What are you listening to?

[MarcusA]

Music is alive and well. It's not my music but it's music.

[Tom62]

R.I.P. Tina Turner

[hermes2015]

What a lady Tina was. Lenny Bernstein, quite rightly, adored her.

[The Magic Pudding.]

[billy rubin]

i cannot get these artists out of my head

this is a live version of something i have posted previously. not som many instruments, not so plished a presentation. but its real music, the stuff thta can be made in front of you by humans in real time.

fewer instruments. no studio mixing. no overdubbing. just the minimalist artists and what they can do with their instruments.

classical and related music still maintains this grounded reality. recorded classical is good to hear. well mixed is even better. but it doesnt compare to actually watchn the musicians in front of you actually doing the sound.

[billy rubin]

and this one too. a delicate piece that i am still listening to

when i find a piece of music i like, i listen to it over and over and over, until i can anticipate the instruments, , the sequence of movements, the different melodies, and the different themes coming and going. i dont know anything about music theory, but i can sometimes piece together a bit of what the artists are doing by stupid brute force.

the advantage of this is that i can eventually carry fairly long pieces of music in my head, that i can replay to myself when ever i want. poetry is like that-- you cant possess a piece of poetry until youve internalized it so throughly that you can recite it yourself.

i can do short pieces of poetry--lewis carroll-level stuff-- and before i die i want to actualize a lifelong dream of memorizing as much of coleridges rime of the ancient mariner as i can. if i can do some of thati will finally achieved a bit of value n my life that might last a while.

i would do eliot but he infuriates me whenever i read anything he wrote, like james joyce. but like with joyce, i keep coming back.

[billy rubin]

i want to do this. from memory

[MarcusA]

and this one too. a delicate piece that i am still listening to

when i find a piece of music i like, i listen to it over and over and over, until i can anticipate the instruments, , the sequence of movements, the different melodies, and the different themes coming and going. i dont know anything about music theory, but i can sometimes piece together a bit of what the artists are doing by stupid brute force.

the advantage of this is that i can eventually carry fairly long pieces of music in my head, that i can replay to myself when ever i want. poetry is like that-- you cant possess a piece of poetry until youve internalized it so throughly that you can recite it yourself.

i can do short pieces of poetry--lewis carroll-level stuff-- and before i die i want to actualize a lifelong dream of memorizing as much of coleridges rime of the ancient mariner as i can. if i can do some of thati will finally achieved a bit of value n my life that might last a while.

i would do eliot but he infuriates me whenever i read anything he wrote, like james joyce. but like with joyce, i keep coming back.

Poetry is best captured in snatches.

[billy rubin]

except when youre talking about the iliad. the oddesey. the aeanid. beowulf. roland. and prose shit like chaucer and on  and on.

snatches are best captured by me, certainly, because im a moron. but if i could, id do the whole things.