Wolf Notes Issue 2

Michael Pisaro Prepared Piano (sketchbook)

Jason Kahn Notes on “Unheard Delhi”

Adam Sonderberg Tick Mark Studies: Ramones - Ramones (Sire, 1976)

Simon Reynell Thoughts on not being a musician

Fantastical Zoology By Jeph Jerman

Cover Image Trevor Simmons


How can we outsmart the sense of continuity
That eludes our steps as it prepares us
For ultimate wishful thinking once the mind has ended
Since this last thought both confines and uplifts us?
John Ashbery

An object, a space, an infinite number of measurements. Wolf Notes is an attempt at an open platform, each individual is free to refashion the composition devised in our approach, we initiate, they initiate. Found in juxtaposition, in harmony, at the base and summit of potentiality.

An openness is inescapable within any media, it is to be embraced, to be realised. All and any degree of interpretation will fall within myriad rooms of disposition. So to inhale and exhale, to move towards a positive sense of production, Wolf Notes in its totality is hope to the impossibility of maximum openness.

This work, and the works contained, are not objective fact, they are in a constant flux of interpretation, of feedback and feedforward, we respond by not responding by responding.

Download: Wolf Notes, Issue 2, June 2011

Jason Kahn | Unheard Delhi (audio)

The full text of Unheard Delhi can be found in issue 2 of Wolf Notes

Unheard Delhi WAV






For the month of November 2011 I was an artist in residence in Delhi with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the media research center Sarai. One of my proposed projects for this residency was a continuation of my “Unheard Cities” series of works, which I've been realizing since 2002. “Unheard Cities” explores how we perceive urban sound environments in the form of installations, musical performances and, in the case of “Unheard Delhi,” works for radio. In “Unheard Delhi” I interviewed eight people with the question, “What is your favorite sound or sound environment in Delhi?” I recorded all the answers and then went out in the city and recorded the corresponding sounds. The resulting recordings and interviews were then mixed together for an approximately 60-minute long audio portrait of the city.

Improvising Strategies for Large Ensemble - headed by Gino Robair

Oxford Brookes University,
Monday June 6th, 2pm - 4pm
This event was organised by Compost and Height and SARU

This interdisciplinary workshop examined a number of techniques you can use when improvising within a large group, focussing on global awareness and listening, while exploring strategies for achieving maximum variety and avoiding stagnation. Also discussed were concepts such as foreground/background, solo/support, and intention/non-intention.

This workshop was open to anyone interested in free improvisation, whether a beginner or intermediate or professional. And it is not just for musicians: the workshop is also for dancers, live video art, acting, and any other artform where improvising is important.

As an example of ways in which people from different media can work together, Gino used sections of “I, Norton,” an “opera” for improvisers that includes hand cues, graphic notation, and strategies. Other examples camee from the music of Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Butch Morris, and even Indonesian gamelan.


BIO
Gino Robair has created music for dance, theater, radio, television, silent film, and gamelan orchestra, and his works have been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. He was composer in residence with the California Shakespeare Festival for five seasons and served as music director for the CBS animated series The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. His commercial work includes themes for the MTV and Comedy Central cable networks.

Robair is also one of the "25 innovative percussionists" included in the book Percussion Profiles (SoundWorld, 2001). He has recorded with Tom Waits, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, John Butcher, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, Otomo Yoshihide, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, and Eugene Chadbourne, among many others. In addition, Robair has performed with John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Fred Frith, Eddie Prevost, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Myra Melford, Wadada Leo Smith, and the Club Foot Orchestra.

Jack Harris | These are my Fingers

These are my Fingers, 11:47 WAV