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bobbins Member (Idle past 3640 days) Posts: 122 From: Manchester, England Joined: |
Silly question perhaps, but what do you listen to whilst you check out EVC?
Is it soft calming music to ease the pains whilst decoding Brad's posts, or thrash metal to fuel the debating skills against Faith or RAZD? Or just silence? My preference is for ambient electronic music (Brian Eno, Autechre, Boards of Canada) and 20th century classical (John Adams, Steve Reich and Michael Nyman). Names and reasons please.
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mick Member (Idle past 5013 days) Posts: 913 Joined: |
hi bobbins,
Bach's violin partitas and sonatasBartok's string quartets Janacek's solo piano music Anything by Scriabin Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" Gubaidulina's viola concerto Basically, anything that makes me feel either cerebral or impassioned! Mick added in edit: unforgivably I forgot Shostakovich's preludes and fugues. To be honest, if you want to do a "desert island discs" kind of thing, I could survive quite happily for the rest of my life with nothing but the Bartok string quartets. This message has been edited by mick, 07-17-2005 09:43 PM
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bobbins Member (Idle past 3640 days) Posts: 122 From: Manchester, England Joined: |
Janacek and Bartok I have (rarely listened to - but have been to their graves) but Rzewski is new to me.
The John Cage connection (I have just read up on him) makes him interesting and will investigate. (music now on: Wire, following XTC - cannot completely ignore my teen post-punk years)
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mick Member (Idle past 5013 days) Posts: 913 Joined: |
Get the Rzewski, it's worth it. I think only one Cd is available right now. He was (is?) a Chilean socialist who ran away from the dictatorship to the US, where he was a music Professor at some University, possibly Columbia. He wrote music for solo piano which uses the instrument in a very percussive manner inspired by Negro work songs and the like. It's cool, slightly jazzy and entirely unique. "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" is based on a Chilean revolutionary song, with variations on the theme. Some of the variations are incredibly moving, and others are virtuosic technically challenging things. It's all very weird - you'll like it.
Mick Added in edit - here's the link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos Edited url to fix page width - The QueenThis message has been edited by mick, 07-17-2005 11:02 PM This message has been edited by AdminAsgara, 07-17-2005 10:07 PM
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bobbins Member (Idle past 3640 days) Posts: 122 From: Manchester, England Joined: |
It seems tonight is the UK love-in.
Cheers for the recommendation and information. I recently inherited my dad's vinyl collection (he is still with us, just wanted rid of nearly 10,000 records), and there he was(not my dad)! Not the piece you mentioned ,but a couple of short piano pieces (less than 3 mins), more like tone poems. Not really the stuff to type or read to, but as you said interesting. For jazzy I prefer Miles Davis and cool, anything Philip Glass (with a cold guinness). Music now - Joy Division - must be getting late.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1493 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
Juno Reactor, the Crystal Method, Fluke, and assorted Euro trip-hop including la caution and Gorillaz.
Sometimes Cake, Beastie Boys, or Linkin Park for a more rock feel. Howard Shore and Danny Elfman for orchestral soundtrack stuff.
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bobbins Member (Idle past 3640 days) Posts: 122 From: Manchester, England Joined: |
I never had much time for trip-hop or hip-hop until I heard Prefuse73 - One Word Extinguisher and Extinguished Outakes are two superb albums by a man that states that hip-hop is dying a slow death. Not with this guy on-board.
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jar Member (Idle past 420 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Paswonky by Fats Waller.
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CK Member (Idle past 4154 days) Posts: 3221 Joined: |
Jack Johnson - inbetween Dreams (at the moment - random play)
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1530 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
Silence....
I do not think any music known to man could aid in decyphering Brads musings. edit to add: I just love Joy Division great manchester band eh.? This message has been edited by 1.61803, 07-18-2005 05:38 PM
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Asgara Member (Idle past 2329 days) Posts: 1783 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: |
Joy Division is fabulous.
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robinrohan Inactive Member |
Gregorian chants, marching music, and Merle Haggard.
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Ben! Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 1161 From: Hayward, CA Joined: |
I prefer quiet. But that's not special to participating at EVC.
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coffee_addict Member (Idle past 503 days) Posts: 3645 From: Indianapolis, IN Joined: |
John Adams stuff.
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