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[hidden witness]

http://www.afsc.org/about/hist/2002/cps.htm

Short article on COs during WWII that includes a mention and photo of Byberry.

HW

[kae]

There are a few photos in that jeffline photo collection of the COs.

check this out too (i exerpted it a while ago into an image for easier reading/set up):
http://www.geocities.com/byberrykae/0aisaidnoarticle.gif

[Ectoplasmic Terrier]

A lot of conscientious objectors were assigned to work in places like Byberry.  I have to wonder if the judges were thinking, "after a few months kicking it in Byberry, they'll beg for Italy!"
 :twisted:

[Janice]

Ectoplasmic Terrier!   Great name.  Anybody we know??!!

[tribaltink]

has any1 read REGENERATION by Pam Barker (i think) i read it for my Alevel English course.. its about CO's of WWI and how a doctor makes a break through by tlaking to the patients instead of sending them for shock therapy or lobotomies.. Recommened read..

[Ectoplasmic Terrier]

Ectoplasmic Terrier!   Great name.  Anybody we know??!!

"Ectoplasmic Terrier" comes from a piece of music by avant-garde composer Jackson Mac Low (now deceased) called "Thanks," which calls for any number of performers to produce any chosen vocal sounds, words, phrases, or sentences.  It is up to the performers to ad lib, or not, or fall silent, or pick up a new sound, phrase, etc.  Thus the performers find rhythm, patterns, and cadences via chance operations.  If I go much further, I'll start lecturing on music post-John Cage (who is to modern music what Einstein is to modern mathematics).  I don't know what the origin of the phrase "ectoplasmic terrier" is, but I always thought it was catchy.
So, among word strings such as "native economy buying bisexual lettuce reduction jarring," and "Chomskyan disapprobation necrology," two of the voices start sparring back and forth, "ectoplasmic terrier...King Kong...ectoplasmic terrier...King Kong...ectoplasmic terrier...."
At least that's the rendition of "Thanks" I'm familiar with, found here: http://www.experimentalintermedia.org/xi/110.shtml

[Sian]

I'm still no closer to understanding that...... I shall have to check out that link tomorrow! 8-[

[Ectoplasmic Terrier]

I'm still no closer to understanding that...... I shall have to check out that link tomorrow! 8-[

You wouldn't know it listening to NPR programming, but notated music evolved into incredibly rich and complex forms in the 20th century.  A few key concepts (and their catalysts): the twelve note method (Arnold Schoenberg),  microtonalities (Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison), chance operations (John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor), electronics (Edgard Varese, Otto Luening, Milton Babbitt).  
If you're interested, I'd start with those developments and composers.  The disadvantage so-called "avant-garde" music has is it's conceptual and cerebral above all.  Before you can feel it in your body, the music needs to go through an intellectual process.  That is, J.S. Bach wrote highly intellectual music, but you don't need to think about why he wrote what he wrote in order to enjoy it.  Here is a link to the most misunderstood musical composition of all time--John Cage's 4'33" --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%2733%22