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Sporadic nonsense from a music-makin’ computer-speakin’ Irishman.
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2012-02-22
Source: peterberkman
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Warped Time Ensemble performing the seventh movement of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
Source: youtube.com
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Borkend by Global Goon.
Something more musical.
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Faith by Current Value.
Waking up with some heavy drum & bass.
Source: youtube.com
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2012-02-21
Source: showslow
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I took a great piece by an excellent reporter and created a version of it that was better for an online audience. This is a big part of what I do as a ‘new journalist.’
— ~ ~ ~ ~ L O L ~ ~ ~ ~ (via langer)
Source: langer
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Just getting slaughtered in chess, nbd.
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2012-02-20
Source: wikihow.com
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Source: gamemusicthemes.com
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]I’ve been reading about musical cryptograms: sequences of musical notes as encoded messages. The most common example is the BACH motif, the sequence B-flat, A, C, B.
In German musical nomenclature, in which the note B natural is written as H and the B flat as B, it forms Johann Sebastian Bach’s family name.
There are many more quirks of musical notation to exploit. For example, the German representation of E-flat is Es, so many composers have used this to encode the letter S.
Here’s a cryptogram of my own. I’ve encoded
emacsandvi(why not). The chord progression you hear above is E minor - A major - C major - E-flat major, or Em, A, C, S. In the key of G major, the opening chord is the sixth in the scale, and it’s minor, so it can also be represented with lower case Roman numerals: vi.It’s all very silly, but the result sounds pleasant. Next on the list:
bash.Source: soundcloud.com
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2012-02-19
Erik Satie’s Gnossienne No. 1, performed by Anne Queffélec.
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2012-02-18
Source: thelibraryoflarceny
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Minimal Mac: Microsoft's Biggest Miss
And, as usual, my wife disagreed. She then laid down a thought so insightful, so deep, so damned perceptive, that it just about brought me to tears in it’s completeness.
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Source: minimalmac
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Samples of the three volumes of Edward Bunting’s A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, from 1796, 1809, and 1840.
Download complete scans of the books from IMSLP.
Source: imslp.org
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Softly resonant haze
In my enduring quest to make up for a lack of musical education, I’m currently reading about Claude Debussy’s Préludes, two ‘books’ of 12 pieces each for solo piano. The titles of the pieces alone will describe them better than I can. My favourites so far are Footsteps in the snow, What the west wind has seen, and The submerged cathedral.
Some of the performance indications in the score are just as evocative. Here’s a selection:
- profondément calme, dans une brume doucement sonore – profoundly calm, in a softly resonant haze
- peu à peu sortant de la brume – gradually emerging from the haze
- moqueur – mocking
- flottant et sourd – floating and muffled
- sonore sans dureté – resonant without harshness
- comme un tendre regret – like a tender regret
Translations were taken from Images and ideas in modern French piano music. Actually, they were taken from a teaser of the book on Google Books, which I found after searching for a translation. I’d never even heard of the book, but now I need it. Thanks, Google.
You can download sheet music and a complete performance by Ivan Ilić from IMSLP (the International Music Score Library Project): Book 1 and Book 2!
