David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


14 November 2018

The Field : Theatre of Auditory Regard


Last night we listened to the ABC.TV documentary 
Finding The Field.

To a hurlyburly of 1968 imagery, it starts with
not Jimi Hendrix' Crosstown Traffic (1968)   
Gioachino Rossini's William Tell Overture.
Then Jerry Lewis mimes over-typing-self with Title
to LeRoy Anderson's The Typewriter, as we in '68

arrive through the arch of the modernew NGV to Tchaikovsky's Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy

and reflect there on Mel Ramsden and Ian Burn
to a J S Bach organ composition.
Fifty years pass and staff install The Field Revisited
to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Exeunt to Happiness Does Not Wait.

Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA

   
music credits
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William Tell Overture
Composed by Rossini
Performed by the South German Philharmonic Orchestra
Piros Classical Records

The Typewriter
by Leroy Anderson

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Original composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution
3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Bach, Organ Sonata No 2 BWV 526, 
1st movement, Vivace (C Minor)
Performed by Stephen Malinowski
Keyboard Concerto in A major, BWV 1055, 1. Allegro
Original composition by Johann Sebastian Bach
Synthesized by Carey R. Meltz

Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 performed by E. Power Briggs
Courtesy of Sony BMG Music Entertainment
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd

Bach’s Sinfonia for Cantata No 29
The Grotto Electrasynth-O-Magneticpolyphonic Orchestra

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, 3rd Movement
As Performed by The Raleigh Ringers, Raleigh, NC, USA
Arranged for Handbells by Hart Morris
Conducted by David M. Harris 

Brandenburg Concerto No 3, BWV 1048, 3rd mvt.
Performed by Early Music ensemble Voices of Music
Original composition by Johann Sebastian Bach

A Soalin
Batteast/Mezzetti/Stookey
Performed by Robert Johnson

Celestial Cantabile
Composed by St George E/Russe L
Courtesy of EMI Production Music

Le Carneval des Animaux by Saint Saens:
Introduction and Royal March of the Lion
Licensed courtesy of One Media iP Ltd

Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé, Suite II - Lever du Jour
Performed by The Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Geoffrey Simon
Recording: CACDS4027 Five O’Clock Foxtrot
Used by arrangement with Cala Records Limited

The Four Seasons-Summer-Presto
Composed by Antonio Vivaldi
© Flipper Srl, licensed by Fable Music Pty Ltd (Australia)

Happiness Does Not Wait
Performed by Olafur Arnalds
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd
Courtesy of Erased Tapes Records Ltd
ISRC:GBWZD1305009