Series: ex libris — Theme: Monday's reading room: one long look at pages that became sound. Duration: 1h00m · 14 tracks, fully programmed and narrated on wobuzz radio.
Monday's reading room: one long look at pages that became sound. It opens in a studio of stolen ordinary talk — The Books cutting borrowed sentences into song — then to a poem literally put in a bottle, Varèse's eight minutes for Le Corbusier's concrete pavilion. Free jazz names a circle of hell that was never planned, Mingus hums a wedding waltz no ceremony would play, and Gil Scott-Heron reads two names like a prayer: Holiday, Coltrane. …
Tracklist: The Books — read, eat, sleep · Edgard Varese — Poeme electonique (195759) · The Fonda/Stevens Group — Dante's Inferno · Charles Mingus — Wedding March / Slow Waltz (Take 12) · Gil Scott-Heron — Lady Day And John Coltrane · BILL FRISELL — Poem For Eva · Gil Scott-Heron — The Needle's Eye … (+7 more)
