7/4

Bill Frisell after years of putting vibrato on guitar necks...his arms turned to rubber just like the guitars.

it's mysterious. .

people playing with balls. most of the time.

Cheap help. .

That's pretty radical - they'll be opening up in Butte, Montana next ! Is this for the Avant-Garde Survivalist market? Maybe the rent is a bit cheaper out there.

I have the Braxton on LP too, but I've been waiting for years for it on CD! .

Not yet. I've never heard Gopalnath perform either. He must have been in the NYC/NJ area at some point.

now playin': Gianni Ricchizzi - vina Yaman, Bhupali

I wonder how much a Harmonics Trek II Organ costs new. I'd look it up myself, but I have limited search engine ability today. .

now playin': Classical Flute Music of India Raghunath Seth - flute

purrdy cool.... .

Day job. No one makes a living off that shit until they're too old to work.

The composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose Helicopter String Quartet is the subject of a film just released on DVD. Fulfilling a Dream With Strings and Rotors By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER, NYT Published: July 13, 2008 IT started with a dream he had, in which a string quartet performed with its members flying separately in four helicopters. “It was so strange, I thought that if I suggested it, people would think I was round the bend,” Karlheinz Stockhausen, the visionary avant-garde German composer who died last year at 79, says in a film just released on DVD by Medici Arts. Yet that dream actually came to fruition. And the film, intelligently directed by Frank Scheffer, documents the rehearsals and logistical preparations for the premiere of Stockhausen’s wacky, egomaniacal Helicopter String Quartet (also the name of the film) at the Holland Festival on the outskirts of Amsterdam in 1995. “I don’t have any philosophy, but all my life I’ve dreamt that I can fly and that I know what it means to fly,” Stockhausen says with mischievous wide-eyed solemnity. A pivotal figure in the evolution of electronic music, Stockhausen rejected traditional forms and refused commissions for concertos, symphonies and string quartets. He disparages quartets in the film as a “prototype from the 18th century, just as the symphony and the solo concerto are the stamp of a very particular era in composition.” But his vivid helicopter dream persuaded him to accept a commission for a string quartet from the Salzburg Festival in 1991. The work was conceived as part of “Licht” (“Light”), a cycle of seven operas. When the premiere performance of the quartet, scheduled for 1994, was canceled after protests by Austrian environmentalists, the work was programmed by the Holland Festival. As an experienced champion of contemporary music, the Arditti String Quartet — then comprising the violinists Irvine Arditti and Graeme Jennings, the violist Garth Knox and the cellist Rohan de Saram — was ideally equipped to handle the challenges of the work. The documentary, shot from May 5 to June 26, 1995, shows the musicians good-naturedly humoring the composer’s demands during rehearsals, which included having them shout German numbers in screechy high timbres with elongated vowels while playing, to coordinate their droning crescendos. According to the DVD booklet, Mr. Arditti, who was initially baffled by the score, suggested that Stockhausen substitute a tape of helicopter sounds for the real thing, and Stockhausen reacted “quite crossly.” A few of his cranky outbursts aside, the dialogue in the film is amiable. Stockhausen, who had explored spatial parameters in works like “Gruppen” (where three ensembles, each with its own conductor, play in different tempos), color-coded the helicopter score and connected the notes with lines, so it resembles a fantastical rainbow heart monitor. For the premiere each musician wore a shirt matching his designated color. The film reveals the complex logistics involved in staging this piece of musical performance art, with the musicians and sound engineers crammed into red helicopters flown by members of the Grasshoppers, a Dutch Air Force stunt team. During one scene shot on the field, Stockhausen muses on the numerical importance of the number plates on the helicopters before instructing the bewildered pilots. Microphones were attached to the musicians and to the outsides of the helicopters, to capture the whirring sound of the rotor blades. Audio cues helped the players coordinate the performance, which Stockhausen stipulated should last 18 minutes 36 seconds. At one point their frenzied, tremulous glissandos wail and drone like frantic sirens over the rumbling din of the helicopter blades. The music and images were transmitted by video and speakers to the audience in an auditorium. Stockhausen is shown in a ruffled white shirt with red and green suspenders, sitting at the master console like the proud pilot of a compositional spaceship, narrating the proceedings to the audience and mixing the string sounds with the helicopter noise. The critic Alex Ross described the affair in The New York Times as “a grandiose absurdist entertainment.” When asked how the realization of the project compared with his dream, Stockhausen, looking rather despondent, said that dealing with the mundane logistics and technical apparatus rendered everything “very down to earth.” In his dream, he said, “I was freer.” “I floated through the air,” he added. “I was a creature without a body.” Stockhausen, who was widely criticized for remarks (taken out of context, he said) that the 9/11 attacks were “the greatest work of art that is possible in the whole cosmos,” imagined that the whole world could become music. But it’s probably just as well that he didn’t try to realize all his dreams. One, he explains in the film, involved a swarm of bees and a violinist. “The buzzing made by lots of bees is a magic sound to me,” he says.

...and a Happy Birthday to you!

...and a Happy Birthday to you!

Realm of Raga Raghunath Seth - flute

That's not what I was sayin'. .

previous thread!

7/4 is a non-ball sort of guy. .

Saxophone Indian Style Kadri Gopalnath

My error, I even own that one! .

Who? .

Vintage Music from India Early twentieth century classical & light classical music.

Same here. The Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Charlemagne Palestine was reissued on CD.

El Paso - Marty Robbins