tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139172702024-02-18T20:28:47.464-07:00ZerxAuditory & Textual Hallucinations of New Mexico & Roots Music from the Deep Southwest of the Mind.Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-86347748852641440582008-02-20T12:04:00.001-07:002008-02-20T15:02:23.403-07:00THE SADDEST DAY IN AMERICA<span id="EC_role_document" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">my Pa loves sports<br />in any shape or form, goes to games<br />to watch, and on tv, mostly football, basketball, and track --<br /><br />my Ma & Pa are retired<br />and our family home, in the suburbs<br />is next to a Presbyterian Church<br />which added a private school component<br />back in the 80s during the middle class<br />flight from bussing laws --<br /><br />so, one day last year, my Pa<br />steps over to the recently constructed<br />chainlink fence, that separates us<br />from the schoolyard, to watch the kids<br />playing basketball --<br /><br />and one little pint-sized bastard started pointing<br />and yelling Hey what are you looking at?<br />you must be a pervert get out of here!<br /><br />we all know how these intimidations and insinuations<br />work these days -- my folks are good people --<br />my Pa didn't want any trouble<br />and has refrained from watching the games next door<br />ever since<br /><br /><br />--mark weber<br />4feb08<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>The Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148497636253221607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-72850543726528618762008-02-16T14:17:00.002-07:002008-02-16T14:27:37.369-07:00Writers Todd Moore and Mera Wolf Read at Acequia Booksellers<div style="text-align: center;"><big><big><b>POETS TODD MOORE AND MERA WOLF </b></big></big><br /><big><big><b>READ AT ACEQUIA BOOKSELLERS</b></big></big><br /></div><big><big><b><br /></b></big></big><div style="text-align: center;"><big><big><b>February 24th - 3 pm<br /></b></big></big><big><big><big><small></small></big></big></big></div><big><big><b><br /></b></big></big> <big><big> <span style="font-size:100%;"></span></big></big><span style="font-size:100%;">Poets Todd Moore and Mera Wolf will be reading from their new work at Acequia Booksellers on Sunday February 24 at 3pm. Acequia Booksellers is located at 4019 4th St. NW in Albuquerque.<br /><br /> Todd Moore is best known for his long poem DILLINGER. Since 1970 he has written and published more than a hundred books and chapbooks and his poetry has appeared in more than a thousand literary journals and magazines. He is one of the founders of the Outlaw Poetry Movement. He will be reading from his recent chapbooks Restless and Tell the Corpse a Story. Both books deal with the Dillinger mythos.<br /> <br /> Mera Wolf, when recently asked by a young woman to describe her profession, responded, "I'm a cosmologist." "That's just wonderful," replied the young woman, "Do you also do nails?" After 35 years of learning, volunteering, working, child-raising, writing, and teaching, Wolf earned her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 2002. Currently, while still juggling all six activities, she is writing a novel in serial form, and completing a screenplay. Mera Wolf is the author of two chapbooks, May Day and Lost Things. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size:180%;">This reading is free and the public is invited<br /><br /></span><big><big><b>Acequia Booksellers</b></big></big><br />4019 4th St. NW<br />Albuquerque, NM 87107<br />505.890.5365<br /><br /><br /><br /><big><big><big><small></small></big></big></big></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>The Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148497636253221607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-44325085420578399832008-02-15T14:00:00.002-07:002008-02-15T14:06:44.758-07:00A Gerald Locklin Bio<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFytkAsxnWZa4ixiWiRF-dOB8F_CwnwsisSJjSlqkwhgzsNh3Ou14fXT_ndpEJxr6Miuz0BAQg-Jevr4cKUa1ocLJGrT1xKjnaCnsm-f1t3dDuvUld1rSrkGsC2BjNXsptc8N8xQ/s1600-h/gerald_locklin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFytkAsxnWZa4ixiWiRF-dOB8F_CwnwsisSJjSlqkwhgzsNh3Ou14fXT_ndpEJxr6Miuz0BAQg-Jevr4cKUa1ocLJGrT1xKjnaCnsm-f1t3dDuvUld1rSrkGsC2BjNXsptc8N8xQ/s400/gerald_locklin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167316045195619410" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Gerald Locklin is now a Lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California and a Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach, where he taught from 1965 through 2007. He is the author of over 125 books and chapbooks or poetry, fiction, and criticism, with over 3000 poems, stories, articles, reviews, and interviews published in periodicals. His most recent books and chapbooks include The Cezanne/Pissarro Poems and the forthcoming Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems, from World Parade Books; New Orleans, Chicago, and Points Elsewhere, from R)v Press; Wedlock Sunday and Other Poems (Liquid Paper Press/Nerve Cowboy Magazine); The Hotel Ristorante (Bottle of Smoke Press) and The San Antonio, Savannah, and Daytona Beach Poems (Pitchfork Press). His full-length books from Water Row Press include Candy Bars: Selected Stories; The Life Force Poems; Go West, Young Toad: Selected Writings; The Pocket Book: A Novella and Nineteen Short Fictions; and Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet. An Italian edition of his novel Down and Out (Event Horizon Press) has been published by Leconte Publishers in Rome as Piu Morto che Vivo, as well as Charles Bukowski: A Botte Sicuro. Other titles from EH include The Firebird Poems; Three Mid-Century Tales; Hemingway Colloquium: The Poet Goes to Cuba; and The First Time He Saw Paris (in Two Novellas, with Donna Hilbert). A series of annual dos-a-dos jazz chapbooks, with Mark Weber, are available from Zerx Press (Albuquerque, NM), most recently Thank You, Dave: A Brubeck Tribute. His writings are archived and indexed by the Special Collections of the CSULB library. Many early and rare works are available