Friday, October 12, 2012

Experiment #1: Wallace Stevens + Can

In the mood for a highbrow mashup? Well, I've been fooling around with editing music lately, and I thought I'd share some of the more interesting results.  Here's a Wallace Stevens poem, "Tattoo," with an excerpt from Can's "Dead Pigeon Suite" (variation on "Vitamin C," from Ege Bamyasi). Interestingly, there's a song from Can's The Lost Tapes called "Evening All Day." Is this a reference to the line "It was evening all afternoon," from Stevens' great poem "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird?" Perhaps not, but I'm pleased by the coincidence.


2 comments:

  1. I love it! I think the bard of Hartford would be most pleased. A little music and poetry should nourish all of those thin men of Haddam.

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  2. Thanks. I'd like to do more of this sort of thing, so we'll see what I can put together.

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