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Re: Terry Riley videos?



I love "Shri Camel" and "All Night Flight!" I'd add the very different
 "You're no good" to the list as well. It anticipates a lot of modern
remix techniques (sometimes a bit awkwardly)  with tape splicing.

>From the All Music Guide: 
>http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=43:118118

"the title cut, You're No Good, that's the shocker. Possibly taking a
cue from Steve Reich's mid-'60s tape pieces Come Out and It's Gonna
Rain, Riley sought to combine a popular music form, in this case of
the Motown variety, with ideas on phasing and out-of-sync iterations.
The work begins with several minutes of rumbling, harsh electronic
tones; already the listener is thinking that this is unlike any
previous and/or typical Riley fare. Suddenly, it erupts into a funky,
funny soul tune with a female vocalist bemoaning the unbecoming
qualities of her lover. This goes on for a few minutes more, very
enjoyable in its clunky, maybe a bit naïve, way until Riley starts
messing around with the tape, double-tracking it at various points,
producing a very unsettling sense. Additionally, this is done with
enormous (and appealing) crudity and sheer messiness, obviously the
result of "hands-on" tape splicing; no slickness here. Sometimes a
channel drops out entirely for a few seconds only to burst back in
jarring fashion. Toward the end of the composition (which, though it
occupies the entire first disc, is only about 20 minutes long), Riley
introduces blooping sine tones that further heighten the sense of the
bizarre, as though the poor song had been mercilessly submerged in
some distant sonic universe."





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