{"title":"Calling Planet Earth!!! Is anybody listening…?","authors":"Clare Lesser","doi":"10.1558/jazz.22954","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Travelling the space-ways, two figures. One from Saturn, one from Sirius: brought together in a speculative conversation that crosses space and time. A message to Earth: ‘Get your house in order!’ Sun Ra (1914–1993) wrote extensively throughout his life. Of his over 350 prose-poems, nearly half are directly concerned with exploring concepts of meta-reality, astro-Black identity, and lost time via the coming and consequences of ‘the cosmic age’. For Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), the ‘astro’ played out through the interpenetration of the micro and the macro in text and music. Interplanetary vibrations mingle with earthly micro-particles, the celestial and the fantastic combine in music’s transformative ability to bring profound change. Using a combination of Jacques Derrida’s (1930–2004) deconstructive technique of the animadversion, and the interview ‘cut-up’, as employed by Christian Marclay (b. 1955), this provocation will take the form of a ‘sampled cosmic conversation’ of Ra and Stockhausen’s own words.","PeriodicalId":40438,"journal":{"name":"Jazz Research Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Jazz Research Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.22954","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Travelling the space-ways, two figures. One from Saturn, one from Sirius: brought together in a speculative conversation that crosses space and time. A message to Earth: ‘Get your house in order!’ Sun Ra (1914–1993) wrote extensively throughout his life. Of his over 350 prose-poems, nearly half are directly concerned with exploring concepts of meta-reality, astro-Black identity, and lost time via the coming and consequences of ‘the cosmic age’. For Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), the ‘astro’ played out through the interpenetration of the micro and the macro in text and music. Interplanetary vibrations mingle with earthly micro-particles, the celestial and the fantastic combine in music’s transformative ability to bring profound change. Using a combination of Jacques Derrida’s (1930–2004) deconstructive technique of the animadversion, and the interview ‘cut-up’, as employed by Christian Marclay (b. 1955), this provocation will take the form of a ‘sampled cosmic conversation’ of Ra and Stockhausen’s own words.
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Jazz Research Journal explores a range of cultural and critical views on jazz. The journal celebrates the diversity of approaches found in jazz scholarship and provides a forum for interaction and the cross-fertilisation of ideas. It is a development and extension of The Source: Challenging Jazz Criticism founded in 2004 at the Leeds College of Music. The journal aims to represent a range of disciplinary perspectives on jazz, from musicology to film studies, sociology to cultural studies, and offers a platform for new thinking on jazz. In this respect, the editors particularly welcome articles that challenge traditional approaches to jazz and encourage writings that engage with jazz as a discursive practice. Jazz Research Journal publishes original and innovative research that either extends the boundaries of jazz scholarship or explores themes which are central to a critical understanding of the music, including the politics of race and gender, the shifting cultural representation of jazz, and the complexity of canon formation and dissolution. In addition to articles, the journal features a reviews section that publishes critical articles on a variety of media, including recordings, film, books, educational products and multimedia publications.