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Jocks
Now available!
35 years in the making!
Full length CD and 60 page illustrated book!
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A fixed music opera in the fourth person for disintegrating tape and digital audio workstation
Text: David & Mark Mooney
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Back in 1971 my brother Mark and I recorded ourselves talking as we watched an American football game on TV. At the time, this was part of a writing project that was an effort to capture the whole of a scene, a perspective from all points simultaneously in which no sensory input is filtered out, much the way a tape recorder picks up all sounds indiscriminately.
Several iterations of Jocks were completed in the two decades following the initial recording session. Finally, an exploratory work composed in 1996, Jump and Dance, convinced me that the original medium, recorded sound, is the best way to work with this material.
Jocks: The music
- Jocks (entire work) 2004 - 2006
- Broadcast: art@radio, WMBC, Baltimore, February 28, 2007
| The Pregame Show: Five Is Going to Do It |
2004 6:00  |
| Kickoff: Adverse Conditions | 2006 1:00 |
| First Quarter: They're All a Bunch of Jocks |
2005 10:00 |
| Commercial Break: Shoo Fly |
2005 1:00 |
| Second Quarter: The Third Team | 2005 6:00 |
| Commercial Break: Pro Rata Guarantee | 2005 3:00 |
| Half Time Intermission: T. Watkins |
2005 8:00 |
| Commercial Break: There's That Fly Again |
2005 2:00 |
| Third Quarter: Flags and Whistles | 2005 12:00 |
| Commercial Break: They're Having an Ambush Here | 2005 3:00 |
| Fourth Quarter: Time Is a Factor |
2006 6:00 |
| Post Game Show: The Fourth Person | 2006 6:00 |
| Post Game Analysis: Jump and Dance | 1996 3:57 |
Jocks: The Book
For those who wish to penetrate deeper into the foggy intellibility of Jocks the 60 page book contains the "lyrics" and is illustrated with images extracted from the 1972 drawn version.
Dedication
Jocks is dedicated to my brother, Mark, for his willingness to participate in the original recording session and for his patience, forbearance, and love during my 35 year obsession with this material.
All works available for listening are in Mp3 format, coded with .m3u files for streaming. This method assumes that you have some sort of audio player associated with your browser.
The Mp3 files accessible from this page are protected by copyright. If you want to use them as they are please contact me. However, if you want to sample from these works and mutate, permute and mutilate bits and scraps for your own creative purposes, I encourage you to do so. In the end, it's all one big project.
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"Opaque melodies that would bug most people."
Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet |