The classical composer Lou Harrison has written a number of pieces based on,
or containing, gamelan. You can usually recognize them by their titles
(containing the word "gamelan"). Those that I have heard are well worth
seeking out and compare favorably to "authentic" gamelan, at least to these
Western ears.
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When i'm down, i listen to Tom Waits because I just like to wallow in my own
greif.
In a message dated 3/3/02 7:06:36 PM, zsteiner@butler.edu writes:
<< What are some albums/songs that make people feel better when they break
up or are just feeling down?
Thanks
Zach >>
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what a great album to stay up all night and talk and kiss and make up dreams about the future the two of you will share when you get older... simply transporting...
another:
if you're feeling sinister - belle and sebastian.
i can pinpoint very brilliantly happy times to this album... maybe that's why i don't listen to it so much anymore.
In a message dated 3/4/2002 1:32:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
proussel@ichips.intel.com writes:
> DOWNBEAT
>
> The Blue Nile: "A Walk Across the Rooftops"
>
Well, I don't know about this one...Ever since I first heard it when it first
came out (and I still own it) I always found this album to be beautifully
stark.
Dale.
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Well, I don't know about this one...Ever since I first heard it when it first came out (and I still own it) I always found this album to be beautifully stark.<BR>
In a message dated Mon, 4 Mar 2002 9:15:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Steve Smith" <ssmith36@sprynet.com> writes:
> I momentarily wanted to slit my wrists when I recently learned that Hollis
> has "retired from music." Thankfully, I realized that I'll always have the
> last two Talk Talk discs and the solo album. (In general, I prefer 'Spirit
> of Eden' to 'Laughing Stock,' though.)
Hey Steve- I suppose you've picked up the two post-TT 'O'Rang albums, featuring bassist Webb and drummer Harris. They're sort of a ambient/tribal extension of TT's _SoE_ and _LS_, for lack of a better description. They're well worth the search for anyone into late-era TT, in any case. I think they were re-issued Stateside on some indie label (Big Hit???)
I guess in a more jazzy mode, Miles' _Kind of Blue_ would definitely qualify, 'least under my guidelines...
In a message dated 3/5/2002 2:57:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
crumpdesigns@yahoo.com writes:
> One amazing side-by-side comparison is Zappa's Hot
> Rats (him again?!). I have an old vinyl edition and
> the 1987 Ryko CD, and they're almost different albums.
> Of course, this is a case of a completely new mix, not
> just remastering, but it's still amazing. "There was a
> piano in that song?!"
>
If I'm not mistaken, isn't Hots Rats one of the controversial Zappa CD's that
he actually DID add parts to in the remix/remaster process? That would indeed
make them different albums.
Dale.
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Rats (him again?!). I have an old vinyl edition and<BR>
the 1987 Ryko CD, and they're almost different albums.<BR>
Of course, this is a case of a completely new mix, not<BR>
just remastering, but it's still amazing. "There was a<BR>
piano in that song?!"<BR>
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If I'm not mistaken, isn't Hots Rats one of the controversial Zappa CD's that he actually DID add parts to in the remix/remaster process? That would indeed make them different albums. <BR>
In a message dated 3/5/2002 3:19:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
seawes@allmusic.com writes:
>
> if you can ever manage to track down the ultra short-lived Gold disc of Hot
> Rats (on ryko), it's the original mix. happy hunting
>
> sean
>
Thanks Sean, I was wondering if the original version existed on CD, and got
no response at all to my inquiry to the Zappa "estate." Is this a Mobile
Fidelity gold disc?
Dale.
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if you can ever manage to track down the ultra short-lived Gold disc of Hot<BR>
Rats (on ryko), it's the original mix. happy hunting<BR>
<BR>
sean<BR>
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Thanks Sean, I was wondering if the original version existed on CD, and got no response at all to my inquiry to the Zappa "estate." Is this a Mobile Fidelity gold disc?<BR>
All this talk of break up songs and no-one has mentioned Peter Hammill?
His entire 70s catalogue has helped/hindered me through heartbreaks old and new. If you're looking for unremitting bleakness, I recommend "Over", or Van Der Graaf Generator's almost-contemporaneous "Still Life", which tempers the misery with a bit of Arthur C Clarke.
