I've been listening to Fushitsusha15 and 16, and Jason LescaleetMattresslessness. Also, Cecil TaylorUnit Structures, Archie SheppFire Music, and Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic EnsembleDrawn Inward.
I've been interspersing my Finnegan's Wake reading fiasco with Neal Postman's excellent and pithy Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
I played last weekend with Sato Yukie, Alfred Harth, Choi Sun-Bae, and others. The duet with Yukie, in particular, felt right, although some meandering was unfortunately perpetrated. There's a page with pictures and text, but it's in Japanese. Anybody know Japanese? Wanna translate?
Many of my squarish friends showed up and had many questions. The grand prize winner: "What do you consider to be the least conventional thing you use as an instrument?" The answer: "Either a window, a chair, or the wrapper from a pack of smokes." I should have said my cornet...it's so fucked up I might as well consider it "prepared," although the valves still work fine.
Alfred has a new release: eShip Sum, it's out in ltd. ed. (1000 copies) on 1000cd, haha. Some of my work is sampled and looped on one cut, and Choi appears on many tracks. The cd is quite different from what I do, and is lovely throughout. You should try to get one.
Next up is some studio work in preparation for a Kevin Parks cdr on rasblituttitto/rasbliutto recordings. It will involve use of some of my sounds...
With great joy I have recently learned that Jack Wright and Bob Marsh are coming to Korea next year, as well as Japan. Furthermore, the amazing, inspiring, barely-heard-of sOo-jung kae will be here this summer and I will be damned if I can't arrange a duet performance with her. I just need a good-sounding room with a great-sounding piano. Any suggestions in Seoul?