from Water Row Books, amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, borders.com, and on eBay and other sites. He has resumed (with his son, Zachary Locklin) co-editing the poetry for the Chiron Review and will serve as fiction editor of Shaya magazine. He is listed in the usual literary directories. He publishes regularly in 5:00 AM, Ambit (London), Tears in the Fence (Dorset), Poetry International, New York Quarterly, Nerve Cowboy,</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Slipstream, Freefall, Coagula Art Journal, and many other periodicals. He is available for readings, workshops, festivals (fees negotiable). A website and occasional blog are in progress at <span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.geraldlocklin.com/">www.geraldlocklin.com</a></u></span>. See also <span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.rvpress.net/">www.rvpress.net</a></u></span> and <span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.worldparadebooks.com/">www.worldparadebooks.com</a></u></span> </p><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>The Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148497636253221607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-77423485690052781182008-01-22T00:34:00.000-07:002008-01-22T00:43:03.785-07:00A Quincy Memorial<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjUcBYJ7JCHXCasz66wGT_fwlegs9KE0-kc3W9hzyr0XBVhfWLi_OLcmNfFG5boV_caS8JdoQ8JosMqUrJw4qvJc19_Efi-PdTnMczQN4qixHeSbcyavBQgzmuW5uV5bYLDUXcgg/s1600-h/Q_mem.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjUcBYJ7JCHXCasz66wGT_fwlegs9KE0-kc3W9hzyr0XBVhfWLi_OLcmNfFG5boV_caS8JdoQ8JosMqUrJw4qvJc19_Efi-PdTnMczQN4qixHeSbcyavBQgzmuW5uV5bYLDUXcgg/s400/Q_mem.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158202229469829890" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >A few photos from today are at <a href="http://streaminghotcoffee.org/Q" target="_blank">http://streaminghotcoffee.org/Q</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span id="EC_role_document" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;" ><div> </div> </span></span><span><span id="EC_role_document" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Photos by Craig Goldsmith<br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">well, the Irish would say that</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">Quincy is in the clover</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">and Quincy certainly had a large dose of that crazy Celtic blood in him</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">but</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">as you can see from Craig's good photographs</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">that </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">clover wouldn't last three minutes out here in the Wild West</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">Quincy's ashes were left under that old juniper</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">right on the eastern edge of the Laguna Pueblo lands</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">next to an old remnant of Rt.66</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"> so he can listen to the cars roll by</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">western bank of the Rio Puerco</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">in full view of the Gallinas Mountains to the south</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">the Sandias and Monzanos to the east</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">Mt Taylor to the west</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">then, we made it back into town</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">to the American Legion Post</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">for a gathering and tall tales surrounding the legend of Q</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">(the slim girl with cap is Quincy's sister Kimberly from Durango)</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">it was a good thing</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">to hear the words </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">of so many that worked with Quincy, hip hop culture, avant garde folkies,</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">jazzers, rockers, rap stars, gospel singers, poets, country dudes, </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">nuns, politicos, gangsters, winos, come one come all, Quincy </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">brought the best out of them............</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">................mark weber<br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /></div></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>The Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148497636253221607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-12907054512208447252007-12-15T15:28:00.000-07:002007-12-15T15:31:47.822-07:00Christmas Trombones Broadcast<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB10jioEkNXoRQDLH60xass5g2woi9w2wwkusCXgXo1yw20CQiBldkUOoPmPN2wCzYF13Hz1XFf00ZoyIMIIT8mAIH66IXZmMbFGcjNeS0F-YxFM6CalOvVpaV5CXkSN3Fl-XbcA/s1600-h/xmas_trombones.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB10jioEkNXoRQDLH60xass5g2woi9w2wwkusCXgXo1yw20CQiBldkUOoPmPN2wCzYF13Hz1XFf00ZoyIMIIT8mAIH66IXZmMbFGcjNeS0F-YxFM6CalOvVpaV5CXkSN3Fl-XbcA/s400/xmas_trombones.