>>>tom ended his reading with the aid of a little palm-sized musical
device that works similar to a player piano. he had taken ed dorn's
signature, enlarged it, punched holes in it corresponding to the
signature and then ran the long slip of paper through the little
machine by turning a small crank on the side producing something of a
melody that lasted probably about 30 seconds. he called it a "john
cage meets colin nancarrow tribute to my friend ed dorn."
This is *lovely*; any other eye- or ear-witness accounts of it would be
gratefully received.
The light that's shed by this kind of apparently tangential moment can
sometimes help to illuminate a whole body of work in a different and
provocative way. I feel right now that I haven't *really* been reading Raworth
at all.
C
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