Happy New Year Blogdialians!
Is there a definitive list of all Blogdial triplets anywhere, or is it a case of sifting through 6+ years of posts?
Also has anyone bought the Robert Henke Layering Buddhabox set? Any good? Worth £36?
Someone with very good ears writes:
Hi,
Just thought I would write in on the off-chance that no-one has noticed this, though I’m sure someone must have done already.
I was thinking that the normal 3 note tone when you misdial a number or leave the ‘phone off the hook sounded, to my ear, identical to how the “Three Note Oddity” ( tcp_d1_12_three_note_odditiy_irdial.mp3 ) would sound if it was upped by an octave and played at double the speed.
I decided to stick the two into a wave editor, with the Irdial 3 note oddity in the left channel, and the telephone message in the right, and it turns out that the 3 notes are exactly the same.
I have no idea what it means, but it just seemed like a cool co-incidence. :-)
I’ve attached an mp3 (with the ‘phone notes slowed down by 50% and shifted down an octave to match the Irdial)
The ‘phone error in this is from the Telewest system, been a while since I’ve heard BT’s but from memory I think the tones are the same.Mark
The never-ending strangeness of Numbers Stations; a constant source of pleasure.
Last night, I was watching the ‘Prime Sangeet Eid Special’ on PTV Prime, a music special, featuring some classic music clips.
One of the performers shown was a video tape of Ghulam Ali, performing ‘Chupke Chupke Raat Din’ live in the 1970s.
Honestly is was the most magical thing ever. These people are in direct contact with whatever is in charge of the entire universe…such music…
Amazingly, you can hear some of this on YouTube:
And something very beautiful:
Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam – Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959 )
In a perfect world, in a parallel dimension, some scientists made a giant antenna to transmit a message about the very essence of humanity to the stars. They chose a special recording to send as the message.
When it was decoded at the destination, long after the end of man…
So, on Friday I saw Parlane/Jeck/Fennesz perform. It was an interesting listen, some stimulating noises.
Then last night, in the same venue, I saw the Payvar Ensemble from Iran.
Their performance left me full of joy, with a broad smile on my face. Absolutely stunning!
More than that, with their music, their togetherness, honesty and humility they gave me a better understanding of Iranian people, Iranian culture, Iranian spirit, free from political predujices and at a completely human level.
Ostad Mohammadali Esmaeili, who enchants the tombak itself with his playing, has a childlike playfulness in his drumming. It was impossible not to love him. He is possibly the best musician I have ever seen. I wanted to hug him.
The space and time they found for the music to flow into was marvellous.
Apparently, they will record for Radio 3 next week. I recommend it highly. But if have the privilige to get an opportunity to see them perform, see their faces and benefit from their wisdom… do not miss it!
http://www.amc.org.uk/press/
It’s been a long time. I shouldn’t have left you… I’ve been reading from afar, but haven’t really had much to say, as you all say it much better. I just came across this though:
Conet mentioned on Wil Wheaton’s blog…
Hello again.
Dear My Freiends;
I will do live shows in UK next month.
I would like to meet you.
Could you come to me to meet please if it is possible?
And, please inform your friend.
A detailed schedule is not decided still.
The decided schedule is the following.
If the schedule is surely decided, I will report again.
Nov 16 Glasgow, The 13th Note.
Nov 19 London , Old Blue Last w/ Ramleh, Sutcliffe Jugend, .
Nov 21 Nottingham, Rose of England
Nov 22 Newcastle, Egypt Cottage.
Nov 26 Leeds, The Fenton.
Nov 27 Sheffield, Cricketers Arms.
Take care
All the best!!
Akihiro Shimizu
Did I dream it, or is Spire coming to York Minster? I
have the idea from somewhere that it is, but now I can’t find it anywhere.
Meanwhile, Parlane, Jeck and Fennesz will be at the NCEM later this month.
Part of Sightsonic 2006.
Come on, I’ll buy you a pint.
Here it is. Recorded and transmitted July 11th 2002. Someone emailed me asking about Monster Music, and so I have dug this up, the 11th Monster music show, commissioned by THESE Records for their Bermuda Triangle program.
Enjoy.
The nice guys at Forced Exposure sent us our very own FM3 last hollidays; very cool stuff, that I should have posted ages ago.