Subject: Re: Miles Copeland defends the record industry
Date: 06 Mar 2002 15:44:57 -0500
> the following article surfaced in one of my exotica mailing list
Most of it's true enough but stops short. Anybody who's ever worked in any kind of retail industry realizes that the claims that since a CD costs only $1 (his example but I've more often heard anywhere from $3 to $6) to manufacture doesn't mean that $16 final price is overcharging. The physical costs are usually the least important. But what he doesn't point out is that this final price might be high because of inept or entrenched management, outdated industry practices, overspending, short changing artists because the companies have the position of power, or simply because they want the prices to be the same as everybody else's. In other words, $16 might not be overpriced under the current system but that doesn't mean the system is a good one. As for the companies not showing much of a profit on their annual reports, well maybe and maybe not but that doesn't mean that some of the people working for them aren't well compensated. (Certainly not all since the lower level e!
mployees at a major label probably aren't any better off than they would be anywhere else.) And the "Internet geniuses" who can't make money? No, it's the business people like Copeland who can't. The Internet geniuses built the damn thing and designed peer-to-peer file sharing and compression technology and historically have actually opposed making money off the Internet. And just look at the recent report in the New York Times about the major labels' own online services where not only were they paying artists an almost trivial amount but the labels didn't even get permission (several bands like No Doubt had their music removed until the labels negotiated properly).
i'm not sure that the lyrics i perceive as sad are a subtext --
i go through all this
before you wake up
so i can feel happier
to be safe up here with you
i don't hear that as a declaration of love so much as i hear it as a woman saying "being with you is really awful, but would i be better off alone?" --
i imagine what my body would sound like
slamming against those rocks
and when it lands
will my eyes
be closed or open?
i just see it as "will i see my demise (alone or with this relationship) or will it strike me as a surprise?"
Subject: Re: Re: software: Ikue Mori and others [njzc]
Date: 07 Mar 2002 15:05:08 -0500
>If you use a PC, there's a great piece of graphic
>sound software called Audiomulch
I've also used Gold Wave with good results, often in conjunction with Audiomulch. Gold Wave is more of an editor and Audiomulch more a sound generator but that's only very roughly speaking. There are other editors with more tracks than Gold Wave's two but Gold Wave was fine for what I was doing (& I kinda liked the restriction). I've toyed with about a dozen other programs with more specific functions but can't remember any of their names off-hand.
The big industry powerhouse Power Tools offers a smaller home use version for free. I've heard from people who were quite happy with it but the system requirements were pretty high and would have been right on the edge for my computer so I never felt it was worth fiddling with.
the project you are talking about is The Kids of Widney High. patton's record label, ipecac recordings, released one of their albums. patton is not involved with the project. it's not meant to be funny, patton genuinly likes these guys. there is some info about them at: www.ipecac.com
jason
> Last week a Catalan newspaper supplement seems to have
> featured a brief article on Mike Patton/Tomahawk and a
> trustable source that read it says it also mentioned
> some curious Patton >projects/collaborations/performances, being one of
> them Patton himself with a chorus of kids with Down’s
In a message dated 3/11/02 12:49:07 PM Central Standard Time,
efrendv@yahoo.es writes:
> I never said it's musicality is not worth our
> attention, but a color-blinded person will never
> reflect reality on canvas in a virtuosistic way, to
> keep with my own example (touching SD kids is getting
> too dangerous). Rembrandt wasn't colour-blind, you
> know?
i respectfully disagree. i think that colour blind persons can definitely
reflect reality on canvas in a virtuosic way. just their (YOUR) own
virtuosic way. i would love to see some of your paintings! and not for the
humour value, either. seriously.
love,
k8.
and efren, the ignorance comment wasn't directed at you, it was a general
remark.
