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Hopscotch 34
from
druidh
penumbrae
Edgetone Records, November 2016
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Hopscotch 34 was composed
while I was reading the 1966 Gregory Rabassa
translation
of the 1963 Julio Cortázar counter-novel Rayuela
(Hopscotch).
Cortázar's book reminds me of Ornette Coleman’s
harmolodic theory
in that any chapter can transition into any other
chapter.
Cortázar himself suggests two possible chapter
sequences.
Chapter 34 alternates line by line between two of
Horacio’s interior voices.
One inner voice reads the text of a novel his
companion La Maga has left
lying around the flat, while the other excoriates
that novel’s use
of “prefabricated words to transmit superannuated
ideas.”
music
composed and arranged by Bill Noertker
and performed
by
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - alto
saxophone
Theo Padouvas - cornet
Bill Noertker -
contrabass
Jason Levis - drums
© 2016, William
Noertker
(Deuh
Jauh Music BMI)
all
rights reserved
recorded
live
to
2-track by Karen Stackpole
Stray Dog Recording Services
7 June 2015
at the SIMM New Music Series
in San Francisco CA
Mastered by Myles Boisen
at the Headless Buddha Mastering Lab
on 25 July 2016

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