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Vale Tina Turner (1939-2023)

In August 1984, Linda Marrinon, Geoff Lowe and I were staying at The Royalton (44 West 44th Street) in New York. For Linda and I, it was our first overseas excursion. With Vivienne Shark LeWitt, we started our Grand Tour in Rome, exhibited at ‘ANZART’ in Edinburgh, then continued to London where Vivienne stayed on. Steven Bush joined us in NY (*his exhibition at Sutton Gallery has just opened) where we spent our days mostly visiting museums. (Experiencing 'Ghost Busters' in a New York cinema was fun, too. Very meta.) After a substantial renovation, MoMA had just re-opened with ‘An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture’.  It included some Australians, a rare event even for white Anglo male non-indigenous: Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Tony Coleing, Mike Parr.

I had grown up admiring Tina Turner’s awesome 'River Deep, Mountain High' (1966), before my similar regard for Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and Janis Joplin. While in NY, one afternoon I heard on local radio that Tina Turner was about to start a new tour in the wake of her breakthrough return single ‘What’s love got to do with it?’. She would be at The Ritz (119 East 11th Street) that night.

So, beer and pizza in an East Village restaurant with another music survivor Screamin' Jay Hawkins busking us with his ‘I put a spell on you’ (1956), then off to join the queue at The Ritz. Hawkers stalked the queue trying to sell us their (real or fake?) inflated-price tickets. Eventually I bit and was one of the last to get inside before FULL HOUSE and a great performance.

Today, news that Tina has died aged 83. The final para of a New York Times review of that August 1984 Ritz concert season :
“Miss Turner doesn't mind mocking herself; after a hip-shaking, knee- swinging rendition of a rock song, she pauses for a deep, sweeping, bow, delivered with a diva's hauteur. Yet in her own way, Miss Turner has as much dignity as any performer now working. If there have to be sex symbols, Tina Turner is the best kind - wise, tough and adult.”

VALE TINA

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L ♡ Diddy Wah Diddy ♡ S

Wikipedia : Lyrically, the song makes mention of the mythical town of Diddy Wah Diddy. It was not unusual in the early part of the 20th century for African Americans in the southern states (particularly in Florida) to speak of various mythical cities and countries such as Beluthahatchie, Ginny Gall,^[8] Diddy Wah Diddy and West Hell as if they were real.^[9] Of all the imaginary locations that were in common usage at the time, folklorist and ethnomusicologist Benjamin A. Botkin has noted that Diddy Wah Diddy was "the largest and best known of the Negro mythical places."^[10] It was commonly believed that in Diddy Wah Diddy food could be found in abundance, the townsfolk did not have to work, and people and animals had no concerns.^[11] Dixon and McDaniel's song is sung from the point of view of a man whose lover lives in this mythical location, as evidenced by such lines as...

She loves her man, just is a pity
Crazy 'bout my gal in Diddy Wah Diddy

Ain't no town, and it ain't no city
But oh, how they love in Diddy Wah Diddy

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It's a hit!

We remember seeing Running Jumping Standing Still 

in Melbourne in the late 1960s. 

Their big hit was a variation of Bo Diddley and Willie Dixon's Diddy Wah Diddy.

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Presumably, the band took their name from the short film Running, Jumping and Standing Still by Richard Lester, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and others.

Their big hit comes from the Fourth Wall borderlands ...



Today, we present Running Jumping Standing Still-Life.

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... in which TAR gives a whack and takes a hit! gives a whack and takes a hit! gives a whack and takes a hit! 

gives a whack and takes a hit! gives a whack and takes 

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Vale Ken West (1958-2022)

In February, we showed some drawings made at the first Sunbury Music Festival, fifty years ago.

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Today we're wearing a Big Day Out tee shirt in remembrance of Ken West, co-founder of that great Australian touring festival.

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Sunbury 72

Ye Gods of Rock, it's another 50th anniversary!

Barefoot in the Grass : 50 Year Anniversary of the Sunbury Music Festival is at Hume Global Learning Centre, Sunbury, until March 27. 

Tonight, there will be a panel discussion featuring festival lighting director and author Peter Evans, plus roadies, musicians and fans, and performances by Mike Rudd of Spectrum and Brenden Mason of Madder Lake. 

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Your correspondent was there too, with a notebook a nib pen and a bottle of India Ink.

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In 1971, Mary Macqueen was one of our RMIT Architecture faculty tutors. At Crossley Gallery, I had seen her rapid impression pencil drawings of zoo animals. Hence...

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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Today is Sunday. 

Three Sundays ago in New York, members of the Broadway theatre community gathered in tribute to Stephen Sondheim.

Together they sang 'Sunday' from 'Sunday in the Park with George.'

ALL

Sunday,
By the blue, 

Purple, yellow, red water
On the green, 

Purple, yellow, red grass
Let us pass
Through our perfect park,

Pausing on a Sunday
By the cool, 

Blue, triangular water
On the soft, 

Green, elliptical grass
As we pass 

Through arrangements of shadows
Towards the verticals of trees

Forever ...