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 3/11/02 12:49:07 PM Central Standard Time, efrendv@yahoo.es writes:<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I never said it's musicality is not worth our<BR>
attention, but a color-blinded person will never<BR>
reflect reality on canvas in a virtuosistic way, to<BR>
keep with my own example (touching SD kids is getting<BR>
too dangerous). Rembrandt wasn't colour-blind, you<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">i respectfully disagree. i think that colour blind persons can definitely reflect reality on canvas in a virtuosic way. just their (YOUR) own virtuosic way. i would love to see some of your paintings! and not for the humour value, either. seriously.<BR>
<BR>
love,<BR>
k8.<BR>
<BR>
and efren, the ignorance comment wasn't directed at you, it was a general remark.<BR>
The best place to ask is the Mobius Home Video Board, one of the four or five best films sites. Though it covers all types of movies (several recent discussions have focused on Godard and Rivette) there's a separate section devoted to horror/SF films that's frequented by numerous scholars, critics, collectors and just plain fans.
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The third installment in the Universal series, SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939) features Bela Lugosi as the broken-necked shepard, Ygor. He also reprises the role in GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942).
Sorry about this totally off topic post, but I'm searching for info on something and I thought this list'd be the best place. Does anyone out there have a recording of Karl-Birger Blomdahl's opera Aniara?
I bought an old record of the 2001 soundtrack a while ago, and the second side of the record contains 'highlights' from this opera.
It's performed by the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper conducted by Werner Janssen if that helps. Can anyone provide info on where to find a decent quality (CD) recording of this, or any more info?
Thanks heaps, email me off list.
Later,
Cameron.
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i'm no great mathematician. i don't pretend to be. but i, as many of my friends and colleagues, use mathematics as a means to an aesthetic end. i have found that wuorinen's music uses mathematics as the basis for a specific idiom, and not to produce interesting results within a more acceptable aesthetic.
i, as many, do not find wuorinen's music to be aesthetically pleasing. and gauging from your comment, i'm not entirely sure you're familiar with his output. i say this because you readily defended him, not something many people do except for the sake of argument, because it is widely accepted that his music is shit and the concept is interesting.
on that note, you haven't heard my music either, and i think it's pretty amusing that you'd see fit to make an aesthetic judgement call on it.
so maybe you ought to throw some of your output onto the table of public opinion so we can be as nasty to you publicly as you are to so many of us.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:39:57PM -0500, UFOrbK8@aol.com wrote:
> i, as many, do not find wuorinen's music to be aesthetically pleasing. and gauging from your comment, i'm not entirely sure you're familiar with his output. i say this because you readily defended him, not something many people do except for the sake of argument, because it is widely accepted that his music is shit and the concept is interesting.
"widely accepted" by whom? While I find much of his stuff uninvolving,
the Percussion Concerto rocks, and I find the "Mass for the
Restoration of St Luke's in the Field" beautiful. If you haven't heard
these, hunt them down. I believe they're both in print.
i would just like to inquire as to why you feel the need to air your dirty (elitist, annoying, mean) laundry on this list. i think i speak for quite a few people as to wondering why you take up so much of our bandwith with your glib one word responses to emails which are presupposed to be witty but are really ill-conceived and just downright silly.
love,
kate.
p.s. - be looking for a performance piece... <tangelos?>
I agree wholeheartedly with everything Sean said here, and I'd add that you should also hear Pharoah Sanders' 'Tauhid,' on which Sharrock plays a major role (and it's just great music besides). It makes a nice bookend to 'Ask the Ages,' and there's all kinds of great stuff in between.
Anyone know if they've found any Sharrock outtakes from 'Jack Johnson' for the upcoming box set?
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP - Frank Bridge, Two Poems for Orchestra - BBC Natl Orch Wales / Hickox (Chandos)
Sean Westergaard <seawes@allmusic.com> wrote:
> >What are some good settings to listen to Sonny Sharrock? Groups orindividual
>albums. Thanks.
start with Guitar for solo action and the amazingly beautiful Ask the ages
with Pharoah Sanders and Elvin Jones. for a more rock-style fix, check out
Seize the Rainbow. stay clear of live in NYC. for a more serious sonic
I was just wondering if any of you knew where I could find videos of the parts of Light that have been already performed that don't cost 50 kazillion dollars. KS only sells parts of Thursday and Monday on his site.
