VV(18): Jittering and squeaks

[Dave Monroe]

"'Rhythm,' snorted Itague, 'as if you listened to the jitterings and squeaks 
of a metaphysical bedspring.'" (V., Ch. 14, Sec. ii, p. 405)

Okay, this is just plain driving me nuts.  I'm convinced I read--or perhaps 
even heard, there's a voice I'm associating with this--something about some 
composer--Stravinsky, I'd thought, but it could just as well have been Miles 
Davis, or Brian Wilson, for taht matter ...--being inpired by, utilizing, 
whatever, the squeak of some instrument or another.  Certainly, one thinks 
here of futurist music (Luigi Russolo et al.), musique concrete (Edgard 
Varese et al.), Spike Jones, whatever, but ... but I was reminded instantly 
of this passage, trick is, I can't remember what by.  Any help would be 
appreciated.  In the meantime ...

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_jones.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_spiked.html

http://pages.whowhere.com/internet/f.vazquez/spike.html

The album, Futurism & Dada Reviewed 1912-1959 (Sub Rosa SUBCD012-19), might 
still be available ...

http://home.planet.nl/~frankbri/ltm2301.html

And this is chock full o' useful documents, essays, what have you ...

Kahn, Douglas A. and Gregory Whitehead, eds.
   Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde.
   Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.

And see as well ...

Kahn, Douglas.  Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound
   in the Arts.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

And here's a nice online resource for twen cen music ...

http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts-letters/music/material/3241-51/internet.html

Anyway, let me know ...


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