- "While violins and pianos are sublime vehicles of musical thought, people have often listened with musical ears to the sounds of wine glasses, crickets on a summer night, the wind in the trees, steps on the pavement, bird song, speech, conch shells, church bells, etc., and composers from Monteverdi to Messiaen have tinkered with worldnoise in their music. Until recently, however, it has been difficult to capture sounds of the natural world and take them into our composition workshops. But now, with the convergence of recording and computer technologies, we have the ability to play these `instruments of the world' as never before.
The five pieces on this recording are attempts to view the mundane, everyday noises of daily life through a personal musical filter. There are no other-worldly sounds used here, just the comings and goings which greet our ears as we make it through the day. With the assistance and intervention of computer technology, these pieces modestly try to make the ordinary seem extraordinary, the unmusical, musical. They try to find implicit music in the worldnoise around us."
- Paul Lansky - 1992.
Enjoying this, but don't have $52 to drop on it. Might do some post-spotify cherry picking. Although the per-track price is high too. Maybe someone has a recommendation for another comp that has similar material?
Maybe this?
So my 4 year old is turning 5, and he has a friend whose mother always makes cute mix cd's for all the party guests, so my wife thought I should do the same thing, so here's my cd; I think it's awesome; my wife'll probably hate it:
James Coffey - Lots and Lots of Trucks (an old favorite of his - from the video of the same name)
Tony Rice Unit - Nine Pound Hammer
Hank Williams - My Bucket's Got a Hole In It (apparently my wife heard my two year old singing this through the monitor at nap time today)
Beatles - Taxman
Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
Elizabeth Mitchell - Little Liza Jane
REM & Muppets - Furry Happy Monsters
Woody Guthrie - Why oh Why?
Johnny Cash - Dinosaur Song
Velvet Underground - I'm Sticking with You
Hank Williams - Honky Tonkin'
Hank Williams - Howlin' at te Moon
Sesame Street - Ladybugs Picnic
Charlie Parker - Salt Peanuts
Beatles - I Me Mine (he loves this - he sings it ah beep beep bot...)
Woody Guthrie - Hobo's Lullaby
Beach Boys - Do You Wanna Dance?
White Stripes - We're Going to be Friends
Beatles - Yellow Submarine
Woody Guthrie - Talkin' Fishing Blues
Woody Guthrie - Car Song
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (remix) (he loves transformers - I told him this is about Autobots)
James Coffey - Emergency
Celio Balona - Tema de Batman (from Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas)
Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count (from Sesame Street)
Velvet Underground - After Hours
Townes Van Zandt - Nine Pound Hammer
I listened to Kind of Blue last night after setting up my new amp and CD player - but with my old speakers. Even with about $700 worth of gear driving about $30 worth of speakers it sounded like a new record. The new speakers are supposed to come tomorrow, after which I shall listen to it again...
Comments
Interesting to hear Git Go in this "stripped down" trio setting.
Brings back memories of accidentally getting stuck in mosh pits while out with my son.
First listen. Loving it so far.
Craig
- "While violins and pianos are sublime vehicles of musical thought, people have often listened with musical ears to the sounds of wine glasses, crickets on a summer night, the wind in the trees, steps on the pavement, bird song, speech, conch shells, church bells, etc., and composers from Monteverdi to Messiaen have tinkered with worldnoise in their music. Until recently, however, it has been difficult to capture sounds of the natural world and take them into our composition workshops. But now, with the convergence of recording and computer technologies, we have the ability to play these `instruments of the world' as never before.
The five pieces on this recording are attempts to view the mundane, everyday noises of daily life through a personal musical filter. There are no other-worldly sounds used here, just the comings and goings which greet our ears as we make it through the day. With the assistance and intervention of computer technology, these pieces modestly try to make the ordinary seem extraordinary, the unmusical, musical. They try to find implicit music in the worldnoise around us."
- Paul Lansky - 1992.
Yet to read the book, but digging the music. Cheaper copies here.
Pimmon - (while) (Invalid Object Series)
Another 70 cent gift from Amazon....
Inspired by reading Nereffid's next MiG post.
Craig
Enjoying this, but don't have $52 to drop on it. Might do some post-spotify cherry picking. Although the per-track price is high too. Maybe someone has a recommendation for another comp that has similar material?
Maybe this?
James Coffey - Lots and Lots of Trucks (an old favorite of his - from the video of the same name)
Tony Rice Unit - Nine Pound Hammer
Hank Williams - My Bucket's Got a Hole In It (apparently my wife heard my two year old singing this through the monitor at nap time today)
Beatles - Taxman
Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
Elizabeth Mitchell - Little Liza Jane
REM & Muppets - Furry Happy Monsters
Woody Guthrie - Why oh Why?
Johnny Cash - Dinosaur Song
Velvet Underground - I'm Sticking with You
Hank Williams - Honky Tonkin'
Hank Williams - Howlin' at te Moon
Sesame Street - Ladybugs Picnic
Charlie Parker - Salt Peanuts
Beatles - I Me Mine (he loves this - he sings it ah beep beep bot...)
Woody Guthrie - Hobo's Lullaby
Beach Boys - Do You Wanna Dance?
White Stripes - We're Going to be Friends
Beatles - Yellow Submarine
Woody Guthrie - Talkin' Fishing Blues
Woody Guthrie - Car Song
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (remix) (he loves transformers - I told him this is about Autobots)
James Coffey - Emergency
Celio Balona - Tema de Batman (from Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas)
Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count (from Sesame Street)
Velvet Underground - After Hours
Townes Van Zandt - Nine Pound Hammer
Craig
The first thirteen albums have arrived from my amazon haul.
ETA listening now:
No cover art since I've got to phone this in. I'm now playing around with Google Music again so that I can stop paying for Spotify.
Merde, I just cannot get this old non-right clicking laptop to carry an image over.
Listened to this last night, just sublime. Have not gotten anything by him/with him that I haven't liked.
Here's a good one for those of you brushing up on your jazz...Rhino/Atlantic jazz is nicely priced at eMu, too.
Miles Davis kind of Blue
I need to put a few more CDs on here as I have a limited choice!