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RE: Joe Morris's unusual book RE: 3 Mah-na mah-na MP3s Here



Thanks, Kris!
Yes, although I've never seen this book, I am reasonably certain that this
is it...kind of a musical version of "The Humument." Now to get myself a
copy... I have a very very visual sense of creativity, and I get a lot of
inspiration from visual images, much as Billy Gibbons, art-school boy that
he is, fills the studio with cool-looking things when he records an album.
~Tim Mungenast


> [Original Message]
> From: Hartung, Kris <kris.hartung@hp.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 6/5/2005 11:51:37 PM
> Subject: RE: Joe Morris's unusual book RE: 3 Mah-na mah-na MP3s Here
>
> Is this it?
>
> http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum004.html
>
> From the liner notes by Joe Morris:
> This set of pieces was originally named The Green Book. Inspired by a
> collection of visual graphic aids by that name created by the late
> composer/improviser/pianist Lowell Davidson... Lowell's Green Book was
> intended to be used as a guide for improvisation. It consisted of a set
> of color Xerox images made by the copier running on it's own without
> source material. The results were dense blotches of random pattern and
> color. Lowell considered the Green Book to be one of his most advanced
> devices to be used to steer himself and his players. Others included
> index cards with different sizes of notes (these were similar to the
> work of other composers from the 50s and 60s) and his invented staves
> which were intended to isolate certain musical zones and sounds. He also
> notated on materials other than paper and used methods of notating such
> as making holes in aluminum foil and placing it in front of a light
> bulb. Lowell said that by looking at the foil you could imprint the
> pattern of light on your synapses and then transfer the pattern to your
> instrument. In one of Lowell's most extreme experiments, he stared into
> a high wattage chrome coated light bulb every day for what he claimed
> was three years-I didn't know him at that time. [snip]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Mungenast [mailto:mungenast@earthlink.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 7:11 PM
> To: Hartung, Kris
> Cc: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Joe Morris's unusual book RE: 3 Mah-na mah-na MP3s Here
>
> Morris mentioned this aforementioned very unusual music book in a Boston
> Globe article, which I probably still have because I don't throw
> anything away,  but which I cannot find because I don't throw anything
> away ;-) ~Tim
>
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Hartung, Kris <kris.hartung@hp.com>
> > To: <mungenast@earthlink.net>
> > Date: 6/5/2005 7:15:52 AM
> > Subject: RE: 3 Mah-na mah-na MP3s Here
> >
> > I haven't heard of that book, but it sounds intriguing.  
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Timothy Mungenast [mailto:mungenast@earthlink.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 7:38 PM
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Subject: RE: 3 Mah-na mah-na MP3s Here
> >
> > Hey Kris!
> > The few Morris tunes I've heard were magical. Didn't he write this 
> > un-sane music book based on colors? If so, where can I find it?
> > And congrats on your post-partum gig!!!!!!!!!!
> > ~Tim
> >
> >
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: Hartung, Kris <kris.hartung@hp.com>
> > > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> > > Date: 6/4/2005 9:38:56 AM
> > > Subject: RE: 3 Mah-na mah-na MP3s Here
> > >
> > > You're leaning cello? Move to Boise asap. I can't find a cello 
> > > player in a 300 miles square radius who is interested in looping and
>
> > > playing avant-garde music...sort of like Kronos Quartet meets Joe
> Morris.
> > > Anyone guitar players out there listen to Joe? I have a few of his 
> > > CDs...he's kind like the Cecil Taylor or Eric Dolphy of 
> > > guitarists...not for everyone, but seems to be where my mind has 
> > > been drifting these days.
> > >
> > > All hail Grover....
> > >
> > > Kris out
> > >
> > > P.S. I had my first gig a few days ago with my laptop and virtual 
> > > VST effect rack. I'll post a soundclip this week of a very 
> > > experimental tune I recorded.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tim Nelson [mailto:psychle62@yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 6:48 AM
> > > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > > Subject: Re: 3 Mah-na mah-na MP3s Here
> > >
> > >
> > > Sooo, let me guess, Oscar the Grouch and Kermit both use the DL4, 
> > > Elmo
> >
> > > uses an RC-20... (follow the garanimal color theory here?)
> > >
> > > I think Big Bird once contributed to an LD thread in which he 
> > > complained that it was hard for him to use the EDP footpedal without
>
> > > hitting several buttons at once.
> > >
> > > I come from that in-between age demographic (post-boomer, pre-gen-x)
>
> > > where when Sesame Street first aired I was old enough to think it 
> > > was just for littler kids but young enough that adults assumed my 
> > > friends and I would want to see it, thus setting up an archetypal 
> > > resentment that defines my mini-generation.
> > > We generally preferred Batman and Gilligan's Island reruns...
> > >
> > > About a year ago I was doing some genealogical research and 
> > > discovered
> >
> > > the family "secret" that my surname should actually be Grover. (Long
>
> > > story involving my great-grandfather's two wives; his
> > > *middle* name was Nelson...) I don't think I'm in any way related to
>
> > > the blue near/far muppet, but here's a link you might enjoy:
> > > <http://www.zeroboutique.com/grover/>
> > >
> > > Back to looping; I'm learning cello, and have an ever-deepening 
> > > respect for Zoe and her ilk. (Keating, that is, not the muppet...)
> > >
> > > -t-
> > >
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