listening journal #1

I'm finishing Sonic Youth's SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century, with Burdocks by Christian Wolff, the rough-hewn Piano Piece #13 by George Maciunas and Pièce enfantine by Nicolas Slonimsky. Maciunas was Lithuanian American and a founder of Fluxus. This is as good a modern avant-garde album as there is although I'm skipping the Cornelius Cardew piece tonight. I sometimes think about saying goodbye to the 20th century and focusing my listening on the last 2 decades of American classical music. But not yet.

I don't know the backstory of The Wellwater Conspiracy. I'm listening to Sleveless and Shel Talmy from their Declaration of Conformity from 1997. There's also an early Pink Floyd cover, Lucy Leave, which may be better than the original.