Film and sound recordings are illusory temporal media that require elapsed, clock time1 for playback and consumption. They are illusory in that each medium sets forth with unfolding events that may be nonlinear, cyclical and otherwise abstracted: in film, a scene sequence that distorts or fractures the chronology of the narrative or perhaps the frame rate of a particular scene (i.e. slow motion); and, in music, tempo, metre (incremental or fluid), strong accents against a uniform metric pulse (syncopation) and architectonic recurrences or transformations of motivic material in formal structure (i.e. sonata allegro form). Film and recorded music creators understand that their craft, in one way or another, requires the manipulation of at least two senses of time: that of the interior world of an art piece, which unfolds against the unyielding incremental ticking of exterior, ‘real world’ clock time. [Read the whole Article]
Roy Nathanson (Gallatin part-time professor), Same same by The Endangered Quarter Heart to be released May 2020.
The Endangered Quartet came into being through friendships that developed between musicians over a course of years, playing songs and sharing ideas outside of the context of the existing projects they were currently engaged in. They have developed this new quartet sound, a diverse chamber music blending classical, jazz, rock, and folk idioms. They are committed to a vision of honest and soulful expression — endangered but essential human values.
By KC Trommer (Assistant Director of Communications)
Off the Roosie After O’Hara
I get off the 7 and head home, past the Chase and the Jackson Heights penguin that,
last week, someone dressed as a bunny, and I’m thinking
of Frankie’s I-do-this-I-do-that poems, and my phone is dead again and
I can’t afford to replace it. All I want to hear is Spoon singing got no regard for the things you don’t understand
but maybe, as Lorna said, it’s a gift and there’s a poem across the street
waving Yoo hoo! Over here! and trying very hard to get
my attention. I get onto 37th, near what’s left of the Brunson Building after
the fire on Easter Monday and I head past the Met (not that one)
which they renamed Foodtown but which Honor and Joe and I will
always call the Met (not that one), and then a left onto 77th
and past our coffee shop where Afsal stands outside, talking, but
for once does not say hello even though he looks
straight at me, and it’s fine, I walk past the Berkeley and over 35th Ave., and
I guess I’m home, considering that my keys have opened
the door even before I realized I had them in my hand, and everything is
where I left it, even in the bedroom where I keep waking alone quite
suddenly to find—yes, I left you. You’ve never even been here.
“Off the Roosie” appeared in the March 27, 2019, Dispatches feature, “Dispatches from Queens,” from The Common and in We Call Them Beautiful, out now from Diode Editions.
Cleveland Hopkins International to LaGuardia, 2018 Photo by David Rothenberg. It appears in his book Landing Lights Park, published by ROMAN NVMERALS in 2018. Find more of his work at davidmaxrothenberg.com.
KC Trommer is the author of We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019) and the chapbook The Hasp Tongue (dancing girl press, 2014). She is the founder of the online audio project QUEENSBOUND. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poem “Fear Not, Mary” was selected by Kevin Prufer as the winner of the 2015 Fugue Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Antioch Review, Blackbird, LitHub, Prairie Schooner, The Sycamore Review, VIDA, and in the anthologies Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017) and Who Will Speak for America? (Temple University Press, 2018). She is the Assistant Director of Communications at NYU Gallatin and lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, with her son.
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