Every few minutes, I changed position and the sounds would reset themselves and begin their shape-shifting anew. Bits of sound were highlighted or pushed into backgrounds depending upon where and how I positioned my head. Just before I was disturbed by a man going to the bathroom, (which is in the hall, for your comfort,) I placed my head directly on the carpet and found that the waves of sound were vibrating the entire room, through the floor, massaging my body as well as mind. I drifted, nearly falling asleep, but then someone just had to have to pee...
As we left, my friend told me he had fallen asleep for a time, but was seemingly not at all disturbed to wake up in a room with so much sound being produced. We were also both surprised to not be bombarded by the ringing in the ears usually associated with decibels of this level. The night was clear, cold and somewhat quiet for New York on Saturday night.
Article comments
1 - zingzing
HEY LOOK! first one since july or something. anybody even read this thing yet? sigh...
2 - Mark Saleski
will you relax! i have it printed out and will comment tonight. sheesh!!! ;-)
(cool topic, by the way)
3 - Pico
Sorry, I don't remember anyone who's been AWOL from here for six months or more.
Pretty damned fine article, stranger, but I'm surprised you didn't mention that La Monte played with Don Cherry and Billy Higgins while in high school.
4 - zingzing
yeah, and i didn't mention his blues work either, mostly because i've never heard it. he went to some very famous (for its music program) high school... but i can't be bothered to remember the name right now. i believe he started out on saxophone...
besides, there's enough jazz writing on this site without me going and pooping in the pool.
anyway, he released some blues work as well, or what he decides to call blues, back in the 80s. that's been impossible to track down so far. as for how much his blues and jazz work influenced his minimalism, i won't claim to know. some of his writings (and some samples i think) are up at ubu web, so maybe there might be a clue there.
as for the not writing thing... well... i took some time off to do other things. and other things sometimes take a while. plus blogcritics was rather unhappy with safari for a while.
5 - Jeannie Danna
So, you have only published 8 articles in how many years here? All of them music reviews and none in politics, then you come over to my thread and leave a nasty little insinuation about who? Me or Cindy? This is America and I was under the impression that I was a writer here the same as you. This is an inquiry.
6 - zingzing
the hell are you talking about? i didn't leave any nasty insinuation about anyone, unless it was justoneman... and as far as i know i haven't left any comments on any of your writings...
and what does the fact that i like to write about music rather than politics have to do with anything...
you've jumped a gun here, jeannie.
7 - zingzing
jeannie. ha. yeah. "the ugly girl in a game of spin the bottle?" that was for justoneman. i was saying his presence on the website, which i'm sure he reads (since he was commenting before the editors swooped in), is an eyesore. not you.
it's my fault for commenting on the one better left ignored and forgotten, aka jom. i just wanted to play.
see? no need to get worked up.