Musical marathon.
 

I spent 6 hours (or so) listening to that Fushitsusha live show from the bootlegs thread the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it. And I realised I haven't done anything like it for a while. What I'm looking for is something very long that's one piece - like that Daughter of Darkness thing Natural Snow Buildings did. I'm going to listen to the whole of the Ring cycle in one sitting in a month or so. So yeah - other suggestions please. Nothing south of 2 hours, and preferably more like 6+. I've done Feldman, Oliveros and a few operas in the past - so opera/ classical/ New York school art-music is pretty much covered. Unless any of you can get me something from Hermann Nitsch (and I'd be very happy if you could).

Also, feel free to tell the story of how you listened to the Merzbox (herr Park).

I just youtube'd Hermann Nitsch those videos are not disturbing at all.

There's a good longer one on ubuweb. Well worth the watch if you've got 16 minutes.

The whole time I was watching that I was thinking what the audience were thinking. They must have been like WTF?

Eliane Radigue - Adnos I-III

What was the Fushitsusha like?

You could listen to one of those old rave/dnb/whatever tape packs all in one go

I'll give that Radigue a bash, if I can find it. But keep those suggestions coming, innit?

Fushitsusha was surprising - there's bits that don't sound far off Deep Purple or something, trad bluesy. There's also a sort-of Arabic bit early on part 3 - really, really good, but doesn't sound anything like Fushitsusha. I'd definitely recommend it, if you've got the time spare.

do you have a link to it?

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...postcount=1465

Peltor - no worries.

i only ever do this with les rallizes denudes. it hardly feels like 5-6 hours at all.

La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano?

±5hrs in 10 parts.

o rourkes "long night" even if the first cd is boring, the second is great

Haha how is the first cd boring but the second isn't? They sound exactly the same! I love Long Night.

Listen to merzbow's 13 japanese birds. He said in an interview that it's his "noise Messiaen tribute", whatever the fuck that means.

I've done Merzbow and La Monte Young, but thanks. Jim O'Rourke's only two CDs. Bit shorter than I'm looking for. But also thanks.

hmmmm this sounds like a good idea. I'm only like 4 or 5 CD's into the merzbox (Marfan Syndrome, Fission Dialogue, Exotic Apple, and Brain Ticket Death.)

Ash Navs Early years tape muck thing looks pretty long, if you have it. Im not sure what you should do whilst listening to it, but I should have bought that bloody thing when it was available.

What did you do whilst doing the Merzbow, Natural Snow Buildings, any of these other big things?

Read, mostly. With operas I tend to have the libretto to hand.

Have you already done the throbbing gristle?

I did Radiohead marathons when i was 13/14, which lasted a good 6 hours, and i used to play playstation whilst i did it. Tomb Raider, Gran Turismo... I learned many of my favourite albums playing those games. Glory Days

thank you