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[Jesse]

krebs/nakamura
siyu

[Salty Swift]

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush



Ueno - Sui-Gin



Jungle - Live in Leningrad

[simon reynell]

'seven' is one of my favourite of the number pieces, and this is a good realisation
'quartets I - VIII' is deeply nostalgic in its use of (cut-up fragments of) church melodies. Very nice if you're in the mood.

[Richard Pinnell]

Yes I know this is incredibly mean, elitist and sad of me to post this here but I just couldn't resist it...



Nikos Veliotis - cello powder

http://www.cellopowder.com/

[Chromosome]

Yes I know this is incredibly mean, elitist and sad of me to post this here but I just couldn't resist it...

Nikos Veliotis - cello powder

http://www.cellopowder.com/

I'm glad it's not this guitar powder:
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2007/10/ ... worth.html


NP:
Radu Malfatti / Mattin -Whitenoise [w.m.o/r]

[treble ahead]

Yes I know this is incredibly mean, elitist and sad of me to post this here but I just couldn't resist it...

He managed to make 100 jars from it? That's the most impressive thing about that project so far.

[William Hutson]

Yes I know this is incredibly mean, elitist and sad of me to post this here but I just couldn't resist it...

is this mean because copies are already sold out?

[Richard Pinnell]

Yes I know this is incredibly mean, elitist and sad of me to post this here but I just couldn't resist it...

is this mean because copies are already sold out?

No, no I doubt they will for a good while. Just mean because Nikos gave me my jar/CD to take away whereas most people's will be posted, and so not that many people will have heard it yet.

[William Hutson]

i see. can't seem to find on the website how much his is charging for this release. any idea?

definitely more interested in hearing the cd than in owning a tiny jar of cello bits...

[jon abbey]

"I aim to produce 100 numbered jars of cello powder like the one shown opposite.

Every jar will be accompanied by a (also numbered) "complete works for cello" cd.

The price results by dividing the price of my cello by 100 (the number of jars). I bought my cello for €6000 back in 1999. Therefore the price of the jar+cd package will be €60. Plus shipping costs."

http://www.cellopowder.com/buy.html

[Richard Pinnell]

Edit: Jon found it

[William Hutson]

eeek. guess i won't be hearing that unless i can convince somebody to burn a cd-r...

[yonhosago]

Doin' the dishes.

[tristan]

eeek. guess i won't be hearing that unless i can convince somebody to burn a cd-r...

You're in luck:

The performance will be videotaped. The audio file of the “complete works for cello” plus the unedited video file of the “cello powder” performance will be available for free download through this website March 09 onwards.

Doesn't appear to be available quite yet though.

Now playing: Arthur Russell - Love is Overtaking Me -- Audika (2008)

Arthur Russell is overtaking me. (Not just this release, but everything I've heard in the last month or two.)

[UJM]

The Knit Separates: SWORDS, THEN DIAMONDS

[Dan Warburton]

Yes I know this is incredibly mean, elitist and sad of me to post this here but I just couldn't resist it...



Nikos Veliotis - cello powder

http://www.cellopowder.com/

Go for it, Richard - I can't afford 60€ for a jar of sawdust I'm afraid, but would like to hear the music. How is it?

[Dan Warburton]

VA, Au Clair de la Lune, Infrequency

CD1

STEVE RODEN - AUCLA IRDE LALU NE
LIONEL MARCHETTI & YÔKO HIGASHI - A SHORT STORY
SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY - DARK SIDE OF THE LUNE
LANCE OLSEN - THE CREATURE THAT DRANK SOUND
STEPHEN VITIELLO & MOLLY BERG - CLAIRE SONG SUNG
CHRISTOPHE CHARLES - BREATHE

CD2

JAMIE DROUIN - SOOT AND PAPER
BERNHARD GUNTER - LES VOIX DU PASSE / CHANTENT L'AVENIR / CLAIR DE LUNE
YANN NOVAK - TIME FORGOT

[Jesse]

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quote="Dan Warburton"]

VA, Au Clair de la Lune, Infrequency

CD1

STEVE RODEN - AUCLA IRDE LALU NE
LIONEL MARCHETTI & YÔKO HIGASHI - A SHORT STORY
SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY - DARK SIDE OF THE LUNE
LANCE OLSEN - THE CREATURE THAT DRANK SOUND
STEPHEN VITIELLO & MOLLY BERG - CLAIRE SONG SUNG
CHRISTOPHE CHARLES - BREATHE

CD2

JAMIE DROUIN - SOOT AND PAPER
BERNHARD GUNTER - LES VOIX DU PASSE / CHANTENT L'AVENIR / CLAIR DE LUNE
YANN NOVAK - TIME FORGOT

[/quote]

This looks up my street.

[Dan Warburton]

"The original recording was made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on April 9, 1860 using his own invention, the phonautograph, and consists of a series of scratches on a roll of blackened paper. Scott had never developed a way to play back his recordings and they went unheard for 148 years. In 2008, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory converted the thin lines back into audio, allowing us to hear a woman singing a segment of the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune”.
The two CD compilation is a conceptual extension of breathing life back into this document through modern technology; deciphering a voice that was etched into a thin layer of oil lamp smoke, and featuring a diverse group of international contemporary composers, creating new works from this ten second piece of history."

Scott de Martinville's bookshop is about half a mile down the road from where I am now!
No comment on the music yet (wait for the Wire review - ha), first listen only

[Alastair]

Yes I know this is incredibly mean, elitist and sad of me to post this here but I just couldn't resist it...

is this mean because copies are already sold out?

No, no I doubt they will for a good while. Just mean because Nikos gave me my jar/CD to take away whereas most people's will be posted, and so not that many people will have heard it yet.

Did you pay for it?