This is our poster and tshirt design.
It looks much more thrilling in print the gradients and the colors. T-shirts
are $12.
The more info mentioned re this concert is found in abundance at this site!
If you want to address any sheep all the email addresses are found
below
Here's a poster for an adjunct event happening 1 week before the main event
And this is Sheep Page Eins (1) where it all began
Subject:
**sheep this.is.it!
Date:
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:28:15 -0400
From:
mtenzer@unixg.ubc.ca (Michael Tenzer)
To:
jason.freeman@yale.edu
Hi again all,
>From back here in Vancouver, I just wanted to say thanks again to all
forces on the ground at Yale who helped pull the weekend off. I had a great
time seeing everyone and being on my old turf.
Once a force for community like Sheep has been created, its sustaining
power is something to be reckoned with.
Anyway, I hope this email forum will remain for the next while in case
there is a discursive coda to this whole thing.
Michael
School of Music
University of British Columbia
6361 Memorial Road
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2
Canada
Office: (604) 822-3405
Fax: (604) 822-4884
Home: (604) 221-0052
Subject:
**Sheep
Date:
14 Apr 1998 11:32:12 -0400
From:
"Martin Bresnick" <martin.bresnick@yale.edu>
To:
"Jason Freeman" <jason.freeman@yale.edu>
4/14/98 11:38 AM
**Sheep
Deeply moooved old friends, new friends, thanks to all...
Stay in touch,
Peas and Luv,
The Lost Traveller
Subject:
heap of **sheep thanks
Date:
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:09:56 -0400
From:
JONATHAN EUGENE ELMER <jee7@cornell.edu>
To:
jason.freeman@yale.edu
I want to echo thanks and praise for a really good time.
The Ursonate was a high point for our clan. Nathaniel has been "gnimm
bnimming" ever since. Of course this is not surprising since Dada is the
natural state of humans aged three to six. I guess that Dada is largely
about recapturing and celebrating the kind of clarity and directness about
the mysterious universe that young people aren't afraid of expressing? Not
much clarity and directness in that last sentence I'm afraid!! Lydia
preferred Sheep Music and has recounted to her daycare a garbled version of
YES NO yelling and people bumping into one another, all of which leaves the
daycare ladies rather bemused. Anyway, I retail this to say that Sheeps
has entered the consciousness of an even further future generation and
about this I am delighted.
I know everyone has returned to their charged and charging forth lives but
I would love an account of what I missed from any and all who can spare a
few e-mail minutes, and it doesn't have to be a general **sheep bulletin
either. We made a getaway during the "rockin'" portion of the program.
What happened with the pine cones, Caveh's and Supermarky's films,
Retrodophidity, IN C??
Not to be too much of a boola boola booster but this concert did remind me
of what a great place Yale is to be an undergraduate, so intense, so
insular. It is not the baggy diffused kind of big state school campus
where people are coming at their schooling from all manner of personal
positions, old, young, part time, scraping by, frat house centered and so
on. I noted that as this one self-selected group of Yalies is honking and
baying in the Silliman Common Room, other Yalies pass by and have to take
it seriously. They look in and wonder because whatever it is, it has the
credibility given it by the powerful sense of community. These are my peers
doing this. The problems of being an elite are not to be ignored but there
is no doubt it does make for a binding sense of community. I recall the
Soho Sheeps excursion and it just didn't have the focus or intensity of a
Silliman, on campus local communal happening.
Enjoy it for what it is,
Alexandra
Subject:
Re: heap of **sheep thanks
Date:
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:12:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:
John Halle <john.halle@yale.edu>
To:
jason.freeman@yale.edu
Same here from the number one sheep wannabe (OK--wmaybe Martin is no 1).
I can't thank all of you enough for putting on an great show. It was one
high point after another for me.
Every performance of Pierrot Lunaire should from now on be required to be
followed by something by Supermarky. The piece makes no sense otherwise.
And I will now assign an anaylsis the ursonate for my 19th styles and
techniques class.
I was wide awake for the whole thing and luvved every minute.
This will really be a tough act to follow, I can tell you.
