Montauk Variations

IV. Infinitude

4'33" John Cage: Questions and Answers

Another fundraiser release.

https://jeevan.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-life
(Download also includes ambient improvisation B-side)

Proceeds go to UNRWA Gaza emergency appeal
http://donate.unrwa.org/gaza

Back to Life

Charity release

Phase music using a Terry Riley–ish minimalist process.

Charity release: jeevan.eu/track/seeds

Proceeds go to UNRWA Gaza emergency appeal
donate.unrwa.org/gaza

Seeds

Voice of John McLaughlin
Excerpt from a video interview about the recording session of ‘In a Silent Way’ 

Written by Joe Zawinul (1932-2007), first released on the studio album of the same name by Miles Davis (1926-1991), and recorded in one session on 18th February 1969
Image: The hand of Miles Davis. Photograph by Irving Penn, 1986

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I listened 
and it was unbelievably beautiful

In a silent way

In a silent way
it was unbelievably beautiful

In a silent way


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Musicians in the original recording

John McLaughlin – electric guitar
Joe Zawinul – electric piano, organ
Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
Chick Corea – electric piano
Herbie Hancock – electric piano
Dave Holland – double bass
Tony Williams – drums

John McLaughlin interview: Miles & In a Silent Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sB5UkrkMu4&list=RD4sB5UkrkMu4&index=1

in a silent way (pp rework)

This Is Not For You

..someone say that May is a crucial month in the year.
 it has always brought strange suggestions to me, difficult to describe.
 clear skies, oppression, promises.
 a sense of latency, something imminent that never comes to an end.
It's the second version, i find new parts for a more rich harmonic, melodic and rythmic structure. now need to work on the dinamic of notes and the legatos with the pedal.

The title refers to the magnificent poem of the same name 
by Arthur Rimabud, written in May 1872.

Still in progress

Bannières de mai:

Aux branches claires des tilleuls
Meurt un maladif hallali.
Mais des chansons spirituelles
Voltigent parmi les groseilles.
Que notre sang rie en nos veines,
Voici s’enchevêtrer les vignes.
Le ciel est joli comme un ange.
L’azur et l’onde communient.
Je sors. Si un rayon me blesse
Je succomberai sur la mousse.
Qu’on patiente et qu’on s’ennuie
C’est trop simple. Fi de mes peines.
Je veux que l’été dramatique
Me lie à son char de fortune.
Que par toi beaucoup, ô Nature,
– Ah moins seul et moins nul! – je meure.
Au lieu que les Bergers, c’est drôle,
Meurent à peu près par le monde.
Je veux bien que les saisons m’usent.
À toi, Nature, je me rends;
Et ma faim et toute ma soif.
Et, s’il te plaît, nourris, abreuve.
Rien de rien ne m’illusionne;
C’est rire aux parents, qu’au soleil,
Mais moi je ne veux rire à rien;
Et libre soit cette infortune.

Mai 1872

Bandiere di maggio:

Tra i rami dei tigli
muore un esangue grido di caccia.
Ma canzoni argute
volteggiano fra l’uva spina.
Il sangue rida nelle nostre vene:
ecco che già s’intrecciano le viti.
Il cielo è leggero come un angelo.
L’azzurro e l’onda si confondono.
Esco. Se un raggio mi ferisce
io morirò sul muschio.
Pazientare ed annoiarsi
è troppo semplice. Al diavolo le mie pene.
Io voglio che la drammatica estate
mi leghi al suo carro della fortuna.
Possa io morire per opera tua, Natura,
ma meno vuoto e meno solo!
Mentre i Pastori, è strano,
muoiono quasi per opera del mondo.
Desidero che le stagioni mi consumino.
A te, Natura, io mi arrendo,
con la mia fame e tutta la mia sete.
E tu, per favore, nutri e disseta.
Niente, più niente mi illude;
ridere al sole, è ridere ai genitori,
ma io non voglio ridere più a nulla;
e libera sia questa sventura.
Maggio 1872

bandiere di maggio *2nd.study

Impromptu 1 for two pianos

Chance-determined music for string orchestra (violin, viola, cello, double bass).  Quarter note equals mm. 103, the number 103 being the title of the work for large orchestra that Cage indicated should be performed with his last work, "one11."  

The last four notes of "for john cage" are C-E-A-G, the four letters that spell his last name.

Method of Composition

I took slips of paper and wrote the letters A through L on each individual slip. I then put them in a bag and drew each slip of paper, in succession, from the bag.  I repeated this procedure 7 times in a row.

The first time all notes are sustained in order to create chords, or formations, of two notes.

The second time, the notes are sustained in order to form three-note chords.

Third time, 3-note chords again.

4th, 5th, and 6th Times, 4-note chords are created, except at one point during the 4th time at the end, when 6 notes are sustained so as to form one six-note chord.

7th time: 3-note chords.

The letters on the slips of paper refer to notes in the chromatic scale, beginning with the middle C on the piano. The letter A on the slip of paper indicates middle C, the letter B refers to C#, and so on ascending through the scale (the letter L is the last note of the scale, i.e. B Natural).

for john cage

https://disquiet.com/

Disquiet Junto Project 0367: Trio Initiate
The Assignment: Record the first third of an eventual trio.

Step 1: This week’s Junto will be the first in a sequence that explores and encourages collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive it as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2. When done, if possible, pan the audio so that your piece is solely in the left side of the audio.

Left Lane (disquiet0367)

https://precariouspropositions.wordpress.com/

in a silent way (pp rework)

precarious propositions

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