Author: Hari Kunzru
Year: 2014
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"I only got here a couple of weeks ago. Nothing but a stranger in this world. Every time I exit the subway I have to make a 360-degree turn to work out which way is downtown. I need a guide. Foodies have the Zagat, swingers have Adult Friend Finder. I choose . . . Moondog."
Internationally acclaimed novelist Hari Kunzru loses himself in the sounds of the New York streets, where the blind musician and composer Moondog aka Louis Hardin spent much of his life playing music on 6th Avenue. As Kunzru's first impressions of the city blend with Moondog's "snaketime" rhythms, it is from Moondog that Kunzru learns to listen to the sounds of his environment as a way of understanding the city. In "Twice Upon a Time" we see New York through the eyes and ears of the author of Gods Without Men in a prose poem celebrating New York, and the extraordinary music of Moondog, which is included here, with a binaural sound track.
"The next day I take an mp3 player and I make the journey again, accompanied by Moondog's early music, recordings from the forties and fifties . . . Sounds leak in and out the iPod's ear buds, layering modern 6th Avenue onto city noise of sixty years ago. Archaeology."
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