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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- > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > >