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If you don't see me for a while after Friday it's because I'm in Basel rehearsing for this: http://www.garedunord.ch/details.php?id=192Opening of the Mouth by a certain Richard Barrett. Platform 2, Gare du Nord, Basel. What is it with this piece and railways, Richard? First Midland Railway Workshop, then Bremen, now Basel... |
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« Reply #1 on: 12:21:28, 20-02-2007 » |
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I kept googling for that back in the autumn (after a certain Veronika Lenz, whose identity I still hadn't twigged, mentioned it was coming up), but I could never find an actual date. I don't think I'll be able to make it now, though [opens new IE window ... 5 mins later] well, if I could get to Heathrow for 9.00 on saturday morning ...
Hmm ...
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2 on: 12:23:34, 20-02-2007 » |
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I'm in Basel
Funny how no one calls it Basle any more! ... |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #3 on: 12:24:45, 20-02-2007 » |
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So, Oz, have you a Japanese alias as well?
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« Reply #4 on: 12:28:19, 20-02-2007 » |
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have you a Japanese alias as well Aha...  |
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aaron cassidy
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« Reply #5 on: 18:07:23, 20-02-2007 » |
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Richard (andor Ollie) -- I wonder if there are any plans to re-release the old ABC disc? I've tried to order it a few times for our library here at school and can't seem to get my hands on a copy.
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« Reply #6 on: 18:44:00, 20-02-2007 » |
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Richard (andor Ollie) -- I wonder if there are any plans to re-release the old ABC disc? I've tried to order it a few times for our library here at school and can't seem to get my hands on a copy.
Aaron, it's extremely elusive (as you've found), even by the usual second-hand routes. (Though no doubt Bryn will come up with something now ;-).) I did hear from ABC's label manager a couple of months back that they were looking to reprint some old titles in the near future, and I did mention that obviously Opening of the Mouth should be top of their list. I don't know whether he took any notice ... |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #7 on: 18:48:21, 20-02-2007 » |
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Yes, unfortunately our univ. library isn't set up to buy through 2nd hand sellers, I don't think. I have my own copy of the disc (I bought it ages ago when it first came out) and lend it out to students every now and again ... just trying to find a way to get one in the library's collection.
Glad you've prodded ABC to consider re-releasing it. Hope something comes of that.
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« Reply #8 on: 19:48:01, 20-02-2007 » |
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I know that Daryl Buckley of ELISION is extremely keen to have the disc back out there in the world and would very much like the ABC either to reissue it or to hand over the rights. I'll ask him. (Or Richard could tell us!)
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« Reply #9 on: 20:50:58, 20-02-2007 » |
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Er, I've asked him and he told me but I'd better not pass it on. I'll just say it's a bit complicated and it doesn't look like it's going to happen for a while...  |
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« Reply #10 on: 21:06:24, 20-02-2007 » |
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Marvellous.  I'll go just back to listening to my tape of the H & N broadcast of it. |
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« Reply #11 on: 22:10:19, 21-02-2007 » |
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(Though no doubt Bryn will come up with something now ;-).)
Not me guv. Guess I will have to wait for it to turn up in one of the Windsor charity shops. |
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« Reply #12 on: 20:32:43, 25-02-2007 » |
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Richard, if you're there - Something's struck me in the last couple of days rehearsing. I've been reminded that since going through a fairly intense period of discovering Celan around the time I was learning this music for the first time (obviously not quite as intense as the one Richard was going through while he was writing it...) I haven't thought so much about him in the last few years - apart from a brief period when this CD came out. Richard, what have you been thinking about Celan in the last, oo, ten years or so? Do you have the feeling you've 'composed him out' a bit? |
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« Reply #13 on: 20:56:02, 25-02-2007 » |
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Sometimes I think that one of the (many) reasons for making art is to rid oneself of obsessions, so that they cease to be obsessions and become in some way assimilated, if never completely understood, so as to be able to let go and direct one's attention somewhere else. So no, I haven't spent so much time looking at Celan's work in the nine years or so since the music was last performed. At the time of composition, which took about five years (during which I did produce some other work as well) I found myself (or had put myself) in a frame of mind such that whenever I'd look at a Celan poem a kind of compositional/associative chain reaction would be set in motion. I don't think that would be the case now, neither would I wish it to be, given that I have other things to do these days.
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« Reply #14 on: 21:01:56, 25-02-2007 » |
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Sometimes I think that one of the (many) reasons for making art is to rid oneself of obsessions, so that they cease to be obsessions and become in some way assimilated, if never completely understood, so as to be able to let go and direct one's attention somewhere else. Good thing we performers don't work so much that way, eh Richard?  It's tricky though isn't it, how much in the whole business depends on receptivity as much as the inherent qualities of the work... |
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