From the monthly archives:
I teach a seminar in electro-acoustic composition at UCLA. It is morphing into the first course of a three term seminar in film composition for our new MA degree. Jerry Goldsmith taught film music at UCLA some years back and when he gave assignments to his young film-composers-wannabes, he insisted that everyone work with the [...]
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“Let no one read me who is not a mathematician.” [Da Vinci]
A bookplate on the inside cover of an early 16th century version of The Annals of Ulster (MS. Rawlinson B. 489) – a chronicle of medieval Ireland from 431 AD.
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Visit Speech Accent Archive for an overwhelming study and aural museum of speech accents.
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Rhino Records has just released a 3-CD set of music by David Crosby that spans his career from the Byrds through his current work with CPR. The publication is a stunningly beautiful document lovingly curated by Graham Nash and Joel Bernstein. The first two CDs includes music from the Byrds, Crosby, Stills and Nash, and [...]
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One of my favorite things to do is to take a hot bubble bath. I use some aroma-therapeutic product made by Kiss Your Face, and add one drop of patchouli. I like to read, or do a Sudoku puzzle, or just sit and think.
For my 50th birthday, many of my friends chipped in and bought [...]
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I borrowed a reel-to-reel tape recorder from work to begin transferring performances I’ve had from tape to digital. As I reacquainted myself with this old technology, streams of old terminology thankfully came back into my memory: rock to stop, head out, tail out, 7 1/2 and 15 ips, big reels and small reels, DBX, and [...]
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Here is a smoky video of the Beatles “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl” from what sounds like the original recording session.
The beatlesUploaded by Hanvak
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Flipping through the ever entertaining collection Levy Sheet Music I found this fun cover that sums up my week (Well, I wasn’t able to find one that said “Friends, Friends, Friends” or “Martini, Martini, Martini” or “Food, Food, Food”). This cover reminded me that I’ll get to sit down with friends and a tasty bottle [...]
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This is the silliest thing I’ve seen in a while but is worth sharing. No, music, just silliness.
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