By the blue

Purple, yellow, red water
On the green

Orange violet mass
Of the grass
In our perfect park,

Made of flecks of light
And dark,

And parasols ...

GEORGE

(Hums as he works)
Bumbum bum bumbumbum
Bumbum bum ...

ALL
People strolling through the trees
Of a small suburban park
On an island in the river
On an ordinary Sunday
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Below, Lin-Manuel Miranda reads from 'Look, I made a hat : Collected Lyrics (1981-2011)'.

"This is the only lyric I've written that consists of one long incomplete sentence. I wanted it to be like the descriptive caption you might read in a museum next to the painting."

- Stephen Sondheim

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Another giant tree falls in the forest : Vale Alvin Lucier (1931 - 2021)

"I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have."

- Alvin Lucier 1969

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Happen Stance meets Horror Dance

stance (n.)

1530s, "standing place, station," probably from French 

stance "resting place, harbor" (16c.), from Vulgar Latin 

*stantia "place, abode" (also source of Italian stanza 

"stopping place, station, stanza," Spanish stancia 

"a dwelling"), from Latin stans (genitive stantis), 

present participle of stare "to stand" (from PIE root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm").

Sense of "position of the feet" (in golf, etc.) is first recorded 1897; figurative sense of "point of view" is recorded from 1956. The sense of the French word has since narrowed.

                     

Stand Dance (TAR)

see : I can't stop it/do that dance (Primitive Calculators)

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MADA Artforum : In Memory of John Nixon Wednesday 16th September 1-2pm - online.

 

A special Artforum dedicated to John Nixon’s work and contribution to artist run initiatives, curating and collaborative practices. Speakers include Kathy Temin, artist and Head of Monash Fine Art, Anna Schwartz, Director of Anna Schwartz Gallery, Amalia Lindo and Jacqueline Stojanovic, artists who assisted John Nixon in his studio, Max Delany, Director of ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and artist Rose Nolan.

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John Nixon at Teksas, Denmark  

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Musicians of the Matrix

Not so much music of the spheres as resonant matrix, and thereof an orchesTAR of local inflections. A village pick-up band, after Ives and Cage and the Sengai Slave Guitars.

  Score of 'The Universe' as performed by Sengai Slave Guitars


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 Dread Poetry and Freedom : Linton Kwesi Johnson and the 
 Unfinished Revolution (David Austin)

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Vale Terry Jones (1942-2020)

MENU

- Egg and bacon
- Egg, sausage and bacon
- Egg and Spam
- Egg, bacon and Spam
- Egg, bacon, sausage and Spam
- Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam
- Spam, egg, Spam, Spam, bacon and Spam
- Spam, Spam, Spam, egg and Spam
- Spam, Sausage, Spam, Spam, Spam, Bacon, Spam, Tomato and Spam
- Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam
- Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes with a Mornay sauce, Served in a Provençale Manner with Shallots and Aubergines, garnished with Truffle Paté, Brandy and a Fried egg on top and Spam.

Wife: (shrieks) I don't like spam!

Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam!

Vikings: (singing) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.

Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?

Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)

Vikings: (singing elaborately) Spam, spam, spam, spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spaaam! Lovely spam! Wonderful spam. Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Lovely spam! (Lovely spam!) Lovely spam! (Lovely spam!) Lovely spaaam! Spam, spam, spam, spaaaaam!

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Laughing Songs of TAR ( Olivier Messiaen )

DANCE OF BÉBÉ PILULE (FOR MY LITTLE PASCAL)
words and music by Olivier Messiaen

Pilule, come let’s dance.

Malonlanlaine, ma.

Strands of sunshine.

Malonlanlaine, ma.

It’s the alphabet of laughter

at your mother’s fingertips.

Her perpetual yes

was a tranquil lake.

Malonlanlaine, ma, ma.

Gentleness of staircases,

surprise at the turnings of doors.

All the light birds

take flight from your hands.

Light birds, pebbles,

refrains, light cream.

Into blue fish,

into blue moons,

halos of earth and water,

a single lung in a single reed.

Io, malonlaine, ma.

The disarmed eye,

an angel on the head, 

your little nose raised

towards the blue which swallows itself,

hemming the glass horizons

with gilded cries, you offered

your heart so pure.

To sing, to sing, ah! to sing,

gleaner of stars, braids of life,

could you sing

more delightfully?

The wind on your ears,

Malonlanlaine, ma.

Plays leap-frog,

Malonlanlaine, ma.

and your mother’s

watchful eye and presence

Shedding one hour

around my smile.

Malonlanlaine, ma.

lo! ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, io, io!

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 Larry Miller :   performer in 'Incidental Music' by George Brecht
                        at the concert "Art Action 1958-1998"
 photography : F. Garghetti, Quebec 1998
 

   FONDAZIONE BONOTTO > FLUXUS COLLECTION > ARTISTS > MILLER, LARRY

TAR : "before and after Larry Miller, before and after Art Action"

photography : Reg V Brock, View Point, Bendigo, 1952

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I TAUT I ( I THOUGHT I )

Tauts Arise 

 I taut I taw a puddy tat a-creeping up on me 

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 I did, I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be

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