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Sitting on an aeroplane, not at all my favourite place to be...


   I do not like this chariot. It gives me
   Faustian dreams...

   ...I meditate the doom

   Of Icarus, while the hostess brings
   Coffee in trim red mugs. A calm flight.
		                     (Air Flight North J.K.Baxter)


...on my way to the bottom of the world.

Up there whilst listening for every
       bump and noise I try to read
       the November edition of The Wire.

What is worrying me is what the
artists in the magazine are talking about,
     their level of knowledge and understanding of
music history and theory.

Tom Jenkinson (aka Squarepusher)
     recognises a piece by Iannis Xenakis
in the middle of other pieces by
         Throbbing Gristle, Prince, Alec Empire...

Bjork 'engages' with the ideas of Stockhausen.


I wonder if this is somehow new or different.
Or is this just how it is,
   like a painter engaging in the ideas of
Greenberg while being able to recognise
              work by Pollock and Rothko...

			maybe what I am talking about is my own
newness to music theory/history.
        My move from art theory/history and the
		             share wonder of sound.

				When compared to the examples from art history
this knowledge does not seem so grand, so out of reach.

Meanwhile I listen to the
broken distorted rhythms and mad speaker play of
                                  Farmers Manual.



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