John Fahey

Being an admirer of John Fahey's music I wanted to pass this on....
Lawrence Ball

Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:56:05 -0600
From: Gregory Taylor <gtaylor@rtqe.net>
Subject: [max-msp] Another kind of farewell

I guess I'll remember this as being the year in which Xenakis
*and* John Fahey passed away.

http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010224/t000016703.html

I'm sure that Jim O'Rourke and I aren't the only Max/MSP users
to shed a tear at John's passing. Beyond the pleasure and range of
his work [to say nothing of the way he rearranged the musical
terrain he homesteaded on], you've gotta stop to contemplate the
gift of his musical openness; he's the man who gave us "Blind
Joe Death" *and* "Womblife." RIP, John.

"Silence invaded the suburbs,
The current of his feeling failed: he became his admirers."
- -W.H. Auden, 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats'

Back to the rush of bits already in progress.
_
knowledge is not enough/science is not enough/
love is dreaming/this equation/Gregory Taylor/
WORT-FM 89.9/Madison, WI/ http://www.rtqe.net/

Lawrence,

--- In tuning@y..., "Lawrence Ball" <Lawrenceball@p...> wrote:
> Being an admirer of John Fahey's music I wanted to pass this on....
>
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:56:05 -0600
> From: Gregory Taylor <gtaylor@r...>
> Subject: [max-msp] Another kind of farewell
>
> I guess I'll remember this as being the year in which Xenakis
> *and* John Fahey passed away.

Thanks for forwarding this sad information. Not only was John Fahey a
wonderful human to have had with us, but it was a great surprise to
see Gregory Taylor's name again. He was a member of this tuning list
in the old Mills College days, and never was there a pair of ears
more open, fingers-for-typing more eloquent.

I miss them both, in different ways...

Best,
Jon