All around me I saw people enjoying themselves and having a great time while I was stuck with a guy who, upon opening a linen cabinet and finding it empty would play air guitar and sing the words Bare to the Bone, apparently a reference to that idiotic George Thorogood song. I wasn’t even allowed to enter the pool area, much less lounge by it whilst savoring a tropical cocktail.
Worse, a linen runner had no status, none whatsoever. They put me to work as a linen runner restocking cabinets with sheets and pillow cases and things and getting yelled at all day by scary chain smoking maids who kept asking me if I was an idiot or something. Unfortunately it wasn’t like that at all. It was 1989 and I had some vague idea that it would be like Dirty Dancing and I’d meet some hot older ladies, spend a lot of time around a pool drinking exotic cocktails, I don’t know what else, maybe learn to dance? My first summer out of high school I decided that I should get some life experience before starting college and so I decided to move to the Lake of the Ozarks and go to work at a resort called the Lodge of the Four Seasons. Best to listen to it while staring intently at the woodcut. Here’s the great recording from the original project some years back. Because of the sax solo and his aloofness in the syncopated part, the musicians thought that Amos was the Galactic Drifter but I promise I was thinking of no such thing. It’s my favorite part of the piece, although I like the lonely sax solo too.
Then there’s a section where the flute, clarinet and cello play syncopated rhythms together and the saxophone comes in out of sync with them. I wanted to bring this idea across with a bluesy pizzicato part in the cello but I’m not really a fan of traditional blues and I have this compulsion to make everything more complex than perhaps it needs to be so it’s a bluesy cello pizz part that incorporates multiple pitch sets. Based on his footwear he may also have a passion for dancing. I was tasked with setting several of Sanya’s works to music by Amos Gillespie for a project called Paintings Composed and they’ll be playing this one at the Thirsty Ears Festival in a couple of days.Īs I stared at the woodcut I pictured him dancing around space, teleporting to different worlds using the chronometer on his wrist and generally getting into mischief wherever he goes. Posts without flairs may be removed without warning.I was fascinated by this character the first time I saw this woodcut, the Galactic Drifter by Sanya Glisic. Posts and comments that fail to abide by the rules can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
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