Forgive me, I'm just trying to understand here. That's what you listen to and enjoy as music? There's never any parts with a melody or harmony or rhythm?
But that was during the APA Eastern, when I was so busy interviewing candidates I wasn't reading the blog. (We rocked our hiring process, btw; great people for all three jobs.)
OK. It sounds like the intro or bridge to some of the noise rock I like (e.g. Mission of Burma, some of the Pixies)--I found myself gearing up for some rocking to happen, and it never did, and my back now hurts from bunching up in unreleased tension.
6: Funny, in my first practices with people doing the total improvisation thing, someone said that we sounded like the little freakouts at the beginning of Cure songs (first album), without the song. We later got more interesting.
But yeah, you need to come to it with different expectations. Sorry about your back.
Eh, that's why god gave us whiskey and mp3s on the computer. (And if I want to clear the mind, some trance/techno kinda things work for me--this is like hte opposite of relaxing.)
Hey, Dr. Oops is moving to Pittsburgh in July for another fellowship. (There's apparently only so much you can learn about livers in Jersey -- after a certain point you have to make the pilgrimage to the confluence of the Allegheny and the mighty Monongahela.) Anything she should know about the place?
Um, not sure where to go from there. Maybe she should e-mail me? How long will she be there? I assume she'll be at UPMC, so she'll probably want to be somewhere close to Oakland. She shouldn't live in Oakland unless it's absolutely necessary for her to fall out of bed into the hospital, excepting possibly South Oakland around Parkview, Dawson, Bates -- but then she won't be able to fall out of bed into the hospital anyway. Not that it's a bad neighborhood, but it's just not that pleasant and you can live much nicer elsewhere -- Squirrel Hill (which I'm very chauvinistic about) and Shadyside are easy bus rides away, walkable in nice weather.
I guess, let me know what she's interested in. Be happy to make any introductions too, not in the asking you to fix me up with her sense. (And maybe JRoth, who is still there, will have something to say. And Cala.)
Becks asks "It was interesting but was it necessary?"
Todd Jenkins
(http://minguslives.blogspot.com/)
enquires/requests info re :-
"At IAJE's annual gathering in 2005, bassist/educator Charlie Haden participated in a Blindfold Test for Down Beat Magazine. One of the selections played was Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen's interpretation of the Beatles' "Come Together", full of strummed double-stops and other exotic bass techniques. When the track was over, the first comment that Haden made was simply, "That piece of music was totally unnecessary to me." "
"The biggest question at heart, I suppose, is: Is music necessary? "
Was it in the Funky Penguin that Rufus Thomas told us "I feel all unnnecessary"? For sure in 1982 when Charlie Gillett on Radio London played James Blood Ulmer's "Are You Glad To Be In America", Ry Cooder said "That was unnecessarily funky".
Thanks!
Only a couple of days ago did I find out that Derek Bailey had died. This may be part of why I felt washed-out and lethargic all day.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 8:03 PM
Forgive me, I'm just trying to understand here. That's what you listen to and enjoy as music? There's never any parts with a melody or harmony or rhythm?
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 8:20 PM
Really, Weiner? I thought I had mentioned it here. I found out the day after, I think.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 8:22 PM
But that was during the APA Eastern, when I was so busy interviewing candidates I wasn't reading the blog. (We rocked our hiring process, btw; great people for all three jobs.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 8:29 PM
Chopper, it's not the only kind of thing -- but sometimes I like to listen to stuff that's basically pure sound. Clears the mind.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 8:32 PM
OK. It sounds like the intro or bridge to some of the noise rock I like (e.g. Mission of Burma, some of the Pixies)--I found myself gearing up for some rocking to happen, and it never did, and my back now hurts from bunching up in unreleased tension.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 8:43 PM
um...what is that thing?
seems like a bastard child of a theremon and a weed-eater.
Posted by matty | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 8:44 PM
It's a guitar.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 8:50 PM
6: Funny, in my first practices with people doing the total improvisation thing, someone said that we sounded like the little freakouts at the beginning of Cure songs (first album), without the song. We later got more interesting.
But yeah, you need to come to it with different expectations. Sorry about your back.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 9:32 PM
Eh, that's why god gave us whiskey and mp3s on the computer. (And if I want to clear the mind, some trance/techno kinda things work for me--this is like hte opposite of relaxing.)
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 9:47 PM
It was interesting but was it necessary?
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 9:48 PM
Keith Rowe is the pioneer of tabletop guitar. I was going to do a set of lyrics for "Table Top Rowe," but can't really get past the title.
Trance/techno kind of winds me up. MMV, obvs.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 9:53 PM
Keith Rowe is thinking outside the box.
Posted by joe o | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 9:55 PM
Hey, what a totally strange, unprecedented thing: I forgot the link in 12.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 10:00 PM
Matt, modeled on Tom Waits' "Table Top Joe"? It is necessary.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 10:01 PM
Ah. Guess so.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02-24-06 10:01 PM
Hey, Weiner, I read this and thought of you. New York magazine called Pittsburgh even gayer than New York City.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-25-06 5:53 PM
How 'bout that.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-25-06 6:28 PM
Hey, Dr. Oops is moving to Pittsburgh in July for another fellowship. (There's apparently only so much you can learn about livers in Jersey -- after a certain point you have to make the pilgrimage to the confluence of the Allegheny and the mighty Monongahela.) Anything she should know about the place?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-25-06 6:36 PM
Yeah, definitely.
Um, not sure where to go from there. Maybe she should e-mail me? How long will she be there? I assume she'll be at UPMC, so she'll probably want to be somewhere close to Oakland. She shouldn't live in Oakland unless it's absolutely necessary for her to fall out of bed into the hospital, excepting possibly South Oakland around Parkview, Dawson, Bates -- but then she won't be able to fall out of bed into the hospital anyway. Not that it's a bad neighborhood, but it's just not that pleasant and you can live much nicer elsewhere -- Squirrel Hill (which I'm very chauvinistic about) and Shadyside are easy bus rides away, walkable in nice weather.
I guess, let me know what she's interested in. Be happy to make any introductions too, not in the asking you to fix me up with her sense. (And maybe JRoth, who is still there, will have something to say. And Cala.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-25-06 7:24 PM
Cool, I'll email when the move is closer.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-25-06 7:40 PM
That's interesting - the Sheffield site is back. I had a link to it ages ago, but it "went away". Do you know who maintains it?
Posted by dave heasman | Link to this comment | 02-27-06 5:41 AM
Becks asks "It was interesting but was it necessary?"
Todd Jenkins
(http://minguslives.blogspot.com/)
enquires/requests info re :-
"At IAJE's annual gathering in 2005, bassist/educator Charlie Haden participated in a Blindfold Test for Down Beat Magazine. One of the selections played was Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen's interpretation of the Beatles' "Come Together", full of strummed double-stops and other exotic bass techniques. When the track was over, the first comment that Haden made was simply, "That piece of music was totally unnecessary to me." "
"The biggest question at heart, I suppose, is: Is music necessary? "
Was it in the Funky Penguin that Rufus Thomas told us "I feel all unnnecessary"? For sure in 1982 when Charlie Gillett on Radio London played James Blood Ulmer's "Are You Glad To Be In America", Ry Cooder said "That was unnecessarily funky".
I think "yes".
Posted by dave heasman | Link to this comment | 02-28-06 4:12 AM
Hello all! Very nice site and very informativity!
Posted by Sasha | Link to this comment | 03- 5-06 10:49 AM