‘Old World’ (1972) by The Modern Lovers
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Tina & David Meltzer
Lamentation for Hank Williams
—If I can’t finish writing a song in ten minutes then it ain’t worth the finishing,
said Hank to a reporter.
A camera was busy taking pictures for LIFE magazine.
–I’ll never get out of this world alive,
wrote Hank in a song
sung for millions at The Grand Ole Opry
published by Acuff-Rose Sales Inc.
recorded by MGM records
flat-picking his D-28
backed up by The Drifting Cowboys
night after night & during the days
playing at picnics, rallies
supermarket gala openings
–There’s no dreams but bad ones,
Hank told his wife Audrey
who told her lover who told the doctor
who could not heal him
places no longer places
velocity of faces
& he burned down, died at 29 of an overdose
kindly rocked to sleep in the back seat of his Cadillac
being driven to a concert
New Year’s Day 1953
by Tina & David Meltzer (listen here)
Cory Arcangel – Arnold Schoenberg, Drei Klavierstücke op. 11–I
Cory Arcangel downloaded clips of cats ‘playing’ pianos on YouTube, and edited these clips using a code he wrote to recreate Arnold Schoenberg’s composition, widely considered the first ‘atonal’ work of music.
John Cage – As Slow as Possible
Organ²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of one of the longest-lasting musical performances yet undertaken. It was originally written in 1987 for organ and is adapted from the earlier work ASLSP 1985; a typical performance of the piano version lasts 20 to 70 minutes. In 1985, Cage opted to omit the detail of exactly how slowly the piece should be played.
The performance of the organ version at St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt, Germany, began in 2001 and is scheduled to have a duration of 639 years, ending in 2640.
http://www.aslsp.org
Musictypewriter – Claudia Märzendorfer
Temporary Installation
Ice Sculpture
2012
Homage to Arnold Schönberg’s unrealised patent of a musictypewriter
Cast: frozen water, food colouring, musicpaper
William Basinski
William Basinski, ‘The Disintegration Loops’, performed live by The Wordless Music Orchestra, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2011)
Jon Moscow
Jon Moscow, ‘Without title (Leaving unsaid what’s long been suspected)’ (2009)
Carpet, rubber lighting chain, dumbbells
