"Sound?" Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage!

[medjuck]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m4xkY0WgVw#t=736

Am I the only one who had never heard of this great 1967 short film?
(Can't find the YouTube thread or I'd post this there.)

Edited January 18, 2015 by medjuck

[colinmce]

Coupled on a DVD along with an Ornette Coleman short that has priceless footage of the Izenon/Moffett trio recoding the Who's Crazy soundtrack.

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah, Brandon Burke screened this for me when we were in college. Pretty fascinating.

[medjuck]

Coupled on a DVD along with an Ornette Coleman short that has priceless footage of the Izenon/Moffett trio recoding the Who's Crazy soundtrack.

Thanks. I found the Ornette film on YouTube also.

[JSngry]

I've known about it since the mid-70s, read a "real time" review of it in DB, iirc. If not DB, somewhere else, in something that the NT library had. Interesting review actually, talking about how the fundamental differences between Cage & Kirk ultimately weighed heavier than their "superficial" similarities, Cage being about worshiping the silence so that the sound would only be made when absolutely necessary and Rahsaan being more about embracing the sound in all of its manifestations because to do otherwise is to be less than fully realized as a spirit. Or something like that. Different pieces of the same puzzle, if you ask me. Weights balance each other out, right?

I've known about it since then. Actually seeing it took a lot longer...not sure if it made it to the Rhapsody VHS thing or not, I never found it if it did.

[uli]

For "Cage and jazz" there is also the Sun Ra meets Cage event on lp. put it on the youtube thread.

[Gheorghe]

got that DVD too, but I was disappointed when they showed the Ornette Coleman trio only traveling, but very little music.

the Roland Kirk stuff is nice, but more ok without John Cage.....