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2023-07-26 06:50:00
I know nothing about music but I know what I like...
'People say, sometimes, timidly: I know nothing about music but I know what I like. But the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access to the dark night of the soul... Silence; Lectures and Writings by John CageRecent listening and reading:Edmund Rubbra: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 - BBCSO, Sir Adrian Boult & Edmund RubbraCircling the Sacred Mountain, Robert Thurman & Tad WiseOregon in Performance - OregonTales of Protection - Erik Fosnes HansenThat Which Colors the Mind - Ali Akbar Khan, Zakir Hussain, Indranil BhattacharyaNo Place to Hide, Edward Snowden, the NSA & the Surveillance State - Glenn GreenwaldOriente Lux - Orpheus 21, Hesperion XXI, Jordi SavallZen Roots - Red PineMalcolm Arnold, Complete Music for Solo Piano - Benjamin Frith
2023-05-30 08:18:00
That which colors the mind
This recording by Owsley Stanley of sarod master Ali Akbar Khan featured in a recent post here. My further reading came across the following unpublished epitaph to Owsley Stanley - popularly known as 'Bear' - by his daughter Rhoney Gissin Stanley. It provides a refreshing contrast to today's social media influenzas:Bear was a man who walked his talk, who challenged the cult of personality and wanted the attention of others to focus on his work with sound, his art, and his philosophy, not on him.
2023-02-04 11:00:00
Audio perfectionists are an almost extinct breed
Related to my recent post about Owsley Stanley's recording of Ali Akbar Khan's 1970 San Francisco concert is Robert Greenfield's biography Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III. In my post I described Augustus Stanley as an 'audio perfectionist'. Here is a quote from the biography describing his 1960s sound system: "Before ever meeting the Grateful Dead, Owsley had already purchased and installed a sound system in his thirty-five-by-fifty-five-foot living room in Berkeley that far surpassed what even the most fanatical hi-fi enthusiast might have dreamed of owning. Looking like "something that someone had rescued from behind the screen at the local movie theater," his Altec Lansing Voice of the Theatre system consisted of two large wooden cabinets, each of which was "about the size of a small fridge". Equipped with a fifteen-inch speaker, a driver that was "about four inches in diameter," and "a little […]
2022-07-13 14:06:04
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