MPCAD November 28, 1947: How do you make yourself a body without organs?

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

"How do you make yourself a body without organs?"

First, you go to the Whole Foods website. . . .

          Michael Bailey:
          "The terms 'smooth space' and 'striated space' were in 
          fact coined by Pierre Boulez" who apparently did some 
          burly theorizing [memo to self: check that out sometime]

Boulez, as a composer, occupies a nexus between conceptual art and
"Spacemusic", hanging out with the folks who turned the concert into 
an audio environment, the musical neighborhood that brought us the 
"happening" and musique concrete, later floating off to minimalism 
and "ambient" music, ultimately devolving/enabling and mutating 
into "New Age Mind Barf", Goddess help us all. Some of Boulez' 
compositions hang out [to dry] on the far branches of serialism resulting 
in pure cacophony for interminable stretches. I mean, they're your own 
ears, do what you like but don't say I didn't warn ya. File with Anthony
Braxton under "weird for weirdness sake"—the Moe Syzlak definition of
postmodernism.

As a conductor he tends to pay close attention to meter[s] making
sure everybody hits their marks—not just the entrances, but the 
exits as well. His Rite of Spring is probably the tightest ever. "Tight"
is probably the best descriptor for Boulez as artist. His big boxes 
of Anton Webern are a wonder.

"The Perfect Stranger" is a collection of Frank Zappa works including 
the very finest renditions of Zappa's "concert" music, performed by 
Pierre Boulez and his Ensemble InterContemporain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulez_Conducts_Zappa:_The_Perfect_Stranger 

Oh yeah, found  http://tinyurl.com/5ml38j  and boy, is it weird. I'm 
gonna look for suitable counterpoint in Paul Mann's "Masocriticism", 
my new pet book.