The only wall I support.

If Only There Was a River | Anna St. Louis 

 

 

One of my absolute favorite albums.

The Doobie Brothers "The Captain and Me"

 

making some progress through my Horowitz catalog..

8&9 this morning.

Kraftwerk tour de france

 

Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

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.

Pulp – Different Class

 

Edited January 21, 20197 yr by HiWire

some interesting Theremin music

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

Inspiring stuff.

Thanks Antonio!

What a strange "instrument" ?

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

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

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.

 

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, 20197 yr by jose

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.

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.

 

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

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

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. 

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.