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144330825133546226" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>The Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148497636253221607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-75704055362805185422007-11-14T13:15:00.000-07:002007-11-14T13:20:50.226-07:00Weber & Quincy photo<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsO2dDQ_rUFevcgvkxtcfvfv4CH9Xe2vZlPmHvC5tsd8L8PvOG7Ze0mZ9qQNoqyUHHJuJZUCFScQJJVJVxH-dZMUcSUmj5h6qtVbvgFTBhPhRJfyTcW_2yR_1iSSA8PgXgB8G_kQ/s1600-h/mark&quincy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsO2dDQ_rUFevcgvkxtcfvfv4CH9Xe2vZlPmHvC5tsd8L8PvOG7Ze0mZ9qQNoqyUHHJuJZUCFScQJJVJVxH-dZMUcSUmj5h6qtVbvgFTBhPhRJfyTcW_2yR_1iSSA8PgXgB8G_kQ/s400/mark&quincy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132792958912365666" border="0" /></a>Mark Weber & Quincy<br />photo by <a href="http://www.calhaines.com/">Cal Haines</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>The Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148497636253221607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-90206352651837076232007-11-09T13:28:00.000-07:002007-11-09T13:35:07.125-07:00Quincy - The Zerx Soundman<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWhOLuXl6Psy2zBrmV1tDSWPvjZ4h5dZ178kwSmwXNdq-2vDTYXHYv9AhUBcl64g3ZS3Kwqp1WjeR7URprL1S_fe-LBTnDL1a8QQegBPNB5dt2_zqnXODS7q7lmY2z91ZdZ1CVWA/s1600-h/Quincy_art.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWhOLuXl6Psy2zBrmV1tDSWPvjZ4h5dZ178kwSmwXNdq-2vDTYXHYv9AhUBcl64g3ZS3Kwqp1WjeR7URprL1S_fe-LBTnDL1a8QQegBPNB5dt2_zqnXODS7q7lmY2z91ZdZ1CVWA/s320/Quincy_art.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130940694277190130" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">"Quincy" by <a href="http://1uffakind.com/">Craig</a><br /></div><br /><br />Quincy is the Soundman and Recordist behind almost every Zerx release, a friend without whom Zerx would hardly exist.<div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>The Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148497636253221607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-19449837817033135732007-09-26T21:54:00.000-06:002007-09-26T22:07:31.194-06:00REGARDING ALBUZERXQUE VOLUME 29<span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <div class="EC_MsoNormal"><span id="EC_role_document" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;" >Mark Weber comments<strong>:</strong> A. Barnhouse makes their brilliant debut on Zerx, actually just a taste, with 2 selections from a concert at the Outpost Performance Space during the Creative Soundspace Festival 2007.<br /></span></div> <div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span id="EC_role_document" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;" >But, first, whatNtheHell does "A. Barnhouse" mean, what is the name all about? I had to ask, I'm the producer. That's the producer's job. "So, you stuck a sock in the saxophone bell and stood on one leg, why?" (Note<strong>:</strong> A. Barnhouse isn't that weird) (that's something I saw John Zorn do in the mid-70s) (I've found that on the web a person should double-explain everything) (why am I whispering?) Anyway, Carlos Santistevan of A. Barnhouse give us these clues<strong>:</strong><br /><br /></span><blockquote style="font-weight: normal;"><p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span id="EC_role_document" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Definitions of <span>A.</span> <span>Barnhouse</span>: </span></span></p> <ul type="disc"><span id="EC_role_document" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;" > <li class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">place:</span> origin of numerous non-vegetarian delights </li><li class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">name</span>: An individual with a First name that starts with A and has a <a title="http://www.rhymezone.com/r/d?u=surname&loc=fdef" href="http://www.rhymezone.com/r/d?u=surname&loc=fdef" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0);">surname</span></span></a> of Barnhouse (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #17056) </li><li class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">musical ensemble:</span> the thing you do when you revert to your adolescence, never mind the mess</li></span></ul></blockquote></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>The Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148497636253221607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-44030062647915179632007-09-16T22:08:00.000-06:002007-09-16T22:19:15.049-06:00Four Poems from New York<span style="font-size:130%;"> Our good friend Klaus has done a beautiful job of posting the chapbook of " <a href="http://www.m-etropolis.com/wordpress/p/mark-weber-four-poems-from-new-york-city/en/">Four Poems from New York</a>" over at his <a href="http://www.m-etropolis.com/">Metropolis</a> site.<br /><br />But now I'm ensconsed back on the hometurf, in my favorite cockpit of radio :<br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBpkKIoQyCs5Ikvo_bOyWb2ibpbjqnwB5_HVHqH9vzIQitm0awVMFuxu6v_YKFp-wCkX6LhCLiMI2fEZA5GGIJQblpsBwT5xT0kFzbjK4NDr8vwnpblSOh3uJYGsDScSasU-_xQ/s1600-h/markweber_kunm_91307.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBpkKIoQyCs5Ikvo_bOyWb2ibpbjqnwB5_HVHqH9vzIQitm0awVMFuxu6v_YKFp-wCkX6LhCLiMI2fEZA5GGIJQblpsBwT5xT0kFzbjK4NDr8vwnpblSOh3uJYGsDScSasU-_xQ/s320/markweber_kunm_91307.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111022577873479106" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>The Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148497636253221607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-67348182513744824032007-09-14T19:15:00.000-06:002007-09-14T19:20:47.872-06:00IDLE THOUGHTS<span id="EC_role_document" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><div><span style="font-size:130%;">in the 1960s, the early 1960s</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">we had never heard backwards tape recordings</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">and it was fascinating<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">think of it<strong>:</strong> Baudelaire never heard</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">backwards tape<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">neither did Man Ray<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">the avant garde is about possibilities<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">the parameters of anything you do</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">always implies something</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">further out<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">i believe in the avant