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Niels
Viggo: Song playing is nice friendly surface, long playing is
wonderfully mystical and deep,
non
playing is deeper, the abyss of silence.
But
nong playing is where the players are not holding on to playerhood or
nonplayerhood any more.
Free
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Henrik:
Farsø, 1 Feb 2003.
Dear friends,
I have now listened to the full 3 hrs of our sounds from last autumn. It is all in a computer, and I have made notes of what to delete and leave out. This is an enormous task. I can’t do any more about it before Winter Holidays, but the first Monday after that I will arrange what I selected, record it to a CD and send it to you. I feel a bit like the day I finished highschool and was about to conquer the world. What we made contains something that transgresses boundaries and opens an entirely new landscape in the world of art . No more, no less than that. This is wild goose music. In the most complete sense. Compared to this, everything else made throughout the ages is just narrow-minded copying, nothing but bourgeois and reactionary virtues trying to make things fit nicely together. It is not an end in itself that things be crazy and weird, I
know -- and if it wasn't that there's something in our excesses that points beyond the ordinary as well as the exceptional, they would of course just be another kind of conservatism. But this is the voice of the man on the earth. From the fool who dares turn everything head down, if that is the way the wind blows. Of course it doesn’t always sound like that. But when it does everyone can sense it, everyone is hit by it – this liberating feeling of something without self-importance, almost without self. In short, I see something here that will explode the ordinary understanding of what music is. It just needs the right cutting and arrangement. And we already have The Hurricane of E. and There is a Sound. I am doing it in the office of Jan at TEWA music. He has a record company and says he is willing to publish the material if I can finish it. I don’t know. We will see. No hurry, but if we want to meet to edit and play some more, could it be during Easter?
Much love, Dokusan Henrik Svenningsen, M.A.
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