Mira Corpora by Jeff Jackson
By Jeff Jackson
"Style is pre-eminent in Jeff Jackson's eerie and enigmatic debut. The prose works just like the expressionless mask worn by means of killers in horror films."
-Wall highway Journal
"A gutter punk Catcher within the Rye."
-Shelf Awareness
"What’s so much compelling—and terrifying... is the originality and execution. [Mira Corpora] has a truly cinematic caliber to it, just like the dreamscapes of a Lynch, or, greater, a wierd, filmic mash-up of Lord of the Flies, Demian, and House of Leaves, as directed via concord Korine."
-Impose
"[A] captivating debut, which reads like a few move among Bruno Schulz and the backstories of random characters from Penelope Spheeris’ 1984 movie Suburbia. It’s the overarching sensibility that still places Mira Corpora in a distinct crew of books that may merely be dubbed Punk Lit. "
-Flavorwire
"It's effective paintings in its manic pacing and its summoning of yes cultural trademarks. current annoying with a vengeance. i am hoping the e-book reveals the intense readers who're available in the market anticipating this sort of fiction to hit them within the face."
—Don DeLillo
"Jeff Jackson is likely one of the so much terribly proficient younger writers I've learn in a long time. His unusually serene but gripping, unsettling, and wonderfully rendered novel Mira Corpora has inside all of it the earmarks of a massive new literary voice."
—Dennis Cooper
"Jeff Jackson is a clean and startling voice in modern fiction—a hallucinatory realist whose prose has the feared power of rock and roll, and who writes with the reassurance of a born storyteller."
—David Gates
Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright Jeff Jackson, an encouraged, dreamlike experience by way of a particular new talent.
Literary and artistic, but additionally fast moving and gripping, Mira Corpora charts the adventure of a tender runaway. A coming-of-age tale for those that hate coming-of-age tales, that includes a colony of outcast youngsters, teenage oracles, enjoyment parks haunted through gibbons, mysterious cassette tapes, and a reclusive underground rockstar.
With astonishing precision, Jackson weaves a relocating story of discovery and self-preservation throughout a startling, vivid landscape.
Jeff Jackson holds an MFA from NYU and is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Virginia heart for the artistic Arts. 5 of his performs were produced by way of the Obie Award–winning Collapsable Giraffe company.
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Ernesto De Curtis Moderately slow = 88 5 4 5 1 3 1 3 4 3 2 T R A C K 3 5 3 3 1 5 4 2 5 3 3 3 2 4 2 2 3 1 4 2 4 4 1 2 1 3 2 1 1 5 2 1 1 2 1 3 3 3 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 3 5 3 2 1 1 4 2 4 3 3 2 rit. 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 3 4 4 3 3 4 2 33 34 Part I: Waking Up Your Fingers Chapter 3 Music for Five Fingers In This Chapter ▶ Developing stronger articulation skills ▶ Exercising with five-finger scales ▶ Exercising hands-together ▶ Playing your own Paganini variation I n this chapter you exercise all the fingers together on each hand, first separately and then together.
You can exaggerate this at first, so you can hear both notes sounding at the same time; then minimize the overlap to the point where you’re satisfied with a smooth legato transition from one note to the next. Listen to the overall phrase, and make slight changes in loudness within the phrase to give it a nice shape. Legato exercise for the right hand 5 T R A C K 4 5 4 1 3 5 2 3 1 1 2 4 4 2 3 3 1 3 2 3 1 6 4 1 3 5 5 4 1 3 5 4 3 1 4 2 3 5 1 3 2 3 5 4 1 2 5 3 1 1 5 2 2 4 5 4 3 Legato exercise for the left hand T R A C K 7 5 4 5 1 1 5 3 1 4 5 1 2 3 2 5 1 5 3 1 1 2 1 3 5 3 2 1 2 1 1 4 2 3 3 3 1 4 5 5 5 2 1 1 4 3 2 1 5 5 4 1 3 4 2 1 3 2 Chapter 3: Music for Five Fingers Short Articulation: Playing Staccato Your goal here is to make every staccato eighth note the same length, and that length should be short!
4. Repeat several times. Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Practice Figure 1-16: Raise your wrists with your fingertips on the fallboard. Hands on the fallboard: Rotation in and out, movement up and down the keyboard The next exercise gives you an example of how small forearm rotation should feel. You use this motion when playing broken-chord figures like the Alberti bass pattern in Chapter 11. To do a rotation exercise, follow these steps: 1. Start with your hands in playing position, fingertips on the wood, wrists fairly high (see Figure 1-17).