Friday, March 01, 2002

Jenny Ondioline and the soundtrack to everything.

Listening to Jenny Ondioline, you begin to wonder what is real. It repeats phrases so often until the phrases become meaningless apart from their sound. Try it with a word. I first noticed it when I was about eight when I tried to say the word "Chain" over and over again which is of course self-referential and rather apt for this medium being used to describe it.

Pieces by Philip Glass are already there. They repeat phrases for the sake of themselves and meld with the environment, fitting anything which they are set to accompany. I once saw this done with music by Michael Nyman. It was "fitted" to a short film sequence of a river bank with no narrative context at all. And it worked. It would work with anything. Try it.

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