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Lindsay Cooper Filmkompositionen TIM MUNGENAST VON ZAMLA PHIL LESH HABIB KOITE ISSUE 74 December 1999 US$2.00 LINDSAY COOPER new column interview essay PARANOISE in posession of all the facts BARRY GUY/LJCO VASEN MAGMA LIVE IANCU DUMITRESCU/HYPERION HOSEMOBILE OLD BLIND DOGS FRED FRITH LUNASA BLAST Is Sci Fi Dying of Pokemon Flu? Aaand... Ed Morris Makes Us Strip Mine the Reagan Legacy ADVANTAGE: LINDSAY! One of modern music’s singular melodic voices, LINDSAY COOPER reflects on recent history, musical & otherwise, as well as what’s next,with our Third Stage Guild Navigator Making her name during her tenure with Henry Cow, one of the great musician collectives of the ‘rock’ era, Lindsay Cooper moved on in 1979 with any number of other bands and groupings, writing wonderful, tuneful compositions for discerning folk who didn’t have to be able to sit through “Pierrot Lunaire” or “Kraanerg” to enjoy. Illness has not slowed her down, either, as she has done articles for Chris Cutler’s ReR Newsletter and with this issue inaugurates a column here in TONE CLUSTERS, having to do with music, politics and their many ancillaries. We are terribly proud to reintroduce her to you... not that she’s ever been away, really, as the #1 position for which A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, her recent CD on Impetus Records, shared with three other CDs on the TC Top 40 for 1998. ARTICLE TRANSCRIBED BY IZZY TROUTMAN FOREWORD BY LINDSAY 27 photograph this page by Val W'rimer PREFACE-- A Message about M.S. (Multiple Sclerosis) Had an Email the other day from Diana Simmonds, who used to be a very good friend of mine and who now lives in Sydney, Australia, wanting to know what my main symptoms were. I told her and she Emailed me back thanking me because, as she said, she was in a state of total ignorance about the disease. This Email caused me to write this because if Diana Simmonds, an intelligent woman, doesn’t know much about this disease, then there must be a load more people in a similar state. The main things people need to know are that it affects various parts of the nervous system (it does this by the immune system mistakenly attacking the nervous system so that the myelin sheaths (fatty substances covering the nerve endings) are destroyed) and causes staggeringly high levels of fatigue. Walking and balance can be difficult, bladder and bowel problems abound and eyesight can sometimes be affected. Speech can sometimes be slurred, particularly when tired, and various sexual difficulties can be experienced. Sounds a cheery little package, doesn’t it? Heat affects it very badly; if I go out and sit in the sun, have a hot bath or go to a Turkish bath or sauna, all of which I used to enjoy doing, I feel terrible. I just spent 4 weeks in California and think I was the only person there who was LINDSAY COOPER delighted that the effects of El Nino were so bad that we only had 4 sunny days. More women than men are affected and it generally strikes just when people least need a serious illness to cope with— when they’re in their prime and at a crucial stage in their careers. That all sounds pretty bleak. But there are other ways of looking at it; as a woman Fred Frith knows (who has it, but is still working successfully as a singer) told me, the main thing to develop is a positive attitude and be open to trying various complementary therapies which can help. And there’s a lot you can do; therapies I’ve tried which are a great help are acupuncture, various kinds of bodywork including physiotherapy and Chinese qi gong. But the systems which are closest to my heart are yoga and Tibetan Buddhism. I’ve studied yoga ever since I was dignosed nearly 11 years ago and been to several workshops at Ickwell Bury in Biggleswade, somewhere that Director an viitcneti G em ini presents A programme of music by Re second-guessing Gavin Bryars the performers: & “Oh, I think a few years ago I’d have had that reaction Lindsay Cooper but now I’m simply pleased to see it.” The Adnan Songbook Left, cover of the concert program mentioned in Singing Waters the interview The Rain Song arr Dean Brodnck Victory arr Mike Westbrook Year of Miracles arr Veryan Weston Lovers. Curtain Descending, Prayer Forgotten Fruit. Oh Moscow 28 Sunday 15th November 1998 at 8.00 pm ICA IVnunimme: tl DO specialises in working with MS sufferers and has had amazing success. I’ve always liked LINDSAY COOPER yoga because it’s not just Keep Fit but also works with the breath and