John Halle
Assistant Professor of Music
Yale University
CSMT: 203-432-4164, 432-2531
Dept of Music: 203-432-2985
Home: 203-785-9258
Subject:
Sheep in mourning
Date:
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:57:09 -0400
From:
"McLarty, Scott T." <smclarty@ereyarmouth.com>
To:
"'Maher, Chris'" <supermarky@loop.com>, "'Plonsey, Dan'" <plonsey@sunra.berkeley.edu>,
"'Abbate, Beth & Matt'" <matteo@aol.com>, "'Rycenga, Jennifer'" <rycenjen@email.sjsu.edu>,
"'Bresnick, Martin'" <martin.bresnick@yale.edu>, "'Ziporyn, Evan'" <ez@media.mit.edu>,
"'Lurie, Ray'" <rl92@pantheon.yale.edu>, "'Prillaman, Hunter'" <hprill@aol.com>, "'Kinsella, Dan'" <kinsella@sprint.ca>
I just read in today's NY Times that composer Ivan Tcherepnin, a professor
at Harvard, died of liver cancer, on Saturday. He was 55 years old. I
believe he attended the second all-night Sheep's Clothing concert in 1980.
Scott
Subject:
Re: heap of **sheep thanks
Date:
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:36:20 -0700
From:
plonsey@mars.berkeley.edu (Dan Plonsey)
To:
jason.freeman@yale.edu
> I want to echo thanks and praise for a really good time.
>
Me too! Thanks to Supermarky, Josh, Jason, John, Marka (sp?), Sarah, Evan,
Craig, Jim, Martin, and all others involved in concert and food preparations!
Thanks to all for your beautiful and inspired performance of "Sheep Music!"
("yes no" being the first 5 letters of the retrodophidity of my last name).
> What happened with the pine cones, Caveh's and Supermarky's films,
> Retrodophidity, IN C??
The pine cones were fun. Lots of the audience got involved.
As far as I know, no films ever ran - there were problems with
sound on the first one. Supermarky was feeling very un-well and had to
leave early, so a number of pieces - the Cage theatre piece,
"Aus dem Sieben Tagen," and "Supermarky's oral histories" -
also were cancelled, so the concert ended with "In C" sometime
between 5 and 6 AM.
I hope to have more opportunities to collaborate on musical events with
some or all of you! My main complaint about this event is that it was
too short!
Vote McLarty!!!
Dan
Subject:
post***sheep***post
Date:
Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:29:26 -0800
From:
Supermarky de Sage <supermarky@loop.com>
Organization:
SDSU, Inc.
To:
jason.freeman@yale.edu
John Halle! You're insane compliment makes me blush whenever I think of
it, which is often! How much better than the fake reviews I made up for
myself by the likes of Andrew Porter, John Rockwell and Phillip Glass!
Aw, shucks!
They also make me feel really bad about the terrible job I did
introducing my own piece. I should have also done a quick translation of
the text of it, which I've since been asked for so here it is:
Allgebrah, you are pleasure!
Allgebrah, you are hate!
I tried to get away from you
To sink into the keg!
I tried to embrace you
To find my rest,
So you shoudln't swing me
Towards the Swiss Alps!
Allgebrah, you are love!
Allgebrah, you are luck!
You offer spanking
To those who are crazy to you!
When your children babble
Over the fireplace,
Don't make so many snowballs,
And take it easy!
Allgebrah, you are music!
Allgebrah, you are God!
And today, it's rather "lusic",
So don't make fun
When all the dogs are running
Into the deep of the night!
Don't you feel the burning?
In the grave rests Hein.
------
There are three other verses I tried to set for the concert but...there
was no way we could do them. I was not ready and there was no rehersal
time.
*Then* I would have probably gone on to explain that this piece was an
"intimate finale" to a long piece for five groups of musicians that I
did for my Scholars of the House Program thesis, and, talk about
masterpieces (I got "Alvin Lucier's Kiss" and "David Lewin's Kiss" (for
those who understand this reference to Kevin Kopelson) for it all!)! I'd
had ten dubs made to also sell at cost (I still havent' figured out how
much that would be, probably $5 or so) at the concert in the interest of
dissemination of my work and I totally neglected to let a single soul
know that they were available!
