Henry Lowengard: Stuck in Your Head
September 15, 2005 - January 27, 2006

Belief Boy of Music, (Dec 15, 1988)

The artist drew on an interview from WNYC's New Sounds program, between host, John Schaefer and guest, downtown composer Glenn Branca. Just prior to this interview, John Cage made an infamous remark about Branca's Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses at the 1982 New Music America:

"My feelings were disturbed ... I found in myself a willingness to connect the music with evil and with power. I don't want such a power in my life. If it was something political it would resemble fascism" (John Cage, 1982).

Other works are:

• Read My Lips, (1992), a hasty promise of the 1992 presidential election analyzed on NPR, and by Sound Bite;
• Call Ya Later (Dec 12, 1994), up to five one-way conversations fit into a single UHF audio channel - an interesting cross talk portrait of New York City in the days of analog mobile phones;
• Ada Rowboat (Aug 23, 2005), a new piece based on the latest somniloquy of Nancy Graham, the artist's then wife;
• St. Peter's Tour (1994?), an old tour cassette takes the listener on a dizzying trip around St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome;
• Day of the Dead (excerpt), (Oct 28, 1989), a combination of several techniques and programs written into an audio collage for the Day of the Dead, 1989.