On Jeff Noon’s “Needle in the Groove”

Might be a remix / rehashed sentences put in a new order / order is something that’s questioned / or during interrogation these questions fall apart / These slashes are musical measures / denoting a the rhythm and sep / arating lines to create a time/

Location is key at the outset / a club and a place to stay / perhaps a code at the door

--I’m not welcome

--because you’re different

--I thought I was cool enough

--You’re not cool enough

--I make music

--You make muzak.

Identifying the music through text / not easy to do / outside of sheet music / but this store identifies the / rhythm snare bass / but also the un-notated feeling of song / what comes out when that’s not signaled by / half-note quarter note forte mestizzo / Alto Forte bang the fucking drums

Remix the remix in words / an interesting experiment/

Shake the music sphere / like the earth with all its different sounds / spinning and turning and shaking us all up / like a musical globe/



And on a less playful note. It might be important to know that this story was released along with a spoken word album of the same name. The story is a musical experiment, as well as a literary experiment, though it is interesting to note that the musical experiment is literary and the literary experiment is musical.