my CD changer

When we redesigned Keyboard magazine, we came up
with some standard interview questions for our
sidebar. One was: "What's in your CD player / iPod?"

I've got a 6-disc changer in my car. Here's
what I did this morning:

coming out
..Willie McBlind: Find My Way Back Home
..Ice Cube: The Predator
..Thelonius Monk Quartet: with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
..Beck: Odelay
..Sorabji: Sonata No. 1, Marc-Andre Hamelin

going in
..Page McConnell: [eponymous]
..Hiromi: Sonicbloom / Time Control
..Eminem: Encore
..The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
..Oregon: Out of the Woods
..Peter Sommer & Art Lande: Sioux County

for next time
..Ralph Towner: Solstice

Anyone else?

-Carl

I do not use CD player too often and do not have iPod or car changer at all but I have a 100 GB disk dedicated to music in my PC. Plenty room, nothing had to went out yet. In last days I have moved in there following items:

Anthology of American Folk Music
Morton Feldman - String Quartet No.2 [FLUX Quartet]
Gy�rgy Ligeti Edition 3 - Works for Piano
Steve Reich - You Are (Variations)
Simeon ten Holt - Canto Ostinato (Version for two pianos)
Clara Rockmore - Lost Theremin Album
Music of Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990)
Residents - Fingerprince
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
Oldrich Janota - Zluty kopec

Last piece from MMM was 8et Fantasia - Jeux rendering. Nice, very Bachisch. Thanks Aaron! I thing of 8ET as two 12ET diminished seventh chords too. My private name for it is "tempered diminished scale".
Milan

Carl Lumma wrote:
> When we redesigned Keyboard magazine, we came up
> with some standard interview questions for our
> sidebar. One was: "What's in your CD player / iPod?"
>
> I've got a 6-disc changer in my car. Here's
> what I did this morning:
>
> coming out
> ..Willie McBlind: Find My Way Back Home
> ..Ice Cube: The Predator
> ..Thelonius Monk Quartet: with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
> ..Beck: Odelay
> ..Sorabji: Sonata No. 1, Marc-Andre Hamelin
> > going in
> ..Page McConnell: [eponymous]
> ..Hiromi: Sonicbloom / Time Control
> ..Eminem: Encore
> ..The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
> ..Oregon: Out of the Woods
> ..Peter Sommer & Art Lande: Sioux County
>
> for next time
> ..Ralph Towner: Solstice
>
> Anyone else?
>
> -Carl
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C,

{you wrote...}
>Anyone else?

Sure, I'll bite. My wife was gifted an iPod nano, which has come in handy for jury duty this last week. The last loadup I did, I believe Weds night, was:

Abney Park: From Dreams or Angels
James Taylor: Live
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Peter Erskine: East Side / West Side (live)
Plink: The Sleeping Lines
Cirque du Soleil: Quidam
Tin Hat Trio: [30 songs selected from 3 CDs - Helium, Memory is an Elephant, The Rodeo Eroded, The Book of Silk]

Cheers,
Jon

I work at home, here are some recent spins this week:

Eberhard Weber's 65th Birthday, Stuttgart, April 2005
Eberhard Weber - solo bass, Lanzarote, Spain
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Alone in SF
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud
Dmitry Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues (Scherbakov, piano)
John Coltrane - the Heavyweight Champion, disk 4
Ornette - Beauty is a Rare Thing, disk 1
Mashkor Ali Khan (India Archive)
Bahauddin Dagar (India Archive)
Richie Beirach - The Snow Leopard
Harold Budd, sound. at REDCAT, September 18, 2004

KRONOS QUARTET featuring SIRIN CHOIR
"Sun Rings" composed by Terry Riley
Moscow, Russia, 2006-05-30

We Three�
Dave Liebman (ts, ss, bamboo fl), Steve swallow (el-b), Adam Nussbaum (dr).
"Spirale", Fribourg (Switzerland), April 12, 2006.

Wayne Shorter Quartet
Cologne
Philharmonie
2007-04-30

and in the car: Yuseff Lateef - Live at Peps, V.1&2

--
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db
* http://biink.com/poole

db,

{you wrote...}
>Eberhard Weber's 65th Birthday, Stuttgart, April 2005

I need info on that one! Write me offlist if more appropriate...

Cheers,
Jon

Jon Szanto wrote:

>db,
>
>{you wrote...}
> >
>>Eberhard Weber's 65th Birthday, Stuttgart, April 2005
>> >>
>
>I need info on that one! Write me offlist if more appropriate...
>
What do you need to know? I don't have a track listing. Here's all I know:

With: Reto Weber, Wolfgang Dauner, Jan Garbarek, Gary Burton, Marilyn Mazur, Sinfonie Orchestra

--
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db
* http://biink.com/poole

Greetings,

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this thread indicates music played in the background while some other activity (work, driving) is done?

