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Forgetting and Remembering

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The disorder I want could be an order I fear.

(or)

The disorder I fear could be an order I want.

(or)

The disorder I fear could be an order I fear.

(or)

The disorder I want could be an order I want.

and....but?....

then

again

(with a nod to Cardew*), how interesting is it---finally---to get what one wants....(or fears?).

Seven simultaneously-sounding clarinet improvisations, recorded a track at a time on a single eight-track tape. Each one made on a different day. Each one made without having listened to any whole (or part) of a previous performance (or performances) in order that I might have access to the past only through memory.

Each (one) an expression of responses/reactions/relatings to and/or (at precious moments) escapes from, both the memories of a preceding day's play and emerging speculations/predictions (rosy and dire) concerning both the composite identity of the work on any given day, and as it could be imagined to exist in an ultimate form.

All together, an unfolding of different-past-past-sounds speaking to one another within a present. How, I wonder, would it be (actually) to experience it this way?

Forgetting and Remembering was made at the Melbourne studios of Australian Broadcasting Corporation during a one-week period in December, 1986: Robert Paredes, clarinet(s), Stephen Snelleman, producer.

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Robert Paredes Iowa City, Iowa

Robert Paredes (1948-2005) was a composer, performer, essayist, multi-media artist
and teacher whose output was consistently and consciously experimental. Expressing his deep interest in language, social justice and interpersonal relationships, his work was often a context to investigate the
essence of music, its meaning and its role in society. ... more

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