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Dr Johnson Frisks by Stephen Gard
Stephen Gard
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Stephen Gard Born Sydney 1952 Is An Australian Composer Of Electroacoustic And Other Music. Electricity And Music Make A Daring Mix. Whether We Speak Of Its Substance Or Its Metaphoric Effect Electricity When Tamed And Set To Work Has Always Sparked Experiment And Generated Risk Nowhere Is This More Evident Than In The Art Of Electroacoustic Music. We Hear Much About The Menace Of Technology But The Electroacoustic Composer Embraces It Meddles With Its Apparatus Speaks In Technology's Tropes Brings Us A Little Closer To Understanding This Wild And Powerful Force We Have Wrought But Cannot Grasp. Electroacoustic Composers Like Stephen Gard Are Part Orpheus And Part Engineer Who Cull Snippets Of Sound And Gobbets Of Light From The Lived World And Wrest These In Dark Digital Laboratories Into Works Of Wonder Alarm And Delight. The Timbres Are Not Orchestral Timbres The Forms Are Alien Forms The Realisations Are Often Ephemeral. The Results Are Always Electric.
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Dr Johnson Frisks
All Gard's Visits To London Have Included Short Literary Pilgrimages And On This Occasion He Paid His Respects To The Great Cham Of Gough Square. "One Night When Beauclerk And Langton Had Supped At A Tavern In London And Sat Till About Three In The Morning It Came Into Their Heads To Go And Knock Up Johnson And See If They Could Prevail On Him To Join Them In A Ramble. They Rapped Violently At The Door Of His Chambers In The Temple Till At Last He Appeared In His Shirt With His Little Black Wig On The Top Of His Head Instead Of A Nightcap And A Poker In His Hand Imagining Probably That Some Ruffians Were Coming To Attack Him. When He Discovered Who They Were And Was Told Their Errand He Smiled And With Great Good Humour Agreed To Their Proposal ‘What Is It You You Dogs! I’ll Have A Frisk With You.’ He Was Soon Drest And They Sallied Forth Together Into Covent-Garden..." From The Life By Boswell Dr Johnson Frisking Is Something Gard And Perhaps Others Would Have Gone A Long Way To See... In Today's London The Tabla Joins The Hurdy-Gurdy And The Serpent.
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Stephen Gard Born Sydney 1952 Is An Australian Composer Of Electroacoustic And Other Music. Electricity And Music Make A Daring Mix. Whether We Speak Of Its Substance Or Its Metaphoric Effect Electricity When Tamed And Set To Work Has Always Sparked Experiment And Generated Risk Nowhere Is This More Evident Than In The Art Of Electroacoustic Music. We Hear Much About The Menace Of Technology But The Electroacoustic Composer Embraces It Meddles With Its Apparatus Speaks In Technology's Tropes Brings Us A Little Closer To Understanding This Wild And Powerful Force We Have Wrought But Cannot Grasp. Electroacoustic Composers Like Stephen Gard Are Part Orpheus And Part Engineer Who Cull Snippets Of Sound And Gobbets Of Light From The Lived World And Wrest These In Dark Digital Laboratories Into Works Of Wonder Alarm And Delight. The Timbres Are Not Orchestral Timbres The Forms Are Alien Forms The Realisations Are Often Ephemeral. The Results Are Always Electric.
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All Gard's visits to London have included short literary pilgrimages, and on this occasion he paid his respects to the Great Cham of Gough Square.
"One night when Beauclerk and Langton had supped at a tavern in London, and sat till about three in the morning, it came into their heads to go and knock up Johnson, and see if they could prevail on him to join them in a ramble. They rapped violently at the door of his chambers in the Temple, till at last he appeared in his shirt, with his little black wig on the top of his head, instead of a nightcap, and a poker in his hand, imagining, probably, that some ruffians were coming to attack him. When he discovered who they were, and was told their errand, he smiled, and with great good humour agreed to their proposal: ‘What, is it you, you dogs! I’ll have a frisk with you.’ He was soon drest, and they sallied forth together into Covent-Garden..." (From the Life, by Boswell)
Dr Johnson frisking is something Gard, and perhaps others, would have gone a long way to see... in today's London, the tabla joins the hurdy-gurdy and the serpent.
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