(The spotify ad for the new Michael Jackson thing is the dumbest thing I've seen in a while. OK, he could sing, dance, etc; that doesn't yet make him either divine or immortal. Harrumph.)
A question for the Classical literati: why would you record troubadour songs, ostensibly popular music, and particularly love songs in a Church? Does it need to sound like chant?
How funny. I was just looking at that album in my itunes just before shutting it down for the night and thinking that I'd have to listen to it again soon. It's more a springtime album for me, but I don't like to let albums go too long unlistened or they also become forgotten.
About to listen to Bill Frisell "Signs of Life"...
"Long time friends and colleagues, this is the first ever duo release by Pauline Oliveros and Chris Brown. Music in the Air features Brown on piano and live computer signal processing and Oliveros on accordion, conch, percussion and Expanded Instrument System. The three pieces on the CD were recorded live in the studio with no overdubbing. Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others' sensibilities to the many facets of sound. Since the 1960s she has influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. She is widely known for her accordion playing with electronics using her Expanded Instrument System (EIS). She also founded Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. in 1985 to encourage others in the practice of Deep Listening for creativity and heightened awareness of sound and sounding. Many credit her with being the founder of present day meditative music. All of Oliveros' work emphasizes musicianship, attention strategies, and improvisational skills. Columbia University honored Pauline Oliveros as the first woman composer to receive the distinguished William Schuman Award, which included a retrospective concert in March 2010. Chris Brown's music has evolved within the intersections of many different traditions and styles. Following early training as a classical pianist, he was influenced by studies of Indonesian, Indian, Afro-American, and Cuban musics, and then took off on branches provided by the American Experimentalists in inventing and building a personal electronic instrumentation. At first these were amplified acoustic devices; then he went on to build analog circuits that modified their sounds, and custom-made computer systems that interactively transformed them. More recently, he has extended this fascination with instrument building to the design of computer network systems that interact with acoustic musicians and with other computers and musicians connected over the internet."
- Forced Exposure.
@Jonah - I'm trying to revisit albums I played a lot earlier this year bit not recently. That's one of the problems of downloading lots of music! I haven't played this in ages, perhaps over a year:
Just discovered this via ambientblog.net (though the cover art looks vaguely familiar - did someone already post this and I somehow missed its significance?). Was just thinking the other day that there aren't really any ambient/experimental Christmas albums - and then here comes a Christmas album from Hibernate and Home Normal with offthesky, Daniel Thomas Freeman, The Boats, Clem Leek, Machinefabriek, Listening Mirror, Konntinent, Good Weather for an Airstrike...well done too!! This might have been prominent on my Christmas MiG article if I'd known about it....on the other hand it doesn't really fit genre wise with the others I mentioned. After some listening I'll see if I've time for a review of its own. There are some really lovely pieces here. Proceeds go to a charitable foundation. Buying now.
"Juguetes (toys) is the first album of Nöno, a look back at the nostalgia of childhood, the dreams, the noises, the feelings and the thoughs of the child we were back in our infancy. Built half-way between neo-classic sounds, noise and electronica, is a reflexion of everything we were, everything we have lost, everything we can remember, what we are now, and everything that will continue with us until the day we die. . ."
A question for the Classical literati: why would you record troubadour songs, ostensibly popular music, and particularly love songs in a Church? Does it need to sound like chant?
Actually troubadour songs were rich people's music. The earliest troubadour known today is Duke Guillaume IX of Aquitaine, and it was an aristocratic art form. Although many troubadours were commoners, they were employed by the aristocracy. Some troubadour songs were based on popular styles, but the artsier stuff was closer to chant.
But yeah, there's quite a churchy acoustic on that recording.
Part 3 of my History of Classical Music will be about the troubadours and trouveres, their northern-French successors.
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5 tracks long, so £2.10 of my free £5. I now need to find another album with 7 tracks to use the remaining £2.90
(The spotify ad for the new Michael Jackson thing is the dumbest thing I've seen in a while. OK, he could sing, dance, etc; that doesn't yet make him either divine or immortal. Harrumph.)
