Category Archives: Music
New music – “Playful Pizzicato”
My musical output kind of fizzled out in the second half of last year. The problem wasn’t a lack of creativity, though… just a lack of time. I find that I need large chunks of free time in order to … Continue reading
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No Sleep ’til notWigan
I was in Albrighton, Shropshire over the weekend, the occasion being the fifth annual UKMG National. As usual, a lot of people got together to play a lot of guitar, while drinking a lot of beer and generally having a … Continue reading
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First experiment in podcasting
Based on a suggestion I remembered someone making ages ago, I decided to have a go at making up a little blow-by-blow account of how I recorded a piece of music. First of all, here’s the piece of music. The … Continue reading
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Traffic Island
New music… a piece called “Traffic Island”. [Later edit: Unfortunately, all the details I wrote about this tune were on an ancient incarnation of my music site, and I can’t quite remember how the tune came to be written. Whatever, … Continue reading
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The real future of downloaded music
Regular readers may remember that I wasn’t particularly impressed with the UK launch of Apple’s music download site, the iTunes Music Store, or indeed any of the legal download sites. Paying just under £8 for an album of low-bitrate mp3s … Continue reading
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Perotin for beginners
Very little is known about Pérotin. What we do know is informed mostly by the work of “Anonymous IV”, an English student based in Paris in the late 13th century, who wrote at length on the daily life and musical … Continue reading
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New music purchases
It’s been a bit of a music acquisition week so far. It’s also been one of those times when I wonder why I don’t do all my online shopping from US-based sites. Around a month ago, I ordered the DVD … Continue reading
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F’KIN A!
Bad news for fans of Beatles songs reinvented as Metallica songs. Beatallica, pioneers, trendsetters and global superstars in this sadly under-represented genre, have been issued with a cease-and-desist order (which you can read in PDF form). And no, it’s *not* … Continue reading
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Rediscovering the “off” switch
I’m not much of an opera fan, I like “shows” even less and l don’t think I’ve ever seen more than a few minutes of Jerry Springer (or any other confessional TV shows) so I didn’t bother watching the Jerry … Continue reading
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Taking a breath
Seem to be quite busy in the run up to Christmas, so no solid content right now. For all the wrong reasons, I was introduced, earlier this week, to the writings of William Grim, specifically ‘Aesthetics of Hate’, an article … Continue reading
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