READINGS
HOME
by Sara Rosenbaum
The things we leave behind.
The BREAKUP
by David Willems
A man attempts to break up with himself.
OTHER TYPES of GHOSTS
by HSG correspondent
An interview with Dr. Jeanette Crawford, Professor of Paranormal Studies at the Midland Institute of Parapsychology in London, on the diversity of departed souls.
The VIVIFICATION of the PLAN
by Friedrich Samson
Mercury is in retrograd. Or is it.
PHOSPENE
by Alex Rose
There's a first time for everything.
PLAYING THE TIN WHISTLE
by Nicole Reinert
Notes on the invisible caste that does not wear shoes at all.
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SCREENINGS
MuM
2000
Directed by Nick Peterson
Running Time: 7:00
Enormous changes at the last minute.
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VIEWINGS
MUSIC BOXES
by Jessica Grindstaff
Nostalgia comes in boxes.
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MUSIC
Alec K. Redfearn
[with The Eyesores]
Somewhere between a traditional Bulgarian gypsy band and an experimental new music ensemble lies the indelible voice of Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores. Redfearn manages to achieve a fusion of sourly sorrowful klezmer harmony, vertiginous timbral ambiance, and propulsive rhythmic force.
1. Ending credits for "Stay Until Tomorrow."
2. Tangle.
3. Thousand Yard Stare.
Sxip Shirey
[with Luminescent Orchestrii]
Sxip Shirey is a kind of virtuosic mutant whose music is as fiercely eclectic as it is soberly sincere. With the help of the aptly titled Luminescent Orchestrii, Shirey presents listeners with an aching, squeezebox-blues cabaret fantasia.
1. Warsaw.
2. Knockin.'
3. Stranger.
4. Moon Song.
5. Taraf Hijacked
Nico Muhly
[from Book of Hammers]
Twenty-five year-old wunderkind, Nico Muhly, composed this deliciously textural electronic work in 2003. It consists of seven miniature movements whose chords follow church-music rules and whose motion is easily discernible despite heavy ornamentation.
1. A New Orthodoxy (Organs and Flexible Bass)
2. Bass Drums (Out Of Time)
3. Eastern Europe (for Dan Bora)
4. Hauntologies (Banshee Aria)
5. Dulcimers (California)
6. A New Orthodoxy (with '80s Percussion)
7. A World Without People
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SONIC EVENTS
Audio Letter.
[Transcript]
At once hysterical, bizarre and heartbreakingly endearing, these three installments represent selected "entries" of a recorded monologue from an audio tape found on the street in Richmond, Virginia.
1. "Rememberable."
2. "It's a visual."
3. "Determination."
Child's Composition
[from Cassette Tape]
We are informed that both recordings were composed on a now-obsolete computer program from 1982. "Music Maker" was designed for the Texas Instruments Home Computer as a young person's learning tool. Its simple interface allowed students to compose rudimentary sketches of no more than 25 seconds each. Within those narrow parameters, however, some children managed to produce curiously inspired works-in-miniature.
The Hotel St. George has transcribed the music using modern Sibelius composition software and presents it here in two arrangements.
1. Original Music Maker Composition.
2. Arrangement for Piano. (Transcription: Seth Monahan.)
3. Cacophonous-MIDI-redux. (Transcription: Seth Monahan.)
"We Are The World."
[from Cassette Tape]
An anonymous contributor submitted a recording of himself singing the pop-rock song, "We Are The World," at age the tender age of 10.
1. We Are The World
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