What are you listening to Part the Third

[Dusty Chalk]

 

[TMoney]

The only wall I support.

[recstar24]

[blessingx]

If Only There Was a River | Anna St. Louis 

[jose]

 

 

[EdipisReks1]

One of my absolute favorite albums.

[jose]

The Doobie Brothers "The Captain and Me"

 

[mikeymad]

making some progress through my Horowitz catalog..

8&9 this morning.

[jose]

Kraftwerk tour de france

 

[TMoney]

Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

[Dusty Chalk]

Tangerine Dream Bootleg Series

That said, I love Romantic Impressionists and late Russians (ahem), so I may have to put my Chiu collection of Prokofiev and ... I don't know, some things by Ravel, Satie, and Debussy.

[HiWire]

Pulp – Different Class

 

Edited January 21, 2019 by HiWire

[Torpedo]

some interesting Theremin music

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683943414/carolina-eyck-and-clarice-jensen-tiny-desk-concert?jwsource=cl

[ironbut]

Inspiring stuff.

Thanks Antonio!

[jose]

What a strange "instrument" ?

[Dusty Chalk]

It depends whose hands control it.  Look up Clara Rockmore, she was the original virtuoso.

[jose]

Thank. I was watching some of his videos. I recognize that I find it difficult to understand this as an "instrument"... but it sounds.

[Dusty Chalk]

Not sure why you have trouble understanding it as an instrument -- it is monophonic -- like most every wind and brass instrument -- and it isn't fretted or stopped -- like a guitar or saxophone, more like a violin, cello or slide whistle -- and it has a purity of sound that I rather enjoy.  (I have a friend who went to Bob Moog's workshop and built her own, and she did an extra careful job and it was voiced like a Minimoog -- it was delicious.  I haven't heard another that sounded quite like it.  Most of the recordings I've heard didn't have the midrange body that this one had.  It was thick and girthy.

That said, I still really do like the sound of any and all synthesizers, including the theremin.

Me:  Chiu, complete Prokofiev solo piano music or whatever it's called

Damn, I love this stuff.  Such a beautiful sense of melody harmony and dissonance.  I need to write more dissonance.

 

[jose]

You know my English is not very good, but I will try to explain. ?

It's not because of how that instrument sounds (I like its sound of course). When I was little I went to the conservatory for many years and I´m used to the physical interaction between a musician and his instrument (including synthesizers). Don´t get me wrong, I think the advances in digital instrumentation are great but see someone playing a non-physical instrument is something strange to me.

 

Edited January 23, 2019 by jose

[Dusty Chalk]

Ah, okay, it's the not touching thing?  Yeah, that is something that is unique to this instrument.  It has to do with the way it's designed -- you control it by making small changes in electromagnetic waves around it.  By its very nature, you can't touch it.

By the way, it's not digital -- it was invented back in 1919.  It's only very recently that they've been able to add sufficient tracking to use it as a MIDI controller, but it's still mostly played in the analog realm.

[dsavitsk]

20 hours ago, jose said:

Thank. I was watching some of his videos. I recognize that I find it difficult to understand this as an "instrument"... but it sounds.

 

[recstar24]

Arg! Female vocals. It’s for the wife, I swear. 

[Dusty Chalk]

Jon Lord had the greatest organ tone in all of rock'n'roll.

[jose]

3 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Ah, okay, it's the not touching thing?  Yeah, that is something that is unique to this instrument.  It has to do with the way it's designed -- you control it by making small changes in electromagnetic waves around it.  By its very nature, you can't touch it.

By the way, it's not digital -- it was invented back in 1919.  It's only very recently that they've been able to add sufficient tracking to use it as a MIDI controller, but it's still mostly played in the analog realm. 

Yes that's what I mean. I've seen the videos again and the calisthenics (grace of movement) is beautiful. 
 
I didn´t know it was so old. Now that you say it, I remember something about the principle of operation.

Wow John Spencer's video is brutal!!!! I like. 

[Dusty Chalk]

Keith Jarrett, The Sun Bear Concerts on Tidal.

Easily my favourite concerts of his.  I could listen to this box set on repeat...and have -- it fits nicely into a 6 disc changer.  It's 5 nights across 6 disks, and since this is the 21st century, I've resequenced them into chronological order.