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| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | 10:05 am
[koganbot]
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A unique musical release
Last week my old roommate Jim sent me a link and the cheerful message: "Hope you're enjoying yourselves in the manners of your choosing. If so, this will soon put a stop to it." Further research unearths this: I find the piano playing almost as special as the singing. Current Music: Florence Foster Jenkins "Der Hölle Rache" | | Saturday, June 28th, 2008 | 11:07 am
[xyzzzz__]
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Its that time of year...
http://www.musicwedliketohear.com/Everyone, I'm sure, can recall when Richard Emsley seemed to break the sound barrier on poptmists. And here he is again, a premier of a new chamber cycle. The title of this concert series and the piece probably gives the game away as to what sort of piece it might be -- its not music we'd like to hear bcz it isn't supported very well with more concerts or promotion, but music we'd like to hear but cannot as its in the threshold: more of those Feldman-like 'conversations' with sound then. I'm sure there is a bit of the bitterness of the former, but certainly the latter as well. The 2nd week looks good as well. Will be nice to hear Satie, among others such as Johnson, Frey. hoho see you there. | | Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 | 1:31 pm
[miss_newham]
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Merzbow!
Hello wise ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) sukrat people. An LJ friend of mine wants to listen to Merzbow and needs recommendations of where to start. Do you have any suggestions pls? | | Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | 11:05 am
[xyzzzz__]
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| | Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | 12:24 am
[dubdobdee]
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| | Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 | 3:53 pm
[dubdobdee]
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THE FUTURE NEXT WEEK: or LOLLARDS IN SPACE
Lollards is winding down -- last show tonight! -- but dry yr eyes and defuzz yr lesser thoracic palps bcz we have EXCITING NEWS for our LOYAL LISTENERS, viz 1 x new eight-week series on Resonance FM 104.4 starting next Tuesday, 1 April 10-11pm. DARE YOU MISS IT? A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou will delve deep into the science fiction short stories of SF's Golden and Silver Ages. The pulp and avant-garde writing of c.1935-65 has fallen out of public memory; hosts ELISHA SESSIONS and MARK SINKER and their astounding guests* will return to this forgotten motherlode, once bedrock of the entire field. Eli will read evocative extracts, then quiz Mark and guest on authors, styles, subtexts sexual and political, technique, value, impact and legacy, plus changing fashions and meanings in backdrop, tech and alien allure -- and anything else that pops into their pulsating crystalline brain-lobes. THERE WILL BE SPOILERS! hurrah so we will announce the story in advance, and you can read it if you like. Episode one: Extracts from John W. Campbell's 1938 classic novella WHO GOES THERE?Guest = "Starry" Sarah Clarke, Hegemon Ambassadrix of the Nebuline Dark-Matter Cluster J-Pop 9 *viz Fellow Lollards and more: fans, experts, creators, backroom boffins, visitors and elder beings overground AND underground, squamous AND unnameable...  | | Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | 12:13 pm
[dubdobdee]
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| | Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | 12:46 pm
[dubdobdee]
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piano admin
mum's favourite pianotuner just rang to say the piano at dad's house is a semitone below concert pitch and does this matter? "we could try tuning it up but you might not have a piano at all after the experiment!" choice: a: send it to steinway factory to be reconditioned = wd cost c.£10,000 b: tune it within itself a semitone below proper pitch = will cost £38.oo aw he seems a lovely man -- he remembered i used to play double bass even though i never met him face to face, i don't think | | Friday, February 1st, 2008 | 6:03 pm
[jel_bugle]
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What I am listening to now:
My metal frenzy has wained, and I find myself re-embracing indie. This is nice noise, I think. I like that the drummer is playing a different tune. Parts & Labor: "The Gold We're Digging" | | Thursday, January 31st, 2008 | 4:05 pm
[dubdobdee]
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the circle closes!
i have discovered where my copy of metal machine music has been all these years! it was on long borrow to the former editor now publisher-on-chief of thee w!re t.h3rrington esq!! i will get it back so it can be the bed of a lollards b4 this season finishes!! | | Thursday, December 13th, 2007 | 4:28 pm
[dubdobdee]
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| | Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 | 3:11 pm
[dubdobdee]
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| | Friday, December 7th, 2007 | 7:42 pm
[jeff_worrell]
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| | Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 | 3:39 am
[anatol_merklich]
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OFFERING for Julio
and of course all others interested. But esp Julio, who keeps on posting interesting stuff to sukrat in spite of lack of commentage etcet. I take my part of blame for complacent behaviour faced w/threat of dilution of our lordly domain! yes! ( Not screetch really ) | | Thursday, November 8th, 2007 | 1:53 pm
[freakytigger]
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Tell me about CRIMSON
I have Red. I like the title track and "Starless" best. Where next? Have I asked this one before? Sudden deja vu... | | Friday, October 26th, 2007 | 12:41 pm
[dubdobdee]
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adventures in modern music: we ph34r phun
ok the w!re party was a bit of a mixed experience for me PLUS = most entire time chattin to i.p3nm4n (abt stalin, d.caruso, junk, love, failure...) MINUS = crossly complicated feelins abt [ REDACTED] bein there and havin to work out how to engage with him -- i realised talkin to IP afterwards that [ REDACTED] is so overthrilled BEING TALKED TO BY WE "ELDER GODS" that even me bein stroppy at him is an "honour" sigh bah PLUS = seein several old-days chums not encountered for an age MINUS = the music was PLUPERFECTLY AWFUL PLUS = actually the brief live element was fine, old-skool improv by ppl i am fond of MINUS = thinkin and talkin w.people abt richard and feelin very little of him there PLUS = possibly i have found me an AGENT -- more soon MINUS = 25 years omigod i am methuselah's grandad in the autumn twilight of my senescence PLUS = tony's little kids giving the thank-you speech (i think, it was totally inaudible) | | Friday, October 12th, 2007 | 4:13 pm
