Giving this one another spin. This sort of fits with the curating discussion on the other thread - I rip a lot of stuff to mp3s, then burn them onto data CDs (I don't have a DVD burner yet) and keep a database of where they are. So when I get an itch to pull a particular thing out of the archive, in this case I think maybe it was Jimi Hendrix, then I see something else on the same cd that I want to refresh too. So I'm always rotating old things back into play, and other things back into storage; slowing down my acquisitions a little lately has increased the amount of rotation. Overall I like the way the system works, but it is a bit time consuming. And gets me many snide comments from my wife about choosing to spend time that way...
Yes I know that last feeling amclark!! I keep all my music on my itunes - whe we got a new computer a couple of years ago I deliberately ordered a lot of extra memory - but my ipod is relatively small so I have to regularly move music around. The difference is of course that I can easily access all the music when on my computer. It must be soon that your wife is coming over here?
@Plomg 42 - the cover even reminds me of With The Beatles! I will have to look it up...
- "Angels in America, the bodypump-infected and skuzz-infested duo of Moppy Pont and Merv Glisten, have been honing their rickety vocabulary on fractured, edge-of-the-abyss cassette releases for a few years now. With Narrow Road to the Interior, their first LP, the band offers a palliative for the debilitating stench of summer with a heady mix of sweet smells, agreeable natural notes, and plenty of creeping, low-to-the-ground odor. Some elements--songs, lyrics, Moppy's voice at the absolute threshold--will be familiar, visible enough from the waking path; but this is dreamstate music, and to follow it is to cross unannounced into zones less easily pinned down."
@ amclark - I hope she enjoys the trip. The weather forecast is quite good for this time of year in London. Currently it is quite mild but cloudy, with a forecast of being slightly cooler towards the middle of next week - probably not that different from your part of the States. But this part of the UK, including London, has been really dry over the last year or so, but there is always a chance of rain. We are off to London tomorrow to see the David Hockney Exhibition, then I'm working there all day Tuesday and then at Greenwich on Thursday pm. If she is at all interested in Hockney it has been getting amazing reviews, but she would need to book www.royalacademy.org.uk but it is open until midnight on Friday and Saturday
From the Dept of Forgot-About-This-One: a great jazz/funk/fusion/protest album from 1971. That may sound dated, but I think it holds up great. See the eMu link for some informative editorial content on this album, including its afterlife in hip-hop. McDaniels died just last year.
If it was me going I wouldn't miss the Hockney, but she's not so art interested as me; especially modern art. Once when we visited Brussels, I spent the entire day in their wonderful modern and contemporary art galleries, while she spent the day seeing palaces and such; we were both happier that way. If we go to NYC, I hit MOMA while she hits fabric and yarn stores. We used to try to drag each other to various things, but have found out we're much happier doing our own thing, then meeting up to eat. It all goes back I guess to me being an Art major, while she was an English major.
Synthesizer, Computer and Chamber Orchestra
with Rand Steiger (conductor), California E.A.R. Unit , and the Yamaha Computer Assisted Music System
- "The Key to Songs" is music for an imaginary ballet inspired by A Week of Kindness, or The Seven Deadly Elements, the 1933 novel in the form of a collage by the surrealist painter, Max Ernst.
The 'novel' is wordless, being composed of dramatic and often erotic collages, using, principally, illustrations from French popular fiction. Each of the novel's seven chapters represents a day of the week and each day has a "deadly element" associated with it. Beginning with Sunday, the elements are: Mud, Water, Fire, Blood, Blackness, Sight and Unknown. A motto and a Dadaist or Surrealist epigraph prefaces each chapter, and the motto becomes an enigmatic visual motif.
Subotnick's score - which calls for two pianos, three mallet instruments (marimba, xylophone and vibraphone) shared by two players, viola, cello and the Yamaha Computer Assisted Music System (YCAMS) - provides a musical counterpart to Ernst's enigmatic collage in several ways. The phantasmagorical ambiguity between reality and fantasy found in Ernst collages, and in the surreal groupings of images, has its equivalent in Subotnick's application of electronics."
- New Albion Records 1986.
La Spagna by Atrium Musicae: all the compositions come from different parts of the Early Modern, from all over Europe and the New World, using one of three Spanish melodies. It's an interesting look at the diffusion of musical ideas. It's also eClassicals deal of the day--$5.27, which is a little less than eMu, but still for FLAC.
