A lovely post at Tim Mangan’s Classical Life reproducing a 2003 article on Tower Records’ classical sales guy, Charlie Brand.
This (warning: sound) animated, automatic music box is way cooler than you’d first think. (Via Dial M/Crooked Timber.)
Get ‘em while they’re ‘ot: mp3 live recordings from the Whitney museum’s recent Reich extravaganza.
Matthew Guerrieri tracks down a man who could play those ‘impossible’ chords in Charles Ives’s piano music.
Be sure to check out the Pianoless Vexations mp3s recently added to Ubuweb.
And this story’s a few days old now, but I love it, so here you go: Teen Using MySpace to Lure Bands to Los Angeles.
droid said
Argh! you got to that Whitney ting before me!
Its great isnt it? Especially the hand cranked one. You could proably build something like that in logic fairly easily…
Tim Rutherford-Johnson said
Yeah, the stereo ones are really cool too.
undomondo : Blog Archive : Avant Saturday said
[...] * Thanks to The Rambler we are now informed about the Steve Reich exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recently called “America’s greatest living composer” by The Village Voice, you can download 13 of his well-known minimalist pieces performed by different ensembles, also via The Rambler and Avant Music News, is an astonishing BBC interview with the eccentric and revolutionary composer Karlheinz Stockheisen on youtube. [...]