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13 limit just intonation drone using the $75 Tele tuning.

Some of us can remember the days of analog TV...3:30 am and we're looking a… Continue

My Downtown Music Gallery review from this weeks newsletter:

JON HASSELL - Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street
(ECM 2077)

Back on the ECM label for the first time in 22 years, Jon Hassells Fourth World music is a blend of influences – dist

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Another review that I did for Downtown Music Gallery last year:

ELLEN FULLMAN and MONIQUE BUZZARTÉ – Fluctuations (Deep Listening DL 38-2007)

Ellen Fullman returns with another amazing recording of her Long String Instrument. Many strings are stretched… Continue

Back when I was learning about Just Intonation and microtones, I went out of my way to get to know composers in the NYC area who were working with these tuning systems. One of them was Michael Harrison and I took a number of Raga classes with him and his guru Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan. This was about 1999-2001.

Even though I’d heard Michael play Just Intonation piano a few times in concert, it wasn’t until October 2007 when I heard him perform his piano piece Revelation at the Chelsea Art Muse

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Something else to be thankful for: Frank Zappa - Envelopes, by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra (Magyar Rádió Szimfonikus Zenekara) cond. Fischer Ádám, 2007 oct. 13.

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I see Mamoru Fujieda was in NYC recently. He was visiting with Kyle Gann (see Kyle's blog post Mirror Image Around the World) and

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Frank Zappa had an important part in my evolution as a composer. By the time he passed on, I was really just interested in his instrumental computer and concert music. Inspired by his Synclavier computer music like Jazz From Hell and concert music like the Yellow Shark, I was… Continue

Jimmy Carl Black of the original Mothers of Invention passed away over the weekend. RIP

Here's one way I'll remember him:

Previously, I mentioned a benefit, now a memorial.

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When I first saw Brian Eno's video paintings, I was amazed. He set a video camera on a window, turned it on, then processed the video with a malfunctioning piece of equipment. Later I found out that Andy Warhol did something similar a few years before and Eno improved on an interesting idea.

Andy Warhol - Empire

Brian Eno - Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan

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I could go on and on about how much influence Robert Fripps analog tape delay system Frippertronics has been on my microtonal guitar playing, but I won't. Instead, here's a video of the small mobile intelligent unit himself playing a solo over some Frippertronics.

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I should be working on composition, but I do spend a lot of time listening. Recently I was listening to my pile of Fred Frith/Henry Cow albums and looking for video on the net. This free non-idiomatic improvisation is from three Henry Cow members (Fred Frith, Chris Cutler & Tim Hodgkinson), recorded live at The Stone, New York. Dec. 16, 2006.

Enjoy...I did.

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Sunday 9 November 2008
London

A benefit concert to raise funds for original Mother and Grandmother, Jimmy Carl Black, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2008.

Voice of the Bowed Guitar/sound. at the Schindler House, June 17, 2000

Voice of the Bowed Guitar is Rod Poole, Joseph Hammer and Doug Williford. There's Rod in the middle.

From the Los Angeles Times

Couple sentenced in Mother's Day stabbing of guitarist
Husband is given 15 years to life while his wife gets three years for fatal confrontation in diner parking lot over a near-accident with a restaurant employee.
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Music by Morton Feldman.

I'm not going to go wild with videos here, but ya gotta check this out.



He also has a kick ass version of Chariots of Fire.

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