garde</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">but</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">to my avant friends</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">i'm probably conservative<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">i understand the value of forms</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">and structures and physical laws<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">to me</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">the most avant garde thing</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">that has ever happen'd in music</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">is<strong>:</strong> Alice Cooper playing golf --</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">i still have a hard time </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">wrapping my brain around</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">that one<br /><br /><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">--mark weber</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">25aug07<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>The Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148497636253221607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-83928087856008476622007-09-13T21:47:00.000-06:002007-09-13T22:04:55.234-06:00Recording the "Zatoichi" way<span id="role_document" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> I asked J.A.Deane to explain 2 things about his "blind swordsman" technique that is employed on his composition "Chain Letter." 1) What is the blind swordsman 2) How did you use it with "Chain Letter" which can be found on ALBUZERXQUEs Vol. 17 & 29 -- the piece is for bass flute (Dino) and cello (Katie Harlow).<br /><br />-mark weber<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><hr style="height: 4px;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span> <blockquote><span style="font-size:130%;">The blind swordsman (like in the martial arts movies), is a technique I love to use when I'm creating a multi-track piece and using other musicians. the idea is to remove the person doing the overdub (or remove the sense of hearing), from some of the key elements of the piece. this is easy in a multitrack situation where people are adding parts after the people who played the first parts have left the studio. it's kind of like the childrens game where you whisper a story into your friends ear and they whisper it into the next ones ear and so on, until the story that comes back to the original person has mutated but retaines certain elements of the original.<br /><br />This works very well with improvisation, and the results are always amazing, filled with musical responses that just would not happen if the people all played in the room together. always full of surprise, with a very low percent of un-usable material. a great multitrack technique that can be expanded on in many interesting variations.<br /><br />In the case of "Chain Letter" i had katie in the studio to do several tracks of drones on cello for a play i was working on, and decided to make a little side piece with her.<br /><br />1 - she listened to a mix of the drones (that she had played), and played a solo over them.<br />2 - she played a second solo only hearing the first solo with no drones<br />3 - she played a third solo only listening to the second solo<br />4 - later after she had left, i played a solo only listening to her third solo<br />5- i played a second solo only listening to her second solo<br />6- i played a third solo only listening to my two solos<br /><br />The drone tracks which were part of another project were removed altogether and I now had 3 cellos and 3 bass flutes to work with. I think that I ended up with 5 mixs that I liked. just going through and trying the different combinations of duos trios a quartet and the sextet<br /><br />There is a clear connection between all the parts but there is also a removed quality at the same time. just like the blind swordsman who must connect with his opponent without the use of his eyes.....removed yet connected.<br /><br />dino</span><br /></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-64243045978657224962007-08-22T17:18:00.000-06:002007-08-22T17:29:10.318-06:00NOTES ON PLAYING THE HUBCAPS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvicKNNTzRHyTf6_FpjEfsSOTYFxQ9Sy-ivVA3N9kGPxbZXM_zmedMqlYhpi9nWVFP-oHANokA_z2NU1VGwWap4QaKt17dYItF5vtpcKmKHSZ4YTPwvPutkLpyXeptg9I9CuWQ/s1600-h/hubcaps.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvicKNNTzRHyTf6_FpjEfsSOTYFxQ9Sy-ivVA3N9kGPxbZXM_zmedMqlYhpi9nWVFP-oHANokA_z2NU1VGwWap4QaKt17dYItF5vtpcKmKHSZ4YTPwvPutkLpyXeptg9I9CuWQ/s320/hubcaps.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101668997884635186" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> It has taken me years to understand how important forms are. Structures.<br /> Musical forms like ballads, sonatas, 12-bar blues, various song forms, rhythm changes, etcetera. What we call "closed forms," and "through-compositions." That is, music that is read off the sheet and played straight through to the end, and no fucking around. And closed forms, are structured like say 32 measures of 4 beats, but you can fuck around a little bit, being mindful that you better meet up at the end, with the rest of the band. So you can all start over again. Cycles. Verse forms are cycles. You cycle back to the top.<br /> Start over, play it again. Some music like gamelan has cycles within cycles. Very cool.<br /> It always amazed me, that year I played gamelan music, how one little sheet of music could take upwards of ten minutes to complete. Mozart's clarinet quintet K.581 is 21 pages and takes half an hour, if you don't fuck around. Three verses and a repeating chorus of Hank Williams takes about three minutes, with plenty of wiggle room to, you know, fuck around. Of course, the masters of fucking around are the jazz musicians. They operate on such a high level of musicianship that wiggling around within the form is as easy as breathing air. Myself, like Hoagy Carmichael, I'm only a "half-educated man" when it comes to music. My identity is mostly tied up with being a writer, of words. I've played a lot of music over the years, because it's too much fun. Hard but fun. If I was better at it, it might not be so hard. But life ain't easy, is it? It doesnt have to be hard, either, so, let's just ride the banana boat downstream, okay?