Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom / 1979-1980 - Daytime Viewing (2LP)Daytime Viewing (1979 80) is an extended narrative song, based on a casual analysis of daytime television drama and the audience phenomena such programming addresses. The piece explores the use of fantasy as a survival mechanism against loneliness, illustrating the human compulsion to inflate the mundane to mythological proportions. A central female character weaves tales, using threads of personal experience and the idea of TV as friend, as mantra,