Well Mike, technically it is a Tom Tom Club song, but I could see it being
mistakenly considered a T-Heads song, because it is included on the T-Heads
Stop Making Sense soundtrack.
Dale.
In a message dated 3/21/2002 2:31:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
RainDog138@aol.com writes:
> ok - the tom tom club song is called "genuis of love" and it's clearly what
> grand master used as a sample or whatever. no NOT the talking heads, though
>
> if you do a search on "genius of love" on morpheus it comes up as a talking
>
> heads song as well as the tom tom club. wierd huh? guess i am not the only
> one who has mistaken this for a talking heads song.
>
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<BR>
Dale.<BR>
<BR>
In a message dated 3/21/2002 2:31:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, RainDog138@aol.com writes:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">ok - the tom tom club song is called "genuis of love" and it's clearly what <BR>
grand master used as a sample or whatever. no NOT the talking heads, though <BR>
if you do a search on "genius of love" on morpheus it comes up as a talking <BR>
heads song as well as the tom tom club. wierd huh? guess i am not the only <BR>
one who has mistaken this for a talking heads song.<BR>
</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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> The dub connection was, at least in the early period, tenuous at best.
>
Well, to some extent but check out David Toop's "Rap Attack" for a counter-argument. Besides' Flash's own Caribbean connection, note that a lot of Jamaican hits in the '70's were made from another popular reggae song
being played in the background that a new singer (toaster) would free-associate over- basically, the same thing that rappers were all doing in the beginning (and now).
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 05:23:29PM -0800, john schuller wrote:
> >In what way are you incapable of seeing this?
>
> Explain your view of how that is complaining about Political Correctness and
> I will see the way the I am currently incapable of seeing this. Do it. I
> dare ya.
Explain to me how you are not seeing it, and I will fill in the gap.
> Because the marketing of those projects promotes seperation. People hanging
> out with others of like backgrounds etc. just promotes people hanging out.
Again: you find some unstated problem with people creating projects
(which, of course, are inextricable from that to which I am guessing
that you refer by the term "marketing") based on that which they find
that they have in common with some others. If you do not find this to
be a problem, then explain why you approve of other projects that can
safely be predicted not to be of interest to any other subset of the
world population.
> Not "Look at me, I am different because I was born with different
> genetalia"...
If you consider women's issues to be a simple matter of "genitalia",
you demonstrate your further incomprehension of the lives of people
other than yourself.
> > > How? I don't dislike the recording projects. I dislike that they are
> > > marketed the way they are.
> >
> >How are you drawing this distinction?
>
> Here is our "People with Vagina" series. Etc. Etc.
Again: how are you drawing the difference between the recording and marketing of the Radical Jewish Culture series? With the possible exception of the Great Jewish Composers trilogy (which I suspect is the joker in the deck), the other items in the series are particularly relevant to Jewish culture, and were primarily created expressly for that series.
Your repeated issue with "genetalia" (sic) and "Vagina" is best left
as a matter for your therapist.
> >Yet you find it, and not the others, as a valid parameter for
> >aggregation. I ask again: why?
>
> It is valid just because all it is a geographical spot. In different
> countries the music can be very different from others. Sort of like how
> people with penises make different music than those with vaginas. They
> should all be in seperate a seperate Music Series.
Unfortunately, possibly as a result of the displayed psychosexual issues, the above paragraph has lost even syntactical coherence. Try again?
> >Thus confirming the earlier suggestion that you are unfamiliar with
> >more than a trivial concept of religious belief and practice.
>
> That is because religion is a lifestyle choice that I have ZERO interest in.
> It is a life style that is not for me. To me- all religious practices and
> belief are trivial.
"trivial"... "ZERO interest"... yet you repeatedly and vociferously
condemn its expression in art. Curious.
That you project your lack of interest in it into a demand that you
place on others fits snugly into the arrogant solipsism which you have
>I don't know that intellectuals speaking out has ever solved anything --
>were it only that simple.
in this country, intellectuals aren't allowed to speak out unless
they're conservative. everyone else is tarred with the "liberal elite"
label. dissent is certainly shouted down as being un-patriotic. it's a
sad thing.
