Notes of an Early Fall (1976)

Made in Binghamton in 1976 a warped record constructed out of visits to the zoo relatives and various locations Appearances by obsessive birds caged bears and hungry rams Certain shots are very evocative such as a long shot of a group of people sitting on a park bench one person playing a song on a recorder The sound of the music its fragility is matched by the distance of the shot lending a feeling of precariousness to the moment There is a repeated shot of a warped record playing with the same musical phrase endlessly repeated The shot is an interior one with the lighting casting a golden glow on the scene The warped repetitions begin to reverberate with suggestions of frustrations Daryl Chin The Soho Weekly News His first talkie NOTES OF AN EARLY FALL is a characteristically raw work that parlays even the sound of microphone rumble into a formal element