Other regrets:
I'm really sorry I had to leave, once to eat (as I have to do every four
hours!) and then finally really prematurely cause I was falling apart.
I'd had a little dosing mishap with one of my medications. Thank god it
happened that day and not the day before or any earlier. I was "sick"
for several days as a result and after that I was really sick in the
aftermath of that mistake I'll never make again. I felt bad about not
hearing much in the way of undergrads' pieces. Especially one guy's who
had even endured our set of obnoxious German cabaret songs and "Dead
jokes" on the fourth. Also while it seemed I was absent from the concert
pretty much entirely, I was actually in the back room listening intently
as I tried to manufacture t-shirts with a pretty dismal success rate;
still I felt like a jerk for not being evidently there, but I was,
psychoacoustically, very present.
More t-shirt regrets: I didn't warn you to wash them only in cold water
forever, and at first by themselves a couple of times in a machine. I've
never had one stain another piece of clothing in the washing machine,
but they will stain themselves, the transfers will run, but only if
washed in warm water.
Also, I felt TERRIBLE that the few tshirts I did make were early run
ones meant for a different purpose, the "tide gear" which Jim actually
wore to great effect at the democracy teach in party performance on the
4th (I wore my infamous "cocksucker with aids" tank top, very tight, and
very tight white "International Male" stretch jeans). Those had a very
partial list of "guest stars". There are still many more left with the
same list as appeared on the poster (everyone who was on this mailing
list). They're still available for $10! I can send them first class in
an envelope so postage will be negligible and I can absorb that. So buy
with confidence and, to quote Dan Plonsey, buy often!
I was gone from hearth and home a total of three weeks, never got enough
sleep the whole time. Was somewhat rejuvenated by a performance of
Berlioz' Damnation of Faust this weekend by the Brooklyn Philharmonic
Jim took me to. I just got in yesterday and I'm really exhausted but
accepted a ticket to go hear Ligeti's requiem tonight anyway... What a
pilgrim!
Thanks to those who played for me. Thanks to those who were particularly
kind in one way or another will be sent privately...
I can hardly believe I'm trying to answer my mail already even.
Personally despite a lot of wasted efforts on my part in various
directions, and a good deal of frustration over one thing and another
and another, I'm very grateful that this event happened; for me, it was
like a gift. I basically hadn't sung in about 10 years and I had been
very frustrated by performing in general, really being forced to forsake
it by my own disappointment at my own performances and I dont' know how
else I would have finally gotten up before an audience to give it
another try. Dan and I have often spoken of my doing something at
Beanbenders' but I wasn't terribly motivated, now I can hardly wait!
So that's about it!
Off to bed for awhile...
much love,
Supermarky
Subject:
Re: **sheep names and e-mails
Date:
Mon, 27 Apr 98 09:50:40 -0400
From:
Tom Dickinson <tomd@mail2.nai.net>
To:
"Jason A Freeman" <jason.freeman@yale.edu>
musicalbridges@usa.net is Tom Dickinson, the lost, but someday to be
found, sheep.
Jason A Freeman 4/26/98 1:45 PM
>OK -- at the request of many, below is the list of all the members of this
>list. Unfortunately, I don't have names to match with the e-mail
>addresses; in most cases, it is pretty obvious whose address it is, and
>sorry about the few that are not.