the meditation. Someone I’m curently doing bodywork with (Mariora Goschen, sister of Sula who used to drive the bus for Henry Cow) also works with the breath and Ernest Coates, my yoga teacher, always used to say he’d never worked with anyone with a serious illness who didn’t have severe breathing problems. Yoga meditation finally led me on to Tibetan Buddhism; I’ve been on a Christmas retreat led by Songyal Rinpoche, done a Vipassana weekend at Esalen in California, read copious Buddhist texts and meditate at least twice a day. Something I realised a long time ago but tend not to talk about except to fellow Buddhists or people sympathetic to Buddhism is that my Buddha nature certainly doesn’t have MS. Healing comes mainly through the mind and training the mind through meditation makes healing a lot more likely. All these ideas are something that few allopathic doctors would be sympathetic to, though I sense that more are sympathetic than was the case even 5 years ago. Annemarie Roelofs, who I’ve worked with for years and who was a member of the Feminist Improvising Group, has done a benefit concert with Alfred 23 Harth [former member of Cassiber—Ed.] and several other Frankfurt musicians and given the proceeds “The question that few doctors are prepared to ask is ‘what makes the self turn against the self?’ The other pertinent question is ‘why are we choosing to live in a seriously toxic environment?” to the Bassoonist Club [see TC 67, FOR(E)BEARINGS column-Ed.], something I find incredibly touching. As my friend Margot Nash (Australian film director) says, illness really does bring out the best in people. A woman Annemarie Roelofs was at high school with also has MS and she says the trick is to accept you can’t do anywhere near as much as you used to or would like— once you’ve been through that tough little process, other things flow in to fill the gap. That’s certainly been the case with me; I’ve been wanting to write (words) all my life but every time anybody asked me to write anything I had a knee- jerk reaction of panic and inventing various justifications for not doing it, limiting my writing activities to copious diary entries and letters to friends. It has to be said that writing words consumes a lot less energy than writing music, so until I get the music software (Fred Frith has got me the Overture programme, misheard by Sally Potter as “Overjoyed”) installed in my computer, writing words suits me fine. Various other therapies I do which seem to work are based on the use of electro magnetic energy (something else that most allopathic doctors are horrified by). The only allopathic doctor I’m prepared to see uses applied kinesiology to work out what foods should be avoided and asks you to sit attached to an expensive German machine which analyzes and tries to reverse the electromagnetic frequencies that are affecting various bodily 29 LINDSAY COOPER Left, a compilation of film music on Review Records, Germany. Next two pages, the front and back cover of a program for a film festival for which Ms. Cooper wrote the soundtracks functions. Last time I saw him and was attached to the Bicom (the machine) I decided afterwards to go out to John Lewis and buy a new VCR. I was having a bit of a bad day (the left leg and balance were working regrettably badly) so had to ask a very kind woman for help. It’s uncanny how at times one unerringly picks the perfect person- this woman’s best friend also has MS so she was very good to talk with. As she was leaving she said “I think you’re very brave coming out to a crowded John Lewis to get what you want.” People often say similar things and I understand why they do it- it’s so much nicer to say something positive than focus on feelings of fear when confronted by my crutches that come up in them. But it has to be said, on some days I get severely fed up with wearing my brave clothes. Something this illness certainly teaches you is how to accept help; when Christopher Sheppard asked at the first Bassoonist Club meeting what help I needed getting my proposed CD released my instant reaction was “no,no,no, it has to be done on my own.” It’s a compulsive pattern (in my case I think stemming from the fact I’m an only child) and one that I see over and over in other creative artists. Now I’ve accepted help (as I did at that meeting) from Kersten Glandien I feel so much better- having somebody to share the inevitable little administrative knots makes everything go much more smoothly.
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