Feb 21, 2017
Graham Dunning & Bobby Barry live in Prague last year. Copies of our duo album, Whirlwind, Immobile, are still available from Bandcamp.
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Graham Dunning & Bobby Barry live in Prague last year. Copies of our duo album, Whirlwind, Immobile, are still available from Bandcamp.
🎉 Happy New Year, Fandom! 🎊
These are all from the film, New Year’s Day (2000), an angsty teen film that I do not recommend watching if you are the least bit depressed.
These images may make it appear as though Michael Kitchen has a larger role in the film than he does. I’m sorry if I’ve given that impression. The last thing I want is for you to be disappointed when you see it and realize just how little screen-time he actually has. While his role is small, and he spends it mostly looking confused, vexed, or furious, he does manage to provide us with some necessary comic relief; mostly through facial expressions and that head thing we’ve come to love.
He plays Robin Green, the uptight (dare I say abused?) father of Steven -- one hell of a spoiled kid who refers to his father as “the Dishonourable Labour Member”.
Did I mention that his character is also a bit on the prissy side? Shades of Luther Adams shine through a bit here and there 😄
Oh, and try not to let that slap make you feel sorry for Steven.
He more than deserved it.
Chris Cook, aka Same Actor, performs Seven Places from Music in Text
On Friday, 26th June, I performed interpretations of three scores from Music in Text (‘Sonic Sweetener’, ‘Digital Versatile Music’ & ‘Accidental Broadcasts’) at Scaledown, a long-standing night of live music held upstairs at the King & Queen on Foley Street in Fitzrovia since 2004.
Unbeknownst to me, in the audience, the artist Julie Pickard was sketching as I performed. Presented here are her three drawings, corresponding to the three pieces I performed.
Many thanks to Julie for scanning these images and giving her permission for me to present them here. If you would like to know more about Julie’s work, her website can be found here.
I will be performing scores from Music in Text at this event in London on Friday.
Music in Text: UK Press Release
Music in text. Text in music. Infuenced by experimental composers such as John Cage, Erik Satie and La Monte Young, Robert Barry is searching for new narratives, instructive and playful paths for musical composition. The book’s text-based scores intend to orient musicians in artistic performances as well as to guide listeners in a suggestive relation between sound and prose. A playful and inspiring collection of ideas on how to conceive musical scores.
Graphic design and cover by Astrid Kaneberg. Illustrations by Amande de Frumerie.
Bobby Barry is a musician, composer and journalist based in London. As a musician, he goes by the moniker Monster Bobby and is the founder of the group A Little Orchestra, The Pipettes and Guards! Guards!. Barry is also a regular contributor to the magazines Frieze, The Quietus and The Wire.
Bläck charm nostalgi vassa tänder is a music-oriented publishing house based in Stockholm, Sweden. Among earlier releases you fnd the anthology I hear a new world 1958-1962, a book about a lost golden era in pop
Kev Nickells performing ‘Apart’ from Music in Text at the Spirit of Gravity collective's event The Scope at the Caroline of Brunswick, Brighton. November 19th, 2014. Photo by Agata Urbaniek.
So, Mildred Hubble, you want me to come to your party?