Serious Real - The Anti-Journal 1:2


Folio VIII



HAMMOND GUTHRIE



JUST NOTATIONS



ART
is something
created from nothing,
which can not be simply defined
by the word: "Furniture."


Concrete Music is the after-dust of music.
Musique Concrete is an ongoing intention.


For example: Composer Cage's piano piece 4'33" is completely different in all respects every time it is performed. In each performance the audience is hearing and "not hearing" something completely different than what was heard and "not heard" during any previous performance of 4'33". This is a time-framed composition which can exist only in the present moment of any 4 minutes and 33 seconds - and whose content simply acts as the surrogate link to the original art-sound-ground-breaking performance of 4'33".


"TWO MINUTES SIXTEEN AND ONE HALF SECONDS"
(Devoted To John Cage Half Time Performances)


XIPHONERIX

is Musique Concrete, composed from sPOKEn wORDs aLTEREd by (MOEBIUS) LOOP MANIPULATIONS to form a series of "Just Variants." These Xiphoneric compositions are then presented as quasi-madrigals approaching Just Intonation.





Xiphoneric Madrigals
Ashe Afterall





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