>Now, those events have been replaced by TV news stories -- little "human
>interest" items" -- about the 90 year old woman with a flag on the antenna
>of her car.
now the whole flag phenomenon...i've never been comfortable with the whole flag-waving-america-love-it-or-leave-it-you-commie-bastard thing. after september 11 tons and tons of american flags showed up on houses in every us location. i even put one up on my house. why? mostly as a tribute lost lives. i have more ambivalent feelings about the war. the pressure here is to get behind the government because, of course, it's doing the right thing? well is it? how the hell would we know? as skip points out, because of corporate ownership of all of the major media outlets, you're getting only part of the story. i became concerned with loss of civilian life over there. there were a few (very few) stories about this over here...much more in europe (at least in the websites is was checking out).
so in my mind the issues are pretty complicated. from looking at the polling numbers, most folks are indeed behind our government's actions. i'm not sure what exactly that means.
oh...i don't own any garth brooks records....but i do have a couple of shania twain cds...
mark
--
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"Music is spiritual. The music business is not." - Van Morrison
>I've been enjoying the whole Naxos Jazz Legends series, a line of single-disc compilations
I've especially liked the Bechet disc which is very consistent and has some amazing performances. The Waller is also quite good though the sound can tend to be a bit spotty.
Well see, I was taking this challenge a lot more deeply than most responses
have seemed to indicate, and I've been wracking my brain to think of
something I find completely innovative. The only possible candidate I can
come up with so far is MAYBE (and I'm not entirely convinced myself) Harry
Partch. As much of a landmark as Pet Sounds is (and I do have the utmost
respect for it) what does it offer that you couldn't get from crossing, say,
the Four Lads with Aaron Copeland?
Dale.
In a message dated 3/23/2002 7:35:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
velaires@earthlink.net writes:
> Pet Sounds (Beach Boys)
>
> not innovative? there are some textural and structural things in there that
> are completely innovative, not just to the context, but in the most basic
> sense of the word. What BW brought to songwriting and arranging is up
> there
> with Burt Bacharach and Stevie Wonder (who are so high up the I get kirnks
> in my neck just mentioning the three of them in one sentence).
>
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<BR>
Dale.<BR>
<BR>
In a message dated 3/23/2002 7:35:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, velaires@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
In a message dated 3/26/2002 12:57:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
RainDog138@aol.com writes:
> i just now am getting into his stuff and could use some suggestions to get a
>
> quick summary of what he is all about. name specific songs rather than
> albums
> as i will probably check out some mp3's before i go and purchase any
> albums.
> one thousand thank-you's. oh and what is the name of that piece that is all
>
> tape splices?
>
>
Although some of Cage's recordings are interesting, I've always found his
several books to be of more interest and more enlightening as to what he's
about.
Dale.
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">i just now am getting into his stuff and could use some suggestions to get a <BR>
quick summary of what he is all about. name specific songs rather than albums <BR>
as i will probably check out some mp3's before i go and purchase any albums. <BR>
one thousand thank-you's. oh and what is the name of that piece that is all <BR>
tape splices?<BR>
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Although some of Cage's recordings are interesting, I've always found his several books to be of more interest and more enlightening as to what he's about.<BR>
i see john cage as more of a conceptual composer. i don't find much of his music to be very aesthetically pleasing, which i know is just me so don't bother harassing me about it, but his books seriously changed my life and forever solidified cage as one of my favourite composers. what i find so commendable about cage is his ability to form a highly stylised concept and carry it out with little regard to what it sounds like - he was happy either way - and then try something completely new and not get stuck in a compositional rut.
read 'silence'.
and listen to 'litany for the whale' with the hilliard ensemble. it's really beautiful.
In a message dated 3/26/2002 6:06:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jzitt@metatronpress.com writes:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:44:56PM -0800, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
>
> > Cage is a holy cow in contemporary music
>
> Utterly off-topic, but I think you mean "sacred cow". "Holy cow!" is
> what one yells when excited at baseball games.
>
Well now that I think about it, wouldn't Cage have just LOVED being called a
"holy cow"?