<br /><br /> Cycle back to the top. Let me explain that first sentence. What I dig about closed forms is that having to play over a grid allows you to build tension. Just those ever-so-slight deviations in note placement, one or two ticks off the beat in either direction. This leads to the phenomenon known as swing. (Not the big band dance music of the 30s & 40s of the same name.)<br /> Swing as in propelled like a slingshot, like hold on to your hats, velocity, ignition, explosion, release. I'm of the belief that swing is the A-numero-uno most important innovation in music in centuries. (And you can thank the Black jazzman in America for this development.) When you're swinging you are literally messing with Time. You are a warp in the time space continuum. The melody is being jigger'd slightly backwards and forwards across Time, like a slide ruler.<br /> Just be sure you all meet together at the end of the cycle.<br /><br /> Like that old saw about how Time was invented so we don't have to do everything all at once.<br /><br /> So. Playing hubcaps. There's nothing like getting into the middle of something to find out what's going on. And what parameters you are dealing with. The anthropologists call this sort of investigation: participatory consciousness.<br /> I've been playing hubcaps for years. The 20th century is chuck full of modernistic percussion music.<br /> Edgar Varese, Harry Partch [1], John Cage, Frank Zappa, Art Ensemble of Chicago, I grew up in the 60s in southern California when there was this huge sense of doing things new. Artists were caught up in re-inventing the wheel.<br /> And though I'm perfectly certain that it was hearing the composer Henry Threadgill's[2] work with his hubkaphone that gave me the push, I'm having a hard time locating the recordings that exerted this influence upon me. If you asked me yesterday I would have said it was Joseph Jarman's second album, AS IF IT WERE THE SEASONS (June 1968), which I first heard in 1973. But, my memory is playing tricks because now I see that Henry and his hubcaps are nowhere to be found on that record.<br /> Nor, are the hubcaps on any of the early AACM recordings. It is not until mid-70s that the hubcaps show up on albums by the trio Air [3]. Maybe I had only read about them and that was the spark?<br /><br /> Okay. So, you'd think that playing hubcaps is an opportunity for some major fucking around. Not so.<br /> At first I resisted playing patterns. But when you're playing with someone else, it's kinda helpful if you set up some sort of pattern. And/or non-pattern, that has its own uniformity. Logic. Symmetry.<br /> In writing, it's what's known as parallelism. You know, keeping all your tenses in the same barn. Grammar and syntax conforming to the same logic. All that. But, playing non-patterns is extremely difficult, at least, for me. Not that I'm any great shakes at patterns, either. The idea is to try building a logical improvisation outside of patterns, that has symmetry. (Yes, this begs the chaos theory suspicion that all is of a pattern.)[4]<br /><br /><br /> What do hubcaps sounds like? They sound like the back end of the insane asylum where the orderlies have not ventured in years. They sound like all the garbage of the Industrial Revolution has come to collect on it's Faustian deal. The Devil is here to cash in your chips. Claim your soul. They sound like all Hell has broke loose. All the wheels have fell off. Asphalt perdition.<br /> They sound wonderfully trashy. We've thought to put a spectrometer on them to see what sort of notes they each make but they're so over-blown with overtones & partials & buzzing that that is impossible.<br /> Hubcap notes are what is known as "indeterminate." Indeterminate notes for gotterbeldungstrumm.<br /><br /> I've very rarely notated my hubcap pieces. Mostly, because they're spontaneous improvisations.<br /> I might say to whoever I'm playing with, something like, "This'll be in 4," or, "This one will be four plus one," or "This one is busy," or "This one is haiku," or "This one is 3 plus 6." Etcetera.<br /> Myself, I mostly play the pretty notes. I like the round, clean, ringing tones, that fade in a long decay.<br /> That sound can be very introspective.<br /><br /> It's all a revelation, and reveals parts of yourself and how you think and how you go about making decisions.<br /><br /><br /></div>-----<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> 1. Harry Partch went to Albuquerque High and lived at 208 S. High Street from 1913 - 1919. He is one of the greatest composers who ever lived.<br /><br /> 2. Henry Threadgill is a composer, alto saxophonist, and founding member of Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) in Chicago in the early 1960s, along with Richard Muhal Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors, Fred Anderson, Lester Bowie, Leo Smith, AEC, Leroy Jenkins, Anthony Braxton. The ensemble Art Ensemble of Chicago exerted a monstrous influence upon me, and if you visit my house you'll see a triangular sticker on the front window that says AEC, that Joseph gave me years ago.<br /><br /> 3. A cooperative trio of saxophone, bass, and drums, Henry Threadgill, Fred Hopkins, Steve McCall.<br /> Formed out of members of AACM.<br /><br /> 4. All I'm trying to say in this paragraph is that non-patterns seem very haphazard but are not.<br /><br /> 4B. Lisa (the editor) Gill, asked me to put a footnote explanation about chaos theory, but i'm not conversant in those sorts of things. I'm a house painter for gawd sakes, what do I know for chaos theory! I got all my info from PBS on tv.<br /><br />mark weber<br />9&12jan07</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-69109433131002750742007-08-16T23:27:00.000-06:002007-08-16T23:50:01.106-06:00The EURO Branch<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqn_lu-xrjAqaUNoS6XNS6LJFqyS6gbKXDwnbisA4UWOzuzjtH3IuKnnO-2SOrzXAj9Oe-phGTIR0wKrCAIwdIdCoZJF8NQP7P2cI9KCAeJtB9d8jjVg0IZ-tguQsp2z411DoL/s1600-h/euro-constr.