My Jandek Plague Journal: 6/13/20 The Song of Morgan

(instrumentals for piano) This is an 8 1/2 hour 9-CD set of hour-long piano improvisations, or at least I thought it was. Each hour-long track has distinct segments broken up by silence. You could think of them as movements, but there's no musical theme running through them, no connection other than being piano music. Listening to the whole thing in one day meant running it in the background as I did other things. So I was always listening and not listening, aware and trying to ignore it at the same time. The music became background static until one of the silences arose. Has this passed, is it over, only for a new chord to emerge. You can find parallels in that with both the pandemic and police brutality--the lulls are what drag us back to be shocked again by the constant sameness of the horror. If we don't relegate it to static, we can't live, but that static is the sound of thousands dying. -6/13/20. The Song of Morgan (one week earlier) (one week later)