SongBook

Quoth Booklet page for The Books' It Never Changes to Stop: the sampled schoolteacher's monologue — 'Sit up straight and be quiet... absolutely still, every eye closed' — set as a poem John Cage score page: circled constellations of pitch letters joined by lines, floating over conventional staves beside an ornate clef A battered TDK D90 cassette labeled in red pen Balinese Gamelon, Ketjak Monkey Chant, side A