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Iniziano gli addii, alcuni strappalacrime, come quello con Beau & Lily Sage – cowboy dell’arte – di cui sono stato advisor per il loro Master of Fine Arts. Come ricordo mi hanno lasciato questo splendido (e autentico) cappello da cowboy, che indosserò con orgoglio (magari non sempre, ma sempre con orgoglio).
Many of my american friends are horrified by the fact that I often watch Fox news: they’re liberal and cannot understand how I can get my news from such a conservative station. It’s very simple: I don’t. I watch Fox for another reason, that is entertainment value. And believe me, on that there’s no competition between say Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow, and while the former entices me to the point of ecstasy (like when he weeps abundantly on air because he “loves America”) the latter bores me to tears (also because at the same time there are often Operation Repo reruns on Tru TV, and that’s hard to beat). Glenn is pure entertainment, and so are Hannity, Shep and Poppa Bear. Here are the first 4 messages from the brand new Glenn Beck twitter page:
Isn’t that sublime? Much better than any liberal tweeting (usually witty and coolish). I only have one perplexity: why does Fox label itself as Fair and Balanced? That’s not why I watch it: I do it for the exact opposite reason.
Raccolto eccezionale a casa Messina (che al momento è un appartamento in un high rise nel south loop di Chicago): stavolta ho rimasticato la famosissima Danza Ungherese #5 di Johannes Brahms usando un metodo leggermente diverso. Le prime 16 misure si ripetono a canone, ma ogni ripetizione inizia dopo 10 misure dalla precedente. Ecco come il classico di Brahms si tramuta in una cerimonia del Peyote ungherese.
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Hungarian Phase (per sei sestetti)
More music (less talk! was the slogan of Kiss FM NYC in the 80s: kind of hard knowing me). This time I’ve rechewed Johannes Brahms’ Hungarian Dance #5 using a slightly different method: the first 16 bars are repeated in a canon. But each new repetition begins after 10 bars, so the canon quickly deranges into an Hungarian Peyote cult ceremony.
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Hungarian Phase (for six sextets)
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Here’s the third installment of the Typephase saga. After Händel and Bach, it’s the turn of another great classic – re/composed for nine celestas.
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from Amazing Grace (trad)
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Ancora un altro pezzetto di Typephase; si chiama Amazing Phase e deriva da Amazing Grace.
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Here are the lyrics to Wang Dang Doodle, a song written by Willie Dixon for Howlin’ Wolf (and subsequently covered by just about everyone, including PJ Harvey, ZZ Top and the sublime Koko Taylor):
Tell Automatic Slim , tell Razor Totin’ Jim
Tell Butcher Knife Totin’ Annie, tell Fast Talking Fanny
We gonna pitch a ball, down to that union hall
We gonna romp and tromp till midnight
We gonna fuss and fight till daylight
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long, All night long
Tell Kudu-Crawlin’ Red, tell Abyssinian Ned
Tell ol’ Pistol Pete, everybody gonna meet
Tonight we need no rest, we really gonna throw a mess
We gonna to break out all of the windows,
We gonna kick down all the doors
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long, All night long
Tell Fats and Washboard Sam, that everybody gonna to jam
Tell Shaky and Boxcar Joe, we got sawdust on the floor
Tell Peg and Caroline Dye, we gonna have a time
When the fish scent fill the air, there’ll be snuff juice everywhere
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long, All night long
Now, I’m not sure what Dixon exactly meant with Wang Dang Doodle, but I’m ready to pitch one all night long anytime, along with Abyssinian Ned, Butcher Knife Totin’ Annie and Fast Talking Fanny.
I wrote a statement for Boleros, about reclaiming musicology. It’s here.
Ecco un altro video che volevo fare da un bel po’, con le rose furiose di Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Si chiama Into Roses, e basta guardarlo per capire la ragione. Attenzione: in soggetti sensibili il video può provocare vertigini. La musica è un mio brano del 2000, fatto con dei campioni prodotti da Alexander Balanescu per un altro lavoro, e malgrado mi piaccia ancora, non ha mai trovato la via della pubblicazione: eccolo qua.
Here’s another video I had been wanting to do for a while, with the ultrasexy Redouté roses. I call it Into Roses, and it’s easy to see why. Watch out: this video might make you dizzy. The music is also mine, I made it in 2000 (using violin samples by Alexander Balanescu, created for an altogether different project we did then), and although I really like it, it never found its way to the public: here it is.
Benvenuti su Fosforo, compilation di amenità verbali di Sergio Messina di cui come sempre risponde di persona attraverso questa pagina.
