![]() And the less said about her frequent recourse to novelty whistles… There’s no doubting either the idiosyncrasy of her style or her mastery of technique (imagine non-musical vocal coach abstractionism), but with the exception of an occasional arabesque mirroring of Northover’s soprano, she proved unresponsive to her various partners. Whether consciously or not, the instrumentalists all tended to defer to her vocals which, ultimately, I found rather irritating. She was the de facto focal point of each set she featured in, both physically – always situated forward and centre stage for the ensemble performances – and aurally. If Casserley was buried in the mix, Wassermann’s vocal was too prominent. The most interesting setting for Casserley’s work was the blending of Ute Wassermann’s vocalizations with Chris Burn’s smeary trumpet. ![]() I was particularly looking forward to hearing Russell’s signature wiry scrabble transformed by Casserley’s sound processing, which I usually hear channelling the more liquid flow of Evan Parker’s saxophony in the context of the latter’s Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, but I was to be (slightly) disappointed.Ĭasserley, who either played a brightly colour-coded interface much like a piano or else plucked samples from a touchscreen tablet, didn’t have much presence in the sound mix, and it was only in the quietest moments that it was possible to individuate his ghostly electronics amid the struck and bowed sounds with which they most often blended. Those four were Nina de Heney, Adrian Northover, Lisa Ullén and Lawrence Casserley.” Six of the musicians (including myself) had played in Quaqua groups before and four had not. Russell told me: “I like to keep a thread running through my Quaqua projects and to also have some new elements each time. Bass, guitar, percussion, piano (Ullen), and voice. Electronics, rabeca, and soprano saxophone. Bass, electronics, and piano (Ullen). 2nd set: Cello, guitar, soprano saxophone, and trumpet. Cello, electronics, percussion, piano (Burn), and voice. 2nd set: Bass, erhu, and alto saxophone. Guitar, rabeca, saxophone, trumpet, and voice. Monday, 1st set: Bass, cello, erhu, and piano (Ullen). Bass, piano (Ullen), rabeca, and trumpet. Bass, guitar, and voice. 2nd set: Cello, electronics, saxophone, and voice. Cello, percussion and erhu, and piano (Burn). Sunday, 1st set: Electronics, piano (Ullen), rabeca, and saxophone. Russell’s scheduling was assiduously democratic, with each musician performing just once or twice per set. #Quaqua in latin full#And Sabu Toyozumi’s erhu, if you were wondering, is a two-stringged ‘spike’ fiddle, or Chinese violin.Įach night there were two sets of four performances, the first and last being by the full tentet. I took Rohrer’s instrument for a modern-style violin, but although it does look similar and play in the same range, the rabeca is in fact a fiddle from northern Brazil, more typically used in Forró music. ![]() Violinist Satoko Fukuda was also scheduled, but could not attend. ![]() Russell’s invitees this year were: Chris Burn (piano, trumpet), Lawrence Casserley (electronics, sound processing), Nina de Heney (bass), Hannah Marshall (cello), Adrian Northover (alto and soprano saxophones), Thomas Rohrer (rabeca), Sabu Toyozumi (percussion, erhu), Lisa Ullén (piano), and Ute Wassermann (voice, whistles). Notwithstanding Beckett’s coinage, the Quaqua website informs us that: “‘Quaquaversality’ means to point in all directions and the name ‘Quaqua’ is Latin for ‘whithersoever’.” So now we know. “…but all this business of voices yes quaqua yes of other worlds yes of someone in another world yes whose kind of dream I am yes said to be yes…all balls.” (Samuel Beckett, How It Is.) #Quaqua in latin for free#Fete Quaqua is a long-running institution, an annual concert series organised by guitarist John Russell which seeks, as he puts it: “to extend existing collaborations / relationships between musicans in juxtaposition with new ones and thus provide a fertile ground for free improvisation.” ![]()
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Alien hunting conspiracy theorists after seeing what they believe the be an extraterrestrial UFO over the capital of England. The cameraman is apparently randomly videotaping a mundane sidewalk, and then moves quickly to a street corner, where he takes careful note of the reactions from passerby before aiming the camera up into the sky to see what, exactly, it is that has so captivated their attention. Just white moving dots that anyone with some video-editing chops could create with little effort.Īnother sign that this is a fake is the way the video begins. UK What the papers say December 16 Space Nasa head says he is certain of alien life in the universe Long Reads The lonely journey of a UFO conspiracy. #London alien news windowsThere's no detail, no flying saucer windows or aliens waving hello from high above. The mothership and its UFO siblings videotaped over London are among the absolute easiest images to fake: glowing ovals and dots. 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He had called me, and it was quite possible that I would be cutting his throat by letting anyone back in Amber in on the fact that he had gotten the message out. So I suppressed my impulse to yell for reinforcements. "Not the ones in charge of memory, I hope." Depends on what you want most at the moment. I mean, ask me another time and I might say one of the others. Well, maybe soaring has a little edge - in gliders, balloons, and certain variations - but mood has a lot to do with that too, you know. With me, Corwin, it's drumming, being up in the air, and gambling - in no special order. While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between. "Plenty of noble Amberites around with possible motives. I wanted to be an irresponsible nonentity and just enjoy myself. That can get either boring or difficult fairly quickly, depending on how responsible you want to be. This time, I was not looking for a place where I would be especially important. It was a long ride - I will not bore you with the details - and it was pretty far from Amber, as such things go. It could have been that my subconscious - which was kind of footloose at the time - just seized on the available props out of habit. Ordinarily, of course, we get the message empty-handed, unless we are doing the calling. I decided later that it must be our mental quirk associated with the Trumps that made me see it that way when someone was trying to reach me and I had cards in my hand - any cards. Also, I was physically strung out from a long day's gliding and not much sleep the night before. I had just finished a couple very hot sets and was still kind of high. I had decided to go looking for an assemblage of all my simple pleasures in one small nook of Shadow. Still, it was a very nice crop - silver-chased, beautifully tooled - and I made good use of it. He gave me a fancy riding crop for a going-away present - to hasten the process of affection, I suppose. I had often noticed that his fondness for me tended to increase as an inverse function of my proximity. Dad was still around, and when I noticed that he was getting into one of his grumpy moods, I decided it was time to take a walk. And there I was, staring at the Jack of Diamonds again, with the guy across from me not knowing whether to be mad at my long distraction or concerned that I might be having some sort of sick spell.Īnyway, I was here in Amber some years ago. Some sort of watch-thing, it seemed - too bright for me to make out its outline, to guess its proper size. And I remembered the presence coiled about the base of that tower. Brand there in some sort of tower - a small point of stability in that flowing scene. Rocks that glided like sailboats across the land. It was far from Amber, somewhere where the shadows go mad. Then I saw the landscape - over his shoulder, out a window, over a battlement, I can't be sure. He had been having one of his melancholy spells, had snapped out of it one day and ridden off. ![]() ![]() Later, though, when I had asked after him, no one had any idea as to his whereabouts. Brand had still been in Amber when I had departed. I lay stretched out on my bed, smoking and thinking. I closed up shop with that hand and went home. ![]() |
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