Ah I'm grateful to you
I just went off to a guest lecture and was quite enjoying; but still
raging -- I was quite disappointed. I can't say it's my first choice of
texts; but it's stuff I grew up with and which has shaped me
A few years ago they did a reading of the prelude which they improved with
wind sounds
I complained then and didn't get an answer
They're so sure of themselves
based on almost nothing
L
On Tue, October 13, 2009 15:59, andrew burke wrote:
> Awk, Lawrence, don't you hate it! Our national broadcaster did a half
> hour show on my poetry a couple of years back, and the producer mixed in
> the sound of a coffee espresso machine steaming and hissing, mixed in with
> various cuts of Miles Davis (electronic stage) plus cafe ambient
> conversation buzz. Grrrrr ... if you concentrated really hard, you could
> hear the occasional line. His ego got in the way of my ego ...
>
> Andrew
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>
> 2009/10/13 Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
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>> They come not as single spies...
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>> email to BBC
>>
>> I have been trying to listen to wordsworth and coleridge - Lewti and
>> The
>> Thorn R4 3.30 p.m.
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>> Could we know the name of the moron who decided that Lyrical Ballads
>> need sound effects?
>>
>> Is it brain damage they've suffered or ignorance?
>>
>>
>> If the latter, could they be subjected to cruel and unusual punishments
>> and then sacked?
>>
>> Is it the producer Emma Harding?
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>> --
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
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>
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> --
> Andrew
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>
> 'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie
> bookshops - list at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
>
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
Lawrence Upton is a Member of The Avant-Offgarde
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