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Classical-Drone: Drone Classics — :coyot:
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An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery. Friday, April 13, 2007. Drone Classics — :coyot:. Although mnortham's solo album :coyot:. One of the most unusual features of :coyot:. Is the inclusion of a ten-page essay by Giancarlo Toniutti on (Sámi-Suomi) Geocultural and Ecosystemic Patterning. Taken in the context of Toniutti's essay, :coyot:. Many (if not all) of Northam's projects use the patterns in natural phenomena for inspiration. As a re...
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Classical-Drone: February 2013
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An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery. Saturday, February 23, 2013. Transcriptions album available at Bandcamp. This month I released my first album on bandcamp. An EP of six transcriptions of classical works that I've made over the last decade or so. Five of the pieces are by J. S. Bach, no surprise given the number of posts. And released it as a free download. Labels: art of fugue. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. As of...
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Classical-Drone: Drone Classics — Gaku-no-Michi
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An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery. Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Drone Classics — Gaku-no-Michi. Jean-Claude Eloy's epic electronic work Gaku-no-Michi. Has long been on my short list for drone classics. Composed at the NHK Studio in Tokyo (like Stockhausen's Telemusik. Including an excellent description of the piece and various technical credits. With the title roughly translated as "The Ways of Music," or "The Tao of Music.". Although the...
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Classical-Drone: Drone Classics — Night Passage
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An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery. Thursday, May 7, 2009. Drone Classics — Night Passage. A biologist who made a couple of albums for the Australian label Dorobo back in the 1990s, primarily using telegraph wires. Conveniently, the album cover artwork was suggestively vague, which left me free to imagine recording circumstances that were probably wildly distant from the truth. His first album, Primal Image. Appeared in 1998, there were th...
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Classical-Drone: Cathedral of Drone
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An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery. Wednesday, November 26, 2008. Last spring, the netlabel Webbed Hand released a String Ambient. Compilation that included an excerpt of Cathedral. A drone piece I made a few years ago almost entirely from piano samples. Today the netlabel Treetrunk. Has released the entire 20-minute piece, available for streaming or download at the Internet Archive. The TZP Drone Company. And the Drone Download Project.
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Classical-Drone: Drone Classics — Exactly
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An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery. Sunday, July 1, 2007. Drone Classics — Exactly. Released on Touch in 1987 and finally reissued on CD in its complete form by Korm Plastics. By the time of A Thirsty Fish. And How To Reform Mankind. For example, contained seven pieces, but 34 tracks, sandwiching 32 extremely short tracks (between one and three seconds in length) between two extremely long ones (46:34 and 27:50 respectively). This trac...
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Classical-Drone: Drone Classics — Ora
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An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery. Wednesday, March 14, 2007. Drone Classics — Ora. One of the first albums that got me hooked on drones was by the elusive British group Ora. Amalgalm. Was a 2-lp set released in 2000, sometimes called Amalgam. But the Ora discographies at both Brainwashed. Use the former — FWIW, the label website. Help make us cognizant by introducing a degree of strangeness into our natural surroundings. Rowe and Nakamur...
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Classical-Drone: Drone Classics — Weather Sky
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An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery. Thursday, August 5, 2010. Drone Classics — Weather Sky. While virtually all of the albums in my occasional drone classics series have been painstakingly composed over an extended period of time, it is of course not uncommon for artists to perform and compose drones on the fly. One strand of drone performance stems in part from the live electronics work from the 1960s: Cage. And collectives like AMM.
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Classical-Drone: Drone Classics — Cake
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An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery. Thursday, October 4, 2007. Drone Classics — Cake. Is one of the names most often dropped when vendors seek comparisons for drone artists. A search for "Coleclough" at the wonderful San Francisco record shop, Aquarius Records. A collaboration with Andrew Liles. Was released in three different versions: the standard edition CD of 700, the standard plus a bonus CD of 200, and a standard plus bonus plus a un...
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Classical-Drone: Ghostly Context
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An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery. Thursday, March 17, 2011. Compilation albums are intentionally a mixed bag, sometimes nothing more than a couple of big names strewn among introductory artists for a quick attraction to a new label. At their best, they contribute a complex and multivariant perspective on a pre-defined theme and become more than the aggregate of their individual tracks. Ghostly International. Melodic fragments in a high r...
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