"RUST, this tattoo of hunters' boots and rifle bolts" is inspired by Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. This inspiration is more than a poetic tone painting of the Pynchon text. Rather, the music relates to both the materiality and the mixture of low & high art found in g.r.
This piece uses many recent advances in contemporary performance techniques.
The recording is an audio mock-up made for demonstration purposes.
Two quotes from Pynchon seems relevant:
p. 4
“ . . . certain trestles of blackened wood have moved slowly by overhead, and the smells begun of coal from days far to the past, smells of naphtha winters, of Sundays when no traffic came through, of the coral-like and mysteriously vital growth, around the blind curves and out the lonely spurs, a sour smell of rolling-stock absence, of maturing rust, developing through those emptying days brilliant and deep, especially at dawn, with blue shadows to seal its passage, to try to bring events to Absolute Zero . . . ”
p. 614
“B, B-sub-N-for-Närrisch, is nearly here - nearly about to burn through the last whispering veil to equal ‘A’ - to equal the only fragment of himself left by them to go through the moment, the irreducible doll of German styrene, shabbier, less authentic than any earlier self . . . a negligible quantity in this last light . . . this tattoo of hunters’ boots, and rifle bolts in oiled keyways . . .
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (Vintage Books, 2000)
14 июл 2024
