JI and the listening composer and a change of subject

genewardsmith wrote:

> --- In tuning@y..., "jonszanto" <JSZANTO@A...> wrote:
> > --- In tuning@y..., Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@w...> wrote:
>
> > > I didn't say that I associate JI with romantic and poetic or that
> > > temperaments are associated with their opposites. I think it's more
> > > a case of assuming that that's what I mean because of the
> > > inexplicable drift on this list to place someone in one or the
> > > other camp.
> >
> > Alison, I can't believe you said that. I thought it was only me (and others who've exited) that felt this way.
>
> This is absurd--I'm one of those who works with *both* JI and temperament, both in theory and in practice, and you two seem to think I am a heretic against the One True Religion. Who exactly do you think is working to place people in one camp or the other?
>

Now, now, Gene. In the name of peace and reconciliation let's just file this under misunderstanding. I don't worship JI and certainly don't accuse you of anything. I just disagree with some of your opinions, as you do mine, but I respect and value your
erudition. No offence or disrespect intended at all. In retrospect I should have posted to the other list where scrutiny is less rigorous.

To change the subject what are you all listening to currently? Be honest now. Apart from raga and my own music, at the moment I can't seem to listen to anything other than late medieval and Renaissance choral polyphony, Stravinsky and Arvo Part.

Kind Regards

--- In tuning@y..., Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@w...> wrote:

> To change the subject what are you all listening to currently? Be honest now. Apart from raga and my own music, at the moment I can't seem to listen to anything other than late medieval and Renaissance choral polyphony, Stravinsky and Arvo Part.

If you leave off Stravinsky and Part, that's what I just checked out of the library. Working with tuning a lot seems to do funny things with my reaction to music, actually.

Alison,

--- In tuning@y..., Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@w...> wrote:
> To change the subject what are you all listening to currently? Be honest now. Apart from raga and my own music, at the moment I can't seem to listen to anything other than late medieval and Renaissance choral polyphony, Stravinsky and Arvo Part.

"Hana" - Jeff Greinke/Aniso Romero:
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/241/hana_.html

"Nortec Collective" (Norteno, a mexican popular music, crossed with techno, a style that has developed right here on the Tijuana/San Diego border):
http://www.milrecords.com/

"Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch (look on Amazon; American roots music)

"Notres de Norte" - Caetano Veloso (contemporary Brazilian song)

"Turangalila" - Olivier Messiaen (Kent Nagano, Berlin Phil [live])

"String Quartets 1-15" - Shostakovich (Emerson Quartet)

"Complete Works for Player Piano" - Conlon Nancarrow

"Blood Money" - Tom Waits

...when I have the time, that is!

Cheers,
Jon

jonszanto wrote:

> "Hana" - Jeff Greinke/Aniso Romero:
> http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/241/hana_.html
>

Heard a piece of his years ago and was quite impressed. will check this out!

>
>
> "String Quartets 1-15" - Shostakovich (Emerson Quartet)
>

Still a sucker for the original Borodin versions of these. The 11th has been elevated to my fav these days. 14 and 9 also!

Sym.4 is the most underrated masterpiece of the last century. Rozhdestvensky is the best . his best (out of the three i have found) VDC-1224 victor/japan

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

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

--- In tuning@y..., Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:
> > "Hana" - Jeff Greinke/Aniso Romero:
> > http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/241/hana_.html
> >
>
> Heard a piece of his years ago and was quite impressed. will check this out!

I originally knew of him through his 'sound'/ambient recordings ("Cities of Fog") but this is different. The singer (Romero) has a quite lovely quality, and her inflections are somewhat outside of 12. Certainly there are tunes that fall into the 'regular beat' category, but Greinke is a master at mixing and producing, and I simply love the way this music *sounds*.

ALSO! I forgot to mention I've been enjoying the work of a correspondent from this list and MMM, Mary Beth Ackerly. Her compilation "Intervals of Motion" is very fine, and (as all good music is, to me at least) doesn't sound like anything else. I got it at CDbaby:

http://www.cdbaby.com/

Cheers,
Jon