Dale.
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In a message dated 3/26/2002 7:02:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
velaires@earthlink.net writes:
> In actual application, you can clear a room pretty fast by putting on a
> record of any Milton Babbit or Morton Subtonick piece you wanna name.
>
Subotnick?? Really?? I think his piece "Return" is gorgeous, captivating,
entertaining, and would get anyone's attention that is half-listening to it.
Dale.
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#0000a0" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"><B>In a message dated 3/26/2002 7:02:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, velaires@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">In actual application, you can clear a room pretty fast by putting on a<BR>
record of any Milton Babbit or Morton Subtonick piece you wanna name.<BR>
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Subotnick?? Really?? I think his piece "Return" is gorgeous, captivating, entertaining, and would get anyone's attention that is half-listening to it.<BR>
In actual application, you can clear a room pretty >fast by putting on a
>record of any Milton Babbit or Morton Subtonick >piece you wanna name.
>Subotnick?? Really?? I think his piece "Return" is >gorgeous, captivating, entertaining, and would get >anyone's attention that is half-listening to it.
what about silver apples of the moon, huh? cool enough for a crazy indie band to name themselves after it...
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:46:46PM -0500, RainDog138@aol.com wrote:
> ok perhaps i went on a tad much there, but my extremely broad question to
> this group is WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF MUSIC TO YOU? and please don't bicker> back and forth a thousand times if someone has a different opinion than
> yours. as i am certain not all agree with my pathetic attempt - i will not
> question your personal definition. i am just incredibly curious to hear what
> you all have to say.
For me, IMHO, blahblahblah, music is a way of listening to sound (and
not necessarily a way of creating it, though the term is also used for
sound that is created with the intent of people giving it that quality
of attention). Anything that you choose to listen to as music is music
for you; anything that you choose not to listen to as music isn't.
If Bishop Berkeley falls in a forest, the ants are squashed.
I don't think you've gone on too long at all Mike, I found the Cage banter
really interesting. And as for a definition, I've always liked "Music is
organised sound." ....Varese I think? Anyone with a better memory than me?
Dale.
In a message dated 3/26/2002 11:47:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
RainDog138@aol.com writes:
> ok perhaps i went on a tad much there, but my extremely broad question to
> this group is WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF MUSIC TO YOU?
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#0000a0" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"><B>I don't think you've gone on too long at all Mike, I found the Cage banter really interesting. And as for a definition, I've always liked "Music is organised sound." ....Varese I think? Anyone with a better memory than me?<BR>
<BR>
Dale.<BR>
<BR>
In a message dated 3/26/2002 11:47:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, RainDog138@aol.com writes:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">ok perhaps i went on a tad much there, but my extremely broad question to <BR>
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>I┤ve seen an offer of some CDs (Indo-Jazz >Fusions I & II, Free Form) of Joe Harriott but >have no idea what to expect.
The two Indo-Jazz albums are great, just the sort of thing I'd always wished this kind of blend would be: sitars, tabla but still definitely jazz. His Free Form and Abstract albums are closer to the Vandermark release; they're certainly fine work but don't really "get" me like the Indo-Jazz stuff.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 06:19:16AM -0800, aaron chua wrote:
> i'm a bit of a novice myself, but i found the cage
> piece on sonic youth's _goodbye_ to be highly
> enjoyable leading me to investigate the piece as
> recorded by the arditti qtet on mode.
If you're referring to the Sonic Youth recording of Four^6, it's not
the same piece as "Four", which the Arditti recorded on Mode. (At
least I don't know of an Arditti Mode recording of "Four^6", and I
tend to keep up on these things.) Cage wrote several piece for four
players in the Number Series. The first (the string quarte) was simply
named "Four"; the rest have additional numbers (Four^2, Four^3, etc)
in order of composition.
