Held every year since 1992, Phil Kline's seasonal piece encompasses anyone willing to show up at the starting point, carry a boombox and wander through the East Village as part of an informal blocklong parade that spreads music in its wake (and accommodates whatever reaction it may elicit along the way).
An expansive piece encompassing jazz, classical and avant-garde music, it was written as a protest against the dominance of short radio-friendly tunes.
"At the end of the day, guys like to dress up [like the] military," says Nigel Cabourn, the British outerwear guru whose archive of 4,000 pieces encompasses everything from early R.A.F.
(Holt, $25.) An elegant stylist, opinionated curmudgeon and, most famously, author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman," Fowles offers a retrospective collection of pieces encompassing travels in Greece (rapturous encomium) and Margaret Thatcher (vigorous castigation).
Its debates, essays, interviews, and summary pieces encompass a spectrum of media practices, including avant-garde, alternative, fringe, international, and mainstream.
The pieces encompass both communist and dissident works.
"There's no human that's a baddie or a villain in this piece, so Mars becomes the villain," said Tarney, whose job encompassed collecting or creating the sounds heard in the film.
This piece has many intricate pieces.
We really love this piece.
