tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post3861421773194269693..comments2024-03-03T13:59:25.573-08:00Comments on If You Know What I'm Saying: total immersionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-84919190294376127222008-08-03T23:46:00.000-07:002008-08-03T23:46:00.000-07:00"a computer will play DVDs" - only if it has a dvd..."a computer will play DVDs" - only if it has a dvd drive; mine doesn't! but we've replaced the dvd player now and i'm hoping to watch the performance over the next couple of days. cheerscentrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-72916957393348674152008-08-03T09:22:00.000-07:002008-08-03T09:22:00.000-07:00If you have the right kind of lead to connect with...If you have the right kind of lead to connect with your hi-fi, a computer will play DVDs. That's all I use. I'm not into televisual media at all on the whole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-56660757425074630672008-07-31T13:09:00.000-07:002008-07-31T13:09:00.000-07:00hi ubu - yes, next time i was planning to play the...hi ubu - yes, next time i was planning to play them in a completely different order... whenever "next time" is! given the right circ's i would still do it again, all nine in one sitting i mean, but since that day i've only heard one of the discs again. so far...<BR/><BR/>... haven't watched the performance yet, our dvd player packed up and we've only just got a replacement sorted out - i'm looking forward to that. but i did manage to squeeze in jg's documentary which i thought was excellent - and of course he brings out a lot of the fun and games which took place over the four nights.<BR/><BR/>apart from what i said in the article, i still don't think i could give a shortlist of my "favourite" albums... but yeah, i may try and offer some thoughts as to which ones i think are particularly good examples of certain periods, styles, etc... we'll see. of course... *i* haven't heard all of the recordings either, not even within the period i've covered so far... but still, we'll see ;-)<BR/><BR/>to say the comp. notes are "fuller" than the basic catalogue of works (which is also reproduced in the back of each vol)is putting it mildly... hundreds of pages, several thousand in fact! no, i have deliberately NOT looked at them in any detail yet because... well, partly cos they're quite daunting ;-) but also cos i shan't be able to "go back" once i start, and i want to finish the current phase first (the post i'm about to put up will clarify this a bit), THEN get stuck into the notes. as i said recently (in the "still here" post), the notes only go up as far as the 119 series - amazing to think that he managed to go into that much detail; if he wanted to carry on and do the whole canon, there would be a lot more than five vols by now..! but no, we don't get anywhere near gtm by the end of it. (i must admit i was surprised when i found this out.) those who are curious about the full details of the ghost trance series will have to - dunno, what? get hold of some of the musicians and grill them about it? beg, borrow or steal the actual scores? i think it could be some time before gtm is written about in any detail - then again some musicology student may be preparing a gigantic thesis on it as i speak... tell you one thing, it's gonna be a long time before i attempt ANYthing of the sort ;-)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-51420057880510343442008-07-31T11:12:00.000-07:002008-07-31T11:12:00.000-07:00A brief note to say I found the Iridium set pretty...A brief note to say I found the Iridium set pretty inexhaustible, 'full of things' as Gil Evans said about Cecil Taylor's music. I didn't listen to it at 1 sitting, but after I'd listened to it right thru from 1 to 9, I decided to listen to it again from 9 to 1. The video is wonderful, showing what a sense of joy is inherent in making this music, & letting you see how the cues etc. are done.<BR/> One question some people will no doubt ask, as the Braxtothon continues is 'what are the rEally heavy Braxton records?', a question 'Jazz library' didn't really answer in a satisfactory way. I haven't heard the lot, but all I could offer are my own preferences. Whether or not the Mosaic set will see new material brought to light, or will prompt a re-appraisal, we'll see. (Maybe in another 25 years people in GB will have caught up with his music.)<BR/> By the way have you looked much at the composition notes yet? I imagine these being like a fuller version of the list at the back of 'Forces of motion', which is actually really useful as far as it goes.<BR/> How recent does it get, as far as GTM or what? Did you go to the source for these? I'd hazard a guess a guess it's a limited edition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-41356007807556756572008-07-29T10:12:00.000-07:002008-07-29T10:12:00.000-07:00pic: 10th july 2003, north of ljungby, sweden. thi...pic: 10th july 2003, north of ljungby, sweden. this was the year it *didn't* rain (see last para of article) - instead it was blazing hot and i was in constant distraction, driven half mad by about sixty mosquito bites on my feet (bitten through socks on the previous damp evening!). <BR/><BR/>technically we were lost at this point, but the views were such that we didn't really care. any readers familiar with heavy metal lore will be able to guess what we were doing near ljungby: looking for the place where cliff burton was killed in 1986. (with the help of a local journalist, we eventually found the spot, which is quite elusive and totally unmarked - one local told me that it's not commemorated as burton is just one of many people to have died there, and it is indeed a lethal stretch of road, slippery, badly cambered and with a ditch right next to it... which is where the slumbering bassist ended up, right before the tour bus fell on top of him. large vehicles, especially those passing through, would have no business there now - the new main route bypasses the area a few miles to the west - but as if to confirm that this was indeed the spot, fresh skidmarks testified to the treacherous nature of the road.)<BR/><BR/>i did take a picture of the site, trying to reproduce from memory the newspaper photo of the crash scene - fittingly, it's almost completely in shadow, the sky apparently clouded over at that moment. in any case it's far too sombre for use in such a joyous post... and this pic has a kind of "birthday feel" about it :)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.com