Name: Daytime Viewing
Brand: Jacqueline Humbert / David Rosenboom

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

UW46LP

Colour

Black

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

40th Anniversary Edition - Newly Remastered from the Master Tapes, with an Additional Bonus LP of Instrumentals and the Previously Unreleased "Narration Theme." &nbsp;With 16 Page Booklet.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-03-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0769256797200

Total Cap

Black LPx2

Artist

Jacqueline Humbert / David Rosenboom

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Unseen Worlds

A record label releasing quality editions of unheralded and revolutionary, yet accessible, avant garde music.

Welcome to Unseen Worlds, a record label dedicated to bringing you the best in avant garde music. Our mission is to release high-quality editions of groundbreaking and innovative music that may have gone unnoticed by mainstream audiences. We believe that experimental music should be both challenging and accessible, pushing boundaries while still being enjoyable to listen to.

At Unseen Worlds, we are passionate about discovering hidden gems and showcasing the work of talented artists who are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in music. From electronic compositions to contemporary classical pieces, our catalog spans a wide range of genres within the avant garde realm. We carefully curate each release to ensure that it meets our high standards for artistic excellence and innovation.

Daytime Viewing (1979-80) is an extended narrative song, based on a casual analysis of daytime television drama and the audience phenomena such programming addresses. The piece explores the use of fantasy as a survival mechanism against loneliness, illustrating the human compulsion to inflate the mundane to mythological proportions. A central female character weaves tales, using threads of personal experience and the idea of TV as friend, as mantra, and as transformational window between imagined spectacle and the pedestrian plane.&nbsp;

Originally released as a private cassette edition [recorded, 1982; Chez Hum-Boom release, 1983] documenting the collaborative performance piece of the same name by Jacqueline Humbert g David Rosenboom. This heady, thoroughly enjoyable work was first made available on CD and LP in 2013 by Unseen Worlds. Jacqueline Humbert (aka J. Jasmine) is a songwriter of brains and wit on&nbsp;par with Robert Ashley, with whom she's worked extensively. David Rosenboom's complex, harmonic electronic arrangements are accentuated brilliantly by percussion from William Winant. Daytime Viewing can happily be added to a small but significant group of work that, through lesser-known paths, engaged in an equally revelatory reexamination of the Great American Songbook as Minimalism did with 20th Century composition.

Daytime Viewing

Music GB