I see your point, Jim. Well, it used to be there, or on one of
those Minnesota Public Radio American Mavericks sites--the
whole damn thing. Quite spectacular. It might be in orbit
around Jupiter now. Worth seeking out.
"is there enough silence here for a glass of water"
--David Antin
Hal
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:24 AM, James Cervantes
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Not Found
>
> The requested URL /SOUNDS/Icefield.ram was not found on this server.
>
> Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
> ErrorDocument to handle the request.
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Check out Brant's *Ice Field*, which you should be
> > able to hear right here -->
> > http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Brantmusic.shtml
> >
> >
> > "is there enough silence here for a glass of water"
> > --David Antin
> >
> > Hal
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
> > ================
> >
> > [log in to unmask]
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> > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
> > http://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/home
> > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
> > *Mainly Black<
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1i_JGJ_FqQldEnUq7cwjV8giYykz_tsGbTkC2EkAP3IM&hl=en&pli=1#
> > >
> > , **Obras Públicas<
> >
> https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/halvard-johnson-obras-publicas
> > >
> > ; **The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and Other
> > Sonnets<
> >
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
> > >
> > ;*
> > *Organ Harvest with Entrance of
> > Clones<
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1
> > >
> > ; **Tango Bouquet<
> >
> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en
> > >
> > ; **Theory of Harmony<
> >
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf
> > >
> > ; *
> > ***Rapsodie espagnole<
> >
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf
> > >
> > ; **Guide to the Tokyo
> > Subway<
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3
> > >
> > ; **The Sonnet Project<
> >
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf
> > >
> > ; *
> > ***G(e)nome <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>;
> **Winter
> > Journey <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>;
> > **Eclipse<http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html>
> > ; **The Dance of the Red Swan <
> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html
> > >;
> > *
> > *Transparencies & Projections <
> > http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html>
> > *
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Patrick,
> > >
> > > As a former architect, you might be intrigued by Henry Brant's
> blueprint
> > > for the positioning of the 3 orchestras performing and his aesthetic
> > > statements which appear on the screen while you listen to "Trinity of
> > > Spheres". I wish more youtube videos provided such pertinent material.
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcCEbzZFzdk&feature=related
> > >
> > >
> > > Barry
> > >
> > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:03:12 -0000, Patrick McManus <
> > > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Thanks Wow just heard part of 'Orbits' like a storm thrashing - gosh
> > those
> > > flashlight are a bit bof a pain
> > > >
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On
> > > Behalf Of Barry Alpert
> > > >Sent: 17 March 2011 16:38
> > > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > > >Subject: Re: Snap That Maverick Composer
> > > >
> > > >I've heard of Brant for years, Hal, but have never had a chance to
> > witness
> > > a concert of his works. Have been listening to his compositions via
> > youtube
> > > this morning and would like to experience the spatial positioning in
> > person.
> > > I wrote about Lou Harrison on this occasion because the "confluence"
> > > articulated by the Post-Classical Ensemble was available to me without
> > major
> > > difficulty or expense, and I had been introduced to his music many
> years
> > ago
> > > by two young composers who had studied with LH, Peter Garland and Paul
> > > Dresher.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks, Doug & Hal, for assuring me that what I wrote was presentable.
> > I
> > > wonder when I revise as much as I did on this occasion.
> > > >
> > > >Barry
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:26:09 -0600, Halvard Johnson <
> [log in to unmask]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>I've never found Harrison's music all that interesting, actually.
> > > >>Too much languorous orientalia for my liking.
> > > >>Try Henry Brant.
> > > >>
> > > >Hal
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:17:52 -0600, Douglas Barbour <
> > > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>Despite the difficulties, well caught, Barry. And the explanation, as
> > Hal
> > > says: fascinating.
> > > >>
> > > >>I have Seven Pastorales out from the library right now, & have the
> > > Elegiac Symphony, but clearly need to track down the Piano Concerto.
> > > >>
> > > >>Doug
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:21:46 -0600, Halvard Johnson <
> [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>Fascinating, Barry. Thanks.
> > > >>
> > > >>Hal
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>On 2011-03-16, at 7:48 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> > > >
> > > >TREAT LOU HARRISON
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Built myself a paper world.
> > > >Exquisite corpses with Cage & Cunningham.
> > > >Read Harry Partch's book (gift of Virgil Thomson).
> > > >
> > > >Contact made more intimately within sound sources.
> > > >Made love with drones in serial music.
> > > >Said Cage, "Math of the straight and narrow path" .
> > > >
> > > >Building a cathedral and shipping it to outer space.
> > > >Kinetically filled.
> > > >Please enter. No dog inside.
> > > >
> > > >Large and rambunctious expansion--
> > > >mountains here and hear,
> > > >"See what you can make of . . . " [Navaho chants instead]:
> > > >
> > > >Here holiness with innumerable crystalline cells /
> > > >airplant Spanish moss asway . . .
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 3-16-11 (9:46 AM)
> > > >
> > > >I initially approached the major "American Maverick" composer Lou
> > Harrison
> > > by snapping a sequence of 10 Kodak instant photos of him, John Cage,
> and
> > > their patron Betty Freeman relaxing on the grounds of a music festival.
> > > Thirty four years passed before I was lucky enough to be within
> > > geographical range of the tripartite SUBLIME CONFLUENCE: THE MUSIC OF
> > LOU
> > > HARRISON.
> > > >
> > > >http://post-classicalensemble.org/lou-harrison/
> > > >
> > > >After witnessing the useful documentary film, I decided to await
> > > additional language which might surface during the two subsequent
> > programs.
> > > Overall, a difficult and elongated writing process. I expect a more
> > fluid
> > > experience when I work with an audio interview which I've just now
> > > discovered.
> > > >
> > > >Let me recommend a very strong work by Lou Harrison, his Piano
> Concerto
> > > (1985) in a version featuring Keith Jarrett, for whom it was originally
> > > composed on commission:
> > > >
> > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d85BW_ZUs0
> > >
> >
>
>
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