Re: [tuning] Re: fuddy logic ala BOAC

jpehrson@rcn.com wrote:

> At Yale, they instituted a performing group called "Wolves in Sheeps
> Clothing" or something of the like. They would give wacky concerts
> all night!
>
> Have you heard of David Lang?? Have you heard of BANG ON A CAN?
>
> The "Bang on a Canners" are DIRECT descendents of the Bresnick "wild
> bunch."

But they sound like they spent way too much time listening
to Steve Reich and Phillip Glass. Although I do like Gordon's
I Buried Paul off their latest CD Renegade Heaven. It seems
like he's finally moving off in a more original direction.

(Come to think of it, Shri Pagano sent me a loop a while
back that combined the Beatles Get Back with - what the hell was it
Pat? the Velvet Underground? Sorry Gordon, it's been done!)

Like I should talk, while I'm sure people would make a connection
between my "ambient" music and La Monte Young, I do try
to move forward in a more personal direction in the timbre
and tuning depts.

nada brahma,
db

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* 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time"
* http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm
* http://mp3.com/davidbeardsley

--- In tuning@y..., David Beardsley <xouoxno@v...> wrote:
> (Come to think of it, Shri Pagano sent me a loop a while
> back that combined the Beatles Get Back with - what the hell was it
> Pat? the Velvet Underground? Sorry Gordon, it's been done!)

Hrmm. For the longest time I wanted to put, on one set of tracks, the
first movement of Hindemith's "Music for Strings and Brass", and on
another set of tracks record a killer Bonham-like drum track.

At some point, I came to my senses...

> Like I should talk, while I'm sure people would make a connection
> between my "ambient" music and La Monte Young, I do try
> to move forward in a more personal direction in the timbre
> and tuning depts.

And, IMHO, you succeed very well.

Cheers,
Jon

--- In tuning@y..., David Beardsley <xouoxno@v...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_20028.html#20028

> >
> > Have you heard of David Lang?? Have you heard of BANG ON A CAN?
> >
> > The "Bang on a Canners" are DIRECT descendents of the Bresnick
"wild bunch."
>
> But they sound like they spent way too much time listening
> to Steve Reich and Phillip Glass. Although I do like Gordon's
> I Buried Paul off their latest CD Renegade Heaven. It seems
> like he's finally moving off in a more original direction.
>

You're thinking of David Gordon... and not David Lang. Gordon is
much too much into loud minimal stuff for my own taste... Much better
done by Reich and Glass. (Hi David Gordon!--- Actually, I don't
worry, since he has NO interest in microtonality. Too much math...)
______ ____ ____
Joseph Pehrson

J!
I like it!
In a different direction, Rainbow in a Curved Air with ligeti Requiem. an old favorite back
DJing at punk shows in the 80's

JSZANTO@ADNC.COM wrote:

> Hrmm. For the longest time I wanted to put, on one set of tracks, the
> first movement of Hindemith's "Music for Strings and Brass", and on
> another set of tracks record a killer Bonham-like drum track.
>
> At some point, I came to my senses...

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
Wed. 8-9 KXLU 88.9 fm

JSZANTO@ADNC.COM wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@y..., David Beardsley <xouoxno@v...> wrote:

> > Like I should talk, while I'm sure people would make a connection
> > between my "ambient" music and La Monte Young, I do try
> > to move forward in a more personal direction in the timbre
> > and tuning depts.
>
> And, IMHO, you succeed very well.

Thanks! I'm always thinking about the next piece,
but they don't always make it to the recording stage.
I got a new DAT machine last week so I'll
be capturing more of my work in the near future.
Recording direct to disk is really for me.

nada brahma,
db
--
* D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
* 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time"
* http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm
* http://mp3.com/davidbeardsley

jpehrson@rcn.com wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@y..., David Beardsley <xouoxno@v...> wrote:
>
> /tuning/topicId_20028.html#20028
>
> > >
> > > Have you heard of David Lang?? Have you heard of BANG ON A CAN?
> > >
> > > The "Bang on a Canners" are DIRECT descendents of the Bresnick
> "wild bunch."
> >
> > But they sound like they spent way too much time listening
> > to Steve Reich and Phillip Glass. Although I do like Gordon's
> > I Buried Paul off their latest CD Renegade Heaven. It seems
> > like he's finally moving off in a more original direction.
> >
>
> You're thinking of David Gordon... and not David Lang. Gordon is
> much too much into loud minimal stuff for my own taste... Much better
> done by Reich and Glass.

That's exactly who I was thinking of. But I do like his
I Buried Paul. Nice samples and repetition.

> (Hi David Gordon!--- Actually, I don't
> worry, since he has NO interest in microtonality. Too much math...)

The Ban on Can All Stars seem to be interested. I was at the world
premier of Brian Eno's Music for Airports and they performed Arnold
Dreyblatt's Escalator and Movement Within by Glenn Branca (also on the
new cd).

And didn't Julia Wolf write Steam for the Partch Instruments?

--
* D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
* 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time"
* http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm
* http://mp3.com/davidbeardsley

David Beardsley wrote:

> Recording direct to disk is really for me.

That should read: isn't really for me. I got
a faster machine last October and I'm still having
problems.

>
> nada brahma,
> db

--
* D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
* 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time"
* http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm
* http://mp3.com/davidbeardsley

--- In tuning@y..., David Beardsley <xouoxno@v...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_20028.html#20071

> jpehrson@r... wrote:
> >
> > --- In tuning@y..., David Beardsley <xouoxno@v...> wrote:
> >
> > /tuning/topicId_20028.html#20028
> >
> > > >
>
> > You're thinking of David Gordon... and not David Lang. Gordon is
> > much too much into loud minimal stuff for my own taste... Much
better done by Reich and Glass.
>
> That's exactly who I was thinking of. But I do like his
> I Buried Paul. Nice samples and repetition.
>

Hi David!

Actually, I don't know that piece. I haven't been a "fan" so far...
but would like to remain open...

>
> > (Hi David Gordon!--- Actually, I don't
> > worry, since he has NO interest in microtonality. Too much
math...)
>
> The Ban on Can All Stars seem to be interested. I was at the world
> premier of Brian Eno's Music for Airports and they performed Arnold
> Dreyblatt's Escalator and Movement Within by Glenn Branca (also on
the new cd).
>
> And didn't Julia Wolf write Steam for the Partch Instruments?

OK... You are right. This is a good point. I guess I was
remembering an interview with David Lang where he said he was using
"alternate tunings" but was NOT using them "systematically" since he
was not "into" microtonality... at least not in that way.

I guess the point would be that the microtonality in his music is
INCIDENTAL to the music, not an essential direction in it. But, he's
a very creative guy, and I'm certain if he needed more "refined"
microtonality, he would use it....

I wasn't aware of the Julia Wolf piece, but I'm not really surprised.
Thanks for the update!

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Joseph Pehrson