present: Jeff B., Dale
Dale hotglued the rubber tips onto the staffs. Jeff read over Dale’s scripts from last week.
We then pulled out the printout of Jubilate Agno [pdf] that Dale had brought and began playing with it. Jeff did a brilliant riff on “the box,” starting with text messages and a phone call to/from home about his violent five-year-old: “Put him the box. No, at the bottom of the bed, there’s a box, put him in it,” then moving on to haranguing the audience for being in the box, i.e., the performance space, even as Dale read interpreted Christopher Smart’s fevered, ecstatic ramblings.
Jeff then snagged a couple of pages, and we read independently. The antiphonal effect was often interesting, with phrases and ideas matching and chiming. If only we had had someone there watching and recording the good bits.
Then we sat and talked about the Lichtenbergian retreat for next weekend and how excited we were.
Plans for any performance were not discussed.
NEXT: OCT 21, 6:30, NSOD
- TEXTS: “The Bear”; Neo-Futurist scripts; Jubilate Agno
- PATHS: Vocal Sequence; other
- HOMEWORK: write a Neo-Futurist piece; look over Jubilate Agno