Microgroove: Forays into Other Music

Preface: Tympanum of the Other Frog xv Acknowledgements xix Introduction 1 ONE. ON THE ROAD. INTO THE CUL-DE-SAC Joe Harriott and Bernie McGann: Flying without Ornette 15 Michael Hurley: Jocko's Lament 21 Mayo Thompson: Genre of One 33 John Stevens: Unpopular Populists 36 Peter Brotzmann Tentet: Freeways 40 Steve Lacy: Sojourner Saxophone 49 David Grubbs: Postcards from the Edge 57 Voice Crack: From Nothing to Everything 67 TWO. EXIGENESES OF CREATIVE MUSIC Milford Graves: Pulseology 71 Out of Nowhere: Deleuze, Grawe, Cadence 79 Carla Bley and Steve Swallow: Feeding Quarters to the Nonstop Mental Jukebox 85 Misha Mengelberg: No Simple Calculations for Life 93 Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink : Natural Inbuilt Contrapuncto 109 Form Follows Faction? Ethnicity and Creative Music 116 Anthony Braxton: Ism vs Is 123 Anthony Braxton: Bildungsmusik-Thoughts on "Composition 171" 129 Paul Lovens: Lo Our Lo 132 Clark Coolidge: The Improvised Line 136 Nathaniel Mackey: Steep Incumbencies 142 Sun Ra: From the Windy City to the Omniverse-Chicago Life as a Street Priest of DIY Jazz 153 Fred Anderson: The House That Fred Built 162 THREE. ULULATIONS AND OTHER VOCAL STIMULANTS Sun Ra: Queer Voice 169 Jaap Blonk: Uncommon Tongue 170 P.J. Harvey: Mother's Tongue 179 Aural Sex: The Female Orgasm in Popular Sound (co-authored with Terri Kapsalis) 182 Liz Phair and Lou Barlow: On Music, Sex, TV and Beyond 194 Liz Phair and Kim Gordon: Exile in Galville? 205 Koko Taylor: The Blue Queen Cooks 212 Brion Gysin and Steve Lacy: Nothing is True, Everything is Permuted 217 FOUR. THE HORN SECTION Ornette Coleman: Doing Is Believing 233 Roscoe Mitchell: Citizen of Sound 244 Fred Anderson and Von Freeman: Tenacity 250 George Lewis: Interactive Imagination 258 Mats Gustafasson: MG at Half-C 264 Ken Vandermark: Six Dispatches from the Memory Bank 270 Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee: Mutual Admiration Society 278 Peter Brotzmann and Evan Parker: Bring Something to the Table 285 FIVE. TRACK MARKS Oncology of the Record Album 297 Discaholic or Vinyl Freak? Mats Gustafsson Interrogates John Corbett 301 Twenty-Seven Enthusiasms: A Spontaneous Listening Session 308 A Very Visual Kind of Music: The Cartoon Soundtrack beyond the Screen 313 R. L. Burnside and Jon Spencer: Fattening Frogs for Snake Drive 322 Before and After Punk: The Comp as Teaching Tool 331 Raymond Scott: Cradle of Electronica 336 SIX. MELODIC LINE AND TONE COLOR Peter Brotzmann: Graphic Equalizer 343 Albert Oehlen: Bionic Painting 347 Albert Oehlen: Mangy-A Conversation and a Playlist 352 Christopher Wool: Impropositions-Improvisations, Dub Painting 359 Christopher Wool: Into the Woods-Six Meditations on the Interdisciplinary 366 Sun Ra: An Afro-Space-Jazz Imaginary-The Printed Record of El Saturn 371 SEVEN. THE TEXTURE OF REFUSAL Helmut Lachenmann: Hellhorig, or the Intricacies of Perceptiveness 379 Guillermo Gregorio: Madi Music 387 Experimental Oriental: New Music and Other Others 391 Afterword: A Concise History of Music 417 Grooving On: Selected Listening 423 Credits 443 Index 447