Very nice with that cassette pulling trick!
/Björn
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From: "Kamen Nedev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:16 PM
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This was actually a performance piece - well, part of a performance
suite I was in. A joint project between the Circo Interior Bruto and
Discoteca Flaming Star (http://www.discotecaflamingstar.com). The
whole suite was about rock. Or "rawk". Or "cockrock". Or whatever.
The thing is the audience were in the venue, there was a stage, a
lightshow, but nothing happened on the stage, all the events were
within/inside/behind the audience.
This was the script (if I can call it that way) of a piece I did on
the stage, closing the show. The setting was that of a singer/
songwriter, me with a mike and an acoustic guitar I would pretend to
be tuning. Everything else was meant to sound like between-song chit-
chat, and the audience was expecting a song to start. Instead they
got this (in Spanish). The story kidn of turns around itself,
changing only slightly at each repetition. I would be tuning and
detuning the guitar while doing this. It went on for a good ten
minutes.
Then there was an audio trick, one of my favourite lo-fi audio
resources: the whole thing was being recorded on a shitty cassette
deck I had previously tampered with. At the end of the piece, I would
stand up, press the "pause" and "play" buttons, and pull out the tape
from the cassette canister, literally unwinding it and playing back
the recording at variable speed, pulling the tape throughout the
audience.
I liked that piece. I liked the whole project - it is still one of my
favourites. That was back in November 2001.
I'm glad it stands its ground as a text, too.
Cheers!
Kamen
P.S. Obviously, it's "Walk On The Wild Side"
On 02/05/2006, at 15:42, Allan Revich wrote:
That's a great story!
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and the colored girls go...
Hi... Hello?... Is the microphone working? This next song... Ah, you
know this
next song. This next song is about a guy driving down the motorway
with the car
radio blasting at full volume, and... You know, he stops at a petrol
station and
walks into the shop, and then there's these three girls there, you
know, these
really cute girls, and the guy, the guy starts feeling weird, so he
goes to the
toilet... Ever been in the toilet of a petrol station? Yeah? Well,
the guy stays
there like, forever, and when she gets out everything's changed, the
girls are
gone, and, you know, she just starts walking down the motorway, the
stilletoes
going tic toc tic toc tic toc, and the boa fucsia waving, tic toc tic
toc, and
she's humming this song, you know, about a guy driving down the
motorway in that
killer car thinking he's the cat's mieauw, and he stops at a petrol
station, and
in the small shop there he sees these three colour girls that look
kind of
foreign, and then the whole shop starts turning around him, so he
like runs to
the toilets, just imagine how bad you have to feel to enter the
toilet in a
petrol station, and he like stays there for a long, long time, and
then once
outside evrything's changed and the girls are gone and
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España
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