Re: Please lets all sit together now and define what we do!

[Hedewa7@aol.com]

doug,

>Interesting.  I had always heard it attributed to Elvis Costello.  Now,
>based on your input, I did a little research, and found this:
>http://home.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm
>Seems like a lot of people are confused about it's origins ;)
indeed!
in fact, i heard frank zappa say this *waaaaaay* back in the 1970's;
he was quoting someone, but i don't know whom..... i vaguely remembered 
him 
mentioning either varése or slonimsky in the same breath.
i did see (-but-) on the net that someone attributed this to ernest 
hemingway, who mouthed it when asked what he thought of varése's piece, 
'ionisation'.
best,
dt / splattercell