JUB CE+P Music Choice

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JB3's video brought to mind another even huger project that has fascinated me for most of its life--Longplayer. Let's hear from its webpage.

Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as an Artangel commission, and is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust.

Longplayer can be heard in the lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, where it has been playing since it began. It can also be heard at several other listening posts around the world, and globally via a live stream on the Internet.

Longplayer is composed for singing bowls – an ancient type of standing bell – which can be played by both humans and machines, and whose resonances can be very accurately reproduced in recorded form. It is designed to be adaptable to unforeseeable changes in its technological and social environments, and to endure in the long-term as a self-sustaining institution.

I heard about it on NPR soon after it began, and I've been checking in on it from time to time ever since. I sometimes like having it on as ambient sound when I'm alone.



If this has made you curious, I encourage you to read more about it on its webpage.

http://longplayer.org/what/overview.php

You can listen to it on a live feed here:

http://longplayer.org/listen/longplayer.m3u

 

[EastMed]

I like most kinds of music. This is Kastelruther Spatzen, a folk group from the South Tyrol. I saw them live a couple of summers ago in Freiburg im Breisgau and they were quite fab.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gVNsoVgA8[/ame]

 

[EastMed]

Francine Jordi. A singer from Switzerland.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHATv7Pw0q0[/ame]

 

[Knucklehead]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3BNXpzl0CE[/ame]

 

[palemale]

Maria Callas singing "Casta Diva" from the opera Norma:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYl8GRJGnBY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYl8GRJGnBY[/ame]

 

[chance1]

^

thanks guys

perhaps a CE+P Holiday CD ??

keep em coming

 

[chance1]

Cool thread, chance! Mange takk!

let's get this party started

"Bohemian Like You"

Dandy Warhols

cuz i like u
yeah i like u
and i'm feeling so boehmian like u

 

[palemale]

Miles Davis, "So What" from his album "Kind of Blue."

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlIU-2N7WY4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlIU-2N7WY4[/ame]

 

[MoltenRock III]

^ thanks loki - for not making me the only poster here

but i was hoping to keep this NON POLITICAL

not a requirement

just saying

Then you might not want to post this fucking thread in "Current events and politics"!

Not a requirement.

Just sayin.

 

[chance1]

Then you might not want to post this fucking thread in "Current events and politics"!

Not a requirement.

Just sayin.

thanks for stopping by

don't u have someone else to bother?

listening to some music here fella

ever try it?

 

[landers]

 

[chance1]

^ i likey

 

[landers]

^ i likey

It's my favourite song

 

[JB3]

It's an amazing video, and the music is beautiful. I was about to ask about how it was done, but I decided to do a little looking around first. I noticed the ear gear on the singers, but I wanted more. Anyway, I found this vid of Whitacre explaining a little about his project and what he wanted it to do.



Thanks for introducing us to Eric Whitacre.

You're welcome. His music is a standby of mine. Go to it whenever I need some peace and quiet.

Of course, for all those other times, can't go wrong with Adele's incredible voice and incredible music.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw&feature=share[/ame]

 

[ThreeCrows]

Then you might not want to post this fucking thread in "Current events and politics"!

Not a requirement.

Just sayin.

I know that we are more used to calling each other out here in CE&P - but a more lighthearted, easy-going, thread like this one is welcome here on this forum as far as I am concerned. Despite our mutual disagreements I think we are all pretty much on the same side. That being said:

Ash - Burn Baby Burn
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW8mEMqiNhc[/ame]

(sorry, this video is pretty low quality but it's still delightfully cheesey)

 

[silosybin]

i'm big into electronic music. one of my favorite groups, Daft Punk, did a music video called Interstella 5555 which is a feature-length anime that was written together with one of their albums.

the music, the animation, and the story are all really well done and it makes for a great watch imo.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ5XOwiryv0[/ame]

 

[palemale]

They remind me of U2. Not a bad band to emulate.

 

[palemale]

Then you might not want to post this fucking thread in "Current events and politics"!

Not a requirement.

Just sayin.

Thought this might be a good time to post the chorale finale of the 4th movement Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the famous "Ode to Joy." Beethoven set Schiller's poem, a celebration of unity and universal brotherhood, to music and was the first composer, I believe, to include choral music in a symphony. Beethoven was stone deaf when he wrote the symphony, one of the most beautiful pieces ever written I believe. At the premier, one of the singers had to turn Beethoven around to witness the wild acclaim from the audience, because he could not hear their ovation.

Here it is being conducted by the great Italian conductor, Arturo Toscanini.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv5tr98kIf4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv5tr98kIf4[/ame]

Chance, I hope you don't mind my posting all this classical and jazz in your thread.

 

[BostonPirate]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqBECb4vaTA[/ame]

 

[EastMed]

U2
The Fly
Screen homage

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrE749rKTHY[/ame]