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Speaking Music is a performance I did with a Hungarian jazz trio I met at the Hungarian open mic events at the culture house in Angylfold. We put together a show, the musicians improvising, and me performing my most musical poems.

Here I am with Laszi (sax) and Miki (drum).

We did four shows at the Godor Klub, then the bass player Vasari Bela dropped out and we replaced him with a trombone player.

I really liked Monika’s playing on the trombone. She brought great energy to that show - but she fell in love and, well - lost her head, and came to rehearsal without her trombone! That frustrated everybody to the point where we all just said: “To heck with it.”

That same day, Hungarian graphic artist and AGORA organiser - Sandor Gyorffy - phoned me and invited me to be an artist in residence at the Agora at Sziget Festival the following summer (2004). I figured that in the life journey….

THAT (Speaking Music) was then , and THIS (the visual art) was now, and started working on some new textile pieces.

In any case, I made a book of the poems I performed with them. It was the third book I made. This book did not have a stitched cover as I wanted to produce something that anybody could afford, and in that way, non-speakers of English could buy the book and follow along during my performances and take the book home to read the lyrics.

Speaking Music (cover)
Contents
1. Wake Up Time I’ve just recorded this one with Georgie Stojanov, a composition student at the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy, in Budapest, Hungary. He is working with it as a composition project for school. October 14, 2005
2. Tribute to Ani is also in ‘Givah’.
3. Easier Said
4. Charlie
5. Givah
6. Energy Synergy
7. Don’t Play Eyes
8. Reality Trap
9. Techno Toys Blues
10. Coffee Bar Boy
12. Apple Pie Guy
13. Recover the Dance
14. Hope
15. Speaking to the Muse

Bad Choices will be in the 2nd edition of Speaking Music

Press:
Budapest Sun