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Jacob Wick / claire rousay — I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart (Notice)

Jacob Wick photo by Gudinni Cortina/claire rousay photo uncredited

I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart by Jacob Wick/claire rousay

Trumpeter Jacob Wick has a beef with the notion that when a jazz musician solos, they tell a story. The idea props up some dubiously hierarchical relationships between musician and musician, as well as artist and audience. It also obscures the essential abstraction of music, especially instrumental music, which doesn’t necessarily say anything, but presents sounds that provoke responses. 

Percussionist claire rousay and Wick relate to each other in some pretty unjazzy ways on this tape, which was recorded in a New Orleans studio at the end of a tour of the Southern USA in 2019. But even if they’re not getting up and saying their piece like normative jazz soloists, they devote much of the piece to dealing with jazz myths of jazz. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart is named after a Duke Ellington song which became a ubiquitous mid-20th century standard; Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett and countless others have recorded it, and the duo quote it liberally throughout this performance-length program. And Wick recurrently plays “The Theme,” a lick that both Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis used to end their sets.

But neither artifact gets played straight. Wick starts “Sancho’s” (while it’s never spelled out, one suspects that three of the program’s four segments were named after drinking establishments) with that titular melody, which is so lovely that you might say that you want it to last forever, and he favors it with some exquisite vibrato. But then the trumpeter delivers just what you wish, only not quite the way you might wish it. Using circular breathing, he sustains a quavering note until the melody’s spell is broken, and then maintains a discomfiting silence. Then he repeats it again and again, varying the tone each time before breaking it into fragments that he and rousay toy with like a couple parsimonious artisans who, when confronted with broken pottery, start looking for intriguing ways to arrange the shards. On “The Friendly Bar,” the duo start with small sounds, inviting the listener to lean in. Then Wick dispels the moment by blundering in with insistent repetitions of “The Theme,” which rousay deflates in turn with perfectly off-kilter accents. 

So, what point does the duo convey by interrogating this material? Ah, gotcha! Music doesn’t tell a story, right? Still, there’s a lot of sentiment attached to the idea that it does, and rousay and Wick understand that feeling well enough to get you to wince every time they puncture your romantic notions. 

Bill Meyer

PREMIERE OF JD ZAZIE’S NEW PIECE AT NOCHE DE LOS MUERTOS: THE ARTIST IS ABSENT

31/10/2021 Noche de los Muertos: The Artist is Absent GUDINNI CORTINA CHRISTOPH HERNDLER CHRISTINA KUBISCH JD ZAZIE JOANNA JOHN ILPO VÄISÄNEN ANGÉLICA CASTELLÓ / BILLY ROISZ / BURKHARD STANGL Echoraum Vienna - AT

Physical absence, mental absence, not-being, not-here-being, absence, death. The institut 5haus has invited six composers or sound artists to produce an electroacoustic composition on the theme of absence: Gudinni Cortina, Christoph Herndler, JD Zazie, Joanna John, Christina Kubisch and Ilpo Väisänen. The six electroacoustic compositions will be premiered on October 31, 2021 as part of Wien Modern at the echoraum Wien in the sound direction of Arnold (noid) Haberl. On the "stage" of the echoraum, the three curators of institut 5haus, Angélica Castelló, Billy Roisz and Burkhard Stangl, will build an audiovisual altar to the dead (Santa Ausencia) - a TV-audio-video sculpture (Billy Roisz) with sound installation (Burkhard Stangl) and magnetic tape fabric (Angélica Castelló): the altar as a door to another world.

The institut 5haus, founded 20 years ago and currently run by Angélica Castelló, Billy Roisz and Burkhard Stangl, serves the realization and presentation of contemporary musical forms, with a special focus on interdisciplinary contexts. The "institut" sets itself the task of questioning music-aesthetic positions in dialogue with video, photography, film, text, the Internet or performance art, and also to assert them further.

Program Gudinni Cortina: Filacterias (2021 UA) - 16' Christoph Herndler: ORGA – Modell 9. Notationsobjekt mit Klangkulisse (2021 UA) - 13' Christina Kubisch: Traveling voices (2021 UA) - 15' JD Zazie: I'll be right back (2021 UA) - 14’ Joanna John: Everything is everything else (2021 UA) - 13' Ilpo Väisänen: UNIVERSAALIN TIETÄMÄTTÖMYYDEN OSA (2021 UA) - 17' Angélica Castelló, Billy Roisz, Burkhard Stangl: Santa Ausencia. Audiovisual altar of the dead (2021 UA)

The sound pieces will be played at 16:00 and at 20:00 at e c h o r a u m Sechshauser Straße 66 A-1150 Wien

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Gudinni Cortina and Anne-F Jacques – Barometric Dispatch/Despacho Barométrico – episode 2

A bi-monthly summary of sonic contributions and updates received from presses précaires (Montréal) and ISO (Ciudad de Mexico) collaborators, friends and informants, located in various altitudes, caught in different weather systems. fragmented landscapes, failing devices and inexact charts.

compiled in 30 minutes blocks of audible matter by Gudinni Cortina and Anne-F Jacques.

El despacho barométrico es un sumario bi mensual que muestra contribuciones sonoras y actualizaciones recibidas de colaboradorxs, amigxs y informadorxs, situadxs en diversas altitudes, atrapadxs en diferentes sistemas meteorológicos. Paisajes fragmentados, dispositivos que faltan y cartas inexactas.

Está recopilado en bloques de 30 minutos de materia audible por Gudinni Cortina y Anne-F Jacques.

for this second episode, a mix of dispatches received for Salsipuedes (Argentina) and Mexico City, from Bardo Todol y sus aves sin nido and Gudinni Cortina. Strange pressure shifts, furtive manifestations and hyper-local phenomenons.radio-on-berlin.com

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A samll Speaker reproducing a no input mixer work, palyed at a manglar near Playa del Carmen and a distant party.

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