly original perspectives regarding improvisation.
  Onnyk's article on Anthony Braxton a few years back in G-Modern lead me to
a total reevaluation of and much greater appreciation of Braxton's enormous
body of work.

- - RdF.

np.  helgoland band 99/univers zero 1313

>have any of his critical writings been translated into English? are they
>available anywhere? I know that Otomo has also done some critical writing,
>which I'd love to read English translations of.


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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:51:25 -0500
From: "George Scala" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Jojo - Brief Question Long Answers.

> Otomo's retrospective on the Japanese Free Jazz scene
> written for Resonance/LMC continues to be one of the most often cited
> sources of information in the English language for this remarkable period
of
> creative activity.

Is this a book or magazine?  Is it available anywhere?  Thanks.

George Scala




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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:08:02 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Jojo - Brief Question Long Answers.

In a message dated 12/5/01 2:53:45 PM, [e-mail] writes:

<< Is this a book or magazine?  Is it available anywhere? >>

Resonance is a magazine, put out once or twice a year, by the London
Musician's Collective (www.l-m-c.org.uk). the issue referred to is Volume 4,
Number 2 and may be available in the US through Anomalous or Forced Exposure.

Jon
www.erstwhilerecords.com

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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:21:02 -0800
From: "Revue des Fossiles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Jojo - Brief Question Long Answers.

>Is this a book or magazine?  Is it available anywhere?  Thanks.

Otomo Yoshihide's piece on Japanese Free Jazz, part of a greater overview of
Japanese music as published in Resonance Magazine is available online at the
following URL -

http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/texts/otomo.html

- - RdF.


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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:23:56 -0600
From: Herb Levy <[e-mail]>
Subject: New music in RealAudio on Mappings, week beginning November 27, 2001

Hi y'all,

Due to problems with Antenna radio's FTP site, this week's program
has just changed, a day and a half late. Sorry for any inconvenience;
I hope you enjoy the new show. Barring unforeseen problems, next
week's program should change Monday night as usual.

This week on Mappings <http://www.antennaradio.com/avant/mappings/>,
you'll hear music by electro-acoustic composer Maggi Payne.

The show went online Monday evening around 10:00 PM (-0600 GMT) and
will remain online at the above URL for a week. Last week's program
(featuring music by Samm Bennett, John Butcher, James Coleman, Rick
Cox, Michael Jon Fink, Gianni Gebbia, Charlotte Hug, Brett Larner,
Eric Lyon, Paul Herman Reller, Ian Smith, and Wadada Leo Smith) is
still available in the Mappings archive
<http://www.antennaradio.com/avant/mappings/index1.htm>, where you
can also find play lists for the program since it began in March 1998.

Hope you tune in to the program.

Bests,

Herb

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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 20:43:04 -0500
From: Perfect Sound Forever <[e-mail]>
Subject: Pierre Boulez- terrorist?

Has anyone heard about this?  Amazing...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1692000/1692628.stm

Best,
Jason

Perfect Sound Forever
online music magazine
[e-mail]
http://www.furious.com/perfect


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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:54:00 +0100
From: Jeroen de Boer <[e-mail]>
Subject: taken from Billboard

Artists To Support Artists Through NYC Benefit


[photo]
Musicians Suzanne Vega, the X-ecutioners, John Zorn, and Joe Jackson are
among those who will take part in a Jan. 11 benefit performance, dubbed Arts
on a High Wire, at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. Proceeds from the event
will benefit the New York Arts Recovery Fund, created by the New York
Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in conjunction with several other arts
organizations following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the city.

"The New York Arts Recovery Fund will help restore the vitality of artists
and groups who suffered losses due to the tragedy of Sept. 11, by creating a
way for the public to channel support to this artistic community." NYFA
executive director Theodore Berger said in a statement. The fund's primary
focus is to help the 200 arts organizations and several thousand artists
located below New York's Canal Street, the area surrounding the former site
of the World Trade Center.

