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1860-1865 era :: civil war 1886-1908 era :: third great awakening ... ziporyn, evan /aworks stats/ _trgun = "aworks" 1 post categorized "wolfe, julia" Girlfriend (1998). Julia Wolfe The previous LA driving snapshot described a scene of interior calm; this one instead generates car noise from inside the car... Driving through the streets of San Marino , with its lush, tailored mansions, California's Ear Unit ensemble via their Go CD played Julia Wolfe's Girlfriend . This is a 20-minute work, with various instrumental static drone lines on the bottom and on top the (very) oft repeated recorded sound of a car's squealing tires, with frequent interludes of cars and cymbols crashing. The second movement clangs to an apex, followed by a long, rancorous ending. This might be an Angeleno's worst nightmare of a work, but at some subconscious level, it could resonate. And it's not as brutal as you might think. Wolfe says that arranging Brian Eno's Music for Airports for Bang on a Can had a soothing effect on Girlfriends . Let's call it urban ambient. In an interview in Bomb Magazine , Wolfe said: Girlfriend was first commissioned by a group from Los Angeles, and the piece has a real L.A. attitude. I wasn't conscious of it until afterwards, but it's a piece with sample sounds and there are a lot of car skids and glass breaking. It's a real car culture out there. | |
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