Big band leader in conversation with Molly Sheridan of the New Music Box on questions of the madness of running a big band, of the value and role for composition in a modern jazz, a howto for becoming a big band composer, why a thrash beat should be just as welcome as a swing because that is who he is and why Darcy would run a first-rate first-person-singular bandblog about himself, and then give the sounds away for free ...
I can't understand why someone would not want to make their music as available as possible on the Internet. ..
. if I can get people interested in downloading my music and sharing it with others, there's no loss for me in that. It's more of an attempt to try to get people to download your music.
...
it's an accepted part of promotion for any group now that at least some of their music is going to be freely available. If you're trying to compete in that marketplace, with this glut of free music out there, and you're trying to prevent people from hearing yours without paying for it, I just don't see the logic in that. It's hard enough to try and get people to actually listen to the music even when it is free, because there's so much out there.
It just seems really counterproductive to try to control it to that extent.
Submitted by on Mon, 2006-12-04 07:53.
Yes, it's a bit cheesy, and yes the demographics form is needless and naively too personal, but nonetheless, ]
Your chance for free robo-therapy lasts for the month of December.
Submitted by on Wed, 2006-11-29 10:29.
What strikes me first about by poet is the simple and direct logical clarity by which Cage arrives at his indeterminant method, but what strikes me most about it is how clearly he foresaw for the audiences back then what today is so much obvious mainstay common knowledge of neuropsychology of music. Just for example, his so-obvious method to underline and isolate the active processes in our perceptions and show us all that we make our experience.
Maybe it's just from my hanging around him that it's obvious to me, but when someone points out that no one looked at their watch to note if I started typing right now at any exact coordinated moment and most would recoil at any absurd notion that I should, yet there they sit, the triangle players worldwide, believing they are waiting and waiting when they've been part of the quantum indeterminant fabric of the show all along ...
This interview conducted by poet and broadcaster at KPFK FM Jack Hirschman was recorded in conjunction with John Cage's visit to Los Angeles with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, performing at Royce Hall. Cage was to perform "45' for a Speaker" at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall in July 1963?a kind of lecture performance.
It was composed by chance operations related to the imperfections on the paper on which it was composed.
Of course, you can't blame a pioneer for not having a map, and when he'd already stood so high on the mountain to see so very far beyond his peers, I really can't fault my teacher for being wrong: Today, that it is not the intentional 'I' alone who engages the Trianglist into the fore of the score, but it is as much or more the greater unintended of the I-thing we are, and its been.
Submitted by on Fri, 2006-11-24 11:23.
If you've need for an otherworldly stocking stuffer this season, here it is, hot off the Chicago U Presses today, John Corbett's compendium of blount hermeneutics and the eternal cosmic message and wisdom of Sun Ra yours for $20, a fraction the price being asked today for Egyptian Healing Stick Reflexology, and galaxies better for you ...
While in Chicago during the mid-1950s, Sun Ra preached on street corners and occasionally created scripts to accompany his lectures -- intricate texts that invoke science fiction, Biblical prophecy, etymology, and black nationalism. Until this point, the only broadsheet known to exist was one given to John Coltrane in 1956. These newly unearthed writings attest to the provocative brilliance that inspired Coltrane.
Sun Ra annotated many of them by hand, and together the sheets reveal fascinating new aspects of his worldview.
Yes, is already on my -- for those who maybe need some sense of why they might need a tour of the mind of Mr Mystery, our tipster blogbud also hands an aside on the full You-tube of the BBC's
Submitted by on Tue, 2006-11-21 16:02.
There are so many good solid reasons for the modern world to opt into that it is near impossible to enumerate them all, but if we ever needed one more from a purely business point of view, Joe Sharkey at the New York Times has found us a goodie.
According to Joe, business travellers these days have a lot more to fear than just accidentally leaving their laptop on the shuttlebus:
"One member who responded to our survey said she has been waiting for a year to get her laptop and its contents back, ...
She said it was randomly seized. And since she hasn't been arrested, I assume she was just a regular business traveler, not a criminal."
Appeals are under way in some cases, but the law is clear.
"They don't need probable cause to perform these searches under the current law. They can do it without suspicion or without really revealing their motivations ..
."
And suddenly there they are, no computer, no idea what is happening to their computer or who is scanning it for what, no assurances at all; they could be looking for anything from child-porn to al qaeda plans to state secrets to political incriminations to RIAA bootlegs ..
