almost TMoP: unknown blogger's open letter to JM Coetzee

[Richard Ryan]

Must confess I don't much about Harrison's work at all.  A few pieces/recordings you would recommend, LB?

--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> From: Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net>
> Subject: Re: almost TMoP: unknown blogger's open letter to JM Coetzee
> To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 7:05 PM
> Don't know about most of these. There used to be several
> gamelans in my area but after Lou Harrison died in 2003 - he
> wrote a fair number of pieces in gamelan style - I
> haven't heard much from that musical quarter. Japanese
> drumming, taiko, seems to have taken over here.  Cage is fun
> to read about, imaginative and, at times, thought provoking.
> (His absolute zero, 4'33", for example.) I have
> some albums of both Reich and Reilly. Not favorites but not
> discarded either. I have nothing by Glass.
> 
> Lawrence
> 
> On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Robin Landseadel wrote:
> 
> > I guess everyone's got that one special type of
> music that drives them mad,
> > and for most people that music is by Philip Glass. For
> this person, after
> > listening to Alvin Lucier or Balinese dance music, or
> John Cage or Metallica,
> > or Xenakis or Anthony Braxton or Ornette Coleman or
> Buckhead or Skid Roper
> > & Mojo Nixon, the music of Philip Glass is a balm
> for the soul.
> > 
> > You might want to try Steve Reich's "music
> for 18 musicians" or Terry Reilly's
> > "in C" before giving up on minimalism and
> then again you might not.
> > 
> > On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Richard Ryan wrote:
> > 
> >> Lawrence, you are a very fine fellow, but
> you're wagging the dog on
> >> this one.  The soundtrack of Kundun alone would
> win Glass a place
> >> among the immortals...
> >> 
> >> ------Original Message------
> >> From: Lawrence Bryan
> >> Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> >> To: markekohut at yahoo.com
> >> Cc: pynchon -l
> >> Sent: Nov 23, 2008 3:49 PM
> >> Subject: Re: almost TMoP: unknown blogger's
> open letter to JM Coetzee
> >> 
> >> 
> >> great??? Yuck. Music that any good computer
> program could write.
> >> Repetitive, inane, totally without and redeeming
> qualities.  As
> >> interesting as listening to an amplified heart
> beat.
> >> 
> >> I've walked out of films with his music
> drowning out the dialog, so
> >> dominating all one can think of is the mute
> button.
> >> 
> >> But then what do I know? :)
> >> 
> >> Lawrence
> >> 
> >> On Nov 23, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> >> 
> >>> You probably know by now that the great
> American composer Philip
> >>> Glass has written an opera based on your novel
> Waiting for the
> >>> Barbarians.......
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> >> 
> > 
> >