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqn_lu-xrjAqaUNoS6XNS6LJFqyS6gbKXDwnbisA4UWOzuzjtH3IuKnnO-2SOrzXAj9Oe-phGTIR0wKrCAIwdIdCoZJF8NQP7P2cI9KCAeJtB9d8jjVg0IZ-tguQsp2z411DoL/s320/euro-constr.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099542538101549090" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Our good friend Klaus over at <a href="http://www.m-etropolis.com/">Metrpolis </a>has an <a href="http://www.m-etropolis.com/wordpress/?language=en">amazing Blog</a> and <a href="http://www.m-etropolis.com/wordpress/shop/en/">SHOP</a> set up all based around promogulating New and " Unheard" Music to the world... with podcast and all kinds of goodies. He even carries the famous <a href="http://www.m-etropolis.com/wordpress/the-zerx-catalogue/en/">Zerx " fine leisure products" brand of audiophony</a> (priced in euros) for those of you fine sono-consumers who may be overseas and looking to score.<br />A recent writeup and Bio he did of our favorite <a href="http://www.m-etropolis.com/wordpress/p/michael-pierre-vlatkovich-black-triangles-yellow-corn-and-pink-medicine-drops/en/">Trombonophiliac, M. Pierre Vlatkovitch, and his cohorts is here</a> and with our fingers crossed maybe he'll be selling his works also in a ' metropolis shop' soon . Drop him a line an let him know if you'd like to see that.<div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-25746494908285172762007-07-25T13:58:00.000-06:002007-07-25T14:10:16.479-06:00"516 Words" ReviewJohnny Mango has written a very nice <a href="http://www.dukecityfix.com/index.php?itemid=3063">review of the "516 words" poetry reading</a> over at the Duke City Fix....along with a couple of Videos he took of yours truly, now up at Youtube<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvdLcE2GOj4"> Here</a> & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPK8Uyz_CI">Here</a>.<br /><br><br /><br><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-20468065654507972322007-06-05T18:24:00.000-06:002007-06-05T18:38:59.412-06:00A Blue Weber<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgshBYGsVQWNrTjO-SXijEm55Wf41JKdI4v9MXgAQxlOAI5Au5pbvRPvJVXbGqRhIqp20TcwSg5aaSuU5U7dPZaH0xAmxavz2guhT0JUMRNclPphjR8MuRNCxwX0d60u7ApMbaQ/s1600-h/mweber_5-07_calhaines.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgshBYGsVQWNrTjO-SXijEm55Wf41JKdI4v9MXgAQxlOAI5Au5pbvRPvJVXbGqRhIqp20TcwSg5aaSuU5U7dPZaH0xAmxavz2guhT0JUMRNclPphjR8MuRNCxwX0d60u7ApMbaQ/s400/mweber_5-07_calhaines.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072742904720535442" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> A Blue Weber as caught in the wild by the great Lensbearing "time stopper" <a href="http://www.calhaines.com/index.html">Cal Haines .</a><br /><br /> <span style="font-size:100%;">And a Poem to go with it</span> :<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><p> <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">THE WIDE OPEN SPACES WITHIN A BEAT </span></p><p> <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> there is a theory that<br /> some people are able<br /> to slow time down </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> or, as drummers say:<br /> divide the time </span></p><p> <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> and hear more & more deeply<br /> into the space than us mere mortals </span></p><p> <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> Muhammad Ali was the example used<br /> when this idea was first presented to me<br /> how he'd let himself be rope-a-doped<br /> for ten rounds<br /> and then out of the blue<br /> he'd stop time<br /> and dot some poor unfortunate's lights out </span></p><p> <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> I also posit that Charlie Parker<br /> had these sort of powers </span></p><p> <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> and then there's this drummer in Santa Fe name of Cal Haines<br /> who also, obviously<br /> hears between <br /> the cracks in Time. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> --mark weber<br /> 30may07 </span><br /></span></p><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-18331834601138551882007-05-02T19:47:00.000-06:002007-05-02T19:53:29.330-06:00Don't Miss it !--Out of Context 10th anniversary show<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibck5OqHnf8Y9oG9c2wNNzgY5CoAwVHQiGl8XdySX4IQq02rgKA21KYW3Zsm_8KkMtroDwsAhZyNx8U9vUqzIqA7kKwgw0bXXLXxOzEhqK9M1A6v2pvR9xdq1xIMrt51mJ8c8T/s1600-h/OOC_outpost.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibck5OqHnf8Y9oG9c2wNNzgY5CoAwVHQiGl8XdySX4IQq02rgKA21KYW3Zsm_8KkMtroDwsAhZyNx8U9vUqzIqA7kKwgw0bXXLXxOzEhqK9M1A6v2pvR9xdq1xIMrt51mJ8c8T/s400/OOC_outpost.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060146493178161010" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-38306329776454786022007-04-25T22:24:00.000-06:002007-07-25T14:13:32.131-06:00Melody Sumner Carnahan -Bio<p><br /></p><p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAL8ZBKGVM7bMGcprPaQLaheyPWOU4bj6OKC7CJTLlTqZtUToaYTgIx5540UyDCotr_Dfhry0wQ8G8ibMOOwCoYzSyM-aPBpsQ3cWaRwLmC_yvfWoU8gyOcPiXfGqAupIS5Ol-/s1600-h/mscarnahan.