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moved your post to a forum where it will more likely get the desired exposure.

Moved your post to a forum where it will be more likely to get the desired type of attention.

Yeah, I need to get out of the house more, literally.

I gotta find where/if there's a scene like that here that's not either way sporadic or even further underground. UNT has had a New Music Program for as long as I've known, but recitals often occur during weekday work hours, so that's out. I do recall going to an Electronic Music Lab recital one evening, it was all in the dark, and then at the end they brough up the lights and we were all applauding two bigass theater speakers on the stage. Funny! We got these guys, but I don't know how "new music" vs "contemporary classical" they are (although, really, both are fine!). Guess there's only one way to find out, right? http://voicesofchange.com/

Nah, I didn't think you were trying to do anything like that. Other than Ginsberg, these are all new names to me, so I'm basically "thinking out loud" trying to get some more input, pro or con. So your input is definitely welcome! It's a real experience, of which I with this music to this point have none.

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I kinda like what's happening here with Hyla in terms of composition...playing, maybe not so much. But between this and the NEC background, hell, not all gigs will be good ones, and also on the bill for the night will be Battle Trance (which seems to be a little more "minimalist" in concept than I generally prefer, but when in the moment, never say never), so what the hell? It might soar, it might suck, it might do some of both, we shall see. I jsut hope it's not a night of predictability.

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Do they have thst sex at home too? Or do they need to get out of the house to get away from that damn music playing all the time?

Not much of a Kronos fan overall, to be honest. I'll just catch it live and see how it feels there.

Sounds like it won't be "nice"...might even be horrible . Tickets are cheap, so I will find out.

Probably going to go hear a setting of Howl he did for string quartet and narrator in a few months...the name is new to me, but a look at his biography and a skimming of various youTube clips prompted me to order one CD, We Speak Etruscan. However, there are several more. Anyway, anybody here have any awareness of his work as a whole, or even in a fairly good part? And/or opinions stemming from same?

Four part series, now showing on Netflix, about, yes, the history of mathematics. Very entertaining, actually.

Did the guy ever not swing?

Yeah, how 'bout that!

Favorite memory...it's a tangential one, but I remember when we lived in Shreveport, I had a pediatrician named Dr. Strain. One day I had a strept throat or something and Mom took me in to see Dr. Strain. Apparently Cash had played Shreveport the night before, because all anybody in the waitin room was talking about was Johnny Cash, "Ring Of Fire", and were you there last night, did he do "Ring Of Fire"? Well, Dr. Strain HAD been there last night and that's all he could talk about before and after looking at my throat and telling me I was gonna get a shot and miss school for a day or two, was Johnny Cash last night and "Ring Of Fire", I mean, Dr. Strain was excited in the unique way that Southern men of the time did when they something had gotten inside them that they could not find a way to control of otherwise subjugate - or deny. And in fairness to Dr. Strain, those are some pretty damn powerful lyrics, and the less one is removed from a literal sense of real falling into real fire and really, truly, burning, like you can smell the flesh in your nostrils burning, the more powerful they surely are...Johnny & June must have been the Southern/Baptist Frank & Nancy or Eddie & Liz, and Dr. Strain was letting it get inside him, for reasons which I can today only imagine, although then, as a kid, I just thought it was because he really liked that record.

Some favorites (there are many): Probably my overall favorite, not the "best", but damn, you can hear him smiling but the snarl seems real...he might as well have been named John Shaft, because he appears to have indeed have been one of the absolute for-real "he's a complicated man and no one understands him but his woman". Meditate on it.

btw, really enjoying all the different opinions and perspectives. Can't help but learn here!

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