In Sara Mencken Christ & Beethoven There Were Men

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1. In Sara, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven There Were Men and Women    

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New definitive CD reissue of this original Cramps label album from 1974, an early classic from Robert Ashley (previous CD version on Cramps is now deleted). This deluxe slipcased version features a 110-page book, reproducing the original Wolgamot text along with fascinating liner notes explaining the whole project from Keith Waldrop and Robert Ashley. The CD features one long composition with Ashley reading a text by poet John Barton Wolgamot. The poem has 128 stanzas; each stanza is made up of the same phrase, into which are introduced four variables, three are names or groups of names or constructions of names, and the fourth variable is formed by the adverb of the active verb. The result is considered "one of the most unusual and difficult linguistic textures in the English language". The underlying music is supplied by Paul DeMarinis on Moog synthesizer. Ashley on DeMarinis: "{Paul} has elaborated seven different modular combinations, each of which can be controlled by programmed impulses. These derive from the sound of the reading of the poem passed through the regeneration high frequency filter and successively translated into a series of command impulses."

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In Sara Mencken Christ & Beethoven There Were Men
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    		In Sara Mencken Christ & Beethoven There Were Men
    Ashley , and De Marinis
    Manufacturer: Lovely Music
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000083F4J
    Release Date: 2003-01-28

    Tracks:

    1. In Sara, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven There Were Men and Women

    Album Description

    New definitive CD reissue of this original Cramps label album from 1974, an early classic from Robert Ashley (previous CD version on Cramps is now deleted). This deluxe slipcased version features a 110-page book, reproducing the original Wolgamot text along with fascinating liner notes explaining the whole project from Keith Waldrop and Robert Ashley. The CD features one long composition with Ashley reading a text by poet John Barton Wolgamot. The poem has 128 stanzas; each stanza is made up of the same phrase, into which are introduced four variables, three are names or groups of names or constructions of names, and the fourth variable is formed by the adverb of the active verb. The result is considered "one of the most unusual and difficult linguistic textures in the English language". The underlying music is supplied by Paul DeMarinis on Moog synthesizer. Ashley on DeMarinis: "{Paul} has elaborated seven different modular combinations, each of which can be controlled by programmed impulses. These derive from the sound of the reading of the poem passed through the regeneration high frequency filter and successively translated into a series of command impulses."
    10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • A must for all Space Cadets!
    • A Classic of Text Sound Music
    		 10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces

    Manufacturer: Other Minds
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0001AC3IG
    Release Date: 2004-01-05

    Tracks:

    1. Just (1972)
    2. Heavy Aspirations (1973)
    3. Preface (1968)
    4. 62 Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham (1971)
    5. Give It to Me, Baby (1967)
    6. The Population Explosion (1969)
    7. When I Am with You (Speech Songs, 1973)
    8. He Destroyed Her Image (Speech Songs, 1973)
    9. In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (1972)
    10. Torero Piece (1973)
    11. Come to Free the Words (1962)
    12. Border Dissolve in Audiospace (1970)
    13. crickets (1965)

    Album Description

    Sound poems or `text-sound compositions' represent a cross-fertilization of the traditional arts of music and poetry. Originally released in 1974, this CD re-release is the first to anthologize text-sound pieces by U.S. composers, poets and visual artists. The advent of the magnetic tape recorder and other various electronic devices (1950-1955) presented artists of various disciplines with a wider possibility of altering natural sound, including the speaking voice. Here is a music composed from speaking, not singing. Here is also a poetry, which extends our notion of the traditional "reading"—the work can only exist as sound.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars A must for all Space Cadets!.......2007-01-08

    "Ground control to Major Tom!"

    I first got introduced to such Sound Poetry in the "Signals from the Shadow Pool" radio program on KRCL radio in Salt Lake. The program played all the obscure readings, freak-outs and cosmic noises "digged" by all "Cosmicly Concious" space cadets who once "known colors!" From Negativland to the Residents to Nurse With Wound, ears were tickled with ear candy. And conneseurs of the bizarre were satisfied.

    This album is a fine starting point for those aged "beat-poets' out there who appreciate one form of art media being transformed into another media.

    Of particular interest is the beat-poet Brion Gysin. He takes the style and color of William S. Burroughs- a colleague of his- and vividly through sound transforms such into a beat lecture, including the sound of each "free word" being transcribed to a chalk board!

    As Timothy Leary once said:- "Once cosmic, always cosmic!" Order this album and expand your cosmos!

    5 out of 5 stars A Classic of Text Sound Music.......2004-05-07

    I bought this when it was first released by the now defunct 1750 Arch records. It opened a whole new world for me and changed the way I think about music. This collection of text sound pieces is a good representation of the state of the art at the time of its release. Artists featured come from a variety of backgrounds but all are sort of crossing over between poetry and music in a sort of grey area which had been little explored.

    Most notable is the work of Charles Amirkahnian, San Francisco radio producer and advocate of contemporary music. But this is a great anthology of artists and should be better known.

    Track Listings:

    1. J.S. Bach & Telemann: Funeral Cantatas [Import]
    2. Jacob Obrecht: Missa Maria Zart
    3. Jorge Liderman: The Song of Songs
    4. Joseph Haydn: London Symphonies Nos. 93, 94 "The Surprise" & 95
    5. Kemp Conducts Richard Strauss-2
    6. Kid's Classics: Toys
    7. Korngold: Symphony; Much Ado about Nothing Suite
    8. La Banda: Traditional Italian Banda & Jazz
    9. Les Petits Nerveux: French Music for Piano and Winds
    10. Lewis Spratlan: When Crows Gather and Other Works

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    Aries

    Fibich: Complete Symphonies

    Dirty Work Going on [Import]

    A New Day

    Walk Again

    Greatest Hits

    Free (Yes I'm Free) [CD-single]

    Haydn: String Quartets, Vol.1

    Headed For The Hills

    Cheek to Cheek [Import]

    Down with Wilco

    Future Blues [Original recording remastered] [Import]

    Einfach [Import]

    Can't Buy A Miracle

    Spiritual Chants