Rashann Roland Kirk: Sound vhs

[dave9199]

I'm looking to do a trade for a copy of this. Please PM. Thanks.

[Adam]

"Sound" is great, intercutting Rahsaan with John Cage.

Once upon a time it was being distributed by Rhapsody Films, whom I believe were in NY. I do not have a copy.

I think Mystic Fire Video was a retailer that sold it - also mostly a catalogue. Not sure if they still exist, but I think so.

Search for both. Please let me know what you find. Good luck!

[Adam]

I was bored at work. Rhapsody Films still has it:

http://www.cinemaweb.com/rhapsody/other.html

Scroll down. It's only $20, direct from them. It's under "Other," not "Jazz."

"Although Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage never actually meet in this film (Cage's enigmatic questions about sound are intercut with some of Kirk's more ambitious experiments with it) these two very different musical iconoclasts share a similar vision of the boundless possibilities of music. Kirk plays three saxes at once, switches to flute, incorporates tapes of birds played backwards, and finally hands out whistles to his audience and encourages them to accompany him, "in the key of W, if you please." Cage, on the other hand, is preparing a work for musical bicycle with David Tudor and Merce Cunningham at the Seville Theatre in London. Cage meets Rahsaan's music in an echo chamber, and he ends his search for the sound of silence in his favorite spot -- the anechoic chamber -- where it turns out to be the uproar of "your nervous system in operation.""

Actually, Rhapsody has a great many jazz related films.

http://www.cinemaweb.com/rhapsody/

Edited September 5, 2003 by Adam