Tom Waits (on Robert
Wilson): "Wilson, he's always playing with time. I heard a recording
recently of crickets slowed way down. It sounds like a choir, it sounds
like angel music. Something sparkling, celestial with full harmony and
bass parts - you wouldn't believe it. It's like a sweeping chorus of
heaven, and it's just slowed down, they didn't manipulate the tape at
all. So I think when Wilson slows people down, it gives you a chance to
watch them moving through space. And there's something to be said for
slowing down the world."
Growing up in the south, the summer chorus of crickets and cicadas felt like a throbbing pulse, and it's one of the things I miss most about living in that verdant climate. This recording brings that sound and the pace of the south to another level.
Listen here.
Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002
Growing up in the south, the summer chorus of crickets and cicadas felt like a throbbing pulse, and it's one of the things I miss most about living in that verdant climate. This recording brings that sound and the pace of the south to another level.
Listen here.
Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002
