EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 41, Issue 08 This issue's topics: "Gone to Ground"? Colo(u)red noise Distancing/Approaching (2 messages) Grooooveeeee Looking for correspondents Looking for ethnomusicology programmes (2 messages) Music and the Brain Remember when... (3 messages) Wakeman Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1992 11:01:18 PDT From: more dark than shark Subject: "Gone to Ground"? Folks- I just stumbled across David Sylvians "Gone to Earth" album...where has this been all these years? This music has not left my CD player for a day or two. Sylvian, Nelson, Fripp, Collins...an interesting mix of heros, Nelson and Fripp being early adoptors of home-recording technology... Does anyone know if Richard Barbieri, credited with "atmospherics" on this recording, has released any other disks? Are there any more released collaborations between these folks? Foxx & Sylvian? casey ------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 09:20:42 EDT From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA.BITNET> Subject: Colo(u)red noise Color of noise (colour of noise for our canadian readers) The schematic of the MiniMoog shows it can generate "red noise" but only the white and pink sections are hooked up. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1992 08:24:57 EST From: Jon Crystal Subject: Distancing/Approaching I have been intrigued by Nick's concept of "distancing" tools, and found it in fact quite helpful in considering synths and in sound design. I'd like to offer a "friendly amendment" or complement. Insofar as "distancing" conceptualizes a n attempt to remove yourself from the starting point, I find the notion of tool s that help "approach" the desired sound endpoint an alternative, and perhaps m ore helpful. If I think first of where I want to end up, and then begin to expl ore and use any synthesis techniques which will help me get there, including a role for samples, and work backwards, it seems more alternatives pop up. Perhap s just two sides of the same coin, but it seems this converse (or is it inverse ) way of looking at the question is helpful. Comments? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1992 11:00:43 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: Distancing/Approaching >I find the notion of tool >s that help "approach" the desired sound endpoint an alternative, and perhaps m >ore helpful. I work in two ways, depending on the context. Sometimes I have a firm musical idea and need to put together the sounds in my head, on whatever synthesis hardware I have to hand. At other times I'm just after new ideas, and just start somewhere and see where I end up. One of these is driven by the end, the other by the beginning. Nick. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 09:22:33 EDT From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA.BITNET> Subject: re: Grooooveeeee A lot of underground english 45s had for MUTE, FACTORY, and POSTCARD had great messages scrawled in the end groove, but many were little "blessings" on the vinyl kids as they went out into the big bad world, not from the band but from the techie who cut the masters and signed his work: "ANOTHER PORKY's PRIME CUT". He also worked on the ROUGH TRADE label. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 10:05:16 EET From: "Nick Thanasoulias Analytical Chemistry Dept." Subject: Looking for correspondents Dear fellows, My name is Nick Thanasoulias and I'm currently a PhD candidate in Analytical Chemistry. However, I'm very much interested in classical music, musical composition, opera and modern music e.g. rock operas. Anybody interested to contact me for some idea exchanging (possible cooperation on musical compositions) please contact me at the following address: Nick Thanasoulias, BSc, GRSC University of Ioannina Analytical Chemistry dept. 45110 Ioannina GREECE BITNET: NICK@GRIOANUN If you are seriously interested in contacting me please do send a letter to the address stated above since the computer I'm currently working with, will probably be out of order soon. However, try to send an additional e-letter. Yours, Nick Thanasoulias ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 18:11:16 -0400 From: music@PARCOM.ERNET.IN Subject: Looking for ethnomusicology programmes I am compiling a list universities which have PHD programmes in Ethnomusicology. I would be very if someone could send me this information on following email address with the details of the programmes and about the availabilty of financial assistance. Regards Rajeev Upadhye Email: music@parcom.ernet.in ..OR.. parcom!music@shakti.ernet.in ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1992 15:00:00 CST From: DPFEIFER@MTSU.BITNET Subject: PHD Try looking in the NASM (Nat'l Assoc. of Schools of Music) directory. The addre ss is:NASM 11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 21 Reston, VA 22090 (703) 437-0700. Good Luck! Dan P. