From: Steve Polta (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2008 - 12:07:50 PDT
Yes. This film is very mysterious and dark and fascinating. Its placement towards the beginning if the series may have tended to obscure it in memory so thanks for bringing it up.
The concluding song in the film is "A Dream" by John Cale and Lou Reed. It's from their LP/CD, SONGS FOR DRELLA, a suite of songs on Andy Warhol, basically describing his life. I believe the singer/reciter of the piece in question is John Cale. That's probably him on piano as well (Reed sings a lot on the record and plays this ripping feedbacky guitar). The song seems to describe a lonely point near the end of Warhol's life when he was alienated from many previous friends and collaborators. So when the track refers to "John" and "Lou" (among others) it is the composers issuing rebukes to themselves ("nobody called..." is a chilling way to end that film and that first Views... program, and seems to suggest irreparable guilt that is left hanging in the air).
The entire album, SONGS FOR DRELLA by Lou Reed and John Cale, is excellent.
The other song I recognized in the film was "Lather" by the Jefferson Airplane. There was another, kinda Sinatra-type song at the films head that I did not know.
Hope that helps...
Steve Polta
--- On Wed, 10/8/08, jason livingston <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: jason livingston <email suppressed>
> Subject: post-views question
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 10:34 AM
> Hello everybody, saw some great work this past weekend at
> Views. A
> real highlight was Lewis Klahr's False Aging. By any
> chance, did
> anyone recognize the last song? As always, LK has an
> amazing ear for
> music.
> thanks ahead of time for any leads, I'm obsessing over
> that song and
> have to track it down!
> regards
> Jason
>
> Ithaca, NY
>
>
>
>
> http://jasontlivingston.com/
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> On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Esperanza Collado wrote:
>
> > Hey Andrew,
> >
> > Sounds great! Ill be in NY from the 1st to 8th of
> October, flying
> > back to Dublin at 7pm on the 8th but if you will be
> around that
> > first weekend Ill absolutely visit you at the museum
> or anthology.
> >
> > mmmm
> >
> > hope you're well.
> >
> > e.
> >
> > 2008/10/8 andrew lampert
> <email suppressed>
> > Hi
> >
> > Starting Wednesday, October 8th, I'll be
> presenting a 16mm
> > performance/installation at the Whitney Museum of
> American Art in
> > the exhibition BETWEEN THE STILL AND MOVING IMAGE.
> It's a triple-
> > projector 16mm permutation of the super-8 work
> VARIETIES OF SLOW
> > that I previously performed in the Whitney 2006
> Biennial. In this
> > version, which is in the 2nd floor Film/ & Video
> Gallery, I'm
> > revisiting old notes and aborted plans, attempting
> many of the
> > extended approaches and intentions on my mind
> in/around 2005. While
> > those performances lasted upwards of 7 hours, this
> version will run
> > for nearly 4 weeks. Continuous alterations and
> interactions will be
> > set in motion by daily instructions sent to the
> Whitney staff as
> > well as by regular visits by myself and selected
> messengers (more
> > info soon). The whole piece will constantly and
> substantially
> > change over the course of weeks in ways both
> prescribed and
> > unknown. I'll be there for sure on the weekend of
> Nov. 1st and 2nd
> > to re-present the super-8 version, albeit...with a
> twist.
> >
> > A much-simplified description and schedule is on the
> Whitney site:
> > http://www.whitney.org/www/performance_film_and_video/
>
> > film_and_video.jsp
> >
> > Thanks,
> > A.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > -----------------Esperanza Collado
> >
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