< String Symphony No. 8 in C minor | William Herschel
WIKI EXCERPT. Sir Frederick William Herschel (d August 1822) … was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer. Born in Hanover, Germany, Herschel followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, before emigrating to Britain at age 19. He became famous for his discovery of the planet Uranus, along with two of its major moons (Titania and Oberon), and also discovered two moons of Saturn. In addition, he was the first person to discover the existence of infrared radiation. He is known, as well, for the twenty-four symphonies that he composed.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
Ah, nice. Back when instrumental and vocal backups were produced by humans! Were those backups for Walker produced by the (thanks to Elvis) Wrecking Crew? I’ve assumed so.
yeah, I don't know. I think the walker bro's were English, so maybe not the Wrecking Crew
on edit: well, whadoIknow?
nothing mostly. They had bigger success in England, but were an american band.
Philips then recorded and released the group's version of "Make It Easy on Yourself," a Burt Bacharach and Hal David ballad previously recorded by Jerry Butler. It was sung by Engel (by now called Scott Walker), arranged by Ivor Raymonde and produced by Johnny Franz, with a full orchestra augmented by session musicians, very much in the style of Phil Spector's productions.[7] Session musicians on the record included Alan Parker and Big Jim Sullivan.
some early John Walker stuff...
and young scott walker when he was still called Scott Engel...
Ivor Raymonde is one to listen for. Turns out he produced another version of Take it Easy on Yourself the same year... and he even had a sideline with his "Ivor Raymondes Magic Organ" records, not to be confused with the cheesy polka record series called "the magic organ."
So Ivor appears to have been based in England, so I'm guessing most of the songs I posted above were recorded in that distant green and pleasant land.
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Drew, Thanks for the Walker and Ames music, and for the Allman piece, Jeff. As I’ve mentioned months ago, without RI, it’s likely I wouldn’t have taken on a mission to listen to pop music! Thanks, Jeff, for making it so. And that’s sincerely said.
Still ongoing, though, is a phase I’m moving through in which instrumental and vocal loops in pop sounds of music have become unacceptable; most times, unbearable for listening. And I don’t like to admit that. Yet there have been several exceptions I’ve greeted without hitting mute. I’m most certain these feelings will fade, and you’ll know when. And so it goes.
< Music from a Tree | Diego Stocco
VIMEO NOTES. In the garden of my house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it.
To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs by trimming them with a pencil sharpener. I used two Røde NT6 and a NTG-2 as microphones, combined with a customized stethoscope.
I recorded the tracks live on a Pro Tools LE system. I didn’t use any synthesizer or sampler to create or modify the sounds. All the sounds come from playing the tree, by bowing the twigs, shaking the leaves, playing rhythms on the cortex and so on.
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Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
Bartholomaus Traubeck has experimented with having chosen a particular musical scale to allow the tree ring sounds of music to be heard by pitches from a piano. Here’s the Huffington Post article.
This vimeo shows Traubeck setting up his demonstration.
Traubeck’s demonstration.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
The promise is broken, you go on living It steals something from down in your soul When the truth is spoken, it don't make no difference Something in your heart goes cold
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