Music For Imaginary Products

Jude has invented the perfect place to get away from it all… He calls his score Music for Imaginary Products Hurrican Home... and this is the theme tune for the turmoil of today, both real and metaphorical, (I think).  He begins with a gladiator and ends with a nod to the big bad wolf huffing and puffing.  those pointing fingers make me think of a particular figure in the news now too. and we are just bobbing buoys.  I know I feel that way.

Brilliant mailing, Jude.  Thank you!

You don't know what you need until you have it. Subscription Opus

Once upon a time I was on Jude's mailing list, regularly. So I am delighted to be able to share this Subscription Opus! Jude has a phenomenal imagination and way of expressing it, with scores - that blows my mind. 

There's a place on the English coast, called Southwold where they have those mad pier exhibits with fantastical machines that do things you don't need.  Jude's egg machine is something like that, and the music for Virtually Free Range Chicken takes some of those words and things we associate with chickens and puts them to music or makes music from them.  

And there are lots of surprises. While I would think that the punch line (spoken as fast as possible) would support the use of free range chickens… I am reminded that they have a bigger footprint. Do you eat chicken chassé? I had a pen name of Galina Poole (back in the day)! Great good fun! Sadly the fox got all our chickens, again.

Spellbound by Jude's (not so) little ZINE

It must be so disappointing when you mail a big fat zine in good time from the west coast of California to a little island in the North Sea and the recipient doesn't open it on time, because she refuses to try to make sense of what she gets until she has some time. 

I am not a really keen scanner, but I am diligent, so upon opening Jude's magical spellbinding zine, I set about to reproduce it for you all to see. Now that that's done, I have looked with some care at its contents and am overwhelmed by the wizardry of it all!  There is so much to cackle at and sing to! Rather than hold your hand through the labyrinth of the fun house, I'll let you all sing your way down the hallowed halls! Thank  you, Jude and so, so sorry for missing the debut on Halloween!

Inbetween Music - Subscription Opus 91

It must be quite annoying to be a musician, performing, when the audience rustles, coughs, claps or when a phone rings . I think Jude's Inbetween Music gives us an insight into what it feels like to wait between movements for a musician. I suspect musicians have their 'ticks', adjusting the music stand, turning their chair, etc... and that Jude is bringing them together, imagining them as music, recognising the gaps as something interesting too. Perhaps Inbetween is the time when the musician becomes the audience listening to the silence, or something.  Attacca, the devil! Who would deny the musician the inbetween time to hiss, tune, make funny faces or scream?