Django Bates
You Live and Learn 04.24
Vocals: Lulu Bates

"You live and learn apparently And what you learn is this: Around each corner is a new mistake Simply too good to miss."


Talvin Singh/Joanna MacGregor
Endgame 10.10
Talvin Singh: tablas

Exotica exists in every corner of the world. You know in Britain we think South American pan pipes are exotic, or sitars or tablas - but in Bombay, an electric guitar is exotic.

We have the most intricate, sophisticated rhythms in the world - the tablas.

Deirdre Gribbin - The Broken Piece of the Moon 05.14

The tape part was recorded at Tikse Monastery, Ladakh, while I was researching Ladakhi folk music in the Himalayas. It is the dawn prayer ritual of an exiled Tibetan monk. The Ladakhi people call their land "the broken piece of the moon"; the piano part uses their dance rhythms. The dance is a meditation for the dancer, as it is for the musician in this instance.

Jonathan Harvey - Hommage to Cage, a Chopin (und Ligeti ist auch dabei) 01.40

We hear the last movement of Chopin's B flat minor Piano Sonata through the filter of John Cage's world of prepared piano: in addition, the tape supplies a 'computer-music' dimension which gradually decomposes piano sonority. Ligeti also drew on Chopin in his identity-questioning work "Self-portrait with Reich and Riley (with Chopin in the background)". This tiny work for Joanna is a frantic cultural collision. 		Andrew Toovey
You may not (want) to (be) here/hear 04.39
Voice Keith Turnball

In 1988 John Cage sent me a poem called Scenario for M.F (for Morton Feldman's birthday) for a set of IXION concerts in Brighton; I printed it in the programme, but wanted to use it somewhere else - so, too, the stamping loop James Mavor and myself made in Dartington in 1992. All of these things perfectly collided when Jo suggested a piece. The title comes from a poem by artist Bruce Nauman.


CD 1 01   Matthew Fairclough Inside Out 02.07
Total:53.50 02   Django Bates You Live and Learn 04.24
    John Cage The Perilous Night  
  03     No.1 02.21
  04     No.2 00.49
  05     No.3 04.03
  06     No.4 01.12
  07     No.5 01.07
  08     No.6 03.15
  09   Stephen Pratt Study 2 (from Three
studies on Cage)		 00.57
  10   Mike Wilson/Zoetrope ALF - the vegan gravy mix 01.36
  11   John Cage Bacchanale 06.55
  12   Peter O'Brien Rasavan 01.15
  13   Deirdre Gribbin The Broken Piece of
the Moon		 05.14
  14   Mary Black Dead Sheep 00.30
  15   Jonathan Harvey Hommage to Cage,
a Chopin (und Ligeti
ist auch dabei)		 01.40
  16   Mary Black Dead Sheep (reprise) 00.17
  17   Stephen Pratt Study 1 (extract) 00.27
  18   Andrew Toovey You may not (want)
to (be) here/hear		 04.39
  19   Wilson/Zoetrope/
Fairclough		 ALF/Inside Out (reprise) 00.52
  20   Talvin Singh/
Joanna MacGregor		 Endgame 10.10

 

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