Category: Music

  • Mondestrunken

    Just watched Moonlight, and, happily, it’s great. Need to watch it again on short order. Don’t know if composer Nicholas Britell truly had Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis in his ear as he wrote the score, but I had to listen to that piece right away on finishing the film. It…

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  • Drop-2 Chord Fun Facts

    FF#1: Outer Limits We’re going to talk a bit about seventh chord and four-part harmony here, so to keep things consistent, I’m going to refer to SATB for voicing, and keep pitch and string sets ordered from higher pitch to lower pitch. Drop-2 seventh chords are formed by starting with a close position seventh chord…

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  • On Claude Vivier’s Zipangu

    I just put up an old paper on Claude Vivier’s piece Zipangu. I think I wrote it in Carl Morey’s Music in Canada seminar back at U of T. I’m posting it (it’s in the “Writing” section of the web site) for a couple of reasons. Vivier’s life and career were both cut short in…

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  • How You Like Me Now?

    Saw this when it aired; Dave and I had exactly the same reaction…

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  • cyberkrunk labs

    Things are humming along, and the bf album release is getting nearer. Maybe this year. The labs have had a major influx of new gear of the past year. The most recent addition is a pair of Dynaudio BM 6A mk II nearfield monitors. Now, back in the day, many happy hours were spent in…

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  • An unlikely turn of events

    I’m having dinner the other night at Emma’s Pizza in Cambridge, Ma. Funny place, college hangout featuring thin-crust pizza, mis-matched chairs, and the geekiest collage of 20-something nerds (everyone of them paying by credit card) I had seen in a long time. The service has been described as “Kafka-esque”–it’s not, it’s just incompetent, but pleasant…

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  • More Like This

    (Had to swap out the Conan video with the Letterman video from the week before…)

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  • In case you need some cheering up…

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  • Sex Pistols on Ferguson

    The performance was as great as the previous night’s gig was lame. Due in large part, no doubt, to the friendlier environment. Lydon is no Leno fan either, apparently, as he revealed in a fun interview alongside a flu-ridden Steve Jones. The band looked good (even Glenn), Lydon was appropriately ridiculous, and fat is the…

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