Name: The Tiger's Mind/Cornelius Cardew by Gerauschhersteller
Duration: 17 min 40 s
Description: Performance of The Tiger's Mind by Cornelius Cardew by Gerauschhertsteller at RimFest, 6 November 2016

In early August of 2021, I woke up in the middle of the night with a phrase in my head, resounding right out of a dream that I woke from. It said (though in Swedish): "I am an ombudsman (representative) of all" I reached for my notebook, and jotted down the phrase. When I woke again in the morning, I looked at what I'd written, and got the idea for a poetry collection, right there and then, like a bolt of lightning right out of the unconscious. I started working on the collection, which I decided would contain 100 A4 pages of two-liners, rhyming two-liners. That took me a couple of weeks, and then I started working on four different sound art versions simultaneously. For this first version I engaged my wild-wife Anna to recite half of the rhymes. Those are heard here. Very soon I decided to use the sounds of a pitcher, originally intended for pouring wine, as a driving beat and magic atmosphere. I used the pitcher as a makeshift drum, and I used one short phrase of drumming, treating it in various ways, electronically. I have applied some spatiality to pitcher as well as voice. Enjoy! I'm aware that most of you won't understand the text of the rhymes, since they're all in Swedish. I might come up with an English version too, after a while. The show starts with a minute or so of just the pitcher and then some of my own groaning, but despair not; the rhymes, performed by Anna, soon commence!
By the way, these OMBUDSMANNEN works are modular. All rhymes except the first and the last are modular, and can be placed in any order, even with the second line read first, if one wishes. Therefore the four planned versions will have their verses in various orders.
And there is a sub-title: RHYMES WITHOUT REASON!
But these OMBUDSMANNEN rhymes without reason can also be heard as a kind of TAO ventures, in the vein of poets A. R. Ammons and Göran Sonnevi, demonstrating the incredible pluralism that the single generating tissue of the cosmos splits up into, in our minds, while it can also, in our minds, again unite.
The TEXT can be read here in its original order - though all the recorded versions present that text in other orders:
https://www.poeter.se/Las+Text?textId=2368249

OMBUDSMANNEN version one

OMBUDSMANNEN Version 1

This is my 6th version of the 100 pages poem OMBUDSMANNEN (The Representative), with the subtitle RHYMES WITHOUT REASON. In this version I whisper the text. That is tough for the vocal cords, so I've only yet achieved a preview of this version. This is the preview. The whole text will be available some time in the not so distant future, I hope. The percussion came to me - as everything concerning OMBUDSMANNEN - out of the blue. I was sitting on the terrace behind the house up in Niemisel, absentmindedly banging the wooden arm-chair with my hands, falling into a rhythm. I realized this could be something, so got up and fetched my Zoom recorder, which I placed on the wooden table in front of me. Now I got an extra effect through the resonance through the armchair and the wooden deck of the terrace, up through the wooden table into the recorder. Now this noisy, loud banging gets to mix with my whispers; an odd couple!

OMBUDSMANNEN Version 6 Preview

For solo cello with curved bow. Composed in 2002.
Live performance by Anton Lukoszevieze at the Kintai Festival, Lithuania, on 20 August 2022.

Raimondas Rumsas

00:00 Terry Jennings: Piano Piece 1960
05:42 Morton Feldman: Intermission 5 (1952)
10:00 Christian Wolff: Play (1968) (with Chris Evans, perc.)
16:57 John Cage: Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947)
23:00 Christopher Hobbs: Sudoku 137 (2013)
33:20 Terry Jennings Piano Piece 1 1965 “Winter Trees"

Photo: Hobbs preparing piano before performance.

Christopher Hobbs, Coventry Lunchtime Concert, 5 November 2014

Performance of The Tiger's Mind by Cornelius Cardew by Gerauschhertsteller at RimFest, 6 November 2016

The Tiger's Mind/Cornelius Cardew

A total of 7 'vocal' pieces for soprano saxophone and piano, some written by Jan Rzewski and some by Steve Lacy.

Frederic Rzewski and Steve Lacy met in Rome in the late 60’s when both were participating in Musica Elettronica Viva. Lacy dedicated his “Cryptosphere” to Rzewski - a tune full of a kind of micro playing that would dominate Lacy's playing after his time in Rome. Lacy and Rzewski shared a fascination with poetry and language, and here Rzewski and his son Jan recall moments from two records Rzewski and Lacy made together - "Rushes" based on Russian poems, and "Packet" based on poems written by Judith Melina of the Living Theatre. 

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Frederick Rzewski / piano

Jan Rzewski / soprano saxophone

DS141 - Frederic and Jan Rzewski The Cuckoo (Steve Lacy)

Composed in 2011.
Live performance by Decibel, conducted by Daniele Rosina, at Birmingham Conservatoire, 2 April 2019

Classic Stride and Glide

Opening track from the double CD "Again & Again" (ANTS AG23) by Manuel Zurria, with pieces by Adrián Demoč, Philip Glass, Ričardas Kabelis, Rytis Mažulis, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, László Sáry, Howard Skempton, Tibor Szemző, James Tenney, Kevin Volans.

Again & Again

Számzene I

Manuel Zurria / László Sáry - Számzene I (from "Again & Again" AG23)

Recording of duet recital by Christopher Hobbs and Dave Smith at the conference, With Four Hands, Senate House, London, 18 June 2013.

British minimalism and postminimalism concert

This track is made for Janneke van der Putten´s VOICE–SKIN project. It is made from sine waves,  phase shifting, delays and heartbeats.

The Tiger's Mind/Cornelius Cardew

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