press play and play with sound
I’m playing around with a mix disc of music that Bob from the Institute made. Playing with songs that aren’t in my I-tunes/brain-pan-Wurlitzer feels a bit like a pickup game of one on one. When I heard the latin vibe of this song, somehow I thought of basketball (it might be from that Paul Simon song about me a Julio down by the schoolyard… which had a great rhythm section with a squeeking drum that freaked me out as a kid because I couldn’t figure out what instrument it was untill years later when I saw a guy spitting on his finger and rubbing the drum to make it squeek and when I think of that song I think of this schoolyard)…, which brings me to my third thought: Why is it that New York School painting with all it’s biomorphic post-surrealist abstraction (particularly Gorky and deKooning and those who followed ) seem to have so much in common with grafitti from the seventies on? There is something about the lines, energy, and shape that just seems of a piece. It could be that deKooning was a sign painter and took a lot of his shapes from letters… his essential strokes were probably muscle memory letters from sign painting… but that only seems to be about half of the equation. I’m asking opinions… so if you have one please comment.
