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Pete M. Wyer: Stories From The City At Night
by Lyn Horton
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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by Mark Corroto
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, ...
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