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Last Updated: Jan 16th, 2010 - 15:26:11 |
—Melody Sumner Carnahan’s cryptic, enigmatic fiction has found form for thirteen years in collaborations with composers and musicians. When The Time Is Now was first published by Burning Books, Carnahan gave the book to friends asking them to put the words to music using any story they liked. The works on the audio CD accompanying this third edition were created from 1983 to 1996.
—"Nineteenth-century composers had Goethe and Heinrich Heine and Maurice Maeterlinck to set to music. Today we have Santa Fe writer Melody Sumner Carnahan, whose enigmatic texts have formed the basis for more pieces of music I know than any other recent writer can claim. It's easy to hear what makes her writing so attractive to composers. Her short, commanding sentences leap off from each other at arresting right angles. This is manna for musicians. . . .Sumner Carnahan writes the most musical prose since Gertrude Stein."— Kyle Gann, The Village Voice, February 16, 1999
Link to The Time is Now on CD Baby
Link to The Time is Now on Small Press Distribution
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