[dubdobdee]
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yay for the WAX CYLINDER
i didn't get as much OFFICIAL PROPER WRITING done today as i meant (i e none at all) tho i have written and sent one v.important personal letter, and half-written another but instead here is what i listened to on my NEW SECOND-HAND TURNTABLE = 1: birth of the cool f.miles davis (capitol CAP1024, both sides) 2: braxton&bailey live at wigmore: anthony braxton, derek bailey (inner city ic1041, side 1 of 4) 3: ornette on tenor f.ornette coleman (atlantic 1394, side 1) 4: wire 1985-1990: the a-list f.wire (mute stumm 116, part of side 2 so far) | | Monday, October 8th, 2007 | 3:52 pm
[jeff_worrell]
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You Don't Love Me (Nono)
 Approaching Festival Walk from the west, currently your first encounter – after the Festival News kiosk/van – is with Klaus Weber’s The Big Giving. Last Monday night it didn’t seem to be giving much: all was still save for a single gargoyle at the front, facing away from his inactive colleagues, vomiting gallons of water onto the pavement - as if passing judgement on the sorry spectacle. The effect was depressing. Later, after the concert had ended and I was heading for Hungerford Bridge, I noticed the sculpture had been fenced off – although whether this was to protect it from passing sk8r bois or affronted patrons of the South Bank Centre bolstered by one too many G&Ts wasn’t clear. Not an auspicious start to the evening. And arriving at the QEH my state of mind was further befuddled by two surprises, one on top of the other. First I ran into an old acquaintance (OK, crush), C, in the foyer – who’s now married with two kids aged 8 and 5 (jeez, where’d the time go?) and is writing a book on Nono for Cambridge UP. Then, on taking my seat and opening my programme I learned the sad news that Sebastian Bell had died just 10 days previously. I’ve been going to London Sinfonietta concerts since 1983 and Bell was the one ever-present in the line-up, a wonderful flautist with a mastery of every instrument in the family from piccolo to bass flute and always looking and sounding prepared and confident whatever the programme. Apparently, he’d been performing right up until his death. Last Monday’s Sinfonietta concert was dedicated to Bell, and commenced with an unscheduled performance of a Berio miniature for trio (inc. flute natch), originally composed on the death of Stravinsky. It served the same function as a two minute silence at the start of a sporting event, only without the cathartic release of a ref’s whistle at the end. Instead, after an awkward pause, the Sinfonietta launched into the first Nono piece of the evening, Incontri (“Encounters”). Needless to say, my head wasn’t in the right place to concentrate properly at this point – and truth be told it took a fearsome performance of Schoenberg’s First Chamber Symphony before everyone in the hall truly relaxed. This matters because above all the function of Nono’s music is a social one, about bringing people together and the shared experience of listening and reacting. The architecture of Incontri (1955) is supposedly of two, contrasting musical ‘structures’ engaging with each other. But Nono doesn’t make it easy for the audience – the arrangement is sparse, the spaces between the notes often as important as the notes themselves (I was reminded of Feldman), so individual notes barely link up let alone interact. More successful, to my ears was the slightly earlier piece that followed the interval (and a much needed glass of beer), Variazioni canoniche sull serie del’op 41 di Arnold Schoenberg (although even this became less fathomable the more it opened up). These variations on one of Schoenberg’s 12 note rows shows Nono’s contrarianism at its most stark. Reaction for Nono included protesting against orthodoxies including musical ones, and not least the new ones emerging in the Darmstadt era; in the 50s Nono encouraged argument and discussions about the legacy of the Second Viennese school. [Chatting to C afterwards, she told me that even after having had access to some of his sketches in Venice, fathoming Nono’s use of serialism was proving to be a problem. It bears no relation to anybody else’s and seems far removed from, say, the way Boulez or Stockhausen worked.] The theme of protest was carried forward in the arts-ed element of Monday night’s concert: during the performance 20 Kingston Uni art students were given a wall in the foyer to cover in graffiti, pictorial and verbal, in response to a live feed of the music (I was pleased to note afterwards that someone had included the 2Unlimited pun in their bit). For its part the audience was invited to join in the fun by creating postcard sized works of their own. I drew the pic upthread immediately after the Variations had finished. The blue and red colouring was added after the concert had finished. The concert ended with No hay caminos, hay que caminar... (do you see?) from 1987, which is one of Nono’s slow, meditative works. Inspired by the films of Tarkovsky, the perceived orthodoxy this piece rages against is the short-attention-span-encouraging, dumbed down version of the world perpetuated by contemporary media, especially TV. Musically, it draws on Venice’s long history of antiphony and distributing performers throughout the available sound space. Probably the ‘best’ of that night’s Nono works, although I sense I’m saying that because the music, and arguably the politics, asked fewer questions of me personally. Nor do I really have much feel for how the work compares to other late Nono. The latter I hope to address at future events in this series. C recommended the Maurizio Pollini concert on the 31st (as well as Prometeo next May of course). | | Monday, October 1st, 2007 | 11:23 am
[jeff_worrell]
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Nono Nono Nono Nono there's no limit!
(^^^excuse appalling pun there) A South Bank Centre / Royal Academy of Music festival entitled Luigi Nono: Fragments of Venice starts today with a London Sinfonietta concert at the QEH. I still haven't even set foot on the South Bank since the RFH reopened, so tonight seems as good a night as any to put that right. Anyone else planning to go to some of these? | | Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 | 5:28 pm
[dubdobdee]
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