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mjau
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Went running and listened to Star Anna.
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Nick Sevilla
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:29 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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| mjau wrote: | | Went running and listened to Star Anna. |
Man that video she has on there is potent.
I'm buying the album right now. Thanks for posting this one.
Cheers
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shedshrine
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| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:03 am Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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Liked Laurie Anderson's Big Science so when I saw this unopened copy of the vinyl boxset it came from, United States, I grabbed it. You do miss a lot of what is going on without the performance art visuals though. Regardless, a fun and interesting listen. A dvd makes more sense for this. I've only seen vhs of it around. And uTube of course.
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Gregg Juke
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| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:49 am Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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How old is that shred? Is that the deal where she plays the "violin" sampler with the bow made with 1/4" tape, with a violin "pick-up" that's a record head?
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shedshrine
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| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:26 am Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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| Gregg Juke wrote: | How old is that shred? Is that the deal where she plays the "violin" sampler with the bow made with 1/4" tape, with a violin "pick-up" that's a record head?
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Big Science (1982)
United States Live (1984)
Inventions
Anderson has invented several experimental musical instruments that she has used in her recordings and performances.
Tape-bow violin
The tape-bow violin is an instrument created by Laurie Anderson in 1977. It uses recorded magnetic tape in place of the traditional horsehair in the bow, and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. Anderson has updated and modified this device over the years.
She can be seen using a later generation of this device in her film Home of the Brave during the "Late Show" segment in which she manipulates a sentence recorded by William S. Burroughs. This version of the violin discarded magnetic tape and instead used MIDI-based audio samples, triggered by contact with the bow.
Talking stick
The talking stick is a 6-foot-long baton-like MIDI controller. It was used in the Moby-Dick tour in 1999–2000. She described it in program notes as follows:
The Talking Stick is a new instrument that I designed in collaboration with a team from Interval Research and Bob Bielecki. It is a wireless instrument that can access and replicate any sound. It works on the principle of granular synthesis. This is the technique of breaking sound into tiny segments, called grains, and then playing them back in different ways. The computer rearranges the sound fragments into continuous strings or random clusters that are played back in overlapping sequences to create new textures. The grains are very short, a few hundredths of a second. Granular synthesis can sound smooth or choppy depending on the size of the grain and the rate at which they’re played. The grains are like film frames. If you slow them down enough, you begin to hear them separately.
Voice filters
A recurring motif in Anderson's work is the use of a voice filter which deepens her voice into a masculine register, a technique which Anderson has referred to as "audio drag".[33] Anderson has long used the resulting character in her work as a "voice of authority" or conscience,[33] although she later decided that he had lost much of his authority and instead began utilizing the voice to provide historical or sociopolitical commentary,[34] as he does on "Another Day in America", a piece from her 2010 album Homeland.
(Anderson:) I was carrying a lot of electronics so I had to keep unpacking everything and plugging it in and demonstrating how it all worked, and I guess I did seem a little fishy — a lot of this stuff wakes up displaying LED program readouts that have names like Atom Smasher, and so it took a while to convince them that they weren't some kind of espionage system. So I've done quite a few of these sort of impromptu new music concerts for small groups of detectives and customs agents and I'd have to keep setting all this stuff up and they'd listen for a while and they'd say: So uh, what's this? And I'd pull out something like
(now with voice of Bergamot:) this filter, and say, now this is what I like to think of as the voice of authority. And it would take me a while to tell them how I used it for songs that were, you know, about various forms of control, and they would say, now why would you want to talk like that? And I'd look around at the SWAT teams, and the undercover agents, and the dogs, and the radio in the corner, tuned to the Super Bowl coverage of the war. And I'd say, take a wild guess.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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Shredipedia!
Today:
Celia Cruz, Sonny Rollins w/Monk, Ben Harper with the Blind Boys of Alabama, Steely Dan, Miles Davis again, and some old mixes of some awesome unreleased Blues production from the late 90's, if I do say so myself (been going through some old master tapes).
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:37 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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Patti Cialfa's last one was loaned to me - damn!, is it good. Lucinda on steroids with cool identifiable Broooce-isms from her mouth.
The Stroke's latest: notta hit, and all y'all missed some good shite.
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shedshrine
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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| ipressrecord wrote: | | Talk Talk: Laughing Stock |
When I saw this posting by he who presses record aka Jeff, I remembered there had been a great TapeOp article on it with its engineer Phill Brown. Just got a copy..
This album drifts out of your speakers and wafts across the room like a dry ice fog.
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shedshrine
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:21 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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Vinyl Creep: It can happen to you.
Of course Greg Juke will see these pics and say: "Pffft, you call that a vinyl collection!"
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Brett Siler
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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I just counted my vinyl collection the other day. I am currently 461 vinyl records. All hand picked by me, no random hand me downs that I don't listen to.
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shedshrine
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:40 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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| Brett Siler wrote: | | no random hand me downs that I don't listen to. |
Oh, I've got those out in the garage. 
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:19 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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I gotta embarassing bunch out in the garage, boxed for the last 10 years ... 
Mission of Burma, Sound, Speed, Light - really lovin' it.
RHCP's latest - intricate arrangements, actually, and it's been growing on me, a sleeper.
Lucinda Williams, Little Honey - still cool, not her best, just better'n most of the rest.
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dfuruta
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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Major kvlt points.
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Brett Siler
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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| dfuruta wrote: | | Major kvlt points. |
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That is a weird album though. It is a Mayhem/Emperor split and the insert said limited to 500. The label on the record has nothing printed on it. It's just orange. I don't think it was mastered either because it is way quieter than any of my other records. The music on it however rules.
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Gregg Juke
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: What are you listening to today? |
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Not really shred; I've probably got only (maybe) twice that-- about the same in rock/pop/etc., and then about that in jazz. I've got a fair amount of 45's and a bunch of CD's, but the _insane space-waster_ is the sick amount of cassette tapes I have. I could build an addition to the house, strictly out of cassettes (if it were socially acceptable).
There's a neat CD comp on, I think the Yazoo record label (?); it's all blues, folk, and "old timey" country/bluegrass, etc. stuff transferred from 78's. It has an R. Crumb-designed booklet with stories (true) about the very thin line between "collecting" and "obsessive hoarding." It's called "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of." Some of the funniest (and scarriest) liner-notes I've ever read...
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