tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post1283521336849078677..comments2024-03-03T13:59:25.573-08:00Comments on If You Know What I'm Saying: october 07 braxtothon... day three (1)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-59166691913618993682007-10-22T14:23:00.000-07:002007-10-22T14:23:00.000-07:00thanks fred - perhaps i spoke too soon ;-)thanks fred - perhaps i spoke too soon ;-)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-6890478699477423242007-10-22T10:08:00.000-07:002007-10-22T10:08:00.000-07:00Hi Cent, thanks for these captivating reviews. I e...Hi Cent, thanks for these captivating reviews. I enjoy them quite a lot. Sometimes I take your texts as entering doors to an actual listening of the pieces. I'll try to add more detailed comments as I come back slowly to the blogosphere. Keep up the good work ! I'm looking forward to read more about these mighty eructations and flatulences :o))<BR/><BR/>FNuage fiché qui rêvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01379323343291456318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-82980816177996398252007-10-22T03:55:00.000-07:002007-10-22T03:55:00.000-07:00hi boththanks for your contributions there - i not...hi both<BR/><BR/>thanks for your contributions there - i notice now that i didn't say that before..!<BR/><BR/>this "review" was the one which left me feeling most illuminated, ecstatic - well, this one and the next one to appear (mon 22nd) - and yet it looks to be the last one which might ever attract much comment, because it's such a huge pile of text that it just shouts "don't read me"... i see the problem and i must admit i'm not quite sure what to do about it ;-)<BR/><BR/>the thing is... what i haven't TOLD anyone yet is that my main inspiration for doing this shit is a guy who wrote about zappa, online... by the time i got to it and mailed him to say how much i was enjoying his writing, it was dead, just sitting there on the net, all its audience long gone by the look of it - and i never did get a reply (though i did keep my mail brief, not sure of a response!)<BR/><BR/>so i guess what i'm saying is that it doesn't actually matter if NOBODY reads the articles at this stage... so i am not going to worry too much about editing it or presenting it in smaller pieces<BR/><BR/>the main objective - to give myself a real chance to get inside the mind of the composer, i suppose - has been achieved already (although if i quit now i would have only a very vague picture with lots of space and not much detail, a desert landscape)... also it FELT really fucking good to get all that stuff out, incredibly cathartic at a time when i really needed it and least expected it...<BR/><BR/>blabber over... more to come...centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-49615543901783338832007-10-21T08:35:00.000-07:002007-10-21T08:35:00.000-07:00it came up in the comments at c#9 as i say - actua...it came up in the comments at c#9 as i say - actually it was glmlr that started it off, asking which type of contrabass clarinet it was (i.e. coiled or straight - apparently the latter exist though i've never heard of anyone playing one)... massimo magee replied "Braxton's large looped contraption was an Eb contralto clarinet I think(that's what I identified it as and the guy coming to collect it from the stage agreed) "<BR/><BR/>but yeah... i mean... they are both capable of reaching right through the floor in search of sound :)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-55187578450491063202007-10-21T07:28:00.000-07:002007-10-21T07:28:00.000-07:00He's listed as playing 'contralto E flat clarinet'...He's listed as playing 'contralto E flat clarinet' on the Iridium sets, & this also exists in the 'paper-clip' design favoured by Braxton for the contrabass he plays. I thought the instrument on the July gig looked big enough to be a contrabass. Hard to tell when you can't see the 2 of them side by side. The sound, anyway, could be described as 'chthonic.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-32775293228954038252007-10-19T17:43:00.000-07:002007-10-19T17:43:00.000-07:00Hi Cent. Contrabass is pitched in B flat an octave...Hi Cent. Contrabass is pitched in B flat an octave below the bass and contra-alto is in E flat a fifth below the bass. Sometimes the contra-alto is called "contrabass in E flat" anyway. It sounds more like a contrabass but usually looks more like the shape of a bass.<BR/><BR/>At least that's my understanding. AB will have both in his collection for sure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-7981083323872972672007-10-19T12:18:00.000-07:002007-10-19T12:18:00.000-07:00typos, first para above: "set us straight by clari...typos, first para above: "set us straight by clarifying..."centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-36024890025349156292007-10-19T12:17:00.000-07:002007-10-19T12:17:00.000-07:00when i say contrabass clarinet... i am following e...when i say contrabass clarinet... i am following established fashion to a great extent - b. was generally said to be playing one of them this year, in the concerts with c.t. - but a visitor to c#9 set us atright by calrifying that this strange-looking beast was in fact a contra-alto clarinet<BR/><BR/>looks like a miniature piece of oil refinery, anyway, but rendered in art ;-)<BR/><BR/>sounds great of course<BR/><BR/>who knows how many such beasts mr b. has in his personal collection now - i am pretty sure that all the famous old photos show a contrabass, no quibbles...centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.com