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAL8ZBKGVM7bMGcprPaQLaheyPWOU4bj6OKC7CJTLlTqZtUToaYTgIx5540UyDCotr_Dfhry0wQ8G8ibMOOwCoYzSyM-aPBpsQ3cWaRwLmC_yvfWoU8gyOcPiXfGqAupIS5Ol-/s400/mscarnahan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064270099868985234" border="0" /></a><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" >Writer<b> <a href="http://sumnercarnahan.blogspot.com/">Melody Sumner Carnahan</a></b> has six books in print and numerous works published in anthologies including the<i> City Lights Review,</i> the<i> Leonardo Music Journal, At a Distance</i> (MIT Press),<i> Factorial</i> (Japan),</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> and music compilations from Zerx Records. Carnahan has worked with artists, composers, and performers for two decades to present her writing off-the-p<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">age as live "performance novels," soundtracks for film and video, recordings broadcast internationally, and intermedia installations. Molly Sturges and Chris Jonas commissioned words for live performance at SITE Santa Fe's Biennial 2007. In 2005, The Out of Context ensemble, directed by Dino J. A. Deane, interpreted Carnahan's<i> One Inch Equals 25 Miles</i> in performance (w/ CD from HighMayhem.org). Carnahan received an Artist Residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in association with iconoclastic writer William Gass; KUNM's AetherFest commissioned a half-hour audiowork,<i> Dido's Revenge</i>; Morton Subotnick's<i> Gestures</i> (DVD/CD-rom, Mode Records) features four of Carnahan's stories; and Carnahan was awarded a Creative Media Arts Fellowship at ABC Radio and the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, where she produced<i> The X, Y, Z of It</i>: an audiowork broadcast internationally featuring the voices of Robert Ashley and Joan La Barbara. Woody Vasulka commissioned "The Maiden" for his<i> The Brotherhood</i> installation at NTT/ICC in Tokyo. Carnahan received an Independent Publisher Award in Audio-Fiction for her book/CD,<i> The Time Is Now</i> (Frog Peak/Burning Books) and has received acknowledgements from the Art Institute of Chicago, the NEA, New American Radio, NYC's Experimental Intermedia Foundation, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-19515629895642040072007-04-24T10:53:00.000-06:002007-04-24T10:57:57.297-06:00Words on Words<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">coming soon on Albuzerque vol 27 ........<br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:+1;"><i>Try Being Alive in THIS World</i> is a portrait in sound and words of episodes in the internal life of one of our latent citizens: a female who ranges the lanes and aisles of an enormous purchase and exchange arena (K-Mart in this instance).</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:+1;"><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:+1;">She hears voices and speaks in tongues--some familiar, some unknown: haughty animals, machine deities, dangerous babies and celestial teenagers, utopian migrant laborers, jaded dream and faded jean inseam workers. She attempts to live in her time--a type of salvation available, maybe, if she follows her own advice, or...capitulates completely to the offering.</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:+1;"><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:+1;">--Melody Sumner Carnahan, apr07</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:+1;"><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:+1;"><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:+1;">[Sumner Carnahan's words on ZERZ vol. 27 are from<i> See You In Hell,</i> a video-audio installation in collaboration with artist Michael Sumner, along with sound designer Dino J.A. Deane and vocalist Elizabeth Wiseman, which premiered at MOV-in Gallery, College of Santa Fe, 2006. Here excerpted and redesigned for audio CD by Deane, 2007.]<br /><br /><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-32476109163443957802007-03-04T22:44:00.000-07:002007-03-04T22:51:06.677-07:00Smiles all around<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTxIlvkvnmqWoUkiVE8eC8ockRdvhbm31rS-Paqg9Uwdxa6X296uDToXfXP4bvkhBvQDijp871GeXM-gnJGmVG1FE4RNaoqO591KtomOrRIX16Phlw6-hKLgyoqitratxU84AX/s1600-h/LouieA_wBradfordKids.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTxIlvkvnmqWoUkiVE8eC8ockRdvhbm31rS-Paqg9Uwdxa6X296uDToXfXP4bvkhBvQDijp871GeXM-gnJGmVG1FE4RNaoqO591KtomOrRIX16Phlw6-hKLgyoqitratxU84AX/s400/LouieA_wBradfordKids.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5038313352784453842" border="0" /></a><br />Louie Armstrong with Bobby Bradford's Kids.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-1170887206324623322007-02-07T15:17:00.000-07:002007-02-07T15:26:46.336-07:00Remembering Kenny<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1272/1243/1600/995740/WEBER%20MARK%20DAVERN%20MEMORIAL%20OUTPOST%20ABQ%2002_04_07%20%3F%3FPAUL%20SLAUGHTER%202007%20copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1272/1243/400/251573/WEBER%20MARK%20DAVERN%20MEMORIAL%20OUTPOST%20ABQ%2002_04_07%20%3F%3FPAUL%20SLAUGHTER%202007%20copy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">photo by Paul Slaughter ©2007 / </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.slaughterphoto.com/">Paul Slaughter Photography</a></span></span><br /></div> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span> <div style="text-align: center;">Mark at the "Kenny Davern Memorial" event held at The Outpost - 2/4/07<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-1170474659806047632007-02-02T20:39:00.000-07:002007-02-02T21:37:52.866-07:00Review : BONAFIED - Trombone Revenge<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BONAFIED - Trombone Revenge</span></span><br />[KURT E HEYL/J A DEANE]<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(Zerx 18; USA) </span><br /><br /></div><br />Review by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bruce Lee Gallanter</span><br />of <a href="http://downtownmusicgallery.com/Main/">Downtown Music Gallery , NYC</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> Featuring J.A. Deane on tenor trombone & bass flute, Kurt Heyl on tenor trombones & flutes, Steve Feld on trombones, euphonium & sousaphone, Gary Sherman on soprano & tenor trombones & tuba, Mark Weaver on tuba & tenor trombone and Jefferson Vorhees on drums. Kurt Heyl is one of those mysterious improvisers that consistently produces interesting improv discs, yet remains relatively unknown. He leaves us with his discs a few times a year, which I usually review but we rarely sell very many copies. He used to live in New Mexico, which is where this disc was recorded, but has moved here a couple of years back and plays our store from time to time.