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Killing My Darlings: Suite for solo violin (1995)

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  • Miscellaneous

    Into the “other”: Pan Sonic – Kesto (234.48:4)

    by 5:4 January 18, 2008 • 20:34
    January 18, 2008 • 20:34

    i’m a sucker for series and cycles, from collections of compositions into a larger whole (such as Richard Barrett‘s Opening of the Mouth and Charles Tournemire‘s L’Orgue Mystique) to multiple-CD albums and box sets. i love them; perhaps it’s something to do with the sheer effort required to engage with…

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    Beautiful angst: The Cure

    by 5:4 January 17, 2008 • 11:16
    January 17, 2008 • 11:16

    Back when life was all of a teenage, when the concept of “family” still held some substance for me, i was taken to spend a few days in the company of my “cousins” in London. There wasn’t much to do there, and i recall one particular day when i and…

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  • Miscellaneous

    Dancing (kind of) and drifting (ish): Stravinsky, Autechre, The Orb

    by 5:4 January 10, 2008 • 22:02
    January 10, 2008 • 22:02

    IDM is to dance music as Stravinsky is to instrumental music; discuss. Well, not exactly, but it strikes me there’s something of a similarity, particularly in the way that the underlying pulse is fragmented into irregular metres. This is probably why i love IDM (and Stravinsky) so much, although i’m…

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  • Miscellaneous

    Back to John Oswald

    by 5:4 January 7, 2008 • 09:21
    January 7, 2008 • 09:21

    Yesterday’s listening was a return to an old favourite: John Oswald. i’ve been interested in him since my early 20s, when i heard a work of his performed by the Kronos Quartet at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall (Mach i believe it was called). His “plunderphonic” style is remarkable, and when i…

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    Merzbow and h³o

    by 5:4 January 5, 2008 • 16:32
    January 5, 2008 • 16:32

    Yesterday’s listening was confined to a single album, Merzbow‘s Door Open at 8am. Annoyingly, i felt distracted while listening, so i don’t feel i’ve engaged with it adequately; i’ll try again soon, perhaps as part of my journey into Masami Akita’s work. This morning i spent time with OM Electrique,…

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    From the ridiculous (via noise) to the sublime

    by 5:4 January 4, 2008 • 15:31
    January 4, 2008 • 15:31

    When any series comes to an end, it’s an emotional experience, and so it was yesterday when the last two CDs in Andrew Liles‘ 12-CD Vortex Vault series dropped through my letterbox. Black Pool and Black End mark the conclusion of an amazingly prodigious cycle of discs, released once a…

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  • Miscellaneous

    Irish Old and New

    by 5:4 January 3, 2008 • 19:07
    January 3, 2008 • 19:07

    There was an entirely accidental Irish connection to yesterday’s listening. Greatly enamoured as i am of Clodagh Simonds‘ gorgeous voice (she now records as Fovea Hex), i thought it would be interesting to listen to her earliest work, as part of the influential group Mellow Candle. Their 1972 album Swaddling…

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  • Best of the Year

    2007: memories and echoes; 2008: first sounds

    by 5:4 January 1, 2008 • 18:08
    January 1, 2008 • 18:08

    There were many, many musical highlights in 2007, but a lot of disappointments too, which i guess is unavoidable, considering the amount of music i listen to throughout the year. Probably the worst of the lowlights of the year was Avril Lavigne‘s The Best Damn Thing, an unfortunate title considering…

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