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hypoglycemic’s aria

or which type are you?

alcohol [link removed] from celestial excursions by robert ashley
(available here)

a review of the u.s. premiere of the whole opera,
mr. ashley’s home on the web,
and a little bit about ashley and opera.

timbre!

klangfarben caprice [link removed] from 6 capricen für mixturtrautonium solo
by oskar sala (available here)

or maybe you prefer clangtint. then get out your mixtrautonium parameters.

envelopes please...

The story of the trautonium and oskar sala here. then, the look back from two sources.

kiss your food

just hang on until the chorus, please.

a better home in the phantom zone [link removed]
by bill nelson’s red noise (available here)

how much for the whole chorused package? no judgement here—it’s the imperfect vessel.

bill’s home on the web. or here?

farewell to the end of my nose

let’s act like no time has passed. here’s the status:

nonsense, 1: c’era una signorina il cui naso [link removed]
nonsense, 2: c’era un vecchio musicale [link removed]
by goffredo petrassi
(performed by rundfunkchor stockholm, eric ericson conductor,
available here)

the drawing lays out the second one for you, but here’s the whole—limericks by edward lear translated into italian, set to music by goffredo petrassi (sing along):

I:
C’era una signorina il cui naso
prospera e cresce come mai fu il caso;
quando ne perse di vista la punta,
esclamò tutta compunta:
“Dio t’accompagni, o punta del mio naso!”

There was a young lady, whose nose,
Continually prospers and grows;
When it grew out of sight,
She exclaimed in a fright,
'Oh! Farewell to the end of my nose!'

II:
C’era un vecchio musicale:
un serpe gli entrò dentro lo stivale;
ma lui zufolò notte e dì,
finchè il serpe via fuggì
ed evitò quel vecchio musicale.

There was an Old Man with a flute,
A sarpint ran into his boot;
But he played daay and night,
Till the sarpint took flight,
And avoided that man with a flute.

find all of the edward lear limericks, drawings, etc. here.

and the istituto di studi musicali ‘goffredo petrassi’.

and the obituary in the guardian (but just a single line for the nonsense setting?!).

vou explicar

what a chattanooga choo-choo is:

chattanooga choo choo by haruomi hosono
(currently out of print; other albums available here)

where to start? well: this is haruomi's re-make of a
portuguese (brazilian) version of the choo.
a bit about the first step here.

but the second step—difficult to describe,
unless you know the carmen miranda starter kit.
and then you put it through this filter.

and at this point i should acknowledge the kindness of b'angelo
at the jazz infection.
and i should also re-work the links on the side here.
reg hasn't posted for ages!
and i haven't posted for three weeks!

comments (1)

Are you through with your blog ?
If that's the case, too bad.
Thanks for the ride.
posted by molo, 02.09.06, 6:09 am

we wrote with rays and skates

as for the rest of you:

magic by n.c.

due to the xanadu-nature of the song,
not available in any sphere (but maybe in this xanadu,
which btw you can sing to the tune of both sides now, but just the beginning)

anywhat: i have to imagine that the song was originally written on guitar,
perhaps with the exact chords i used and maybe with all the other things
exactly the same and maybe this is it! but we wrote it with rays and skates
in mind, so identify the marimba and reed sounds and win!

comments (3)

That's a really interesting song structure. Thank u. I'll seek around your site for a while and I'll add you to my links. GrEat bloG.
posted by Moka, 11.04.05, 3:42 pm

...and this track is your work? I'm honestly impressed.
posted by Moka, 11.04.05, 3:46 pm

thank you, moka.
posted by nimbus, 11.11.05, 8:34 pm

a record, a record, another record

the lineups are in: ba-da-da-da-da-da, etc.

rain, from water! water!: an intermission with prologues and epilogues by harry partch
(performed by cast, chorus, and gate 5 ensemble, buy it!)

organized baseball, just in time.

harry on the web.

cha

it’s been two weeks. want some tea?

never on sunday [link removed] by conjunto sete de ouros (buy it)

oh, cha-cha-cha?
the sevens of diamond are (were) brazilian--
and the cha-cha-cha was very popular in brazil in the 50s and 60s.
same time as the jazz-samba-bossa conjuntos. and i'm weak for the genre.

a little bit (in portuguese) about this conjunto's one and only album.

more tea? this time in name only:

dan chá chá chá [link removed] by luiz chaves & seu conjunto
(sorry, i can't find it for sale domestically)

not as cha-ish: more glide-ful.
luiz chaves went on to bigger and better with the zimbo trio.
but for this session: full conjunto seu!

now, how about the tea:

dancing cha-cha-cha with bitter tea [link removed] by shang shang typhoon
(again, i can't find it for sale anymore)

oh: award for best biwa solo!

visit shang shang!

mi-i-i-nato...

hot damn:

minato machi blues [link removed] by mori shin'ichi (buy it here maybe)

some more mori. this time, from the harbor town: here perhaps.

again, the masterful cavaliers of enka page.

and, when in ueno, visit kobayashi's.

meet my seven stars

pléïades: 3. claviers [link removed] by iannis xénakis, performed by les percussions de strasbourg
(buy it cheap and recommended)

xénakis hq on the web.
and the 2001 obituary from nytimes.

but what's that? the conspicuous object in the night sky?

the "the subtle dividing lines between rhythmic order and chaos," says brian olewnick.

or maybe a rock-stellation, said xénakis:

"music is not a language. any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms,
with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a
thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one"