I've heard that about data CDs, but never seen it happen. Some stuff I was listening to today came off data CDs easily 10 years old. I figure though that if I haven't listened to it in long enough for the disk to break down, I probably didn't like it that much. I also doubled a lot of stuff- two copies of the same data cd, and some stuff is doubled on cd and backup drive.
I've only ever completely lost one album that I know of - I was backing up only to a backup drive, and I plugged the wrong power cable into it. I was able to re-download everything from emusic (the good old days), except for one album that had left. It was Merzbow's Venereology - I recently repurchased it.
@amclark2 there's a weird thing that I have had happen several times with regular computer drive and backup drive storage - I have ended up with an Mp3 file of a song that has maybe a 10 second segment of a completely unrelated song in the middle of it, as if one somehow got partially written over with data from the other when saving. Happened again just the other day.
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Giving this one another spin. This sort of fits with the curating discussion on the other thread - I rip a lot of stuff to mp3s, then burn them onto data CDs (I don't have a DVD burner yet) and keep a database of where they are. So when I get an itch to pull a particular thing out of the archive, in this case I think maybe it was Jimi Hendrix, then I see something else on the same cd that I want to refresh too. So I'm always rotating old things back into play, and other things back into storage; slowing down my acquisitions a little lately has increased the amount of rotation. Overall I like the way the system works, but it is a bit time consuming. And gets me many snide comments from my wife about choosing to spend time that way...
@Plomg 42 - the cover even reminds me of With The Beatles! I will have to look it up...
It has been way, way too long since I've listened to this album.
Craig
Angels in America - Narrow Road to the Interior
- "Angels in America, the bodypump-infected and skuzz-infested duo of Moppy Pont and Merv Glisten, have been honing their rickety vocabulary on fractured, edge-of-the-abyss cassette releases for a few years now. With Narrow Road to the Interior, their first LP, the band offers a palliative for the debilitating stench of summer with a heady mix of sweet smells, agreeable natural notes, and plenty of creeping, low-to-the-ground odor. Some elements--songs, lyrics, Moppy's voice at the absolute threshold--will be familiar, visible enough from the waking path; but this is dreamstate music, and to follow it is to cross unannounced into zones less easily pinned down."
Karelia Visa by Hedningarna
I'm having a little North Side fest this morning, so on to SummerSong by Frifot.
If it was me going I wouldn't miss the Hockney, but she's not so art interested as me; especially modern art. Once when we visited Brussels, I spent the entire day in their wonderful modern and contemporary art galleries, while she spent the day seeing palaces and such; we were both happier that way. If we go to NYC, I hit MOMA while she hits fabric and yarn stores. We used to try to drag each other to various things, but have found out we're much happier doing our own thing, then meeting up to eat. It all goes back I guess to me being an Art major, while she was an English major.
Synthesizer, Computer and Chamber Orchestra
with Rand Steiger (conductor), California E.A.R. Unit , and the Yamaha Computer Assisted Music System
- "The Key to Songs" is music for an imaginary ballet inspired by A Week of Kindness, or The Seven Deadly Elements, the 1933 novel in the form of a collage by the surrealist painter, Max Ernst.
The 'novel' is wordless, being composed of dramatic and often erotic collages, using, principally, illustrations from French popular fiction. Each of the novel's seven chapters represents a day of the week and each day has a "deadly element" associated with it. Beginning with Sunday, the elements are: Mud, Water, Fire, Blood, Blackness, Sight and Unknown. A motto and a Dadaist or Surrealist epigraph prefaces each chapter, and the motto becomes an enigmatic visual motif.
Subotnick's score - which calls for two pianos, three mallet instruments (marimba, xylophone and vibraphone) shared by two players, viola, cello and the Yamaha Computer Assisted Music System (YCAMS) - provides a musical counterpart to Ernst's enigmatic collage in several ways. The phantasmagorical ambiguity between reality and fantasy found in Ernst collages, and in the surreal groupings of images, has its equivalent in Subotnick's application of electronics."
- New Albion Records 1986.
Bob Mould is a golden god.
Craig
La Spagna by Atrium Musicae: all the compositions come from different parts of the Early Modern, from all over Europe and the New World, using one of three Spanish melodies. It's an interesting look at the diffusion of musical ideas. It's also eClassicals deal of the day--$5.27, which is a little less than eMu, but still for FLAC.
Sira by Ablaye Cissoko
I've only ever completely lost one album that I know of - I was backing up only to a backup drive, and I plugged the wrong power cable into it. I was able to re-download everything from emusic (the good old days), except for one album that had left. It was Merzbow's Venereology - I recently repurchased it.