surround

[jon abbey]

concert of yours (which is why it's limited to musicians, not audience members), and interpret it however you want. memorable means just that, whatever comes to mind for whatever reason. part of the idea here is to try to see what different musicians consider to be exceptionally memorable.

[free math]

I'm writing one of these on my first solo performance, which is on one of the IHM comps. I should have a picture if I can dig it up.

[jon abbey]

nice, looking forward, thanks!

[jon abbey]

well, it took a bit longer than we thought initially, but issue 1 is about to go live any day. here are the contents:

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Through Limbo on Cruise Control: Graham Lambkin's Amateur Doubles-Lutz Eitel

Convergence/Divergence: Dystonia Duos, Sinter, Touching-B.W. Diederich

Silence, Environment, Performer: Beuger, Frey, Malfatti, Werder, Pisaro-Yuko Zama

Invisible Narratives: Vanessa Rossetto-Matthew Revert

My Most Memorable Show-Graham Stephenson

Ralf Wehowsky: Interview-Piotr Tkacz

Recreational Panic: Kevin Drumm in 2012-Mark Flaum

People Don't Like Music, But Can't Do Without Noise-Gil Sansón

My Most Memorable Show-Joe Foster

[lukaz]

... looking forward to it ... althou by the titles it looks even narrower than i thought ... a true IHMzine

[mudd]

we certainly look forward to having a wider span going forward, but we have to start with what we know best.

m

[jon abbey]

the authors are mostly IHM-connected, I don't really agree that the topics are so narrow, but yeah, just one issue. we (seriously) commissioned pieces on African music and Washington go-go, among others, but neither of those has yet materialized.

[Matt Wuethrich]

... looking forward to it ... althou by the titles it looks even narrower than i thought ... a true IHMzine

Wasn't the original impetus behind starting the journal the fact that much of the music we discuss and care about here wasn't being talked about enough? I'd say that table of contents fulfills that mission pretty well. I'm looking forward to it as well!

[mudd]

surround has arrived. find us here

m

[throw away yr books]

I thought the article on Amateur Doubles was especially interesting, I'm going to have to revisit the record soon to refresh my memory of it.

And I think there's an issue with formatting of "Some People Don't Like Music..." by the way. There's a point where BBCode(?) is left in the article:

[pullquote]I remember being startled at the time when discovering that the origin of Variation No. 30 of the Goldbergs, my favorite variation of the set, was likely based upon a racy drinking song.[/pullquote]

edit: The ErstAEU article/review is great too, though I still need to listen to Touching!

[mudd]

no issue, you just passed through when i had disabled a plugin for troubleshooting the slow-ass hosting.

thanks for taking note, though!

m

[throw away yr books]

Ah, I see. I didn't have any issues with loading the site at least, which is nice since I know people on Facebook/elsewhere were mentioning that being a problem. Pretty fast for me since I first accessed it actually, which was about 30-40 minutes ago or so I guess.

[mudd]

great, i'm glad you're getting through ok, i hope that will be true of everyone. the host tells me it's too flash-intensive, but that really doesn't seem likely, so we shall see.

anyway we don't have any comments open directly on the site, so i hope conversation about the articles can happen here.

m

[diederich]

I'll actually log in and check this place! Thanks for the kind words.

[mudd]

anyone here know a lot about flash? i'd much rather talk about the articles, but if the server keeps screwing up...

m

[Richard Pinnell]

I'm no expert, but looking through the site using Firebug I don't think there is any flash running there, just Javascripts.

Modern Wordpress sites are notoriously slow to load, as I have found out myself, often because the servers they are housed on were never intended to be used for such memory-heavy code. Its worth checking with your hosting company how much PHP Memory has been allocated to the server. You can increase the amount of memory your site can use by altering the wp-config.php file, but often this won't work because your host limits the PHP memory, often as low as 8MB, when you ideally need about 64MB. Given that the server also hosts the IHM pages, which will also use PHP it could be that the PHP memory is getting overloaded and needs to be as high as it can be.

See here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-c ... ted_to_PHP

Nice first issue anyway, some great reading there. Congrats.

[diederich]

Yeah I noticed you mentioning flash on facebook, Mark, but as far as I can tell there's not really any flash involved?

Richard is right that wordpress sites are a PAIN with loading times of late. I built one for a friend and it's just shy of barely usable these days. The PHP memory seems like a good place to start with your host, though. Sadly, I'm pretty out of the loop for the most part on web design/upkeep, good luck.

[jon abbey]

thanks, Richard, for the help and the kind words, much appreciated.

[mudd]

this is what i get for listening to tech support, i didn't think that counted as flash either.

thanks very much for the advice, Richard, i'm definitely going to look into that ASAP.

m

[Dan Warburton]

Splendid debut. Looking forward to discussion thereof here soon - Gil's essay makes some good points. Spotted one sentence in Lutz's piece that seems to have snuck in twice in a row (about start of paragraph 7 or 8): "And yet listening to the music via the rerecording is a completely different affair to the original." I do like album reviews that are more interesting than the album they're reviewing. Even made me want to relisten to that Besombes album for a while.. but the urge passed, happily.