Bang on a Can

Strawberry Fields Forever ends with a false fadeout - when the music returns its turned upside down - nothing is as it was - and toward the real end John Lennon says "I buried Paul." When the record came out people in America went crazy trying to find other clues that Paul McCartney was really dead. DJs played Beatles records backwards on the radio, and as a result some very strange music - and a lot of noise got broadcast. This piece is about that noise. - Michael Gordon