Atet, A.D

"[W]hat really carries the reader through the book is Mackey's linguistic transcription of musical exchanges. Rather than explain the musical interactions of band members during practice and performance, N. transposes them into verbal dialogue, a linguistic landscape wherein the fabric separating the abstract from the concrete is frayed in such a way that the one continually bleeds into the other. The letters also serve as an ethnographic map of the cross-cultural dialogues and layering of quotations often present within a single piece of music. Mackey's rampant alliteration and his reconfiguration of words on the phonemic and morphemic level create a sonic atmosphere that enacts a state of jazz."Mackey, Nathaniel is the author of 'Atet, A.D', published 2001 under ISBN 9780872863828 and ISBN 0872863824.