Thanks to all emusers who scan 7digital for fantastic deals like this!
Craig
Great, long live 2-disc set: Charlie Haden (double bass); Ernie Watts (saxophone); Alan Broadbent (piano); Paul Motian or Billy Higgins (drums).
A question for the Classical literati: why would you record troubadour songs, ostensibly popular music, and particularly love songs in a Church? Does it need to sound like chant?
Dick Griffin - "Time Will Tell"
How funny. I was just looking at that album in my itunes just before shutting it down for the night and thinking that I'd have to listen to it again soon. It's more a springtime album for me, but I don't like to let albums go too long unlistened or they also become forgotten.
About to listen to Bill Frisell "Signs of Life"...
Anthony Branker - "Dialogic"
More Haden/Motian
Unfortunately, I don't think this is available outside the Twin Cities, but it's awesome.
Craig
Rafal Sarnecki - "The Madman Rambles Again"
"Long time friends and colleagues, this is the first ever duo release by Pauline Oliveros and Chris Brown. Music in the Air features Brown on piano and live computer signal processing and Oliveros on accordion, conch, percussion and Expanded Instrument System. The three pieces on the CD were recorded live in the studio with no overdubbing. Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others' sensibilities to the many facets of sound. Since the 1960s she has influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. She is widely known for her accordion playing with electronics using her Expanded Instrument System (EIS). She also founded Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. in 1985 to encourage others in the practice of Deep Listening for creativity and heightened awareness of sound and sounding. Many credit her with being the founder of present day meditative music. All of Oliveros' work emphasizes musicianship, attention strategies, and improvisational skills. Columbia University honored Pauline Oliveros as the first woman composer to receive the distinguished William Schuman Award, which included a retrospective concert in March 2010. Chris Brown's music has evolved within the intersections of many different traditions and styles. Following early training as a classical pianist, he was influenced by studies of Indonesian, Indian, Afro-American, and Cuban musics, and then took off on branches provided by the American Experimentalists in inventing and building a personal electronic instrumentation. At first these were amplified acoustic devices; then he went on to build analog circuits that modified their sounds, and custom-made computer systems that interactively transformed them. More recently, he has extended this fascination with instrument building to the design of computer network systems that interact with acoustic musicians and with other computers and musicians connected over the internet."
- Forced Exposure.
Damn this is good.
- !K7 Records - 2010.
Just discovered this via ambientblog.net (though the cover art looks vaguely familiar - did someone already post this and I somehow missed its significance?). Was just thinking the other day that there aren't really any ambient/experimental Christmas albums - and then here comes a Christmas album from Hibernate and Home Normal with offthesky, Daniel Thomas Freeman, The Boats, Clem Leek, Machinefabriek, Listening Mirror, Konntinent, Good Weather for an Airstrike...well done too!! This might have been prominent on my Christmas MiG article if I'd known about it....on the other hand it doesn't really fit genre wise with the others I mentioned. After some listening I'll see if I've time for a review of its own. There are some really lovely pieces here. Proceeds go to a charitable foundation. Buying now.
Been listening to tracks from this on youtube...going to have to buy I think. Lots of fun.
Gnarchives vol. 1 by White Rainbow -- drawing up my list of my favorite free/nyop downloads
Nöno - Juguetes (Clinical Archives - ca479) (November 24, 2011)
"Juguetes (toys) is the first album of Nöno, a look back at the nostalgia of childhood, the dreams, the noises, the feelings and the thoughs of the child we were back in our infancy. Built half-way between neo-classic sounds, noise and electronica, is a reflexion of everything we were, everything we have lost, everything we can remember, what we are now, and everything that will continue with us until the day we die. . ."
But yeah, there's quite a churchy acoustic on that recording.
Part 3 of my History of Classical Music will be about the troubadours and trouveres, their northern-French successors.