In their statement, the label specified that the reason for the change in policy was “unauthorized streaming of recordings via video sharing websites, plus piracy, bootlegs, and a proliferation of illegal download sites.” They emphasized that they believed it was “important to make the catalogue accessible within a framework where copyrights are respected.”
Definitely good news on one level, but it will probably also mean there is no chance of ECM returning to emusic in Europe, where until quite recently we have had ECM. I suspect distribution could have moved throughout the World to the Universal group
I don't know if it is news, but there's 4 ECM albums on Bandcamp
Well that's been noted previously and had us puzzled as to why those albums. Also I note ECM appears to be live on Spotify BUT of course (unless I'm being even slower than usual) you can't search by label. There's plenty of Jan Garbarek for instance but I don't know how much of his catalogue is there. Personally given I pay £9.99 a month for Spotify but find I don't use it; I'd rather if we can't get ECM on Emu then I'd happily plunk more dollars down to get FLACs from Bandcamp of specific albums.
Update. If you search 'ECM Records' all becomes apparent. I still think asking about £5-7 for a flac d/l on Bandcamp would have hooked folk in and raised more dosh for the artists. It seems a badly thought out scheme for a company who have previously played their cards close to their chest.
I'm not sure if I'm ready to watch that Theremin video all the way through. About 20 years ago I abandoned building a PAiA theremin kit. The video suggests that avoiding a complicated design should make the project more interesting, but the audio reminded me of waving your hand around an AM radio tuned between stations. I'm inclined to go back to my old kit.
Bandcamp gift cards are here! Support independent musicians by buying one or ten for friends, loved ones and strangers from the Internet: https://bandcamp.com/gift_cards
Wished this was announced before I did my family Xmas List
That's miserable. I write about this problem for my job, and the rates are high everywhere in the US, and unbelievably high in some places. Good reminder to be alert for these pills in your life, including home and loved ones.
According to his website, George Cables has been suffering from health
problems that have led to plans to amputate a leg on March 1 (tomorrow).
He will have to get his house modified, in addition to the medical
expenses. There is a request for donations on his website. ETA, the link there goes to a Go Fund Me page. It has raised $71k so far, with a target of $75k.
For his new album All Melody, Nils Frahm transformed Saal 3 at the
former East German broadcast centre Funkhaus in Berlin into an analogue
recording studio to match the scope of his ideas.
We visited Frahm in the studio to find out about the making of the album
and how this unique space has helped shape his sound.
Interesting article about playlists. (Which makes me even less interested in playlists, if that were possible). I learned more about how spotify works.
"Late last year, two Vice reporters in Denmark created a fake band called Cl1ckba1t, created an unlistenable song, and paid the [stream enhancing] service $40 to generate 10,000 streams. Their order was fulfilled in 10 days."
res·o·nant A Light and Sound Installation by Mischa Kuball at the Jewish Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum Berlin is exhibiting res·o·nant – a walk-through light and sound installation by the Düsseldorf conceptual artist Mischa Kuball. Kuball created the installation specially for the new exhibition space on the lower ground floor of the Libeskind building. Roland Emile Kuit’s Amalgamation is part of the Jewish Museum of Berlin’s res·o·nant. In Amalgamation, one-hundred superimposed spikes of sound of different frequencies and micro durations are synthesized; these bodiless spike impulses resonate in space, creating reflections back and forth between speakers and surfaces. Every reflection is like a sigh of the wound the spikes create. By acceleration, these sounds and their reflections become one.
Jazz legend William Parker was performing the opening.
THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE - MAY 09 1047 AMSTERDAM AVE NEW YORK, NY 10025
Tristan Perich Lesley Flanigan
As part of Red Bull Music Festival New York, renowned modern classical composer and sound artist Tristan Perich will premiere his most ambitious project yet: A piece for 50 violins and 50 self-built 1-bit speakers. Perich investigates the spaces where the physical world meets the abstract world of computational electronics, writing intricate arrangements that blend lo-fi 1-bit sound – the lowest possible digital representation of audio – with cascading melodies performed by classically trained musicians. Also performing will be Lesley Flanigan, the experimental electronic musician known for her work with handmade speaker feedback instruments and voice. Flanigan takes a sculptural approach to sound design, and will present a new project for subwoofers and solo voice.
