CoL49/GR/BE-related: 9/11 in Stockhausen performance from 2008

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

" ... A sudden chorus of whoops and yibbles bursts from a kind of juke 
box at the far end of the room. Everybody quit talking. The bartender 
tiptoed back, with the drinks.
   'What's happening?' Oedipa whispered.
   'That's by Stockhausen,' the hip greybeard informed her, 'the early 
crowd tends to dig your Radio Cologne sound. Later on we really swing. 
We're the only bar in the area, you know, has a strictly electronic 
music policy. Come on around Saturdays, starting midnight we have 
Sinewave Sessions, that's a live get-together, fellas come in just to 
jam from all over the state, San Jose, Santa Barbara, San Diego---'
   'Live?' Metzger said, 'electronic music, live?' ..."

(The Crying of Lot 49, chapter three)

http://www.ubu.com/film/stockhausen_michael.html

Go to 8.30 for the crash!

 > ... into the Twin Towers, first as the shadow of the protagonist 
Michael (who plays the trumpet on a moving platform), strongly in 
resonance with the final scene of Thomas Pynchon’s /Gravity’s Rainbow/, 
and then, historically somewhat imprecise, as a B747 (two B767s crashed 
into the Twin Towers) ... <

http://fillip.ca/content/stockhausen-at-ground-zero


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