Program Notes:
(running time - approx. 23 min.)
1. “Always Returning” 4:09
by Brian and Roger Eno
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
EG Records
2. “Hout” 10:44
by Louis Andriessen
Gigantic Dancing Human Machine
Cantaloupe
3. “A Wasp On Her Abodomen” 7:09
by Chas Smith
Aluminum Overcast
Cold Blue
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
Wouldn’t it be nice though…
Posted in General/News, Writings on Mar 14th, 2008
I almost thought the priorities of the world (and cable programing) were changing for the better. I saw this ad on the New York Times website and instinctively clicked to see which opera was going to be broadcast on HBO.
Yeah… no. Other guy.
Program Notes:
(running time - approx. 36 min.)
1. “Rumble” 7:44
by John Luther Adams
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe (CA21034)
2. “Time Does Not Exist” 14:02
by Kyle Gann
Private Dances
New Albion (NA137)
3. “All-Boy All-Girl” 8:14
by Arthur Russell
Amplified: New Music Meets Rock, 1981-1986 (from the Kitchen Archives No. 3)
Orange Mountain Music (OMM0024)
4. Rue Casimir Delavigne (for Daniel Lentz) 5:29
by Harold Budd
Avalon […]
Program Notes:
(running time - approx. 39 min.)
1. “Running Commentary (arbitrary excerpts)” 22:02
by Jon Gibson
Sign Of The Times
Lovely (LCD 3022)
2. “Continents Of City And Love” 16:37
by Michael Byron
Awakening At The Inn Of The Birds
Cold Blue (CB0012)
Improvisation and the Brain
Posted in Writings on Mar 2nd, 2008
According to a new study from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Scientists funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) have found that, when jazz musicians are engaged in the highly creative and spontaneous activity known as improvisation, a large region of the brain involved in monitoring […]