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 11:16:13 EST From: Jon Crystal Subject: Music and the Brain An issue of Newsweek a few months ago which featured current status of brain re search had two observations of possible interest to Emusic fans: 1. There is a physiological corollary to the physics of the harmonic series: th e actual locations in the brain where different sounds are perceived bear the s ame relationship as the harmonic series ( octave is doubled, etc.) 2. There are two different areas of the brain which hear sound/music depending on its volume: quiet music stimulates different receptors than does loud music. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 09:18:42 EDT From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA.BITNET> Subject: Remember when... Okay, you got me. I confess, I have been collecting those early synth lps for years. I just love the avarice of record labels in the face of Switched-On's success. Everyone and his dog had to have a Moog lp, even if they had no idea what it was. How soon we forget the crap that new tech. unleashes. I must have 12 beatle on Moog lps. One day i hope to pick one song and cue them all up live, with all their lunatic tempos and maestro drum machines. If what's is name could edit the ring cycle down into a one munute multi-track.... And some were great starts. How about the Mystic Moods Orchestra (Paul beaver on moog), or, John Keating's quadrophonic SPACE EXPERIENCE (on VCS3), or, Mort garson's The Wozard of IZ, Dick Hyman's Minotaur or Age of Electronicus, or, the 1st lp with a Moog on it, THE ZODIAC COSMIC SOUNDS (recorded at night during a trade show), or, bless their Theremin twisted minds, Lothar and the Hand People (produced by half of what became Tonoto's Expanding headband), or Happy Moog (no date on my copy), Moog Groove by the Electronic concept Orchestra, who also did Cinemoog, or Marty Gold's penis emblazoned cover on Moog plays the beatles, or, the First Moog Quartet (Gershon kingslyey), or the Phase Four lps of Claude Denjean, or Roger Hayman & Walter Sear (built 1st guitar synth, and included a whammy bar from a rare beast, the Wurlitzer Guitar), and yes there is a switched on Bacharach (blame Sir Christopher Scott), and those horrible Star Wars/disco lps, or Van McCoy's Star Trek cover, or, or, okay, hats off everyone to the grand champion of them all, even better than the Moog lp put out by CHESS, the big one, and rumoured to have never gone out of print...Switched-On Country. What can I say, a cover photo of a cow with glowing tubes for an udder, a version of Kawliga that predates the Residents, and when you hear those tuned resonant filters being manually run as a vocoder effect to do I Walk the Line, well, Virginia this must be Kansas. Don't throw them out, send them to me, please! I am still looking for a set of Hot Butter's work. They went far beyond what I consider Minimalism (Minimal man, Billy Synth, or Suicide) with that snappy little attack/release white noise pop hit "Popcorn". Lorne Hammond 051796@UOTTAWA.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 13:02:48 EDT From: The Radio Gnome Subject: Re: Remember when... Hi, Anyone remember Mother Mallards Portable Masterpiece Company? David Bordens early synth ensemble. They have two records out that I know of, their self titled 1st, now out of print and extremely rare and 'Like a Duck to Water'. The second is more listenable and includes a tribute to John Cage entitled 'C-A-G-E'. David Borden has several solo works out including the wonderful (imho) 'Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments' and the semi-solo 'Migration' and 'Anabantadiea' (sp?). Andy Wing "Heavy metal music must be for people who are alcoholics" - Klaus Schulze ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 22:27:00 EDT From: ROTHBART@ITHACA.BITNET Subject: Re: Remember when... David Borden is quite alive and well, and Mother Mallard has produced several more records since the two you mentioned. Dave's work consistently gets better and better. You can contact him at the Dept of Music, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850. He's one of the unsung heroes of emusic. Peter Rothbart, Director, EMS, School of Music, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850. Rothbart@Ithaca.bitnet. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 09:19:43 EDT From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA.BITNET> Subject: Re: Wakeman It's no list of Wakeman recordings if it misses his post- music workshop & pre-synth period with THE STRAWBS. Excellent stuff on an old favorite lp, FROM THE WITCHWOOD (1971) and there is a live one, CURIOUSITIES & OLD RELICS (?) that has a pre-Strawbs wakeman solo work that contains many of the musical ideas he later expanded. I am a minimoog nut myself, but I must say, Listomania sure was dreadful. However that acrylic piano got around and showed up on other things. For the YES fans: Ever seen a "Synthi Hi-Fli"? Howe and Pink Floyd used this very complex multi-pedal guitar processor made by the folks who dreamed up the VCS3. I know at least one was sold around Boston. It had slew things and pedal ring modulation plus fuzz & hi & low mixable octaves, etc. Looked like a plastic 3x2 coffee table on a chrome pillar, with a pedal board below. ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************