Others committed to appear at the Arts on the High Wire are performance
artist Laurie Anderson, choreographer Elizabeth Streb, author Paul Auster,
humorist Roy Blount Jr., jazz clarinetist Don Byron, poet/musician Jim
Carroll, contemporary visual artist Chuck Close, photographer/filmmaker
Bruce Davidson, and comic artists Ben Katcher and Art Spiegelman. In
addition, Philippe Petit, who in 1974 walked a high wire between the twin
towers of the World Trade Center, will walk a wire in tribute to that event.

Tickets to the event -- priced at $15 for balcony seats and $25 floor
tickets -- are available from the NYFA (212-366-6900 x278 or NYFA.org and
the venue's box office.

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Jeroen de Boer
content director Cyberslag Content Providing
Damsterdiep 15  9711SG Groningen    The Netherlands

t   [phone]
m   [phone]
f   [phone]
[e-mail]

www.cyberslag.nl
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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 07:02:15 -0500
From: "Jesse Kudler" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [CT promo spam] nmperign, Talbot/Stelzer, self-satisfied college brats; this Friday.

Hello party people.  Apologies for the intrusion.  And the cross-posting.
The administration at school here doesn't like us to promote events
off-campus, so I can't go the usual routes.

Anyway.

This Friday, Dec. 7.  7:30 p.m.

nmperign.  Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey.  Trumpet and soprano sax.  A couple
of Boston's favorite improvisers, I hope you know them.  If not, sounds are
here: http://homepage.mac.com/bhobr/skip.html Critically lauded for a
reason, people!

Jason Talbot/Howard Stelzer.  Turntable and tapes.  A slightly newer duo to
the Boston scene, these guys are all about rough and tumble electronic
jibba-jabba where nmperign focus on small acoustic gestures.  Equally
compelling, though.  If you don't believe me, check www.bostonnoise.org , go
to "music" and then to "mp3's".  Dude, I told you.  Howie runs the fine
Intransitive Records.

Opening up will be myself and Jonathan Zorn (No, not that one.  Just born
with the same name, I swear) on guitar+electronics and electronics+sundries
respectively.    Please note: This will be our first show to feature my
nascent (read: patchy and ugly) beard!

That's right, it's FREE.  At the No-CAT, which is in the basement of
Eclectic House, 200 High St., Middletown, Conn.  Enter in back of the house
on the ground floor.  Directions here:
http://www.admiss.wesleyan.edu/traveltowes.html .  High St. is one of the
main campus streets.  Ask any of the slacker gadabouts where Eclectic House
is.  Park wherever; you won't have to pay the silly University tickets, I
promise.

E-mail me at [e-mail] for more info.  And come say hello if you
do make it by.

Thanks for indulging me,
Jesse


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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 07:21:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Andy Diaz <[e-mail]>
Subject: FREE FREEJAZZ SHOW

Hello list people,
I am pleased to announce a free performance
of VALVEJOB:

DANIEL CARTER-alto & tenor, clarinet, trumpet
STEPHEN GAUCCI-tenor saxophone
DAVE REBOI-bass
ANDREW GREENWALD-drums
ANDYDIAZ-trumpet

Join VALVEJOB at:
SIBERIA IN EXILE
356 W. 40th St, just east of 9th Ave
FRIDAY DECEMBER 7th 9:30 PM

Thank you,
Andy

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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 09:43:33 -0600
From: "Ben Axelrad" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Pierre Boulez- terrorist?

There is a more pointed account of this with more background info on Boulez
here:

http://wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/boul-d06.shtml

Ben


>From: Perfect Sound Forever <[e-mail]>
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Pierre Boulez- terrorist?
>Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 20:43:04 -0500
>
>Has anyone heard about this?  Amazing...
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1692000/1692628.stm
>
>Best,
>Jason
>
>Perfect Sound Forever
>online music magazine
>[e-mail]
>http://www.furious.com/perfect
>
>
>-
>


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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:53:01 -0600
From: Joseph Zitt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: FREE FREEJAZZ SHOW

Remember that in posts that go to international lists, at least, it
helps to mention in which city/province/country/continent a show will
happen.

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:21:06AM -0800, Andy Diaz wrote:

> Join VALVEJOB at:
> SIBERIA IN EXILE
> 356 W. 40th St, just east of 9th Ave
> FRIDAY DECEMBER 7th 9:30 PM

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