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pfe-28.1 (notes out of tokyo ¥¥)
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. ..... .. at last, after moaning for years
about the lack of listening at performances
i 've ¥
witnessed its possibility...though i had to go to tokyo to find it..
. . .. .. .
1 hour of complete quite... and i mean not a word.
.not one :: . . :¥¥:: . : ::
followed by a break and another half hour of full silence.
a dream in a world where everybody had to talk and no one had time
to listen..
.we sit for hours in front of a screen but in front of sound we must mak-
e comment or chat about our day. here the audience came to listen...
. ++ and was happy to give both these artists the respect of their attention
(no one twisted their arm to pay ¥ 3500)
>> keith rowe << with >>taku sugimoto<<
this¥ wasn't an easy performance to sit through
so quiet ¥
...sugimoto was first up. his guitar played incredibly sparsely <
...large / amounts of silence
between sounds produced with various tools ; ;
and hand techniques, along with the odd spring. sitting
on the edge of my seat waiting and listening for the next sound
(- morton feldman seems an influence).
>>>>>>followed by keith rowe who is clearly
>> being influenced by his contact with both the
lap.top.ers and the new improv artists...there ¥
is more space in this performance than the
> one witnessed in .. :: .. sydney for what is music?..
.less fiddling...at first his palette seems so much richer
¥ than sugimoto's, how could it not, but quickly rowe settles
¥¥ letting the sounds playout.
after the break they play together
rowe playing very quietly in tunewith sugimoto
¥ this is what improvisation is about and the out come was shear
delight
the smile on rowe's face confirmation.....
¥¥
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:: .. check http://www.japanimprov.com ::.
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... .. :: :: http://laudanum.net/pfe : ..:
:: ... . .. . http://laudible.net . .
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