First performance at Muzeului National de Arta al Romaniei,Bucharest, dec 8th 1999.Here I'm particularly working on gesture and space: the (pre)text is the springboard for the creation of music in real time out of the "objectivity" of the player. In Iranian music, a gushe is a constituent of a mode - but a mode is not understood as a fixed scale so much as a repertoire of motifs, often with their associated plectrum techniques, trills, etc. Here, I use several modes and define them likewise not just by pitch areas but by types of activity and gesture to the instrument, working on parallels between ways of playing clarinet and ways of playing guitar. (Sound sources for the tape are electric guitar, clarinet and drum.) As in many eastern musics, things happen mostly IN the same time as other things, rather than AT the same time....
With the publication of Marcus O'Dair's new Robert Wyatt biography,now seems to be the perfect time to revisit these wonderful 'Machine Molle' recordings...Wyatt in his pataphysical prime (maybe,perhaps,possibly). Whimsical nonsense and wonderful musicianship combine in the quintessence of 'Englishness'...tiddly pom! John Cratchley
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