.
Now ..
. in a tele-dynamically omni-access infospacial hypercubic world?
Submitted by on Mon, 2006-10-30 20:31.
In among the discussions over the impending future of rural communities such as the Jaymor targets of Port Credit and our own Sauble Beach, Dodge injects come from, of all places, the place Bucky Fuller called the City of Tomorrow, our own big-smoke of Toronto:
"Across Greater Toronto, more than 40 candidates are mounting corporate-free campaigns to protest what they see as an improper relationship between developers and city hall. They say the widespread practice of using developer donations to fund municipal campaigns has led to bad planning, environmental degradation and soaring property taxes."
Good to see there's at least a few working minds out there.
Here too, while we have those who'd like to take us down that Port Credit road, we also, by the looks of how this election is unfolding, could have ourselves a very interesting municipal election indeed -- our local Town of South Bruce Peninsula seems poised and on a roll to elect a nearly 100% female town council! I bet that's gonna turn some heads.
Submitted by on Mon, 2006-10-30 12:16.
It has taken top recording industry leaders and even the vanguards at , what has it been now, only nearly ? Well this slice of told you so is for Tim Oren and for all those music fans and musicians who said I was crazy to so diss their precious bit-discs, because vindication of vision really doesn't come any sweeter than this:
EMI Music Chairman and Chief Executive Alain Levy Friday told an audience at the London Business School ..
. "The CD as it is right now is dead," ..
. adding that 60% of consumers put CDs into home computers in order to transfer material to digital music players.
I have a new response to those who say they've just poured their savings down the big hole of a CD release: Instead of "Oh that's so nice.
" I think maybe I will say instead, "Gee, that's too bad." and I'm sure they won't really mind my bluntness all that much because nobody ever really listens to me anyway.
Submitted by on Fri, 2006-10-27 16:39.
While I'm not surprised at Tony Blair spouting hogwash, it is a little surprising to see the myth-busters at Snopes falling headfirst into a blairfaced lie they simply want to believe so much, they just can't help but fall for the carny's pitch, adding their own editorializing rhetoric to bolster the mythguidance of Blair's words, and I'm not saying Blair or Snopes are right or wrong in their conclusions, I'm only sayin' there is a fundamental missing link in the following non-sequiteur logic of Blair's Piltdown Prevarications on the gateway effect:
"For all their faults and all nations have them, the US are a force for good; they have liberal and democratic traditions of which any nation can be proud. I sometimes think it is a good rule of thumb to ask of a country: are people trying to get into it or out of it?"
Only it's not just , you and I : Put before a roomful of children one plate of good hot nourishing soup and one plate of chocolate truffles; put before a lunchtime mall of working urban adults a solid homecooked meal or a parade of empty sweetfat 'fast' food -- it's not because they want to make a bad choice, it's because under the hollywood lights, it really really looks like the choice to take -- because they have to reach the reason beyond the natural inclination, making a profit selling what's actually best for people could well be one of the hardest tasks any adwriter (or speechwriter) could ever face!
And our dear slick-tongue Tony knows I'm sure how all that glitters is not gold, nor is it necessarily, dare we say, , but hey, it sure makes a good sound-bite to rust viral enough to fool the best snipers of the Snopeswriters.
Submitted by on Mon, 2006-10-23 08:42.
Listen.
Look at it this way, for just those 17 hours of the 17th, I mean, really, is it worth the risk to even dare yourself into a tango with fate? Beware be aware, you have been warned, there's nothing more I can do. Yes you can't see it, yes you may do what thou wilst and take a dance with Mr.
D but, and I repeat, is it really worth the risk to ignore?
The effect is every thought and emotion will be amplified intensely one million-fold. Yes, we will repeat, all will be amplified one millions time and more.
Every thought, every emotion, every intent, every will, no matter if it is good, bad, ill, positive, negative, will be amplified one million times in strength.
Good chance your old blacklight posters may glow a bit too so watch out. And as for explanations and sources, I mean, hey, if you were standing in a fog on the highway, would you be trying to decide if it was a Mac Truck or a Greyhound horn, or would you just get the heck out of the way and later?
Actually, for those of you terminal skeptics, to be fair, this alert isn't really so very different from a section in 's describing the potential for light-speed universe-boundary bubble-walls sweeping by anihilating everthing it its path. If you ask me, a simple chakra-exciter is way preferable.
Submitted by on Thu, 2006-10-12 18:33.
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