Tune of the Day

[Pliny Harris]

Fine composer, have his complete collection there.

Impressed! The man made beauty, beauty enough to interrupt the streams of Bowie tributes even. What format do you have For Philip Guston on then?

 

[SALTIRE]

Impressed! The man made beauty, beauty enough to interrupt the streams of Bowie tributes even. What format do you have For Philip Guston on then?

Oh I managed to download them a while ago. He was a sensitive big guy, he looked like he should be big and brashy in his work, but its so intimate and introspective the majority of his stuff. He and Mark Rothko were friends I believe and Feldman created music for Rothko's Chapel later and I always picture Rothko's works when I listen to Feldman for some reason. I first heard of him on a BBC program called The Sound And The Fury which explored how classical music moved away from harmony and into dischord in the early 20th century and they went onto describe early works by Feldman, Cage, Schoenberg (never could get into his stuff), Webern and others before moving through the decades into Boulez and Messiaen, Tavener, Stockhausen, Ligeti (another fave), Part (got to love him) etc.

Dunno if the three part documentaries are still up on it if you haven't seen it, but some of the music they played in the docs still is if you want to take a look.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...n-reich-monk-part-and-benjamin#group=p014vhd3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...iaen-ligeti-xenakis-birtwistle#group=p014vhd3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...concert-schoenberg-webern-ives#group=p014vhd3

Some of the music can be difficult and not everyone appreciates it, but it is tremendously freeing and wonderful to break away from the terror of tempo and the bar line!

 

[The Iron]

 

[Matt_]

 

[Benito]

 

[Freakyteeth]

 

[Aber gas]

 

[Blitzballer]

 

[Matt_]

 

[Aber gas]

 

[Pliny Harris]

Oh I managed to download them a while ago. He was a sensitive big guy, he looked like he should be big and brashy in his work, but its so intimate and introspective the majority of his stuff. He and Mark Rothko were friends I believe and Feldman created music for Rothko's Chapel later and I always picture Rothko's works when I listen to Feldman for some reason. I first heard of him on a BBC program called The Sound And The Fury which explored how classical music moved away from harmony and into dischord in the early 20th century and they went onto describe early works by Feldman, Cage, Schoenberg (never could get into his stuff), Webern and others before moving through the decades into Boulez and Messiaen, Tavener, Stockhausen, Ligeti (another fave), Part (got to love him) etc.

Dunno if the three part documentaries are still up on it if you haven't seen it, but some of the music they played in the docs still is if you want to take a look.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...n-reich-monk-part-and-benjamin#group=p014vhd3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...iaen-ligeti-xenakis-birtwistle#group=p014vhd3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...concert-schoenberg-webern-ives#group=p014vhd3

Some of the music can be difficult and not everyone appreciates it, but it is tremendously freeing and wonderful to break away from the terror of tempo and the bar line!

Yeah I watched Sound and Fury at the time! A good series, would defo watch again, preferably with company though, and company who don't harp on about their three-year-old niece being able to come up with better music etc etc.

I too associate Feldman and Rothko because of the Rothko Chapel work. Both did minimal, extensive mood work with hidden depths is my layman's comparison. This eerie, delicate refuge beauty. I really like them both, and again both get pilloried because their work's apparently basic charlatan stuff.

Ligeti was possibly the first contemporary composer I got into. In year ten we were walking the Duke of Edinburgh in the Peak District and I remember taking time out in my tent listening to his Requiem while everyone outside actually had fun. I was mega into him, ought to revisit really.

 

[Matt_]

 

[Stevencc]

 

[Freakyteeth]

https://soundcloud.com/thelashofficial/the-lash-for-your-love

 

[Stevencc]

 

[Matt_]

Wolverhampton's finest. Exceptionally talented, but still little known.

Beautiful, hypnotic and addictive music.

Enjoy.

 

[Stevencc]

 

[Vanni]

 

[Vanni]

 

[Benito]

 

[Benito]

 

[The Iron]

 

[Vanni]

 

[Benito]

 

[Renegade]

 

[Benito]

 

[Nilsson]

 

[Stevencc]

 

[Matt_]

Scott Matthews (and Robert Plant).

 

[Benito]