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[blessingx]

How modern singing was invented https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230511-how-singing-has-changed-over-the-centuries 

[blessingx]

Not an article, but a series of “newsletter” emails that will start Friday, from Craig Mod (who you may know from tech, photography, walking) on Northern Japan Jazz Kissas. He’ll then delete the list at the end of the 16 days of visits. 

https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/165/ 

 

Edited June 15, 2023 by blessingx

[blessingx]

Article linked from the above - https://harpers.org/archive/2022/12/corner-club-cathedral-cocoon-audiophilia-and-its-discontents/ @Voltron OMA is mentioned. 

[blessingx]

EDIT: As promised I'm deleting the newsletter first post, but will leave the guest star Leo P here...

 

 

Edited June 17, 2023 by blessingx

[Torpedo]

Thanks. I liked better the very end of the video where Leo P was starting to play Mingus' Moanin'. I've found there's a take of a larger part of the concert, if someone is interested. Chris Scott plays his horn

 

[dsavitsk]

Dolby Atmos Wants You to Listen Up.

True believers in the immersive audio format say it could restore a musical appreciation lost to a generation that has come up during the streaming era.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/arts/music/dolby-atmos.html

[Dusty Chalk]

12 hours ago, dsavitsk said:

Dolby Atmos Wants You to Listen Up.

[blessingx]

SR60s still put you inside the instruments? 

[blessingx]

Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/24/country-musics-culture-wars-and-the-remaking-of-nashville?src=longreads

 

[blessingx]

Shostakovich in South Dakota: A manifesto for the future of American classical music

https://theamericanscholar.org/shostakovich-in-south-dakota/ 

[Grahame]

 

Want to Enjoy Music More? Stop Streaming It.

Build a real music collection. Reintroduce intimacy to the songs you care about.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/magazine/music-not-streaming.html?unlocked_article_code=TtA88rDFywnGU7A_zghf62EYONr1XhmJZtKhyfZnNHFc6NHJjFO_O9bEXfyqAPGFTckToezToo9axpF4dOJMLmNl19DuG_xPO6SIoJkWNRHyrqs6-7HbiiqEIULK5QCjFoO6vM8zrJo7ygWuxW-aNzTc6biJwBp8Ct4bUsqOWaZPvKqvZYc2nzPvjtTKjp9ugl5U9SE3krmlfoZWO6kr9PvgDncjyVSV32yH_P9NOuUh9j6Z04FPQEFUuhf3UO2ElgrRdHCNINX5au5Zg1Z1KL_MKXrUxuK668ty5-tWBLQ2ojpQzoIwwvr4fGzxZwIBChu025CkDTdBX73X7Q7-&smid=url-share

[Torpedo]

I've just learned that Apple bought the classical music label BIS. Ted Gioia "The honest broker" has what IMHO is a very strong point about it here. About three years ago I started to notice a growth of shady editions of XXth century artists at other streaming platforms, and his view would explain that.

These days everything is business, from education to health, having arts in between. I don't think any society can survive that while having everybody well attended and satisfied.

[Grahame]

From the comments in the NYT article 

"I have a 17 year old writing for me who tells me most of his peers don’t have patience or attention span for whole songs. For them songs are for “old people”. I wish that was a joke but it’s not."

[blessingx]

Now That's What I Call Music turns 40 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67553906 

[dsavitsk]

Experience: Stevie Wonder secretly played on my band’s single

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/10/experience-steve-wonder-secretly-played-on-my-bands-single

[HiWire]

Restored 478-key, 31-tone Moog synthesizer from 1968 sounds beautifully bizarre:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/restored-478-key-31-tone-moog-synthesizer-from-1968-sounds-beautifully-bizarre/

 

 

Edited December 19, 2023 by HiWire

[Dusty Chalk]

4 hours ago, HiWire said:

Restored 478-key, 31-tone Moog synthesizer from 1968 sounds beautifully bizarre:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/restored-478-key-31-tone-moog-synthesizer-from-1968-sounds-beautifully-bizarre/

 

 

Oh, I am so sharing that with my microtonal-obsessed friend.

[HiWire]

Some of the YouTube comments complained the video was long on explanation, short on performance, but that early synthesizer wasn't ideal for performing, from what I can see... more useful for recording and experimentation, I think.

Edited December 20, 2023 by HiWire

[Dusty Chalk]

15 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Oh, I am so sharing that with my microtonal-obsessed friend.

...and she shared it with her history of electronic music professor (which she also taught).

[Augsburger]

Bing Crosby always manages to get me in the holiday mood. Now I appreciate his contributions even more.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-bing-crosby-made-silicon-valley?r=29vnf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

[eggil]

On 12/22/2023 at 11:34 AM, Augsburger said:

Bing Crosby always manages to get me in the holiday mood. Now I appreciate his contributions even more.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-bing-crosby-made-silicon-valley?r=29vnf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

This is a great story. Thanks for sharing!

[blessingx]

Still whipping it good, Devo looks back on 50 years via a new Sundance documentary

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/still-whipping-it-good-devo-looks-back-on-50-years-via-a-new-sundance-documentary/ar-BB1h1mTM

[blessingx]

Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing?

This is a bigger problem that you can fix with a Pitchfork

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-is-music-journalism-collapsing

 

[mikeymad]

^^ thanks,

It is an interesting thought. For me streaming has changed things fundamentally, but in the end it is an extension of things that I have always done.  I never really read music journalism, of course that would involve reading (not my thang). I had some influencers, family friends, radio, but for the most part, I bought music. How did I know what to buy? I didn't it was on sale at Columbia House, so I bought it. Getting hundreds and up to thousands of records, and tapes as well. I really was the only person that I knew that was into Classical, Country, Jazz, Prog, Rock and of course Donna Summer. Listening to Kraftwerk and SRV on the same day. Now that may not be so unusual in this specific crowd, but it was in my teens in central California.

All that to say. It took a lot for me to jump on the streaming idea, but I found how I can use it. I listen to a lot of new music. How do I know what to listen to? I don't. Yeah I get little bits from reading Stereophile equipment reviews (test songs), and Speaker Demo videos on YT (yeah, I know it is stupid to listen to someone recording speakers and playing them back on YT (let me have that one)). But the main thing that I do is I look at the recent releases and I start clicking. Yeah I could read a lovely in-depth article on a new band, or a new release (again, reading?!? yeesh, am I right?)  Or I can spend that thirty minutes clicking through a small pile of new albums and see what clicks for me, and add it to my queue. And then I come back and listen to the album, I listen to a lot more than I ever post, mostly because a lot of things are not worthy. I always consider, if I am posting, it is something that I want to share. 

I think that before times it was more important (not that it isn't important) to have people with connections and knowledge to let you know what was out there so that you knew what to spend your hard earned $$$ on. But now, I can look at the releases and click click, I am listening to that new album. 

Now streaming has triggered something old in me, I want to listen to everything, and with 100 million tracks at my fingertips, that is an issue. Tis the reason that I end up with over 600 albums in my queue. Also because I still want to go back and listen to Rush Hemispheres several times a year. 

anyway... what were we talking about? ... 

 

[HiWire]

The rise and fall of Pitchfork - Indie, Rocked:

https://www.theverge.com/24070565/pitchfork-gq-conde-nast-music-industry-change