McLibel - two - iJigg.com

Posted by topologyrob more than a month day ago
Plays: 12128 Jiggs: 20
Description: The longest trial in English history, concluded in 1997, pitted a gardener and a postman against the world's largest fast-food business. Helen Morris and Dave Steel were part of a campaign accusing McDonald’s of a wide range of evils from exploiting children to harming animals. After hiring seven private eyes to infiltrate the group, the company decided to deal with the problem by taking advantage of Britain's libel laws, in which the burden of proof lies with the accused. When served libel writs in 1990, Dave Morris and Helen Steel (unlike anyone McDonald's had ever sued for libel before) decided to take them on. Thus began a David and Goliath story I found irresistible. So, from Franny Armstrong’s McLibel documentary, I took the voices of the chief participants - the two defendents, McDonald's UK President Paul Preston, British Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn - and made music out of them. Speech-generated melody has a long history, notably with Harry Partch and the operas of Janacek. Scott Johnson's 1986 album John Somebody took advantage of precise digital control to introduce the idea of melody, harmony and rhythm fully generated by speech. Steve Reich was quick to pick up on the potential of Johnson's technique, and has used it in the majority of his works since 1987. In McLibel, one aim is to extend this technique to create sustained melodies, using functional triadic harmony to support their direction. These are miniature voice portraits - each person has their own characteristic speech patterns, from Helen's rather shy intoning on a few notes, to Dave's emphatic leaping intervals, to Paul Preston's appropriately upbeat Eisenhower-era rock'n'roll intonation.
Album: My Music
Genre: Alternative
Language: English
Tags: politics prosody mcdonalds mclibel libel law topology

	I did not have sexual relations with that woman \| Rock
	I have a dream - MLK \| Funk
	White Australia Policy \| Rock
	Gough Whitlam - well may we say \| Pop
	Chamberlain declares war - tango \| Latin
	OutInOut \| Electronic
	Trio for strings \| Classical
	Tyalgum \| Classical
	Spin \| Electronic
	Lento for viola and piano \| Classical
	McLibel - one \| Alternative
	Music Circus 4 - Aubade \| Classical
	McLibel - two \| Alternative
	Arch \| Classical
	Whitegoods 3 \| Electronic
	Whitegoods 7 \| Alternative
	Whitegoods 6 \| Alternative
	Strata - one \| Classical
	Strata - two \| Classical
	Strata - three \| Classical
	Music Circus 1 \| Classical
	Music Circus 2 - A reconciliation with Brahms \| Classical
	Music Circus 3 - Mozart, Mahler, Those Russians \| Classical
	Music Circus 5 - Richard Wagner \| Classical
	Music Circus 6 - Leos Janacek \| Classical
	Music Circus 7 - Franz Xavier Mozart \| Classical
	General what about if the... (live) \| Latin
	99 for orchestra \| Classical
	Entrance \| Jazz
	String Quartet (1996) \| Classical
	Bouncy Bells \| Electronic
	Stradbroke forest \| Alternative
	Landscape for guitar and string quartet (2000) \| Classical
	Chaconne for orchestra (1994) \| Alternative
	Memory management (1996) \| Electronic
	John Brown \| Electronic
	Satisfy me \| Alternative
	3 grounds 3 (1993) \| Alternative
	Sweet Spring (2004) \| Classical
	next to of course God america \| Jazz
	Fog Dream \| Electronic
	Circle (Beerwah) for orchestra (1997) \| Classical
	Self portrait at six - 1. Hello \| Classical
	Self portrait at six - 2. Pottery \| Classical
	Self portrait at six - 3. Noises, Museum \| Classical
	Blockage \| Alternative
	Churchill's finest hour \| Alternative
	Buddy Holly with Alan Freed - that'll be the... \| Alternative
	Spiral 1 for viola and delay \| Classical