The box it comes in is bears little releation to the magic that is inside, except for a 1in x 1.5in bue sticker attached to the back face of the box, that says ‘fm3 buddha machine’ with the numbers one to nine running vertically (the ‘track numbers’).
I was working in a studio in Canada recently. They had a Fender Rhodes piano there, a standard studio instrument I almost always ignore. I thought, “I’ll use that for a change. How can I use this to do something surprising?” I looked around and found an old amplifier with a rattly speaker. I took the speaker and sat it on the sustain pedal of a grand piano so the strings were all open. The sound from the Fender Rhodes would make the piano resonate in sympathy with it. Then I set up a microphone with a long plastic tube on it, one of those tubes you spin to get a note. The tube resonates at that frequency, so it was selective. (I did this with my engineer, Danny Lanois, who always helps me very much.) I sat down and checked out various notes on the Rhodes. One note – just one note – made the whole system come to life. It made the speaker shake with a beautiful purring sound, like a huge foghorn. The piano was ringing away, and the pick-up through the tube particularly resonated around that frequency and all the harmonics.
This was a case of having a technological idea and then seeing if anything could be made of it. It would have stopped there if that sound hadn’t appeared. The avant-garde technique would be to go ahead with it anyway, because the process is supposed to be interesting in itself. I don’t go for that. I think if something doesn’t jolt your senses, forget it. It’s got to be seductive.
Of course, when I got that sound, I was back in the seed position of the other way of working. It immediately suggested a direction I still haven’t resolved. I didn’t find anything more interesting than just the sound on its own. Everything I put on covered up parts of the sound.
And a second one:
I walked past an enormous rubber plantation in Malaysia. It was a chaos of trees, thousands of them. I thought it strange they should be planted so randomly. Then I reached a point where I realized they were in absolutely straight rows. Only at one point could I see that.
(Brian Eno)
I think Blogdial is a place where you can see trees in straight lines, and when you see a straight line you know you can accelerate.
These + manga ?!?!? (+ sunlight + French prices).
Indeed it is a very nice substitute – with the same wallet draining potential, ooh la la!
—
Tibor Fischerspooner
The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.
The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs.
New AGP installments are released as bittorrents each Friday night around midnight (GMT), and can be accessed through either The Pirate Bay or Mininova. New torrents are announced on the I Hate Music Forum.
The AGP archive is a repository for earlier installments, the files of which can be downloaded from this website.
NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, all of the recordings on this site are currently out of print. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish to deprive any artists of their much-deserved royalties (however small). Please see the AGP copyright policy for further information.
Some albums which were recorded at Conny’s Studio:
Kraftwerk – Autobahn
Devo – Are we not Men
Les Rita Mitsouko – Minuit Dansant
Eurythmitcs – In the Garden, Revenge
Ginanna Nannini – Latin Lover
DAF – Gold und Liebe, Alles ist Gut, Für Immer
Ultravox – System of Romances, Vienna
Brian Eno – Before and after Science, Music for Airports
Killing Joke – Revelations
Nina Hagen – FreuD Euch
Artists who worked at Conny’s Studio:
Doe Ärtzte
Einstürzende Neubauten
Crime and the City Solution
Manu Chao
Astor Piazolla
Tindersticks
The Metereors
Miranda Sex Garden
Keith Caputo
Die Fantastischen Vier
Ulrich Tukur
Herbert Grönemeyer
The Walabouts
The Kelly Family
Afrika Bambaataa
Whodini
CAN
Phew
Montanablue
Idel
Bläck Fööss
Tommi Stumpf
Stahlnetz
Marius Müller Westernhagen
Echo and the Bunnymen
Hunters and Collectors
A Flockj of Segulls
Gentleman
The Machine
Sons and Daughters
Eroc
Grobschnitt
Please visit the Wikipedia to get more Information on Connys life and work
Conny Plank’s Studio Liquidation.
Like a great meal that we ate and can only recount to you with words….its gone forever.
What a life!
Not many mp3s unfortunately but a few interesting links, looks like a vibrant scene anyway.
He is some man, I would love make music on this machine
I got a Nintendo DS lite as a birthday present from my boyfriend, its the best toy I have ever had and I got this amazing game Electroplankton made by Toshio Iwai.
You can make irdial-music with this game, it is absolutely lovely