I don't care for the Sonic Youth "Four^6" (though I like their "Six"
and muchof the rest of the set) and don't consider it a valid
recording of the piece. The score calls for four performers, and the
recording has eight (two of the six listed players recorded multiple
tracks), so that the piece is twice as dense as the score
specifies. Each of the sounds made by the performers is supposed to be
a steady-state unchanging sound, like a single tone or a drumroll. The
SY recording including bits of storytelling, IIRC, and other stuff
that doesn't apply. (OTOH, while I disagree with the repeating riffs
that William Winant does at points, I notice that he did the same when
performing the piece *with* Cage, as recorded on "John Cage at
Summerstage", which I think you'd enjoy.)
> o frm memory quartets i-viii on hathut and string
> qurtet in 4 parts ... ( i'll admit i don't listen to
> these v often;--->
> which leads me to ask; i find that i don't usually
> listen to pieces that i enjoy very often; spending my
> time either w/ newer pieces or perhaps ( at least this
> used to be the case) pieces i didn't _get_.
> does anyone else find this in their listening habits?
I listen to different pieces in different circumstances, listening to familiar pieces in situations where I can apply less concentration. I also find that I can get to the point where I know a recording well enough that i can play it in my head, and don't need to actually spin the CD. I tend to use opportunities for more concentrated listening for the newer or more challenging recordings.
>if skip tapes the wipers and plays the tape for >his friend, it is music.
There's a short film (I forget the title or creator but he's Canadian) that's shot from inside a car looking out the windshield and is edited to the rhythm of the wipers. Much more interesting than it may sound.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:39:39PM -0800, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:17:08 -0600 Joseph Zitt wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:06:38PM -0500, Michael Berman wrote:
> > > well then any person encountering random sounds can determine its music if they hear it as such, which just made the 'audience' the 'artist'. no?
> >
> > Yes. Is that a bad thing?
>
> No. And if somebody wants to call plumbing litterature, and another
> scubadiving poetry. Why not? As long as people feel happy, they can call
> anything they want the way they want. And if the communication gap keeps
> on increasing, that's the fault of people who are calling a chair a
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> I certainly feel the audience is important in the overall equation (since
> most artists are doing more than just communicating with themselves), but
> when the audience's approval becomes the artist's number one objective, then
> I feel that their work will ultimately prove inferior to that created by
> artists who are in some way driven by a inner fire to reach a certain
> plateau, and after having done so, then show it off to the world.
>
Most of the time I would agree with you but life isn't that simple, sad to say.
The songwriters of Tin Pan Alley practically invented the whole genre of popular music in the early 1900's and all of them were working solely to write hits for different artists and sell sheet music. In the early '60's, the Brill Building songwriters were doing the same thing- writing songs to get hits
out of artists. Crass as this may sound, they wrote beautiful, enduring songs for Aretha Franklin, the Drifters, the Shirelles and many others. Similarly, other great songwriters of the '50's and '60's like Doc Pomus (Elvis, Ben E. King, Dion, Joe Turner) and Lieber/Stroller (Elvis, Coasters, Drifters)
wrote to order while coming up with classic songs. That's not even mentioning the songwriter teams that Berry Gordy had in place at Motown and the committees he put together to judge their work and access if they would be hits and thus worthy of release- the results speak for themself. Sadly, today we
have the likes of Lou Pearlman (Backstreet Boys, NSYNC), who does the same thing though nowhere NEARLY as well as his predecessors (sorry to anyone on the list who's a fan of the boy-groups!).