>
>--Jason
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>
>musicalbridges@usa.net
>rycenjen@sparta.sjsu.edu
>martin.bresnick@yale.edu
>john.halle@yale.edu
>plonsey@sunra.berkeley.edu
>DUVOISIN@MED.CORNELL.EDU
>laurie@silvertone.princeton.edu
>kyle@well.com
>spalding@uclink4.berkeley.edu
>kathryn.alexander@yale.edu
>75201.2224@compuserve.com
>d_hicks@ix.netcom.com
>supermarky@loop.com
>BobBannister@compuserve.com
>smclarty@ereyarmouth.com
>WitthoftM@aol.com
>mtenzer@unixg.ubc.ca
>amorphet@indiana.edu
>scott1@acpub.duke.edu
>MichBass@aol.com
>ez@media.mit.edu
>joshua.penman@yale.edu
>modernpain@aol.com
>michael.bell@yale.edu
>cpepples@public.sta.net.cn
>brent.ohata@yale.edu
>david.gordon@yale.edu
>Matteo@aol.com
>gates@heck.com
>d-tolchinsky@nwu.edu
>david.heetderks@yale.edu
>adam.silverman@yale.edu
>phershenson@artlogic.com
>desantis@geocities.com
>ken.ueno@yale.edu
>roshanne.etezady@yale.edu
>jason.freeman@yale.edu
>
>
>
Tom Dickinson
New Haven, Connecticut
Subject:
from Lisa
Date:
Wed, 6 May 1998 09:53:33 -0400
From:
Robert Duvoisin <duvoisin@med.cornell.edu>
To:
musicalbridges@usa.net, rycenjen@sparta.sjsu.edu, martin.bresnick@yale.edu, john.halle@yale.edu,
plonsey@sunra.berkeley.edu, DUVOISIN@med.cornell.edu, laurie@silvertone.princeton.edu, kyle@well.com,
spalding@uclink4.berkeley.edu, kathryn.alexander@yale.edu, 75201.2224@compuserve.com, d_hicks@ix.netcom.com,
supermarky@loop.com, BobBannister@compuserve.com, smclarty@ereyarmouth.com, WitthoftM@aol.com,
mtenzer@unixg.ubc.ca, amorphet@indiana.edu, scott1@acpub.duke.edu, MichBass@aol.com, ez@media.mit.edu,
joshua.penman@yale.edu, modernpain@aol.com, michael.bell@yale.edu, cpepples@public.sta.net.cn, brent.ohata@yale.edu,
david.gordon@yale.edu, Matteo@aol.com, gates@heck.com, d-tolchinsky@nwu.edu, david.heetderks@yale.edu,
adam.silverman@yale.edu, phershenson@artlogic.com, desantis@geocities.com, ken.ueno@yale.edu,
roshanne.etezady@yale.edu, jason.freeman@yale.edu
Dear Sheep,
It was a pleasure and delight to see you all. I'm sorry that we didn't have
more time. In a way it was sort of a tease, I didn't get to talk to anybody
as much as I wanted. John, I'm so glad that you organized the dinner Friday
night, it was a wonderful evening. You did an incredible job as host of
this event.
Its hard to explain how significant this concert was for me. Although I'm
in New Haven often, this is the first reunion of any sort I've been to. In
a way it laid to rest some ghosts that have grown out of proportion over
the last 15 years. Also, because we were actually doing something together
and meeting new people it was more fun and relaxed than just sitting around
drinking and reminiscing.
And Martin, you should be proud of yourself. I don't want to embarrass you,
but I appreciate that you took the time 20 years ago to care about a bunch
of undergraduates and put the energy and enthusiasm into making sheep
happen. It's impressive that so many sheep came back for this concert, you
clearly touched many people as a teacher.
Gosh, and I'd forgotten how cool contemporary music is!
As far as musical highpoints, Supermarky is my hero. And I am forever in
his debt for correcting my minor third to a major third in Virgo. I was
always a better violinist than musician.
Another highpoint was Alexandra's beautiful green vest! (would you send me
your mailing address Alexandra?, thanks)
So, the reason I'm even able to write this message is that I finally got my
exhibition up. Painting the pictures is only half the work. But I am very,
very pleased. And I'm as close to 12 minutes of fame as I will ever get: my
fellow artist had a front page metro section NYT article with 4 photographs
two Saturday's ago. Its fascinating to see the cascade of events that
follows that kind of publicity. Thursday FOX news is coming, next Tuesday
its NPR. All for a bunch of bug sculptures!
I'm planning to go to Bang in a Can at the Knitting Factory, so I hope to
see at least some of you soon. Take care all.
Love, Lisa
