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BARK! are GRATE! They're in my top fifty five improv groups to see before I die list :-)
I caught a screening of Resnais "Love unto Death" a few weeks ago - the score ws by Henze (played by Fires of London). Really an oddity, bcz the whole film ws structured in scene --> score played with snow flakes against black screen --> onto another scene of dialogue, and so on, until the very end.
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« Reply #736 on: 20:41:54, 21-07-2007 » |
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BARK! are GRATE! They're in my top fifty five improv groups to see before I die list :-) I think you might have a chance in London some time in October, perhaps even with a certain guest sitting in. An announcement will be made here in due course. Now spinning here: coloured noise by Wolfgang Mitterer. Highly recommended. |
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« Reply #737 on: 21:23:16, 21-07-2007 » |
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Stockhausen: Gruppen
Blimey that's a tricky score to follow. You're looking at the bottom of the score expecting to hear strings... This may sound daft but I had never noticed the 'DEO GRATIAS' at the end of the score before. |
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« Reply #738 on: 21:37:23, 21-07-2007 » |
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BARK! are GRATE! They're in my top fifty five improv groups to see before I die list :-) I think you might have a chance in London some time in October, perhaps even with a certain guest sitting in. An announcement will be made here in due course. Now spinning here: coloured noise by Wolfgang Mitterer. Highly recommended. That Mitterer CD is absolutely STUNNING, I love it!!! Even more so since he gave me a freebie of it at the Spitallfields gig...  |
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« Reply #739 on: 23:33:49, 21-07-2007 » |
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Dillon: Helle Nacht
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Stockhausen: Gruppen
Are you listening to the BBC Tamayo recording of Helle Nacht (which, for all I know, is the only one)? I found it for $11 at a used CD emporium in Minneapolis last week and snatched it up. What do you think of it? |
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« Reply #740 on: 23:35:48, 21-07-2007 » |
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Dillon: Helle Nacht
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Stockhausen: Gruppen
Are you listening to the BBC Tamayo recording of Helle Nacht (which, for all I know, is the only one)? I found it for $11 at a used CD emporium in Minneapolis last week and snatched it up. What do you think of it? It's the only commercially available one Colin...dunno about hh, but I think it's a very fine piece indeed...! The other 2 parts of the German Tryptych (it's the middle one) are also very good indeed!! |
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« Reply #741 on: 23:38:57, 21-07-2007 » |
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Following the whole thing (and I do think it's very impressive) I'm left with one nagging doubt.
Why did he use the harp? It doesn't seem to be at all audible on the recording - is that something to do with the performance or is it just inaudible?
Biroc, do I remember correctly that you've written about this piece somewhere?
Oh yes, I've just found it on my hard-drive!
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« Reply #742 on: 23:41:24, 21-07-2007 » |
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Following the whole thing (and I do think it's very impressive) I'm left with one nagging doubt.
Why did he use the harp? It doesn't seem to be at all audible on the recording - is that something to do with the performance or is it just inaudible?
Biroc, do I remember correctly that you've written about this piece somewhere?
Oh yes, I've just found it on my hard-drive!
Hmm, not sure about the harp...will have to re-visit it... I have indeed. Hope it's readable after all this time... |
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« Reply #743 on: 23:52:04, 21-07-2007 » |
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I have indeed. Hope it's readable after all this time...
IIRC, it certainly seemed readable a few years ago. I'll let you know... |
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« Reply #744 on: 00:03:30, 22-07-2007 » |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #746 on: 00:28:46, 22-07-2007 » |
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Thanks for the article, Biroc. I've been listening to the piece a great deal lately, and I like it a lot - time to get ahold of Blitzschlag and Überschreiten, I guess.
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« Reply #747 on: 00:34:51, 22-07-2007 » |
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Thanks for the article, Biroc. I've been listening to the piece a great deal lately, and I like it a lot - time to get ahold of Blitzschlag and Überschreiten, I guess.
Cheers Colin, glad to be useful! Blitzschlag is currently unavailable commercially...but the 1996 Edinburgh Festival performance by Artaud and the BBCSSO is available from The Scottish Music Centre (ask them on email and say it's for "study purposes" - or send me a pm and I can sort it out... ). Überschreiten is available on a little known double CD by Remix Ensemble (with some interesting Nunes as I recall), a fairly recent release (in work so I don't remember the exact details) and the premiere is available at SMC too...let me know if you have any difficulties...I rate Blitzschlag very highly indeed..! |
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« Reply #748 on: 00:38:48, 22-07-2007 » |
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Überschreiten and Helle Nacht are both fantastic pieces, I feel, but I didn't get on with Blitzschlag the one time I heard it (the broadcast from the Edinburgh Festival) - just seemed a bit bland and indistinct. Might other performances change my mind?
Second section of Überschreiten, with all the labyrinthine overlaid string harmonics and the pulsar-like sounds from the Hammond organ, is one of those moments that really makes me stand back - awe-inspiring, even a little terrifying. All should hear it!
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« Reply #749 on: 00:40:36, 22-07-2007 » |
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Überschreiten and Helle Nacht are both fantastic pieces, I feel, but I didn't get on with Blitzschlag the one time I heard it (the broadcast from the Edinburgh Festival) - just seemed a bit bland and indistinct. Might other performances change my mind?
Second section of Überschreiten, with all the labyrinthine overlaid string harmonics and the pulsar-like sounds from the Hammond organ, is one of those moments that really makes me stand back - awe-inspiring, even a little terrifying. All should hear it!
Well Ian, there's only the Ed Fest version available AT ALL as far as I can tell...it was also done in France (with PA and Radio France Orch perhaps..dunno...) so it's all I know...worth trying to listen with a score, seems less indistinct to me that way! |
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