Jazz Articles about Pete M Wyer

About Pete M Wyer

Album Review

Pete M. Wyer: Stories From The City At Night

Read "Stories From The City At Night" reviewed by Lyn Horton

by Lyn Horton
November 28, 2008

A record is judged a success when it creates its own context, which it upholds with content. If the content stretches only to the parameters of context and not beyond, there is a sense of limitation to the album. But in Stories From The City At Night, the mixture of music, prose and sound transforms the album into a sieve for imagination, catalyzed by the meaning behind the very first story ("Rain At Night"). The development of ...

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Album Review

Pete M. Wyer: Stories from the City at Night

Read "Stories from the City at Night" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 22, 2008

Pete M. Wyer's Stories from the City at Night bears uncanny reference to Kenneth Patchen and John Cage's 1942 radio play, The City Wears A Slouch Hat. Patchen, the “father of the beat poets," collaborated with composer Cage (there were no such titles as sound designer or DJ in those days) on an extraordinary soundtrack. Cage created sound effects to accompany the great poet's words, using tin cans, gongs, woodblocks, alarm bells, a Chinese tom-tom, bongos, cowbells, maracas, claves, ratchett, ...