Band 2 tha Camp

Bandcamp is a brazillion-times better than any other music service I’ve tried — of course this only includes CDBaby (via Sarah) and myspace … Mainly, the way they keep their branding out of the experience is brilliant. When browsing, their stuff is a tiny toolbar at the bottom; when uploading/editing, they add a tiny toolbar at the top. That and their interface is easy to understand … good times!

So check it out already! Iron Dog’s “Field Recordings 1” as a download (name yer price) or CD+download ($10).

The title of this work is the total length in minutes and seconds of its performance

Also known as 4’33” by John Cage, this is from the “First Tacet Edition” score, which also says “the work may be performed by any instrumentalist or combination of instrumentalists and last any length of time.”

Tudor’s 1952 performance had prescribed movement lengths, whereas this later score only instructs TACET -> TACET -> TACET. Yes, it carefully describes the timings and gestures of the earlier performance, but the ending seems to demand new approaches. So much for 4’33”. No wonder Cage called it “The Silent Piece” [as in “I have no need for the silent piece”].

What would a new performance be called? 9’6″, carefully preserving the relative movement lengths? But that seems too determinist. Maybe three “musicians” can segue with suitably impulsive timing. Or hold their breath in sequence, or stand on one leg until …

 

Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures @ Jazz Gallery

Definitely an exciting event — I’m playing with Adam Rudolph’s octet, doing music that is similar to the Organic Orchestra but … different, and obviously with Adam’s tremendous percussive firepower on display. Graham Haynes on trumpet, Kenny Wessel on guitar, Joe Bowie on trombone, Brahim Fribgane on oud and percussion, James Hurt on percussion, Matt Kilmer on percussion, and myself on acoustic bass guitar.