***harmolodic programmes is an ongoing collaborative project ***about and a testament to harmolodic experience/expression ***********************in sound <> music <> vibration and life ********published in hard copy (sold for cost) and online (free). ************************we have an open call for submissions *********************of any and all relevant texts and images ********************************from anyone on the planet. ******past volumes under the title the harmolodic manifesto *************are available for download at zinelibrary.info. *******please send submissions, comments and suggestions to: ********************************[email protected]. peace <3 put forth by jean-paul larosee & billy conde goldman a f r e e s p i r i t c a n o n l y e x i s t i n a f r e e d b o d y --duncan school banner Bottlecap Press has no ownership of writings/images. all rights are reserved for the creators. 2012 B o t t l e c a p P r e s s 2 Table of Contents Cover painting by Bob Lordan and jean-paul larosee explanatory knote, the editors ************************************ page 5 o delicate vibratories…, Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) ***************** page 6 editoreal : the harmolodic now, jean-paul larosee ****************** page 7 Black Wadada, Jeff Schlanger, musicWitness® ********************* page 10 My Approach to Playing Music, Bill Cole ************************** page 11 Music was his life…, Harry Chapin ******************************* page 21 sounds and visions, Ben Kelley and billy conde goldman ************ page 22 free-form energies, billy conde goldman ************************** page 25 harmolodic workshop flyer (circa 2004) *************************** page 27 the harmolodic workshop 08252009 ******************************* page 28 The Loon <> Rival GTs Meet Mister Fig, Transcription ************** page 29 Inside, Outside by Geoffrey Oldmixon ***************************** page 30 I was with Sam Henry and Howard Gee…, SRB ******************** page 36 No matter how you listen to it JAZZ is…, Thurston Moore ********* page 37 Warm/Cool Color Flowers, Han-Busily Gotham Johnson ************** page 38 sprouts of the harmolodics ************************************** page 39 With Eyes Closed, Rachel Znerold ******************************** page 45 Lost Instrument, David Sirois ************************************ page 54 Albert Ayler, Eric Hoffman *************************************** page 55 Life is…, j.g. *************************************************** page 56 Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, Selections *************************** page 57 The Lefsetz Letter, Bob Lefsetz, Selections ************************ page 59 Anthony Braxton, Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979: Language Music (1967), Selections ***************************** page 60 Lady Decapus, Natasha Holmes *********************************** page 61 It’s a Small World: A Harmolodic Recollection, Bob Lordan ********* page 62 Autophysiopsychic Music, Yusef Lateef **************************** page 63 Quantum Music: Audience-Observer/Player, Dennis Warren *********** page 64 Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death…and Insects, Selections ********* page 65 Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, Lester Bangs, Selections ** page 66 dark rhizomatics, billy conde goldman **************************** page 68 The 5000 Fingers of Ian Svenonius ******************************* page 69 Music is Misused, Ian Svenonius ********************************** page 71 Jandek on Corwood, Selections *********************************** page 72 We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen, Selections ************ page 73 Rain…Shapes, Yusef A. Lateef, Selections ************************** page 74 remove the caste system from sound, promotional material for Tone Dialing by Ornette Coleman & Prime Time ************* page 75 Ornette Coleman in Motion *************************************** page 76 maxims on improvisation, Patricia Ryan Madson ******************* page 77 Fishing Whole, Alexander Bingham ******************************** page 78 On Anarchy in Music, Th. v. Hartmann, Selections ***************** page 79 El Trovador after Remedios Varo, Zito **************************** page 80 the musician: harmolodic flows of desire, OR “this machine kills fascists,” jean-paul larosee ****************************** page 81 The Song’s Never Played the Same, Rob Aiman ******************** page 90 It Might Get Loud, Selections ************************************ page 92 3 Jim Dickinson, Artists House Music Video, Selections *************** page 94 Yo La Tengo, Electr-o-pura, back cover ************************** page 96 HARMOLODICS: thoughts this way and that, Andrew Poppy ********* page 97 Believe It or Not!, Daniel Fagereng ****************************** page 103 Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, Selections ********************** page 104 Patti Smith Wellsprings ***************************************** page 106 5 HAIKU, Mike McDonough ************************************** page 107 Zen Guitar, philip toshio sudo *********************************** page 108 Tom Dowd & The Language of Music, Selections ****************** page 109 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Selections ************************ page 110 Visceral Music, Lawson Fusao Inada and Robert Kostka *********** page 111 In the Dirt, Bob Lordan **************************************** page 112 Burning Ambulance, Selections *********************************** page 114 light rhizomatics, billy conde goldman *************************** page 118 piccadilly, 1972, Simon Puxley ********************************** page 119 T. Monk’s Advice (1960), Steve Lacy ***************************** page 120 Wynton Marsalis Speaks **************************************** page 121 Call & Response ************************************************ page 122 Sound Levels, Phil Freeman, Selections *************************** page 123 The War Goes On, Daniel Fagereng ****************************** page 124 Royal Trux **************************************************** page 125 royal trux: cats and dogs, a harmolodic way of life, billy conde goldman ***************************************** page 128 Zapped, Rachel Znerold ***************************************** page 130 Zappa! is yes ************************************************** page 131 What is Music?, Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso ************* page 135 Sound, Visual Thesaurus **************************************** page 137 Ornette Coleman, Eric Hoffman ********************************** page 138 Harmolodic = Highest Instinct, Something to Think About, Ornette Coleman ******************************************** page 139 Fibonaci, Jeremy Langston, jeremylangston.com ******************* page 143 The Surest Way…, Hart Crane *********************************** page 144 participants/contributors **************************************** page 145 knotes ******************************************************** page 146 Either we restore…, Antonin Artaud ***************************** page 148 4 explanatory knote since its inception in 2003 this publication has been called ‘the harmolodic manifesto’ – Breton and other surrealists were hanging around with their manifestos, so it felt an obvious choice to attach to our declarations – recently, however, we’ve questioned if this title embodies the present dynamic of our mutual-becomings – in our enthusiasm at the time, we felt we were making clear distinctions of the differences between what we did, and what we felt most others did, in terms of collective sound-making – it never occurred to us that we might be acknowledging and addressing a larger group of players, than the handful, we were, in so many words, purporting were working with the ideas and practices of Harmolodics – it also never occurred to us that maybe Harmolodics, instead of describing something specific, specialized and narrowly determined, was really about the bigger picture, representing the root tendency and impetus to music in general, and that there’s more to musicality and sound-making than the hystory of so-called popular music leads people to believe – so as change would have it, perceptions and perspectives attuning to the polyvocal intensities of this life-becoming, what began seemingly as a one-time affirmation, has grown into an existent presence exhibiting the reality of connectivity, but a connectivity controlled by the unpredictability of variability – inspired by the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, we’ve decided to adopt their notion and description of programme – from the book “Dialogues II”: “On lines of flight there can no longer be but one thing, life-experimentation. One never knows in advance, since one no longer has future or past. ‘See me as I am’: all that stuff is over. There is no longer a phantasm, but only programmes of life, always modified in the process of coming into being, betrayed in the process of being hollowed out. No longer is there the infinite account of interpretations, but finished processes of experimentation, protocols of experience. Programmes are not manifestos – still less are they phantasms, but means of providing reference points for an experiment which exceeds our capacities to foresee.” we feel programmes to be a more than suitable replacement for manifesto, and in fact, the description Deleuze and Parnet present for programmes, “means of providing reference points for an experiment which exceeds our capacities to foresee,” describes Harmolodics most accurately – it should be mentioned that since the last volume in 2008, a computer