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If I pull together 12 of these, that's a dozen. Enough to call a stake.
Take 12
The media was the message. And the artists dearly contemplated the media. Poke it. Glom it. Yes, the stuff held magic. There was John Cage silently scaling the New School, or there on CBS on I’ve Got a Secret, with the bathtub bathroom symphony of found sound. A pantheon of sorted musical inventors formed in the 20th Century, and some of the pantheon rolled on wheel on the side walks on the the same streets as Sanders. John Cage, Robert Moog, Leon Theremin, Raymond Scott. Harry Partch.
The music fell from the saucers or rose fog-like in field mushrooms. Invention on trash can lids and water streaming gamelans. Along with Cage, and Spike Jones, I'd venture that Partch influenced the Performance Art movement in New York in the '60s -- Happenings, like a rush of wind. New York in those years was a mesh for sure. This mesh including Dylan, Tiny Tim, Cecil Taylor, Cage and Glass, Andy Warhol and Phillip Guston.
As we spoke, several times Sanders pointed out he did not ‘go as far as Partch.’ That is, Sanders used 31 notes -- or 'cents' -- or some related number of Hz on his Micro Lyre project, working from a different palette. Maybe the soldering gun said ‘31’ – or the Greek modalities won -- we divide the world into notes, ones with which the instrument inventor wrestles. Music always evolved along with the invention of instruments. Adolphe Sax uncovered the saxophone, and it begat Debussy's Rhapsodie pour Orchestre et Saxophon. Ed Sanders search for the accompanying instrument was similarly a driven by invention, and curiosity in the glyphs and circuits of the Electromagnetism that was in the air.
Take 11
The media was the message. And the artists dearly contemplated the media. Poke it. Glom it with peanut butter. Stuff held magic. There was John Cage silently scaling the New School, or there on CBS on I’ve Got a Secret, with the bathtub bathroom symphony of found sound. A pantheon of sorted musical inventors formed in the 20th Century, and some of the pantheon rolled on wheel on the side walks on the the same streets as Sanders. John Cage, Robert Moog, Leon Theremin, Raymond Scott. Harry Partch. The music fell from the cow hustling saucers or rose in fog like field mushrooms. Invention on trash can lids and water streaming gamelans. Along with Cage, and Spike Jones, I'd venture that Partch influenced the Performance Art movement in New York in the '60s -- Happenings, like a rush of wind. New York in those years was a mesh for sure. This mesh including Dylan, Tiny Tim, Cecil Taylor, Cage and Glass, Andy Warhol and Phillip Guston. As we spoke, several times Sanders pointed out he did not go as far as Partch -- Sanders used 31 notes -- or 'cents' -- or some related number of Hz on his Micro Lyre project. Maybe the soldering gun said 31. Music always evolved along with the invention of instruments. music once evolved in part with the instrument inventions. Adolphe Sax uncovered the saxophone, and it begat Debussy's Rhapsodie pour Orchestre et Saxophon. Ed Sanders searched for the accompanying instrument was similarly a driven by invention, and curiosity in the glyphs and circuits of the Electromagnetism.
This is a variant of earlier work :
http://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2010/09/labor-day-experimentation-parch-etc.html
It refers to a NYT article
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/arts/music/04strange.html
About Adolphe Sax
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antoine-Joseph-Sax
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