JACK THE DOG: Missa Canibus

Jack The Dog

Missa Canibus

© 1999 $FISHBOTHW$ MUSIC

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Avant liturgical music for the metadenominational church of the mind.

tracks

1 Amibience - Bells - Organ Prelude
2 Kyrie
3 Gloria
4 First Reading
5 Verbum 1
6 Responsorial
7 Second Reading
8 Verbum 2
9 Alleluia
10 Gospel/Homily
11 Verbum 3
12 Credo
13 Sanctus
14 Osanna
15 Commemoration of the Dead
16 Pater Noster/Angus Dei
17 Communion Song
18 Closing - Amen

notes

Jack the Dog is a duo of experimental music founded in 1994 in Chicago by Carrie Biolo (percussion/composer) and Jeff Kowalkowski (piano/composer). They perform their own collaboratively composed music.

Jack the Dog performs in a variety of venues including concert halls, festivals, galleries, and clubs. They have toured Germany twice, in 1996 and 1998. Recently, they composed a work for composer Pauline Oliveros, which they performed in the New Millenium/New Music series at the Chicago Cultural Center. In 1998 they wrote Missa Canibus (Mass of the Dogs) which was performed at Links Hall in Chicago, and at the International Performance Art Festival in Cleveland.

Jack the Dog has also worked with artists from other disciplines, like Curious Theater Branch, and the Australian suspension artist Stelarc.

Notes on "Missa Canibus" by Jeff Kowalkowski...

In 1998, Jack the Dog was invited to take part in a festival at Link's Hall in Chicago in which artists from a variety of disciplines create new work on the same theme. This festival was called "The Sovereign's Festival" (Curated by Jenny Magnus), and we were supposed to confront the idea of "control over people and their lives. " Carrie and I talked it over for a few weeks and finally decided that writing a Mass together would be interesting, not only on the historical/musical level, but also because of our Catholic upbringing and how it effects our psyches. We both agreed that the atmosphere surrounding the ritual of a Catholic Mass (how the people act during the service, the general attitudes, feelings which come and go, the way time passes) would be interesting to try to recreate in performance and in a personal way.

Technically, we decided to use Cage inspired chance techniques in certain sections, and also good old "pass the score back and forth until it is finished" written music. The bells and organ music were all recorded in a church that stands next to the Dan Ryan Express Way in Chicago, thus the constant sound of trucks and traffic in the Ambience section which opens the disk. The organ music is four-hand/four-feet duets. The mystical potential of the thousand-plus year old original greek (Kyrie) and latin texts are poetic as they are and excellent to speak or sing, but we also wanted to deal with our overall theme of dogs by using English texts from biblical passages which mention dogs. The selection of these texts was done by Carrie.

In one sense it might be better described as a Requiem, or death mass, for the real dog Jack who died in 1997.

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