Many thanks for those links, Barry, esp the Mali one live at the Tate
Modern. What a hypnotic sound. And I played Baba O’Riley straight
afterwards and see the link but had never known the source.
The Roger Waters record was a soundtrack composed with Ron Geesin I found
out later. I amended the title in my poem by the way - it is ‘from’ The
Body, not ‘for’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_from_The_Body
The Holub poem is the well-known Brief reflection on accuracy.
Brief reflection on accuracy
Fish
always accurately know where to move and when,
and likewise
birds have an accurate built-in time sense
and orientation.
Humanity, however,
lacking such instincts resorts to scientific
research. Its nature is illustrated by the following
occurrence.
A certain soldier
had to fire a cannon at six o'clock sharp every evening.
Being a soldier he did so. When his accuracy was
investigated he explained:
I go by
the absolutely accurate chronometer in the window
of the clockmaker down in the city. Every day at seventeen
forty-five I set my watch by it and
climb the hill where my cannon stands ready.
At seventeen fifty-nine precisely I step up to the cannon
and at eighteen hours sharp I fire.
And it was clear
that this method of firing was absolutely accurate.
All that was left was to check that chronometer. So
the clockmaker down in the city was questioned about
his instrument's accuracy.
Oh, said the clockmaker,
this is one of the most accurate instruments ever. Just imagine,
for many years now a cannon has been fired at six o'clock sharp.
And every day I look at this chronometer
and always it shows exactly six.
Chronometers tick and cannon boom.
Miroslav Holub <https://www.poemhunter.com/miroslav-holub/poems/>
No particular link with my poem except perhaps that I was reflecting about
why particular memories slot and remain, even without cannon boom.
Bill
On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 1:19 am, Patrick McManus <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Barry thanks for those links I did not know Riley's in C
>
> On 01/05/2020 15:46, Barry Alpert wrote:
> > Bill,
> >
> > I started reading your Miro poem on Wednesday assuming it was Joan Miro
> and then stopped because I couldn't remember any of my experiences viewing
> his art, though I know I've seen paintings by him in museums, but never a
> memorable retrospective. Wouldn't have guessed you were referencing
> Miroslav Holub--though what poem? Enjoyed your Australian usages and slang.
> Don't quite get the references within the worlds of Pink Floyd and Ry
> Cooder although I attended the first performance of Pink Floyd in San
> Francisco and went out of my way to acquire the British pressing of their
> first LP, convinced by spacey disc jockeys on the first FM progressive r &
> r station in the U.S., KMPX. However, Terry Riley's In C, which I believe I
> heard first on Larry Miller's 12 midnight to 6am slot on KMPX-FM has grown
> in interest for me. I'd recommend these two versions of In C and many other
> compositions by him as a minimalist grid for writing, in addition to their
> physiological value. THE WHO paid homage in "Baba O'Riley":
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbTn79x-mrI
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX96z7AuICs
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g
> >
> >
> > Barry Alpert
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:31:07 +1000, Bill Wootton <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks, Doug. Appreciate it.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 2:01 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ross might’ve been fine, Bill, but it’s the details of this memory that
> >>> count, & I think that’s one of th thins you do well these days.
> Settling
> >>> into that past as present (the tenses).
> >>>
> >>> Doug
> >>>
> >>>> On Apr 29, 2020, at 5:10 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Thanks, Patrick. My memories, even this one are snippetish too but
> >>>> punctuated often by music. The lad in question was not really Miro in
> >>> fact
> >>>> but I had just read a cracker of a poem by Miroslav Holub and I
> decided
> >>> to
> >>>> dignify plain old Ross with something like the poet’s moniker.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bill
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 8:50 pm, Patrick McManus <
> >>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> gosh you have a good memory -seems a lot of my past is in tiny
> snippets
> >>>>>
> >>>>> of course the title falsely led me to another Miro
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 28/04/2020 22:57, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>>>>> Why do you find yourself remembering
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> an afternoon
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> of all afternoons
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> when you had lunch at Miro’s place
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> lunch consisting for you
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> of Mum-cut sandwiches
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> from a brown paper bag
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sitting cross-legged
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> on unpolished floorboards
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> opposite Miro
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> eating something like fried rice
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> both of you listening
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> to records he put on
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> by musicians you’d never heard of
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Some guy called Ron Geesin with
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Floydless Roger Waters
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Music for the body
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> and rhythm from pluckety Ry Cooder who
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Had a friend Louie Brown, he was a deacon,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Just as wise as he could be
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Now you realise he could read the Good Book
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> back from Revelation down to Genesee
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Upstairs above a shop
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> in Hawthorn perhaps
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> you sat in the midst of stuff
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> stacked side tables
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> unmatched chairs
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> unframed canvases on walls
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> scarves bright and drab
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> materials splayed on the floor
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> the vast room apparently cornerless
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You smoke rollies
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> passing the Drum packet between you
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> trams rolling past outside
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Miro brushes unwashed long
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ginger locks from his face
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> as he talks without rush
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Miro letting ash fall unnoticed to the floor
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> as he listens to you
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You were not friends before this
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> or after
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> although you part
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> as far as you remember
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> on good terms
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Many a class you wagged
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> lunched at many other kids’ places
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> your friends
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> but this afternoon
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> has slotted somewhere else
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> this Miro-hosted time
> >>>>>>
> >>> Douglas Barbour
> >>> [log in to unmask]
> >>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >>>
> >>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations
> >>> 2 (UofAPress).
> >>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Shakespeare
> >>> drag yr mouldy old bones
> >>> up these stairs & tell me
> >>> what you died of,
> >>> I think
> >>> I’ve got it
> >>> too.
> >>>
> >>> Sharon Thesen
> >>>
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