{"id":164,"date":"2005-09-24T21:05:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-25T04:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/09\/14\/glenn-gould\/"},"modified":"2009-09-25T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T20:14:44","slug":"glenn-gould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/09\/24\/glenn-gould\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Gould as Umeboshi &#8211; The Idea of  North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenngould.com\/\">Glenn Gould<\/a>  This programme is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Snt35m2fzBw\">The Idea of North<\/a>. I&#8217;ve long been intrigued by that incredible tapestry of tundra and taiga which constitutes the arctic and sub-arctic of our country&#8230;.&#8221;<br \/>\n(From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rci.rutgers.edu\/~mwatts\/glenn\/idea.html\">A transcript <\/a>of the prologue to The Idea of North, a sound documentary by Glenn Gould.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenngould.com\/\">Glenn Gould&#8217;<\/a>s birthday today (Sept 25, 1932, Glenn was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannewhite.com\/newastrology\/LibraMonkey.shtml\">Libra\/Monkey<\/a> &#8211; a glib manipulator).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.ca\/glenngould\/028010-502.7-e.html\">GG interviews GG<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/extimacy\/interview\/david\/\">David Teague Interviews David Teague About Glenn Gould<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g7LWANJFHEs&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">Glenn plays Goldberg Variations 1-7<\/a> (youtube)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/Gould1.jpg\" alt=\"Glenn Gould\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/Gould2.jpg\" alt=\"Glenn Gould\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto collage by a Canadian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/camel\/camel.htm\">poet<\/a>, P.R. Pottelberg (From an ill fated project of mine  called   ic<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/wahol-Index.htm\"><strong>ON<\/strong> c<strong>OFF<\/strong><\/a>in &#8211; background images comprise of miniture<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/bento.jpg\"> candy bento<\/a>, and nothing to do with global warming or the Penguins ).<\/p>\n<p>What is <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=umeboshi&#038;hl=en&#038;btnG=Search+Images\">Umeboshi?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from a play &#8220;Glenn&#8221; by David Young<br \/>\n <strong>Prodigy<\/strong> The twenty-fifth of September.  No   Cake, No candles. No celebration.  Instead this &#8230; this inconsolable longing.<br \/>\n     <strong>Puritan<\/strong> It was a test.   A chance to look at myself on the barren heath, so to speak.<br \/>\n     <strong>Progidy<\/strong> I feel like I&#8217;m circling above my childhood, never finding a place to land except&#8230;..<br \/>\n     (The Prodigy moves toward the phone again. Should he call?)<br \/>\n     <strong>Puritan<\/strong> (gaining conviction) The idea of solitude was with me from the very beginning.  Isolation was a doorway to ecstasy. <\/p>\n<p>Another excerpt from the same play,<br \/>\n<strong>The Perfectionist<\/strong> I believe that all the spiritual energy that has ever been is with us now, radient and invisible. We should not confuse ourselves with these bodies. I am not this body.<br \/>\nI am an electromagnectic field that animates this body. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stim.com\/Stim-x\/0896August\/Sparky\/gould.html\">Phone Fetishist, the Glenn Gould Factor<\/a> by Margie Borschke<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Phil: Was there ever any kind of relationship between Glenn Gould and John Cage?<br \/>\nKevin Bazzana: Yes, in fact the intellectual relationship between Gould and Cage is the subject of an article in the next issue of GlennGould which should be published within about a month. There was a brief correspondence between Gould and Cage in the early 1970s at the time of Gould&#8217;s CBC Radio Documentary on Schoenberg and Gould interviewed Cage, who was a student of Schoenberg&#8217;s, for that documentary.&#8221; (from <a href=\"http:\/\/glenngould.com\/gg\/\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/jp.swf?video_id=Gmf4Z9HsnFQ&#038;eurl=&#038;iurl=http%3A\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Gmf4Z9HsnFQ\/default.jpg&#038;t=OEgsToPDskIpqEzARpRBPp2oTTEimnR-\">Glenn plays Schoenberg here with Menuhin<\/a> (youtube)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/08\/31\/the-russian-journey\/\">Love, Russia and the Next Glenn Gould<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gould&#8217;s Solitude Trilogy is a main inspiration for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/08\/28\/christopher-delaurenti-live-from-new-york\/\">RNC Protest piece<\/a>&#8221; wrote Christopher DeLaurenti  a Seattle composer. (via email)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is Glenn Gould This programme is called The Idea of North. I&#8217;ve long been intrigued by that incredible tapestry of tundra and taiga which constitutes the arctic and sub-arctic of our country&#8230;.&#8221; (From A transcript of the prologue to The Idea of North, a sound documentary by Glenn Gould.) Glenn Gould&#8217;s birthday today (Sept &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/09\/24\/glenn-gould\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glenn Gould as Umeboshi &#8211; The Idea of  North&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,101,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-art","category-glenn-gould","category-humor","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}