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''Let me begin by asking you a question.''


''"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 [[:Category:1988|1988]].


'''Five Part Dissonance''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1988]].
== Synopsis ==
 
Joe interviews Eric, the ESPer, and his doctor, Julian Barons.  Eric
fails Joe's ESP tests.  He and Barons make lame
excuses.<ref name=rare>originally aired in [[The Rare Recording]]</ref>
 
9: Joe gives a nonsense history of communications, discussing smoke
signals, heliographs, semaphore signals, speaking tubes.<ref name=rare />


== Synopsis ==
15: A guy ([[Paul Mantell]]?) talks to a woman ([[Avery Hart]]?)
about his search for death - at a party?  2 other guys ([[Arthur Miller]]
and [[Eric Sears]]?) enter the discussion.  They talk about
shaving and what one sees when one looks in the mirror.<ref name=rare />
 
17:  Drum solo, clapping.<ref>'Skin deep', Duke Ellington</ref>
 
17:40: A guy protests that he can't do it to a woman; he
groans.<ref name=rare />
 
19:30: Guy talks with other about having trouble falling asleep.  They
talk about the difficulty of knowing whether you're asleep.<ref name=rare />
 
20:20: Guy makes waking-up noises.
 
21: 3 guys (Arthur Miller, Eric Sears, Paul Mantell?) talk
about nothingness; another tells us about being in his grave.
<ref name=rare /><ref>later used in [[Great Lives]]</ref>
 
22:30: The sounds of someone distressed - in a hospital?
 
23:20: Joe's in an elevator with a beautiful woman; he fails to work
up the nerve to talk to her. 'Hard work' plays in the background.  Joe
says this happens to him almost daily.<ref>originally aired in [[Laughing Back - A Movie For Radio]]</ref><ref>Joe tells a similar story in
[[Obsessions]].</ref>
 
27: The sounds of someone distressed - in a hospital?
 
27:40: 3 guys (Arthur Miller, Eric Sears, Paul Mantell?) in
philosophical discussion about what's what, where they are, how they
get there.<ref name=rare />
 
29:00: Musical interlude<ref name=ravinia>'Ravinia/Vancouver' - Jon Hassell</ref>
 
29:40: Joe, in front of a live audience, with a band, tells us about
his favorite TV show, a detective show.  He meets the actor who plays
him at the Hero Lounge.  The actor moves in with Joe, tries to arrest
him when he finds heroin in Joe's steamer trunk, chases Joe in a
manner like the actor's show.  Joe fights him off.<ref>originally aired in [[Joe Frank In Concert]]</ref>
 
41:50: Joe, still live, talks of Dostoyevsky, Camus, philosophy of
values, Nietzsche, Freud.  Nietzsche was arrested as an accessory to
the murder of god.  Joe says the future determines the past, not
vice-versa.<ref>originally aired in [[The Death Of Trotsky]]</ref>
 
45:50: Musical interlude<ref name=ravinia />
 
46:20: Guy, walking to delicatessen, is abducted by aliens,
taken to another planet, fed opium, sees game of mahjong played on
giant board.
 
49:50: Joe tells of the talking drum of Yoruba, west Africa.
 
50:20: A guy tells of having to find the Hotel de Paris; it
sounds like a dream.  Another fellow simultaneously talks about not
being able to find his way.<ref name=rare />
 
51:30: Musical interlude.
 
52:10: Distorted voice - an elevator operator? - calls out the
floor numbers, but also other destinations, including the Hero Lounge,
Einstein, makes small talk.
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;">
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*A panel discussion about esp: learning esp, picking up on thoughts, an esp demonstration, psychodynamic juggling.
*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.   
*Communication throughout history, smoke signals, heliography, semaphore, alpine horns, speaking tubes.   
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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>
*nihilism, immortality in the past, discordant stuff.   
*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.   
*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.   
*The talking drum.   
*Looking for a hotel where one had been as a child.   
*Looking for a hotel where one had been as a child.   
*Gravely distorted voice of an elevator operator.  
*Gravely distorted voice of an elevator operator.  
</div></div>
== Music ==
* Unknown chamber music <!-- need to identify intro music -->
{{Ravinia / Vancouver (Jon Hassell)}} [15:30]
{{Skin Deep (Duke Ellington)}} [17:45]
{{Hard Work (John Handy)}} [24:20] <!-- need to identify music at ~31m (from JF In Concert so may be novel) --> <!-- need to identify layered jazz piece near end -->


== Shared Material ==
* [[Great Lives]]
* [[The Death Of Trotsky]]
* [[Joe Frank In Concert]]
* [[The Rare Recording]]
* [[Five Part Dissonance (Remix)]]
* [[Laughing Back - A Movie For Radio]]


== Interesting Facts ==
== Additional credits ==
Shares some material with [[Great Lives]], [[Death of Trotsky, The|The Death of Trotsky]], [[Joe Frank In Concert]] and [[Rare Recording, The]].
The original broadcast credits state: "With [[Eric Sears]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[Avery Hart]], [[Paul Mantell]], [[F. Murray Abraham]], [[Annalee Jefferies]], and Joe Frank. The musicians in the live concert segment were Jesse Boggs, [[Larry Massett]], [[Henry Dennis]], and Van Williamson."


