mmm018 Sunday, August 26, 2012
18th music meeting (August 26, 2012)
Attendees:
tENT
Ben
Rob
Hyla
tENT waits on stoop w/ red wine
Ben arrives
Ben & tENT talk about Stockhausen's "Mittwoch aus Light" wch we'd recently witnessed live streaming of
Rob arrives & leaves to get beer
Hyla arrives
Rob returns, we go inside, all 4 play the 4 simultaneous CDs of The Flaming Lips' "Zaireeka" - specifically track 8: "The Big Ol' Bug is the New Baby Now"
Rob gives Ben a CD copy of Art Pepper's "The Discovery Sessions" - tracks 1 & 2: "Nutmeg" & "The Way You Look Tonight"
Rob says "This Mahavishnu stuff is hilarious" & we listen to "The Noonward Race" from "The Inner Mounting Flame"
Hyla says there was a marionette theater for adults in Shady Side for 20 yrs & tells the story about learning about it
tENT talks about Charles Henri Valentine Morhage Alkan & plays a recording of Ronald Smith playing the 1st mvmt of Alkan's "Trois Grande Etudes pour les Deux Mains Separés et Réunies"
- the 1st mnmt's for left hand only
Ben plays the Tom Lehrer Collection DVD:
"Live in Oslo 1967":
"National Brotherhood Week" & "The Vatican Rag"
1980 tv show - the Michael Parkinson Show:
"I got it from Agnes"
1998: "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"
Hyla plays "A Ditty of Sunan" erhu (& other instruments) music played by Chen Jie-Bing from "Spirit on 2 Strings" CD + "Galloping War Horses" - wch tENT points out as another example of what he calls "Giddyup Music"
Simultaneously looking at Lehrer songbook:
"Smut" & "A Christmas Carol", etc..
Hyla plays Eyvind Kang (student w/ Michael White - Hyla went to school w/ him)
She plays a Tzadik CD called "The Story of Iceland"
(Kang's Icelandic/Korean) - track 05:
2nd half of "Hour of Fair Karma"
- oud, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, percussion w/ 2 other musicians (one's Bill Frissell)
Talking about Bill Frissell
Talking about the Brainpang instigated originality thread on mm
Rob brings up 3 points about originality
Ben leaves @ 9:05
Hyla plays Eyvind Kang's "7 Nades" CD
- he's a concept album kindof a guy - tracks 7 & 8
tENT plays his new sampling piece entitled
"The Only Jealousy of Cascando McKenna"
Here's version 10 of it that tENT recorded the next day:
[the original minutes included an MP3 that's not included here]
Rob plays 1st track of his new "Moustache Brothers" CD recorded w/ his former guitar student Issac playing circuit-bent instruments
- CD's called "Testicle Brain" - we listen to 1st 3 tracks:
"Happy Head"
"Testicle Brain"
"The Last of the Mohicans"
tENT plays "Life Would be Wonderful: from Residents' DVD "Demons Dance Alone" (2002)
Rob & Hyla leave 10:30ish
A good time was had by all (probably)
to the mm index
forward to mm 19
backward to mm 17
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE movie-making "Press: Criticism, Interviews, Reviews" home-page
to the "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - Sprocket Scientist" home-page
to the "FLICKER" home-page for the alternative cinematic experience
to find out more about why the S.P.C.S.M.E.F. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sea Monkeys by Experimental Filmmakers) is so important
for info on tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's tape/CD publishing label: WIdémoUTH
to see an underdeveloped site re the N.A.A.M.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Multi-Colored Peoples)