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.

Issue 93 - in four parts - (it's all in the data) Jude Weirmeir

They say the arts and science are related and can result in collaborative masterpieces. Musical mathematicians, Painterly Pediatric Surgeons… Jude is systematizing his life in four parts and I suspect he sees this as a musical score that he can play or sing. I can even imagine some of the sounds the words in this first part serialize your life! I think the sound 'WAKE UP' would have a different timbre to 'WORK', for example. The fact that each box is the same size and the type is uniform (not bold, or narrow) does not mean the length or the volume would be similar. There are some mysteries... Not sure what noisrevni edargorter is!

In this one Jude is more specific.  Before I turned over and read the instructions, I had a vague idea what Jude might intend.  Jude's subscription Opus' are demystifying composing for me.  My musical development feels similar to when I realised that I 'owned' the reading of a poem when I read it. I think Jude writes music the way I do a drawing.  These are curious exercises that capture imagination, and may be worked up into something bigger.  and sometimes, these little gems stand on their own.  The spiral matrix feels a bit like when I get lost in my drawing and momentarily don't believe I know how to escape, or complete.

Look around and everything you see reveals itself to you in the context of your imagination and ideas.  Jude's beans, with their unique complexions and shape have a variety that is exciting. How can we use them to make our 'music' or our art.  Pehrpas move them around, squich them, roll them in your hands, sort them, click them, print with them...

And this one makes me feel the way the crossword does on some mornings.  Or like the stuff I write on the whiteboard for the ESOL speakers whose first language is arabic must feel to them. There's some kind of puzzle but it will take effort and if I give in and give up, I'm not as smart as I feel sometimes and if I spend all evening working it out I'm not sure that's the best use of my time.  I suspect this is music of a busy, crowded city full of bright young things.

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Have a brilliant birthday, Jude and YOU are the top of my outgoing list!

Subscription Opus: Scrap Music - Jude Weirmeir

As ever briliant to get a Subscription Opus from Jude Weirmeir.  Merz music.  I feel synesthetic form. I wonder if this is Jude's take on trashpo.  There are all kinds of views about what constitutes trash and trashpo. It is baffling for me.  I think we all construct our meaning based on experience and whether we are in pursuit of beauty, flux, dada, asemics or other it is all highly subjective, but some people see trashpo in narrow parameters.

In principal I hate being labled but I also like labels. So why don't we begin with whether you think scraps=trash? I know I'm curious about whether Jude sent exactly the same ' scrap music' to everyone. I think if there is a 'run', it probably isn't trash (by my definition) but I love the idea that the pieces of this mail art hail from earlier opuses.

Jude's Opus inspores questions. Think of the doctoral theses that could be written...Does music sound different when it's spinning? Oh yeah, Vinyl is a disc but is that the point?

I start to 'inhale', 'exhale' and listen to the sound of the spider.  Can you clap a violin like you do a guitar? 

Artist in Seine, we need to commission a banana opus.  And what does pale yellow feel like to play?