Nearly a year after Tokyo with the Noh Writer's Workshop, the audio from the Tsukiji Walkabout has made it off the minidisk and into performance. It started with John Oglevee sacrificing his morning's sleep to take us to the Tsukiji Fish Market, snow falling at 4am. He turned around as we approached the concentric circles of the auction, our slush-ski footfalls overtaken by wind and two-stroke engine noise of these lumpers on these steroidical segways. One thing you have to remember, John shouted, is that technically, you aren't supposed to be here. I took field recordings of four different auctioneer songs, certain that they would become melodies for the Cycle Plays, but so far I've just been working with John's instructions.
From a Noodle Minus One plus Joshua Smith performed live in the Mills College Music Building on December 10, 2005, this coda captures
that moment, overlayed with samples of Jack Chandler's House, which I spent a couple hours playing with mallets and bow on Thanksgiving; Michael Zelner's wind synthesis, and Joshua Smith's delay pedals.
-so'k
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