Cornelius Cardew 'treatise' and graphic scores

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Wow, I missed this. Fuck!

Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 1 November 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...
This was a very bits and pieces show (was there for it late last year), a new music ensemble tackling "Treatise", but its a fine programme. Joanna Bailie is v affected by Feldman's work, you have a rare perf of something (anything!) by Robert Ashley. For me, The highlight was Chris Dench "Rushes", then Barrett's "Lost". They omit a work by Øyvind Torvund, that ws the one I had most problems with.

I'll re-listen sometime to see if my impressions have changed.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 15 April 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

nine years pass...

shawn feeney's electronic realisation: https://vimeo.com/24759329

the actual score -- when animated -- always reminds me of the look of george dunning's yellow submarine

which reminds me (since it's where i first wrote that observation down) here's a little piece i wrote about it (pdf -- you have to scroll down) : http://www.soundmatters.org.uk/content/documents/exhibition-guide/CC_SM_guide.pdf

mark s, Saturday, 13 August 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link

and here's a version by the SYNTAX ensemble now the youtube embeds are sorted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMzIXxlwuCs

mark s, Thursday, 18 August 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link

Treatise: An Animated Analysis -- a fair proportion of which seems "state the bleedin obvious" to me, but perhaps i have been thinking about this object for too long

mark s, Friday, 19 August 2016 12:52 (seven years ago) link

Takes me back to my slog through Tilbury's biog at the start of the year, I must pick it up again.

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Friday, 19 August 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link

i close-read a few sections for that "sound matters" catalogue piece and speedread the rest: i was actually constantly torn between "dude NO ONE needs to know this much abt xxx" and "i feel there is actually more to say here on this topic" (ie that someone not so caught up in and basically sympathetic to a lot of CC's odder stances might have a sharper perspective?)

i'm still glad the JT biog exists but blimey

mark s, Friday, 19 August 2016 13:13 (seven years ago) link

Agree with all of that. JT not only sympathetic to CC's later wrongness but complicit in, of course.

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Friday, 19 August 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link


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