Tonight I entertain a serious issue: who were the most handsome (dead) composers, and who are the ugliest ones? Better yet, let’s be specific:
Who was the cutest (dead) composer?
Henry Cowell
Who were the most handsome (dead) composers in their youth?
Schubert and Paderewski
Who were the most handsome (dead) composers?
Busoni and Bernstein
Who was the geekiest young (dead) composer?
Gershwin, [...]
“Music textiles” is a large tactile interface for playing electronic music. It was developed by Vincent Roudaud and Maurin Donneaud.
My fantasy runs wild: I imagine a new line of clothes where each piece of clothing is programmed to make a sound when touched. I could imagine my pants being a soft rain that fades [...]
Christian Marclay is a remarkable sound artist who has a passion for unloved sounds (watch video). He used scratching LPs as sound makers before Hip hop was a gleam in Grand Wizard Theodore’s eye. This YouTube video gives an excellent overview of Marclay’s talent and is worth watching, regardless of your musical tastes.
Christian Marclay is [...]
I’m ordering one of these for my garage. Seems like the perfect addition to my home gym. I can compose and work out at the same time! (Thanks Ursi!)
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In response to a recent Joni post, PK commented by asking some very important questions. I don’t pretend to have the answers, but will individually tackle them later this week. So that you can think about them, here they are. (PK is the proprietor of the fab blog LOOSE POODLE.)
1) What IS the difference between [...]
I watched “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” last night, and noted that the score was composed by Jack Nitzsche. This was a name I first saw in the dreamy cut, “Expecting to Fly” from the Buffalo Springfield’s second album, AGAIN. Jack’s orchestral accompaniment alone brought a magical sophistication to the group that outdid [...]
Yesterday I attended a presentation sponsored by the UCLA Library in conjunction with an office that oversees copyright and ownership issues on campus. Music librarian Gordon Theil presented most of the talk. Musicologist and award winning author Raymond Knapp also spoke of the copyright issues in his most recent books.
Gordon had this information on the [...]
Most of us have heard that Richard Wagner was antisemitic and was one of Hitler’s mentors for his own antisemitic scheme, but I for one had never actually read anything he actually said or wrote. This is not the thing music history classes teach–or at least the ones I took. I stumbled across this quote [...]
“I want to enthrall the world by my creative work, by its wondrous beauty. I want to be the brightest imaginable light, the largest sun. I want to illumine the universe by my light. I want to engulf everything and absorb everything in my individuality. I want to give delight to the world. I want [...]
Lisa Summer, author of “Music The New Age Elixir”
I’m reading a fairly interesting book called MUSIC: The New Age Elixir by Lisa Summer. It calls to task the several shelves of books that have been written about music and the spiritual world over the past 100 years or so, from the point of view of [...]
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