Words Tumble From Me
Life isn’t just about the day to day business, it’s about possibilities right? Why follow a possibility that will render others obsolete? Isn’t it better to have them all in front of you, awaiting a decision that may never arrive? After all, time is on your side right? Whatever your age may be.
All you need for a possibility is a gateway, imagined or otherwise. And why should you stray far from your abode to find these gateways? After all, that could cut off several home-based possibilities right there.
Gateways to possibilities can arrive in the form of phone numbers; phone numbers adorning the leaflets covering your doormat, as well as on cards in local shop windows, and in the classified ads section of magazines and papers to be found within said newsagents. If you played your cards right, and were willing and able to empty your wallet, you could be sitting at home tonight munching on a meat supreme, whilst a woman hitherto unknown to you is doing something similar.
“But what about love” you say? I suppose after basic hunger has been appeased we ought to take our thoughts onto a higher plane. Find an exact match on cuddlylove.com and do not be ashamed of scrabbling around so desperately; its ok, after all, it could lead to another number and another gateway.
A phone number could alert an efficient salesman to the fact that you are indeed a keen gardener, and have them deliver the necessary within an exceptional time limit. Meow. A gateway to another gateway; albeit a cheap one for the newbies unable to live up to the achievements of their forebears. The price is always a good excuse though isn’t it?
Gateways to possibilities exist in countless digital windows; all within reach of your fingertips. You can make new friends that you never have to meet or even talk to. For fucks sake, you don’t even have to type anything on their profile if you don’t want to, you will still be friends.
Knowledge and information, no matter if it could be erroneous, is also at ones fingertips on this luxurious superhighway. Anything that enables you to stay at home lounging around in your underwear is luxury in your book.
You can see what you should be watching and listening to from the comfort of your own duvet; no need to seek approval in person any longer, it can all be done online.
It is also time to throw away those t-shirts declaring your love and/or hatred for (insert what you like here), you can now shout at the world digitally; just update your status and tell everyone of your friends how you feel. Most won’t give a shit but that’s no different to what you are used to in the real world anyway. The good thing about this is you can still use irony as an excuse, as it hasn’t yet run out of steam when it comes to being a get-out- clause.
What has been mentioned here is merely the tip of the iceberg, and already gives us enough reason to bring up the question “why go out”?
(writer: Jason Harper)
More treats!
Composer Neil Luck has produced an EP of recent recorded works called
‘Ground Techniques’
The recordings map his own body through performance in a variety of ways.
The EP is free and downloadable from:
http://www.last.fm/music/Neil%20Luck/Ground%20Techniques
Musicians and recording personel are,
From ARCO collective and beyond:
Neil Luck - body sounds
Adam de la Cour - Guitar
Ben McDaid Wren - Drums
Fiona Bevan - Vocals and Guitar
Greta Pistaceci - Theremin
Lawrence Tatnall - Trombone
Matthew Lee Knowles - Piano
Oli Whitworth - Sound Engineer
Richard Thomas - Sound Engineer, Cello, Office furniture
and from the Oxford Improvisors -
Bob Nichol - Tenor Sax
Chris Brown - Guitar
Chris Hills - Percussion
David Stent - Guitar
Dominic Lash - Doublebass
Jill Eliot - Viola
Julian Faultless - Horn
Martin Hackett - Melodicas
Trisha Elphinstone - Soprano Sax
http://www.myspace.com/neilluckmusic
“Neil Luck is a composer, performer, and curator based in London. His compositional practice focuses on various approaches to non-standard notations, in particular those which implicate either the composer’s own body/movement in construction, or directly engage with the physiology of performance techniques themselves. Neil is also the founder of ARCO - a collective of emerging composers, artists and string players from a range of musical and artistic disciplines and backgrounds, investigating the overlap between composition, improvisation, and performance art. Neil is also an active performer and improviser, and has featured on BBC Radio 3 as part of the 2008 and 2009 Cut∧ Splice festival.He is also the founder of ARCO, and experimental string ensemble, who have played at kings place, on resoncance FM, Wilkinson Gallery, and most recently in Vilnius as part of the European Capital of Culture programme Neil’s work as a curator has seen led to two major exhibitions in 2008 and 2009 Notations 2008 and The Voice and Nothing More respectively. Both these events were dedicated to bringing leading visual artists and musicians together, exploring the concept of the notated score through as wide range of media as possible. These xhibitions featured contributions from leading visual artists Martin Creed, Cornelia Parker, Bruce Mclean, Dryden Goodwin and Jayne Parker amongst others, as well as performances from Apartment House, Lore Lixenberg, Juice Vocal ensemble, Mikhail Karikis, Sankorfa Percussion Quartet and leading UK beatboxer Reeps One.”
Here’s a treat for the theremin lovers among you: a new piece by Gordon Charlton, aka Beat Frequency.
Here at PLAY we are great fans of theremins, and will undoubtedly be offering more samples of theremin work. You are encouraged to check this space for further helpings…
Please note that despite his skill as a thereminist, Gordon’s tracks stand on their own as great pieces of DIY music.
http://beat-frequency.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/beatfrequencyuk
Gordon also makes beautiful videos to accompany his tracks. You can view these by visiting his YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/GordonCharlton
Lastly, you can buy the latest Beat Frequency album, “The Chordless Chord”, as well as Gordon Charlton’s theremin method, right here:
http://beat-frequency.blogspot.com/2009/05/buy-beat-frequency-method.html
It’s just turned friday, so the weekend is officially almost upon us…
As you wind down from a week’s hard work, Russell Callow and I See The Future, a London-based new improvising trio consisting of Callow, Luciana Bass and Jonny Hill, will provide you with a suitable weekend soundtrack:
http://www.myspace.com/callowcollage
http://www.myspace.com/callowsound
http://profile.myspace.com/iseethefuturetrio
http://www.elektrische-schatten.com/schatten.php?sprache=en&schatten_ID=18
Enjoy!
Our friends at Moize have just started a small blog:
“It’s a little audio/video daily diary entry . The idea behind these entries is to explore minimal movements. Over the course of however long this continues, and we are thinking a long long time, the work will become more interesting as the obvious ideas run out, and we have to really search and take apart in understanding minimal movements in audio and visuals.”, says Moize.
Have a look/listen here: http://www.moize.net/blog
When: Thursday 21st of January 2010, from 00:00 - 23:55
Where: anywhere in the world
Who: YOU!
“#six_events in 2008 was performed by hundreds in 29 countries across the globe over 6 days
#sixty_six_events is over a full 24 hour period and can be performed by anyone, anywhere.
#freely interpret and perform any number of the 66 events within the given time
#document your actions and send to info@sixtysixevents.com
read. respond. relax. repeat.
www.sixtysixevents.com”
