ihatemusic

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RDRN3HEHL._SS500_.jpg Just finished reading her memoirs on travel/recording in Mexico, Guatemala, Spain, briefly Morocco and various places in Europe throughout the 1940s-80s. She goes into great detail on recording the indigenous peoples of Mexico's folk son...

I remember several people telling me about how lovely it is to sing in a choir. I imagine carrying ones own body into an ensemble and using it as an "instrument" together with others, and producing a big sound together that way feels quite different than playing an instrument in an ensemble. Being ...

Holger Czukay - Der Osten Ist Rot

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2856783-1304200128.jpeg A continuation of a series that began in 2007. http://adititahiti.bandcamp.com/album/the-long-journey-messier-63 for streaming/download/purchase of physical copies $12US/$15Intl. 2 hand-painted CDrs with additional paintings inside case. http://adi...

Came up with a temporary solution for microtuning on the cheap. If anyone's interested, just respond!

Any advice on microtuning with the DX7S/IID or any other Yamahas? How easy is to get the workflow going? Yeah, I know there are a million discussion boards/webpages about this, but I want to hear personal experiences in set-up and use.

just submitted a piece

Russian/Komi?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uxUPDq8 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INa3ogiK ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBRE83Y ... re=related (LOVE this one!)

Agreed about Youtube and traditional music videos!

Juhuro/music of the Jews of the Caucasus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV2OfmWNvrE

more Kavkaz/Caucasus Jewish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1xFQjbf ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkXfyedG ... re=related

Scott Walker - Archangel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsazkyWA ... re=related

Just have some naked people on stage and improvise music to it. Some can be having sex, some can be staring at the ceiling or just wandering in circles. No one has ever done that before! No freshmen in college have ever filmed naked people writhing in various parks, forests, studios, in public, in p...

These posts become closer to the articles in the Wire (the only thing of value in that rag IMO, which makes any give issue of little interest if the articles aren't) Isn't this kind of like saying "I only read Playboy for the articles"? And if the analogy holds, does that make the reviews section t...

Will be slowly reading through "The Gamelan Music of Javi and Bali. An artistic Anamoly complementary to Primary Tonal Theoretical Systems" by Donald A Lentz. This will take a few weeks to process... The theory looks pretty solid, but the commentaries on Indonesian music leave something to be desired.

just finished reading:



will soon start on:

Mike Leigh's TV-movie adaptations of plays:

Grown Ups

Who's Who

Abigail's Party

Kiss of Death

Nuts in May

Hard Labour

Very dry British humor from the 1970s, mainly focusing on class lines. Of the ones I have seen so far, Abigail's Party is my favorite.

http://cdn1.ioffer.com/img/item/151/507/88/o_Chatterbox.jpg From IMDB: A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble. It has gotten some bad reviews on IMDB, but it was actually a relatively funny movie. The vagina sings "Wang Dang...

It has been over a decade since I last read Rimbaud, and a few months for Henry Miller...a calm return to the both of them.

Is the image the only extra-musical component that will resonate with the listener? I'll answer that: no.

It is integral as a concise, visual representation of a piece. The only extra-musical component? Of course not!

I'm, personally, sick to death of people trying to link music to painting or any art to any other art. I don't understand why there should be no link? Before hearing a piece of music, a listener purchasing a CD or record will see the cover art. Whether the cover is of a painterly or solely typograp...