<br />Bonefield is a trombone-fronted sextet with a tuba and drummer rhythm team. The only other player that I recognize here is J.A. Deane who used to work with Jon Hassell, Wayne Horvitz, and Butch Morris. Trombone ensembles are pretty rare, although I did hear a great trombone quartet called SlideRide at the Knit many years ago. Bonafied are quite different as they feature some spoken word vocals and chants, which are kept to a minimum. Besides the trombones, some of the members double on flutes, euphonium and tuba, adding a few other odd sounds to the mix. Ever since seeing/hearing Joe Bowie playing elephant-like blasts on his trombone during the late seventies, I've been a fan of myriad of sounds that trombonists produce. I've caught a number of the greats: George Lewis, Roswell Rudd, Paul Rutherford, Connie & Johannes Bauer & Ray Anderson, to name but a few. On "Dave's Lines", the four or five trombone players explore odd sounds together and play strange sounds and harmonies. "Primal Slides" is dedicated to Roswell Rudd and features some strange sliding notes and ghost-like drones. Oddly enough, Bonafied cover Duke Ellington's "Azure", and do a fine job of evoking those old muted wah-wah sounds that Duke's trombone section excelled in. Each piece gives the trombonists a different area to explore, growling, humming, bending notes inside-out, screaming, whispering through the 'bone, Another most interesting disc from the under-recognized Kurt Heyl. Take one home will you, please.<br /></div> -BLG<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://zerxpress.blogspot.com/2005/06/zerx-order-info.html">Zerx Ordering info</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-1168578859319485162007-01-11T22:02:00.000-07:002007-01-11T22:44:39.376-07:00Brassum - Mini Tour<div style="text-align: center;">Be sure to catch these boisterous Brass-ilians if they pass you soon !<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1272/1243/1600/602419/brassum2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1272/1243/320/104171/brassum2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Michael Vlatkovich - trombone (Portland) <br />Harris Eisenstadt – drumset (NYC) <br />Mark Weaver – tuba (Albq)<br />Dan Clucas – cornet (LA)<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dates:</span><br />Wed. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jan 17</span> The Adobe Bar in the <a href="http://www.taosinn.com/">Taos Inn</a>, Taos NM (505) 758-2233<br /><br />Thu. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jan 18</span> <a href="http://www.smokebrush.org/">Smokebrush Foundation for the Arts</a>, Colorado Springs CO (719) 444-1012<br /><br />Fri. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jan 19</span> <a href="http://www.highmayhem.org/">High Mayhem</a>, Santa Fe NM (505) 501-3333<br /><br />Sat. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jan 20</span> The Blue Dragon, Albuquerque NM (505) 268-5159<br /><br /><br />.. and keep up with all their wanderings at <a href="http://myspace.com/brassum">the Brassum page</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-1166215425308069872006-12-15T13:32:00.000-07:002006-12-15T16:13:37.366-07:00RIP : Kenny Davern<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1272/1243/1600/27681/KennyDavern_manthony_mweber_4-06.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1272/1243/400/932906/KennyDavern_manthony_mweber_4-06.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">(click photo for larger version)</span><br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;">L to R: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Anthony, Kenny Davern, Mark Weber</span><br />April 15, 2006 at Bumblee Bob's Baja Grill, Santa Fe<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">photo by <a href="http://www.genevievephoto.com/">Genevieve Russell</a></span><a href="http://www.genevievephoto.com/"><br /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=11957"><span style="font-family:VERDANA,ARIAL;"><span style="font-family:Garamond,Georgia,VERDANA,ARIAL;">John Kenneth Davern :1935-2006</span></span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">see a video clip on YouTube of</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=qISA_-ZvbgI">Kenny Davern playing " Pee Wee's Blues"</a><br /><br /><a href="http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Kenny+Davern&search=Search">YouTube search: More vidclips of the Late Great Kenny Davern</a><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-1165263262710864702006-12-04T12:53:00.000-07:002006-12-04T13:14:22.846-07:00a New Interview with Todd MooreA nice new ( Dec 06) <a href="http://www.poetrycircle.com/index.php/topic,3149.0.html">Interview with Todd Moore</a> is up over at Poetry Circle.<br /><br />This Todd Moore Poem may shed a bit more insight:<br /><br /><blockquote>---------------</blockquote> <div></div> <blockquote> <div>the way</div> <div>.</div> <div>i write</div> <div>is strictly</div> <div>fuck you</div> <div>no cap</div> <div>ital letters</div> <div>no punc</div> <div>tuation</div> <div>the words</div> <div>jammed</div> <div>together</div> <div>or all</div> <div>smashed</div> <div>up like bro</div> <div>ken glass</div> <div>crushed</div> <div>pop cans</div> <div>& used</div> <div>condoms</div> <div>the ameri</div> <div>can sen</div> <div>tence is</div> <div>either a</div> <div>stutter</div> <div>or a</div> <div>scream</div> <div>& i’m</div> <div>waiting</div> <div>to watch</div> <div>it explode</div> </blockquote> <div></div> <blockquote>------------------<br /> <br /> <br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13917270.post-1164747498598638472006-11-28T13:47:00.000-07:002006-11-28T13:58:18.610-07:00Zerx Free Mp3 DownloadsJust a note to let any of you Mp3 downloader types know that Zerx has "appropriated" another (free) space which allows us to Upload Music files among other things ( whoohoo).<br /><br />We have a few Zerx tunes/ samples uploaded now for your free grabbin' pleasure and hope to add more in the future. You can find them at :<br /><a href="http://zerxpress.multiply.com/music/">Zerx Free Downloads</a><br /><br />and also linked in the sidebar..... enjoy.<div class="blogger-post-footer">~~~~~Ain't ya Glad we FEED ya !?~~~~~</div>Mark Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348279905088890654noreply@blogger.com