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12/23/2008 by face | 2 comments

IBM 1401, A User’s Manual: Johann Johannsson

12/6/2008 in General by face | No comments

How could I not get this!

Uncut “Essential for all fans of stately ambience”
Product Description The first album for 4AD from this Icelandic composer is an expanded version of a performance piece originally written for the dancer and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir, and which has been performed in more than 40 European cities. This new incarnation was scored for a 60-piece string orchestra and the four original movements were joined by a completely new finale. The final mix incorporates electronics and vintage reel-to-reel recordings of the IBM 1401 mainframe computer which inspired the piece in the first place.

Amazon.com: IBM 1401, A User’s Manual: Johann Johannsson, Mario Klemens, City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Erna Órnarsdóttir: Music

 

Blu-ray is dead – heckuva job, Sony!

10/28/2008 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.
With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t save it.

Blu-ray is dead – heckuva job, Sony! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com.

Trio da Paz Brings the Brazilian Heat : NPR Music

6/7/2008 in General by face | No comments

Trio da Paz Brings the Brazilian Heat : NPR Music: JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, June 5, 2008

– Trio da Paz comes from a vital music tradition: Duduka da Fonseca came to the U.S. in the mid-’70s, and Romero Lubambo and Nilson Matta arrived a decade later. Together since 1993, the “samba jazz” band represents the cream of expatriate Brazilian musicians in the U.S., as well as a vital link to the bossa nova years

I let the computer listen to JazzSet on Friday evenings (KUAZ). This show is very tasty.

Led Zeppelin: The Essential Album-By-Album Guide : Rolling Stone

5/30/2008 in General by face | No comments

Led Zeppelin: The Essential Album-By-Album Guide : Rolling Stone

Led Zeppelin: The Essential Album-By-Album Guide
From the First Album to “Mothership”: An Expert Rundown of Every Studio Album, Live Disc and Reissue

DOUGLAS WOLK
Posted Jun 12, 2008 3:30 PM

New Findings on the Mozart Effect

5/21/2008 in Fun by face | 1 comment

A recent report now says that the Mozart effect is another charming urban legend.

The bad news for the hip urban professionals: playing Mozart for your designer baby will not improve his IQ or help him get into that exclusive pre-school. He’ll just have to get admitted to Harvard some other way. Of course, we’re all better off for listening to Mozart purely for the pleasure of it. However, one wonders whether, if playing Mozart sonatas for little Tiffany or Jason could boost their intelligence, what would happen if other composers were played during the kiddies’ developmental time? Read the rest of this entry »

Jazz Excursion Radio

4/12/2008 in General by face | No comments

Jazz Excursion Radio Listen Now: Windows Media: 96 / 64    MP3: 128 / 64

Found this while I was reading about Bill Evans. Sometimes the radio works best ;-)

The MP3 128K stream is tastier than the 64K.

There are a number of “stations” – Smooth, Dinner, Vocal. If you sign up to be a member of All About Jazz you get to download the tune of the day as well.

Bagatellen: Signifying Junkie:

4/12/2008 in General by face | No comments

Bagatellen: Signifying Junkie:

So, to the listening library I was dispatched. It felt like a punishment even before I clamped on those thumbscrews-for-the-ears they called “headphones” and popped in a tape of Sunday at The Village Vanguard. (Isn’t there a part in all of us that rebels at unsolicited recommendations? Don’t you hate it when somebody gushes, “This is the awesomest, ever. You’ll love it.”) Village Vanguard, I thought, what’s that, some medieval theatre-in-the-round? The way my teacher described it, the experience I was about to receive would be pianistic heaven on earth, Mount Olympus on the 88’s, and god himself would vibe me from those solid grooves. Bill Evans was at that time the summation of everything that was ever worthwhile doing with a piano or a piano trio. Forget Monk – not really a piano player; didn’t he write some quirky tunes? – forget Hines and Tatum – hopelessly old-fashioned, heavy-handed stuff – who? Cecil Taylor? Get out of my sight, infidel.

Bill Evans – The Vanguard Sessions – 1961 – quoted on the last page of this month’s Jazziz Magazine.

I have a “fair bit” of Bill Evans in the collection. Turns out that I have 2 copies (not identical) of the Vanguard sessions – “Bill Evans Trio: Sunday At The Village Vanguard” and “Complete Riverside Recordings (Disc 7)”. They are not identical, but appear to be the same sessions. The former is engineered a bit differently.

I wonder what’s different in the latest “Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961″ collection? The reviews and description at Amazon illumimnate.

1,000 True Fans

3/5/2008 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

Kevin Kelly — The Technium

The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches.

What’s in a Beethoven Quartet? A Full Curriculum – New York Times

2/12/2008 in General by face | No comments

What’s in a Beethoven Quartet? A Full Curriculum – New York Times

In an unusual educational experiment Curtis has established Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11 in F minor (Op. 95) as the touchstone of the academic year for its 160 students. Imagine a year of medical school revolving around the liver, or a car repair course centered on the Chrysler LeBaron.

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