Jacqueline HUMBERT & David ROSENBOOM
“Daytime viewing”
13,00€
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“Daytime Viewing (1979-80) is an extended narrative song, based on a casual analysis of daytime television drama and the audience phenomena such programming addresses. The piece explores the use of fantasy as a survival mechanism against loneliness, illustrating the human compulsion to inflate the mundane to mythological proportions. A central female character weaves tales, using threads of personal experience and the idea of TV as friend, as mantra, and as transformational window between imagined spectacle and the pedestrian plane.
Originally released as a private cassette edition documenting the collaborative performance piece of the same name by Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom, this heady, thoroughly enjoyable work is available for the first time ever on CD and LP. Jacqueline Humbert (aka J. Jasmine) is a songwriter of brains and wit on par with Robert Ashley, with whom she’s worked extensively. David Rosenboom’s complex, harmonic electronic arrangements are accentuated brilliantly by percussion from William Winant. Daytime Viewing can happily be added to a small but significant group of work that, through lesser-known paths, engaged in an equally revelatory reexamination of the Great American Songbook as Minimalism did with 20th Century composition. Mastered by David Rosenboom.
Jacqueline Humbert (voix et textes) – alias J. Jasmine – et David Rosenboom (musique, claviers, synthétiseur Buchla ou Arp, électroniques…) dans une autre perle musicale d’une avant-garde nord-américaine issue du courant minimaliste. Entre opéra et chanson basé autour de l’univers de la télévision avec une musique électronique lorgnant sur la ritournelle populaire ou le kitsch dégoulinant. On pense aussi, évidemment, à l’univers de Robert Ashley. Cette pièce date de 1979 – 1980 et n’avait été éditée qu’en cassette. La voici disponible pour la première fois en CD ou LP. Avec la participation de William Winant aux percussions.
