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2022-10-08 14:13:00
What is the sound of no CD playing?
[…] question known in the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism - hat tip to John Cage - as a koan. In his book Bring Me the Rhinoceros John Tarrant explains that koans highlight the importance of creative moves, encourage doubt and curiosity, and undermine reasons and explanations. My undiminished curiosity and distrust of explanations led me to buy two recent CD releases - Sangam from sitarist Paul Livingstone and cellist Pete Jacobson, and Wherever I Go... Arvo Pärt from Gretsch White Falcon guitarist Gunter Herbig. These superficially very different releases in fact share many noteworthy attributes, one of which is excellent sleeve essays. Both of these thoughtful essays try successfully to justify instrumental projects - ragas on sitar and cello, and Arvo Pärt transcribed for electric guitar - that, like koans, undermine conventional wisdom. But this justification is unnecessary, because good music is good music regardless of the instrument it is played on. My days […]
2021-06-18 07:11:41
Chopin, daguerreotype by Bisson, c. 1849 Pianist Warren Mailley-Smith was an early adopter of the live-streaming format with his recitals from the 1901 Arts Club and on 25 June 2021 Mailley-Smith returns to the venue for a pair of recitals featuring the music of Frédéric Chopin. The music of the Polish composer is dear to Mailley-Smith's heart and in 2016 he became the first British pianist to perform from memory the complete solo piano works of Chopin (233 pieces). On Friday 25 June, Mailley-Smith will be performing a programme of Chopin's solo piano music including three of the nocturnes and the Twelve Études op.10. As a performer, Chopin is known to have had quite an intimate performance technique and he eschewed the large-scale showy concert formats developed by Liszt, and Chopin said to his pupil Emilie von Gretsch that "concerts are never real music, you have to give up the […]
2019-07-09 07:30:00
We are losing the war against digital sleep
[…] take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie-like. In this way our consumer society itself functions as an addict. In an essay for his newly released BIS album* Ex Oriente - music by G.I. Gurdjieff guitarist Gunter Herbig explains that his attempts to transcribe Gurdjieff/de Hartmann's music for classical guitar always ended in frustration. So he said 'no' to received wisdom and experimented with a Gretsch 'White Falcon' electric guitar and Fender amp to produce a sonic texture compatible with the piano voicing of the original compositions**. With his transcriptions Gunter Herbig travels well beyond the other excellent but, nevertheless, culture-bound advocacies of G.I. Gurdjieff's music***. For me this album was a slow but powerful burn, with its growing impact reflected in the number of times I have returned to it: listen via this video.Another proponent of the mystery schools […]
2015-02-10 17:10:42
Yesterday I brought home a Larrivee L-35 classical guitar. It’s a 1995 and has a very sweet well-balanced voice. Jean Larrivee is known for his company’s steel string guitars, but he got his start as a classical builder, studying and building for a master of the art. There are no classicals currently being built in the Larrivee product line and haven’t been for some time from what I understand. Mine is a 1995, and is quite clean on the whole. There are two professionally repaired humidity cracks, which are actually even difficult to see. When I purchased the instrument I traded in a Takamine EAN40C with smoking low action and a nice acoustic sound, another discontinued model (actually renamed), and I’m planning to sell my Gretsch Anniversary Model to help allay the additional expense, thus thinning the herd while bringing in a better classical guitar. My purpose in doing so is […]
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