Insect Trust and Cassiber (was Re: Insect Trust)

[Dave Monroe]

Reminds me of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia.  In one
movement, passages from Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable
are sung.  In another, various sung phonemes whirl
around until they coalesce into "Martin Luther King." 
I've a recording on Erato with Pierre Boulez (my fave
modernist conductor, that severity ...) and The New
Swingle Singers (who are not nearly so swingling here
as on their 60s a capella Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi,
Handel, et al. records, which are impossible to feel
badly to).  See discussion in ...

Chanan, Michael.  Musica Practica: The Social
   Practice of Western Music from Gregorian Chant
   to Postmodernism.  New York: Verso, 1994.

Chris Cutler was a member of Henry Cow as well, no? 
Author, at any rate, of the eminently useful ...

Cutler, Chris.  File Under Popular.
   New York: Autonomedia, 1992 [1984].

And, hey, found this whilst trying to get a
publication date ...

http://www.ccutler.com/

Several texts of his online there.  Oh, er, Thomas
Pynchon ...

--- James Kyllo <plistmail at 666thebeast.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
 
> The Cassiber album is a little short on tunes to
> widely recommend, but I
> quite enjoy it.  The Pynchon tracks are, however
> amongst the least succesful
> imo.  It consists of "texts", spoken, sung or
> intoned over avant-rock music.
> 5 (of 18) texts are from GR.  

> one of the three members is Chris Cutler who,
> apart from being an incredible and
> prolific drummer (I've seen him play with Pere Ubu
> and with Faust), runs ReR
> (once Recommended).
> 
> Sticking to things mentioned on the list in the last
> year or so, ReR is a
> great souce for eg
> Harry Partch, This Heat & Iannis Xenakis
> 
> best
> 
> James
> 

... but, then again, this list is a good source of
information for all sorts of things, in my imho ...

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