Milo Fine

“Scale Points on the Fever Curve”

Derek Bailey & Milo Fine

Available

1) Opening Gamut – 32:06
2) Extract Before – 4:34
3) Extract After – 5:36
4) Closing Gambit – 15:41

Digital concert recording – London (Flim Flam at Ryans)
by Tim Fletcher on March 26, 2003

Derek Bailey: guitar with pedal-controlled amplification
Milo Fine: B-flat and E-flat clarinets, electronic keyboard, drum set

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Venues
- West Bank School of Music
- Homewood Studios
Articles
- Conversations On Improvisation: Milo Fine
- A World in Two Cities: Milo Fine
Internet Commentary
Aesthetics
“The senilità in question refers neither to the pathology of aging nor to precocious decrepitude. Rather, it suggests a special sensibility (some people are indeed born old), or, better still, a special kind of inertia, the inertia of the dreamer, a modern version of acedia, or ironic ennui — devoid, however, of the metaphysical dimension Baudelaire gave to the term. Senilità, in Svevo’s perspective, accompanies the tragic sense of existence; it represents a permanent premonition of life as disaster, a deep skepticism concerning one’s own potential, a ceaseless meditation on vulnerability and death, a wisdom that can be put to no use, an awareness of the unavoidable loss of that which one never possessed, a suffering sharpened while consciousness views itself as both object and subject.”
- Victor Brombert Introduction to Italo Svevo’s novel, EMILIO’S CARNIVAL (aka SENILITÀ)