<DIV>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:20:56 -0800<BR>From: "Toby Dodds" <<A target=_top href="http://lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=29623e1ba11b8f2b6340542ddf0a726b&mailto=1&to=toby@dodds.org&msg=MSG1017345251.68&start=501208&len=22809&src=&type=x"><FONT color=#000099>toby@dodds.org</FONT></A>><BR>Subject: Re: Zony Mash returns<BR><BR>- ----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Arthur Gadney" <<A target=_top href="http://lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=29623e1ba11b8f2b6340542ddf0a726b&mailto=1&to=a_gadney@hotmail.com&msg=MSG1017345251.68&start=501208&len=22809&src=&type=x"><FONT color=#000099>a_gadney@hotmail.com</FONT></A>><BR>To: <<A target=_top href="http://lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=29623e1ba11b8f2b6340542ddf0a726b&mailto=1&to=toby@dodds.org&msg=MSG1017345251.68&start=501208&len=22809&src=&type=x"><FONT color=#000099>toby@dodds.org</FONT></A>>; <<A target=_top href="http://lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=29623e1ba11b8f2b6340542ddf0a726b&mailto=1&to=zorn-list@lists.xmission.com&msg=MSG1017345251.68&start=501208&len=22809&src=&type=x"><FONT color=#000099>zorn-list@lists.xmission.com</FONT></A>><BR>Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:37 AM<BR>Subject: Re: Zony Mash returns<BR><BR>> Yes, what about Wayne Horvitz. What's he up to? He was always my least<BR>> favorite Naked City member. Has he done any good stuff since? I like 4+1<BR>> alot, but Zony Mash is horrible.<BR><BR><BR>I'm too exhausted from seeing yet another fantastic Zony Mash concert last<BR>night to comment.<BR><BR>"You're either with us or against us." :-T<BR></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href='http://g.msn.com/1HM305401/13'>http://explorer.msn.com</a>.<br></html>
This isn't as much the answer as an observation but here it goes. Music has
been around since the dawn of civilization and has played a role regardless
of religion, sex, sexual orientation, crete, culture, etc... It has crossed
every boundry possible (and some that were thought to be impossible). It can
cause any kind of emotional reaction or none at all. It can be calming or
naseuiating. Yet it doesn't perform either of the to basic needs that a
species require (survival and procreation). (I know that musicians and
singers, just kidding, use music as a means to an end for survival and use
you're imagination for the latter but as a whole it is not need). Also
Reeves Gabriels has made the argument that sound is vibrations and one's body
is filled with viberating atoms. Cage may agree that we are music? And the
rest of the animal kingdom can also be music (listen to the complex phrasing
of whales or various birds perform Messian licks or a goose sound like
Anthony Braxton's For Alto). And if rhythm is an integral part of music
(time art) then motion and time in and of themselves are music. I can't
honestly think of a way to not have music (except in death pending on what
one's beliefs are).
Peace to All and happy holidays
Aaron Solomon
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<BR>This isn't as much the answer as an observation but here it goes. Music has been around since the dawn of civilization and has played a role regardless of religion, sex, sexual orientation, crete, culture, etc... It has crossed every boundry possible (and some that were thought to be impossible). It can cause any kind of emotional reaction or none at all. It can be calming or naseuiating. Yet it doesn't perform either of the to basic needs that a species require (survival and procreation). (I know that musicians and singers, just kidding, use music as a means to an end for survival and use you're imagination for the latter but as a whole it is not need). Also Reeves Gabriels has made the argument that sound is vibrations and one's body is filled with viberating atoms. Cage may agree that we are music? And the rest of the animal kingdom can also be music (listen to the complex phrasing of whales or various birds perform Messian licks or a goose sound like Anthony Braxton's For Alto). And if rhythm is an integral part of music (time art) then motion and time in and of themselves are music. I can't honestly think of a way to not have music (except in death pending on what one's beliefs are).
I was at this too, and I have to say I agreed mostly with the Guardian's point of view. I (more or less) stopped going to rock concerts because if I wanted to hear the CD, I could listen at home (in a chair) and the sound would probably be better. OK, the sound and chair arguments don't apply with the Barbican (or "Barbi-kharn", as JZ called it) but you know where I'm coming from...
It surprises me that people came to the gig expecting Zorn to play sax (as has been reported earlier). Have they not heard the CD? The fact that Zorn felt compelled to say that he didn't usually like playing this kind of music live spoke volumes - considering how many different projects he has on the go could he not have suggested that, much as those at the Barbican like "The Gift" that something else would be preferable? Reminds me of Spinal Tap's decision to play "Jazz Odyssey" in front of a festival audience ;>)
I also thought it was a great shame that Dave Douglas came all the way over merely to play on one track, although the encore more than made up for it. Someone mentioned electric Miles; Ribot was very McLaughlin circa "Jack Johnson", Jamie Saft finally got to let loose in a Chick Corea style and the percussionists gave it that "Dark Magus" feel.
Hey Dave, you were at this too. Now you've had time to ponder, anything to add?