[New-Poetry] Music While Writing?

Sat Mar 1 15:29:15 EST 2008

Will do, Mill, if I see him when we're back in NYC. That'll
be for several week come late March and April. I asked
because I think David's music (unlike that of, say, Glass and
Reich) is sort of . . . well, anti-trance-ical, to mint a term.

Hal

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On Mar 1, 2008, at 1:46 PM, millb at aol.com wrote:

> Hi Hal,
>
> What a small world!  I like the "Alice" CD.  In Memory of a Summer  
> Day and Child Alice part one--especially the first track.  Gosh, if  
> you see David, tell him his old Yaddo pal Millicent said hello.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mill
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:11 am
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Music While Writing?
>
> Hey, Mill--
>
> I've known David del 13 for quite a few years (he's a NYC
> neighbor, and we've both been at VCCA at the same time
> fairly often), but I'm having trouble imagining his music
> as trance-inducing. What's the piece that does it for you?
>
> Hal
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> On Mar 1, 2008, at 12:03 PM, millb at aol.com wrote:
>
>> I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but, one thing I do  
>> when I write as related to music is repetition.  I put on one album  
>> and let that repeat over and over.  Usually Miles Davis or David  
>> del Tredici pr Sublime.  Helps me get into a trance and I play the  
>> CD over and over again--sometimes all evening or all week or  
>> whatever I need.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Quackenbush <jfq at myuw.net>
>> Sent: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:15 am
>> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Music While Writing?
>>
>> I have different kinds of music I listen to for different things. I  
>> can't write without music, although it runs the gamut of what I'll  
>> listen too depending on the mood I'm going for. Often it's the  
>> smiths or the pixies. the cure. Joy division. Tom Waits has a  
>> couple of good albums for writing, Alice and The Black Rider. The  
>> Sun City Girls. Occasionally out jazz like Ornette or Sun Ra. Or  
>> something more postmodern like Joelle Leandre or Derek Bailey.  
>> Bailey has a really good record on Tzadik that works well for me. I  
>> don't listen to much classical music when I'm working on something.  
>> I have a few favorites but i like classical more for housework than  
>> for doing things that I have to think about. Although, I do like  
>> classical music when i'm fiddling around with things with my hands,  
>> like building electronics kits or woodworking. I think the  
>> selection comes down to what level of distraction I'm looking for.  
>> I really can't stand quiet though. Sometimes I'll just put on DVDs  
>> I've watched a hundred times and have them going in the background  
>> while I'm writing. Just something so that I don't have to listen to  
>> the sound of my own heartbeat or the stuff going on outside,  
>> traffic and what not. I don't know why that is. Maybe it's all the  
>> ear training work I did in college. I got so used to passively  
>> listening for details that I can't really turn it off, so I have to  
>> give my ears something to do or they'll get bored start bugging me  
>> with incidental nonsense. Hmmm.
>> On Feb 29, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Jeff Newberry wrote:
>>
>>> Any of you poets out there listen to music while you compose?  I  
>>> don't usually, though I've tried.  I have found that certain music  
>>> can be rather generative if I listen to it before I write:  Miles  
>>> Davis, Bill Evans, certain Hendrix songs, certain brands of  
>>> acoustic blues.
>>>
>>> My problem in listening to music while I write is this:  I'm  
>>> sitting here, typing away, and suddenly I'm wondering, "Is that an  
>>> Amaj7 or a A13?"  Or "What mode is that solo in?  Mixolydian?"   
>>> Then, I'm lost in the composition of the tune & lose touch with  
>>> the poem.
>>>
>>> What about you all?  Do you listen to music while you compose?  If  
>>> so, what?
>>>
>>> Jeff Newberry
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> "Memory believes before knowing remembers.  Believes longer than  
>>> recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."
>>> —William Faulkner, Light in August
>>>
>>>
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