{"id":10784,"date":"2013-08-14T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=10784"},"modified":"2013-08-14T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:13:49","slug":"gene-colemans-water-of-the-last-moment-pjs-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/gene-colemans-water-of-the-last-moment-pjs-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Coleman’s “Water Of The Last Moment” & PJ’s “Dis\/Aster”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"genecoleman\"<\/a>Composer Gene Coleman just posted the first 10 minutes of his composition “Water Of The Last Moment”<\/strong> which constituted the opening section of “The Gulf (between you and me)”<\/strong> commissioned by The Crossing and for which I wrote the texts. \u00a0Gene added the following note:<\/p>\n

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This is the first 10′ from this work for 24 voices, Sho and Live Electronics. It was commissioned by The Crossing for their project called “The Gulf (between you and me)”. Along with the 24 voices of The Crossing are Ko Ishikawa (sho), with Toshimaru Nakamura and Adam Vidiksis (live electronics). The text was created by Pierre Joris, with some additional words in Japanese added by me. The recording is from the premiere in Philadelphia on June 15th, 2013 conducted by Donald Nally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can listen to this on Soundcloud, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The poem (partly) used in this section is called\u00a0Dis\/Aster<\/strong>\u00a0and was published on Jerome Rothenberg’s\u00a0Poems and Poetics<\/strong>\u00a0blog and can be read\u00a0here<\/a>, while the opening stanzas are given below:<\/p>\n

Disaster: not thought gone awry<\/strong><\/p>\n

when all this first started
\n<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 my body broke out into real bad rashes
\nmy eyes my face my neck my chest my back my shoulders
\nbig giant holes on the back of my legs,
\nholes the size of a #2 pencil
\nlooked just like the holes
\nin the fish
\nin the lab
\non the slab<\/em><\/p>\n

Gulf: from Greek\u00a0<\/strong>\u03ba\u03cc\u03bb\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2\u00a0(k\u00f3lpos) m. [masculine],\u00a0a bosom, From Proto-European\u00a0*bheu-<\/em>\u0259<\/em>–<\/em><\/a>\u00a0:\u201cto swell,\u00a0bend, curve\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What have you done to know disaster?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we went to detox \u2014December 11 to January 12<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the children feel much better now
\n<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Alina still has bad days
\nshe may never be 100%
\nmy little boy is doing fantastic,
\nmy husband\u2019s better &
\nI\u2019m feeling better too\u2026
\nI\u2019ve shelled out $40.000<\/em><\/p>\n

Gulf:\u00a0A hollow place in\u00a0the Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Disaster is on the side of forgetting<\/strong><\/p>\n

we did blue crab before BP
\n<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 but since BP
\nwe don\u2019t blue crab anymore<\/em><\/p>\n

Gulf: An abyss, a bottomless or unfathomed depth<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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