Tapping the Wire Tapper

A Hawk from a Handsaw by Gary Lucas and Josef Van Wissem on The Wire Tapper 12 uses a variety of string instruments played at different rhythms to create a slightly frentic sound.  The song speeds up as it goes and the rhythms get more complex and jarring.  The sounds vary from high pitched twangs to lower strums.  The rhythms get skewed at different points in the song, but it never becomes completely off.  There is a kernal that keeps the song focused, a point that the top spins on most of the time, it wobbles and shifts but it spins back to center.   It is not a soothing song, but it still is coherent.  This falls right in line with the reference the title is making.  The title is from a scene in Hamlet when Hamlet is pretending to be crazy but shows Rosencranz and Guildenstern that is may not be as crazy as he seems.