Trevor Bača: "Unremitting ambiguity: A partial reading of Steven Kazuo Takasugi's The Flypaper."
The article appears online in Search, vol 4, 2009 and is scheduled for print publication later in 2009.
From the paper:
Steven Kazuo Takasugi's The Flypaper (2005), is an electroacoustic work based on Robert Musil's prose piece of the same name, "Das Fliegenpapier." The source text for the work was read in English and German by the composer/poet Wieland Hoban.
Fifteen seconds into The Flypaper, a gap of barely a second opens amid the cut-up
tumble of mixed German and English words. This unexpected breath—ghostly, barely
audible—rises up from below, in a crack between sentences. Back up and listen carefully,
to just this one sound, many times, in isolation. In so doing, a fundamental ambiguity
arises. Is this inhalation or exhalation? A taking-in? Or a letting-out? After only fifteen
seconds, The Flypaper forces a choice ...
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