give me your tired, your poor, your music -

[AllenLowe]

I'm working on a large CD length (maybe two CDs) project, autobiographical in nature, and am looking for contributions of a very specific nature - privately owned recordings from which I can excerpt at will. These can be virtually anything - speeches, music, interviews, shows - anything that you can grant the rights to for one-time use, and we can negotiate about which portions - the odder the better. Preferred formats are DAT, CDS, LP, cassette - or the back of a $100 dollar bill.

so far participating musicians are myself, Rande Sandke, Loren Schoenberg, Ursula Oppens, Marc Ribot, Barbara Lieurance, and Paul Austerlitz - with more to come -

[Christiern]

Very strange, Allen. What are you creating--an audio collage? If I knew more, I could probably dig some usable stuff out of my catch-all closet.

[Aggie87]

Doesn't using outside material contradict the nature of an autobiography?

[Christiern]

Good point!

[Rooster_Ties]

Doesn't using outside material contradict the nature of an autobiography?

Where's Quincy Troupe when you need him?

[Christiern]

He's busy inventing new Miles stories for his next boo: "Me, Me, Me, and Miles"

Sorry, return to subject...

[AllenLowe]

the more outside stuff the better -does not diminsh the autobiographical nature, only expands on it - because my (and your) autobiopgraphy includes a lot of other info/people/music - and not all autobiography is non-fiction - think A Storyteller's Tale (Sherwood Anderson) -

it will not, anyway, be an autobiography but rather autobiographical - a rough distinction, but real. I'd like anything from music to speeches to sound effects to accidental/incidental recordings. I plan to edit it somewhat like a film - both linear and non-linear in nature, scenes dissolving from one into another -

or think of it as an open story of my (and your) life -

Edited December 1, 2005 by AllenLowe

[RDK]

I've always wanted to write an autobiography about someone else...

[AllenLowe]

now's your chance -

[Jazzmoose]

Hmmm...I wonder if I can find that tape of my cousin and I jamming on washboard and tub...

[Christiern]

Somewhere, I have A. B. Spellman singing "Blue Moon"--it was a dare.

[AllenLowe]

sounds like a possibility, though I'll have to pay some publishing - do you have any, say, unissued Billie Holiday?