Ideolectic speech, the speech of the unique individual. I had intended to dive into my Christmas book, “Kansas City Lightning, The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker,” by Stanley Crouch but Louise brought over a book to borrow called “Speaking of Art, Four Decades of Art in Conversation” and that has been hard to put down. Artful interviews, conversation about art, as art, “Audio Arts” fits nicely in my “Field Recordings of the Future” category.
“Inmate Improv,” an editorial in today’s NYT was the perfect New Year’s gift for me. Anna Clark runs an improv workshop for prisioners in Detroit’s Macomb Correctional Facility and she she says she is more afraid of improv than she is of the prisoners. Improv makes the world go ’round.
Margaret Explosion will try to keep the world spinning tonight at the Little Theater Café. I’m thinking of bringing my djembe for the first number and I’m trying to figure out how we’re going to strap up my aging laptop so we can project some movies on the wall behind the band. The song below is an improv, an optimistic toast to the New Year. Here’s hoping we all find our ideolectic voice in the new year.