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The Book of Numbers & Spells [Charlie Morrow]
The Book of Numbers & Spells [Charlie Morrow]
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[Recital] [Art Book] [American Magus]
Charlie Morrow
The Book of Numbers and Spells
Recital, USA, 2019. First Edition. #82/100.
From the publisher
"The Book of Numbers and Spells is multi-hatted composer and inventor Charlie Morrow's first book. Number and letter games bejewel the pages of this anthology (pulling pieces and writings from 1974 to 2019). These works are largely text scores. It wasn't until I saw Charlie perform 'Ten the Long Way' with a room full of participants that the performative power became clear to me. Chanting numbers: the meditative, transparent, and unifying joy that swept across the room was beautiful. Charlie, a born networker of people and ideas, has naturally included two close friends in the book. Jerome Rothenberg provides a poetic essay, 'A Gematria Sampler', along with a compelling article written by composer Tom Johnson. These supplements embolden the scope and richness of Morrow's transparent systems."
Fascinating,incantatory stuff from Morrow in his literary debut. His poetics resemble the work of Ronald Johnson, but with a musical and spiritual underpinning glowing just beneath the surface. Gematria flows into theory flows into graphic scores.
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