[silence] Henri Pousseur obituary

[Rod Stasick]

The film with and about him, "Hommage au Sauvage" is quite wonderful.

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On Jun 14, 2009, at 8:29 AM, John Whiting wrote:

> By now most of you will know of the death of Henri Pousseur on March  
> 6th but,
> unless you are a reader of the continental European press, it will  
> be way of
> blog or grapevine. None of the British or American newspapers even  
> mentioned it.
> When I emailed the Guardian obit editor three weeks later he asked  
> me if I’d
> write one. On June 11th it finally appeared:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/11/obituary-henri-pousseur
>
> A quarter century ago, after I had put together the tape for Henri's  
> “Tales and
> Songs from the Bible of Hell”, I wrote:
>
> “I felt throughout this entire procedure that I knew exactly what  
> Henri wanted.
> Only once did I telephone him for confirmation. He had sent me a  
> tape of
> electronic music for incorporation and because of the sounds it  
> contained I was
> uncertain whether it was heads-out or tails-out. He told me that it  
> was
> heads-out — end of conversation.
>
> ”Before the performance, there had been no time to send Henri the  
> tape in
> advance. When he had heard it through during the afternoon  
> rehearsal, he nodded
> and said, ‘Yes, that’s what I had in mind.’”
>
> When I began to write this obit, I had the same feeling, and so, in  
> a very real
> sense, it was written from dictation.
>
> John Whiting
> www.whitings-writings.com
>
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