== Commentary ==
== Commentary ==
{{commentary}}
I think 'Five part dissonance (remix)' is just another name for this
 
episode.  The words are identical; I think the music is, too.[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 12:35, 13 August 2023 (PDT)
 
== External Links ==


== Footnotes ==


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Latest revision as of 07:52, 14 August 2023

Five Part Dissonance[1]
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, 56 minutes
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

Joe interviews Eric, the ESPer, and his doctor, Julian Barons. Eric fails Joe's ESP tests. He and Barons make lame excuses.[1]

9: Joe gives a nonsense history of communications, discussing smoke signals, heliographs, semaphore signals, speaking tubes.[1]

15: A guy (Paul Mantell?) talks to a woman (Avery Hart?) about his search for death - at a party? 2 other guys (Arthur Miller and Eric Sears?) enter the discussion. They talk about shaving and what one sees when one looks in the mirror.[1]

17: Drum solo, clapping.[2]

17:40: A guy protests that he can't do it to a woman; he groans.[1]

19:30: Guy talks with other about having trouble falling asleep. They talk about the difficulty of knowing whether you're asleep.[1]

20:20: Guy makes waking-up noises.

21: 3 guys (Arthur Miller, Eric Sears, Paul Mantell?) talk about nothingness; another tells us about being in his grave. [1][3]

22:30: The sounds of someone distressed - in a hospital?

23:20: Joe's in an elevator with a beautiful woman; he fails to work up the nerve to talk to her. 'Hard work' plays in the background. Joe says this happens to him almost daily.[4][5]

27: The sounds of someone distressed - in a hospital?

27:40: 3 guys (Arthur Miller, Eric Sears, Paul Mantell?) in philosophical discussion about what's what, where they are, how they get there.[1]

29:00: Musical interlude[6]

29:40: Joe, in front of a live audience, with a band, tells us about his favorite TV show, a detective show. He meets the actor who plays him at the Hero Lounge. The actor moves in with Joe, tries to arrest him when he finds heroin in Joe's steamer trunk, chases Joe in a manner like the actor's show. Joe fights him off.[7]

41:50: Joe, still live, talks of Dostoyevsky, Camus, philosophy of values, Nietzsche, Freud. Nietzsche was arrested as an accessory to the murder of god. Joe says the future determines the past, not vice-versa.[8]

45:50: Musical interlude[6]

46:20: Guy, walking to delicatessen, is abducted by aliens, taken to another planet, fed opium, sees game of mahjong played on giant board.

49:50: Joe tells of the talking drum of Yoruba, west Africa.

50:20: A guy tells of having to find the Hotel de Paris; it sounds like a dream. Another fellow simultaneously talks about not being able to find his way.[1]

51:30: Musical interlude.

52:10: Distorted voice - an elevator operator? - calls out the floor numbers, but also other destinations, including the Hero Lounge, Einstein, makes small talk.

Legacy 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 [9]
  • 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

  • Unknown chamber music

Shared Material

Additional credits

The original broadcast credits state: "With Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Avery Hart, Paul Mantell, F. Murray Abraham, Annalee Jefferies, and Joe Frank. The musicians in the live concert segment were Jesse Boggs, Larry Massett, Henry Dennis, and Van Williamson."

Commentary

I think 'Five part dissonance (remix)' is just another name for this episode. The words are identical; I think the music is, too.Arthur Peabody (talk) 12:35, 13 August 2023 (PDT)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 originally aired in The Rare Recording
  2. ↑ 'Skin deep', Duke Ellington
  3. ↑ later used in Great Lives
  4. ↑ originally aired in Laughing Back - A Movie For Radio
  5. ↑ Joe tells a similar story in Obsessions.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 'Ravinia/Vancouver' - Jon Hassell
  7. ↑ originally aired in Joe Frank In Concert
  8. ↑ originally aired in The Death Of Trotsky
  9. ↑ From Joe Frank In Concert
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