This headline is unfair, IMO. Wynton seems to be talking not about the genres, but the messages they often present.
“My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don’t think we should have a music talking about niggers and bitches and hoes. It had no impact. I’ve said it. I’ve repeated it. I still repeat it. To me that’s more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.”
I would feel it is not my place to say what black (or any) artists should or should not do. But personally I hate hate hate the casual use of those words, and still find it shocking every time I hear them.
"On this hot day, Socrates the inveterate urbanite will indulge for a moment in the shade and fragrance of a plane tree, but what he attends to is "the summery, sweet song of the cicadas' chorus." Such sweetness may seem bizarre to moderns who compare the thoracic contractions of cicadas to the shrill of knife-grinders, but the Iliad itself referred to the sweet "lily voice of the cicadas." As the classicist W. B. Stanford has suggested, Homer could count on his auditors appreciating an analogy from the "lustrous brightness" of a single lily, its form distinct, its shimmer consistent, to the clarity, purity, intensity, and constancy of cicada song..." (Hillel Schwarz, Making Noise, p.19.)
I think of this as part of the early history of drone music, and perhaps an insight into part of why it works.
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Also I note ECM appears to be live on Spotify BUT of course (unless I'm being even slower than usual) you can't search by label. There's plenty of Jan Garbarek for instance but I don't know how much of his catalogue is there. Personally given I pay £9.99 a month for Spotify but find I don't use it; I'd rather if we can't get ECM on Emu then I'd happily plunk more dollars down to get FLACs from Bandcamp of specific albums.
As for their catalogue being available on streaming services, maybe I'll give one of the free trials a go, but somehow I doubt it.
Wished this was announced before I did my family Xmas List
Article with bad clickbaity headline here.
Men are aged 14 when their favorite song is released, for women, it’s age 13
https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/968942186724290560
ETA, the link there goes to a Go Fund Me page. It has raised $71k so far, with a target of $75k.
For his new album All Melody, Nils Frahm transformed Saal 3 at the former East German broadcast centre Funkhaus in Berlin into an analogue recording studio to match the scope of his ideas. We visited Frahm in the studio to find out about the making of the album and how this unique space has helped shape his sound.
res·o·nant
A Light and Sound Installation by Mischa Kuball at the Jewish Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum Berlin is exhibiting res·o·nant – a walk-through light and sound installation by the Düsseldorf conceptual artist Mischa Kuball. Kuball created the installation specially for the new exhibition space on the lower ground floor of the Libeskind building.
Roland Emile Kuit’s Amalgamation is part of the Jewish Museum of Berlin’s res·o·nant. In Amalgamation, one-hundred superimposed spikes of sound of different frequencies and micro durations are synthesized; these bodiless spike impulses resonate in space, creating reflections back and forth between speakers and surfaces. Every reflection is like a sigh of the wound the spikes create. By acceleration, these sounds and their reflections become one.
Jazz legend William Parker was performing the opening.
https://www.jmberlin.de/en/exhibition-resonant
Ciradau (excerpt)
“High Definition Vinyl” Is Happening, Possibly as Early as Next Year
Tristan Perich: Drift Multiply
An ambitious, experimental piece for 50 violins and 50 speakers
THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE - MAY 09
1047 AMSTERDAM AVE
NEW YORK, NY 10025
Tristan Perich
Lesley Flanigan
As part of Red Bull Music Festival New York, renowned modern classical composer and sound artist Tristan Perich will premiere his most ambitious project yet: A piece for 50 violins and 50 self-built 1-bit speakers. Perich investigates the spaces where the physical world meets the abstract world of computational electronics, writing intricate arrangements that blend lo-fi 1-bit sound – the lowest possible digital representation of audio – with cascading melodies performed by classically trained musicians. Also performing will be Lesley Flanigan, the experimental electronic musician known for her work with handmade speaker feedback instruments and voice. Flanigan takes a sculptural approach to sound design, and will present a new project for subwoofers and solo voice.
This headline is unfair, IMO. Wynton seems to be talking not about the genres, but the messages they often present.
I would feel it is not my place to say what black (or any) artists should or should not do. But personally I hate hate hate the casual use of those words, and still find it shocking every time I hear them.
Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last
Noisy Homecoming: 17-Year cicadas emerge
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