Thanks, Doug. Right now I'm listening to Kronos' 8:29 minute live
recording of "The Fly Freer" which I just accessed via their website
[www.kronosquartet.org]
by clicking on "Unreleased tracks on MySpace". Sigur Ros' original can
also be heard on the web. Though Kronos Quartet performed pieces by six
different composers during the concert I attended, including works by Terry
Riley, John Zorn, and Scott Johnson which I expected to yield writing on
the basis of previous experience with their music, my rough draft written
during "Flugufrelsarinn" seemed the most promising. Glad to hear that it
worked for you. I chose the concert over a reading by Rosmarie & Keith
Waldrop scheduled at the same time because I had witnessed a collaborative
literary performance by them a few years ago which would be hard to top
(though can't remember a "third individual" emerging), while I had never
heard any of the musical compositions Kronos was scheduled to perform.
Barry
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:12:05 -0600, Douglas Barbour
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>The experience that led to it sounds as neat as the result, Barry.
>
>I hope they record this...
>
>Doug
>On 5-Apr-06, at 11:12 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
>> FLUGUFRELSARINN [THE FLY FREER]
>>
>> [via Sigur Ros & for Arni Ibsen]
>>
>>
>> Amber<>Water.
>>
>> Cutthroat?
>>
>> Salmo salar.
>>
>> Green<>Salmon.
>>
>>
>> Triumphal romantic release,
>>
>> mimeticized.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 4-5-06 (1:09 PM)
>>
>>
>> Words (slightly revised) which came to mind during a wordless
>> performance
>> (with subtly designed lighting) by the Kronos Quartet of an
>> arrangement of
>> the Icelandic group Sigur Ros’ composition. The program notes
>> intrigued me
>> in advance of my initial experience of the music by summing up the
>> original
>> narrative as an attempt to rescue helpless flies in a lake from the
>> jaws of
>> approaching salmon.
>>
>>
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