From: "Steve Smith" <ssmith36@sprynet.com> To: "Zorn-List (E-mail)" <zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: REVIEW: Voice Crack/Jim O'Rourke/I-Sound at Tonic, Thurs May 16, 2002 Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 12:02:25 -0400
The combination of Voice Crack, Jim O'Rourke and I-Sound drew a sizeable and appreciative crowd for a midnight set at Tonic on Thursday night - and this, despite the fact that many of the local regulars for the improv scene were in Victoriaville.
thanks for the review Steve. Though I wasn't there, I'd read Voice Crack's inclusion of voices about Sept. 11 as the manner in which certain events and the sound productions surrounding them as visceral intrusions into aural experience, whether one is aware of them or not. No producer of sounds can really avoid them, and certain sounds, certain words, become like refrains that keep reminding one of the event that just took place. Such sounds also accompany certain emotional reactions, as you noted, like for example, my feeling of nausea when I recall Dubya's bifurcation of the world into being for "us" or for "the terrorists" in his Houston ranch accent. that's where I see the "refrain" intervening in the "narrative" of electroacoustic music. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx