richard man
what i love about you is how you dont mind speaking your mind
i always thought that no one could have any semblance of a career in music
and be so forthrightly negative about what you see and you dont like
but you prove me wrong. how do you do it? dont you fear being shunned?
i totally agree
i was at that gig
i've lot to say
re furt and re nakamura butcher
but for now let me agree with you
the christian marclay was distastefull in extremis
can you imagine the scene
these decrepid middle age guys
marclay and rowe
'directing' this very young lady
with a rooom full of guys with cameras and god knows what else going down
leaving aside the fact that it was unadulterated pornography
it was so unimagnitative and said nothing much at all
and was filmed and editted to make a very dull film
i believe it was described as video installation
it was merely a video film
it would have looked not at all out of place
on any porn site you care to mention
and the concept was fake
no way were the gitar sounds coming out
what she was doing to that gitar
someone dubbbed stuff on later
i am ashamed to say i did not walk out
and i did not shout some abuse at marclay
at the end
i was too busy telling myself to behave and not be my usual
trouble-making self
has there been some debate re this
on the resonance forum??
and what a sad debacle of populist no-brain sadness
the lmc has become. the last time i was at a lmc event
was when it was in that old warhouse in camden 20 years ago
in them days it was full of people seriously dedicated to the art of improvised music
who shuffled on stage, and gave the audience [what there was of one] music to devour
or to reject if they so wished, and then shuffled off stage.
there was no bar i seem to remember.#
i wonder waht our old comrades at the film co-op next door to the lmc would have made of
marclay's nonsense?
?
in the old days when the music was important enough to exist in its purity
we would not have tolerated this idiot m.c. who resembled some
tedious daytime tv style bore droning on at us between sets
and urging us to clap when clapping is what we've just finished doing
would ahve been unthinkable. it was low brow populist nonsense
who is this jerkoff?
if he really is something to do with lmc resonance fm
hadnt it occurred to him that he was ruining the soundscape?
i dont want to come out of the intense barrage of dense sounds that is furt
and then be forced to listen to some idiot mumbling about
john claude van damme and then get a reggae disco
before i can move onto butcher and nakamura
surely someone involved in resonance fm
would have some concept of the evening as a soundscape???
sorry i gotta fly
but i'll do some more later innit
