Though the gigs took place in big arenas, there was forensically superb musicianship and also lots of room for improvisation, areas where no one knew exactly what was going to go down. Zappa would set the Synclavier running with random ‘events’ and see how the band responded. The tour ma...
Moving 440 Hz Up and Down Imagine you’re attending a symphony orchestra concert. The lights dim and the concertmaster emerges from the wings and stands in front of the ensemble. The oboist is given a cue to play the “tuning” note and begins to blow a concert “A”…the reference not...
Howl, it seemed to Sophie, went and examined all the things she had moved when he came in from the yard. But that seemed to be only restlessness. He seemed not to know what to do with himself after that. Sophie heard him roving up and down during the night. He was only an hour ...
But, to these ears,Provisionis an almost-perfect follow-up to the classicCupid & Psyche ’85. There’s arguably more cohesion – Gartside and keyboard-playing cohort David Gamson co-wrote and co-produced all tracks (no Arif Mardin this time) and the guest spots from Miles Davis, Roger Tro...
Those whose practices did not subscribe to the paradigm of historicity-as-fact needed to catch up. For French explorers, scholars, and colonial administrators, historicism conceived in this manner provided a lens by which they made sense of what they encountered in nineteenth- and twentieth-century...