My own preference (and it is only that) is that I don't listen to background music. I rarely listen to music in the car (except when I'm tired and need the stimulant) and never listen while doing other work (even gardening). So when I listen to music it is directly and with the intention of focussing on it specifically.

I am aware of using music as sonic beautification: in ugly soundscapes, the need arises to bring some beauty and this I understand fully. So while driving, taking the bus or other activity in the sonic sewers of our urban environment, the use of music seems perfectly understandable.

But in the environment we can still find inspiration for composing sounds. For example:

R. Murray Schafer, the Canadian composer and author, was here in Calgary for the premiere of a set of songs after Rilke. I asked him afterwards about the microtones in one of the songs. He said he had been driving home from Toronto and his old car started making strange shifting sounds. They went into the new work.

I've often thought of using three lawn mowers to make a composition of sliding tones, but since far too many hear that dreadful noise on Saturday and Sunday mornings, I don't feel the need to put it on a concert programme. There's free concerts across North America every week.

All best wishes,

Gordon Rumson

db,

{you wrote...}
>What do you need to know? I don't have a track listing. Here's all I know:

Sorry, should have just googled. Hadn't heard of this, now I see it is an ECM disc. I've loved this man's music and playing since the earliest lps on ECM (mid-late-70's?)

>With: Reto Weber, Wolfgang Dauner, Jan Garbarek, Gary Burton, Marilyn
>Mazur, Sinfonie Orchestra

Looking good. Thanks!

Cheers,
Jon

Gordon,

{you wrote...}
>Correct me if I'm wrong,

Speaking only for myself, you're wrong. :) Music fits into my life in many different guises. I am not adverse to having it truly be a sonic background blanket at times, but then again the music is appropriate to that. At the other end of the spectrum is a dedicated listening environment, where nothing is allowed (he says...) to disturb me, and I can sit there in the middle of a gorgeous soundstage and concentrate fully on the music itself.

But since part of the topic is mobile music, I have to say that the current generation of portable listening devices is really a boon. I listen mostly on extended evening walks (health), and there is something about moving out in the real world, with sounds floating in your head. It really is a different listening experience, neither worse nor better.

So much of this is apropos the genre of music one listens to as well. I have a pretty good suspicion you don't listen to a lot of pop, which frequently yields surface delights while not standing up to deep scrutinizing. Still good in my book.

Just one boy's listening experiences...

Cheers,
Jon

Jon Szanto wrote:

>db,
>
>{you wrote...}
> >
>>What do you need to know? I don't have a track listing. Here's all I know:
>> >>
>
>Sorry, should have just googled. Hadn't heard of this, now I see it is an ECM disc. I've loved this man's music and playing since the earliest lps on ECM (mid-late-70's?)
>

Me too. This is an FM broadcast boot. I also have a DVD of a TV
broadcast from '89 that I have to watch.

I'm copying all my downloaded boots off an external drive to DVDs
this weekend. There's a lot I forgot I had.

Making room so I can record.

--
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db
* http://biink.com/poole

Hi Gordon,

At 09:52 AM 5/26/2007, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but this thread indicates music played in
>the background while some other activity (work, driving) is done?
>
>My own preference (and it is only that) is that I don't listen to
>background music. I rarely listen to music in the car (except when
>I'm tired and need the stimulant) and never listen while doing other
>work (even gardening). So when I listen to music it is directly and
>with the intention of focussing on it specifically.

I don't like background music either. I never listen while
working. However, since high school I haven't had time to do
much listening in-and-of-itself. Driving is the best compromise
I have, since on my commute, anyway, the driving part only takes
two active brain cells.

But there are a lot of things working against me. I drive
a sports sedan, which isn't very quiet at highway speed. And
only two of the six speakers in my car stereo still function,
and none of them were ever much good anyway. So acoustic
music is pretty much off-limits. That's why I've been listening
to more rock and rap lately. Bombastic piano music like the
Sorabji works, but I wouldn't try a string quartet or a choir.

Also, my ability to me emotionally moved from listening to
a recording seems to have diminished with age. Like everything
else, I suppose. :)

>I am aware of using music as sonic beautification: in ugly
>soundscapes, the need arises to bring some beauty and this I
>understand fully. So while driving, taking the bus or other activity
>in the sonic sewers of our urban environment, the use of music seems
>perfectly understandable.

I try to avoid ugly soundscapes at all costs! My car's engine
makes a delightful noise. It's almost a shame to cover it up
with music, but it's the best time I have to get in touch with
that activity (music listening).

>I've often thought of using three lawn mowers to make a composition
>of sliding tones, but since far too many hear that dreadful noise on
>Saturday and Sunday mornings, I don't feel the need to put it on a
>concert programme. There's free concerts across North America every
>week.

In my neighborhood it's two-cycle leaf blowers, which I've been
trying to pass a ban on. But I haven't been trying too hard.

-Carl