The title of this improvisation is inspired by a quote by Albert Dietrich on Robert Schumann: ”…he heard music continuously, sometimes it was of the most beautiful description, but often agonizingly hideous. Or you might say that it’s a musicians’ confused remedy for handling depression. It’s about the impossibility of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, and the difficulty of accepting help. This piece concerns itself with ideas of hollowness, loss, repetitiveness, outliving your purpose and the struggle of trying to find some kind of value in what you are. We begin without a preconceived idea of the music, and let the shapes we hear point us towards the next track of the album, somewhat analogous to following the thought process that leads the mind from a word towards the mental image of what the word means. This improvisation is a sort of play with musical signs and gestures. The end is a tip of the cap in two directions, both towards a well known jazz standard, and to a formal trait of Robert Schumann – the superfluous ending (more of that to come). It includes composed material, structured improvisation as well as free improvisation. Crossing the Kármán line (Max + impro)Īs the title suggests, referring to an imaginary line that separates Earth from Outer space, this opening track is concerned with boundaries. We are very grateful for the financial support by Sten K Johnsons Foundation and for their confidence in our project.ġ. For this album we have recorded 13 tracks, some written individually but often developed together, a few that are purely improvised pieces, and a couple containing both composed and freely improvised sections. The goal is simply to avoid falling into a category of music where one of us feels secure and the other has to make compromises. Not that we suppress any kind of influences by the one or the other, there is certainly a lot of both. Most venues expect performances which can be labeled as either jazz or classical, while the best label for our own aim might be closer to the opposite – neither/nor. There has, however, not been many opportunities to work together professionally since there certainly exists a dividing line between our genres in the industry. Because we are brothers, our musical developments have of course been affected by each others work, so we have never been completely detached from each others genres. doi: 10.5260/ project is an attempt at finding a common ground for our different musical capabilities and means of expression, one of us being an improvisational saxophonist, and the other a classical pianist. He currently teaches FEMA/ DHS public information officer and incident command courses to first responders and emergency management personnel across the country. He was part of a Type II federal incident management team deploying to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. In 2001, after the September 11 attacks, Farago became a firefighter. He briefly appeared on Seinfeld in the episode "The Parking Garage". He was also the host of the 1990-91 HBO comedy show Night Rap with guests including Timothy Leary, Ed Koch, G. He has hosted 35 infomercials seen in more than 70 countries around the world. He hosted more than 160 episodes.įarago has appeared as a spokesman for shows including the " GT Express" countertop grill the "True Sleeper" foam mattress topper, T-Fal cookware and The Bissell Big Green Clean machine among others. In 1985, he replaced Gene Rayburn as the host of the game show Break the Bank, having previously appeared as a celebrity guest three times during the show's first two weeks. Joe Farago is an American actor, former stuntman and television personality. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) JSTOR ( November 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies.
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