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*Joe talks about seeing a beautiful woman in an elevator. | *Joe talks about seeing a beautiful woman in an elevator. | ||
*Life as here and there and this and that, trying to get there, freedom and slavery, looking in the mirror and shaving. | *Life as here and there and this and that, trying to get there, freedom and slavery, looking in the mirror and shaving. | ||
*Joe describes his favorite TV detective program against a live percussive background before an audience: seeing the actor on a talk show, neighbors are baffled by a nice guy who shoots strangers from his window, Joe is a nice guy except when driving, he seeks out the film star in order to attack him, befriends him, and becomes trapped in a television program | *Joe describes his favorite TV detective program against a live percussive background before an audience: seeing the actor on a talk show, neighbors are baffled by a nice guy who shoots strangers from his window, Joe is a nice guy except when driving, he seeks out the film star in order to attack him, befriends him, and becomes trapped in a television program <ref>From [[Joe Frank In Concert]]</ref> | ||
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*A man's shoelaces are tied together and he's abducted by aliens from a planet that plays mahjong and feed him opium. | *A man's shoelaces are tied together and he's abducted by aliens from a planet that plays mahjong and feed him opium. | ||
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Revision as of 07:50, 3 March 2021
| Series | |
|---|---|
| Work In Progress | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1988 | |
| Cast | |
| Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Avery Hart, Paul Mantell, F. Murray Abraham, Annalee Jefferies, Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Improv Actors, Sound Effects, Absurd Monologue, Live, 1 hour | |
| Preceded by: | Words |
| Followed by: | Emerald Isle |
Let me begin by asking you a question.
Five Part Dissonance is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1988.
Synopsis
- A panel discussion about esp: learning esp, picking up on thoughts, an esp demonstration, psychodynamic juggling.
- Communication throughout history, smoke signals, heliography, semaphore, alpine horns, speaking tubes.
- Traveling in search of death and shaving.
- Drum solo.
- Panicked man begs "don't make me do it" accompanied by a bizarre moaning soundtrack.
- Panel discussion: falling asleep while falling asleep.
- A man moans and strains while a woman giggles.
- Being buried alive.
- A woman moans.
- Joe talks about seeing a beautiful woman in an elevator.
- Life as here and there and this and that, trying to get there, freedom and slavery, looking in the mirror and shaving.
- Joe describes his favorite TV detective program against a live percussive background before an audience: seeing the actor on a talk show, neighbors are baffled by a nice guy who shoots strangers from his window, Joe is a nice guy except when driving, he seeks out the film star in order to attack him, befriends him, and becomes trapped in a television program [1]
- Nihilism, immortality in the past, discordant stuff.
- A man's shoelaces are tied together and he's abducted by aliens from a planet that plays mahjong and feed him opium.
- The talking drum.
- Looking for a hotel where one had been as a child.
- Gravely distorted voice of an elevator operator.
Music
This is an incomplete record of the music in this program. If you can add more information, please do.
- "Ravinia / Vancouver" - Jon Hassell (from The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound, 1987) | YouTube
- "Skin Deep" - Duke Ellington (from Ellington Uptown, 1951) | YouTube
- "Hard Work" - John Handy (from Hard Work, 1976) | YouTube
Commentary
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Footnotes
- ↑ From Joe Frank In Concert
