Musical highlights

[Richard McDonald Woods]

I too feel that Lark Ascending is a tremendous piece of music.

However, for me, music for a long night flight into sunrise just has to be Sibelius' tone poem "Nightride and Sunrise". The recording under Eugen Jochum is one of the best on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9s3M7QWEa8

[martin]

my circadian rythm has been running on a 25-hour-cycle

Here's why.
(possibly substitute "monitor" for "artificial light")
:shock: ---->    ---->  :roll:  ---->    ---->  
[...must read whole thread before posting. must read whole thread before posting. must read...]

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

By the way, talk about constructing a simulator in your bedroom. There are so many parallels in this video, I feel right at home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIEN9TwK5gI

And then of course there are the simulators of something that does not exist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCIpKAIFyo

Sheer beauty.



Jeroen

[Hardy Heinlin]

I too feel that Lark Ascending is a tremendous piece of music.

However, for me, music for a long night flight into sunrise just has to be Sibelius' tone poem "Nightride and Sunrise". The recording under Eugen Jochum is one of the best on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9s3M7QWEa8

Thanks for the tip. I like that, too. I mean the music. The video is obviously just a random sequence of dawn pictures. When I hear the music and close my eyes, I see the colors coming in a different timing, like this:

0:00: Dark blue, reverberation in a forest
0:58: Dark blue turns to mid blue
2:22: Some orange spots added over mid blue
2:35: Some birds wake up
2:48: A few smiling yellow beams added over mid blue
3:18: The sun body comes in view (trumpets play a sort of "mini" version of "Thus spake Zarathustra")
4:50: Sun body comes completely in view
5:10: Very hot beam added, slowly increasing
5:18: All mid blue gone


Cheers,

|-|ardy


Edit: I just wondered if the part from 3:18 to 4:50 could be real time. The width of the sun disc is about 0.5°. It takes ca. 2 minutes for the earth to rotate by 0.5°.

[Richard McDonald Woods]

...and Flight of the 747 Bumblebee at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHZvMAJUN5g!

[Shiv Mathur]

On the pedals ... Remarkable!

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Technically extremely difficult and very well done, but I don't actually like the music. With this kind of performance, you make the spectators wow, and I would applaud, but I would not buy the CD. Very good for intermezzos though.

[Shiv Mathur]

Exactly! ... I had forwarded the link to some of my musical
friends with the disclaimer:

" Maybe not brilliantly musical, but a nice party trick, at least. "

shiv

[martin]

I think these coughing people are afraid of coughing in the most silent parts, it's a kind of phobia. Because of their fear of coughing they get a dry throat causing a cough reflex.

Occam's Razor sez: What these people are really afraid of is probably silence...
 :mrgreen:

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Well, in terms of bluff organ playing, Keith Emerson deserves a place of honour anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T97KbV_mq0&t=1m20s

PS: no organs were killed for this performance, but they surely got abused.

To remain on topic: the panel you see below is from a 747-100 Flight Engineer Station, with a few Service Bulletins applied to it.

[Hardy Heinlin]

To remain on topic: the panel you see below is from a 747-100 Flight Engineer Station, with a few Service Bulletins applied to it.

Indeed, this is another example of the similarity of aviators and music makers, especially conductors. Or take the control room of a recording studio:

- Two wings left and right (various large and small speakers)
- Multi-shielded glass window in the middle (slanted to avoid resonance)
- Zillions of gauges, switches, levers in front of you and at the side panels
- Powerful sound
- You set the direction and steer
- You're in an artificial capsule flying through a filtered, beautiful world

The same aesthetics can be applied to live PA mixing, just replace the studio window by a stage -- maybe even wrapped in dry ice clouds :-)

If you ask me, aviation is music.


-o-

[frumpy]

Well, in terms of bluff organ playing, Keith Emerson deserves a place of honour anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T97KbV_mq0&t=1m20s

Nice one, impressive playing! The beginning reminded me of
a Frumpy song... *g* ... which leads me to another highlight...
no electro this time  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee7e5G60lbk&feature=related

(the hot part starts at 3:40)

[Hardy Heinlin]

I love contrast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rv1CTZSIU0

[martin]

Some time ago I saw a TV documentary here, about how this LC/RRAC co-operation was established. Talk about the meeting of two alien cultures...
But they succeeded just fine; Music is Music, apparently.  For someone having grown up in the Cold War (West), it was very impressive, and truly heart-warming to watch.

See also here (and my favourite scene from that concert (around 1:11) )

на здоровье,
M

[Hardy Heinlin]

For those who like medieval music combined with modern elements:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S0IOY6IsfA

The band doesn't exist anymore, unfortunately. They played a broad spectrum of medieval styles and lyrics (French, Spanish, German etc.), partially also with African and Asian elements. I found theirs shows to be perfectly in balance between seriousness and humor.


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[Roel Raeven]

In a certain way Adaro always reminds me of Dead Can Dance. They also use a good mix of modern and older traditional instruments.
Dead Can Dance will play in Utecht this year, unfortunately I am only able to buy tickets double of the original price...
One of their most popular songs with superb singer Lisa Gerrard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJhVM930YXY

[Hardy Heinlin]

Nice. I think I hear what you mean, there are some similarities ...


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[Hardy Heinlin]

Re http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk0I4XRc92k&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Greetings, Hardy

I fully agree that the first video sounds much warmer and smoother
than the second.  Do you think part of the reason is the recording quality?

Amazingly, there is actually no drum at the place you mention (although
it certainly sounds like it).  It's actually the Contrabasses playing (a 5th) pizzicato.

Here's the 2 bars leading to it:


which segues to ... THE MOMENT !


(The Contrabass, of course, play an octave lower than written.)

Interesting, I thought.

shiv

I just learned that the video shows the second version of The Firebird from 1919 (the first version is from 1910). In the second version he added percussion, harp and piano. Maybe there is a soft drum sound under the contrabass pizzicato and the scores are from 1910? :-) Ah, whatever. Probably not :-) Anyway, I just had to order that DVD before it's sold out.


Cheers,

|-|ardy

[Shiv Mathur]

Hardy, the part you are referring to (the Berceuse movement) was not part of the 1910/1911 Suite at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firebird#1911_Suite_.28aka_.22Concert_suite_for_orchestra_No._1.22.29

The excerpt below is from the 1919 Suite:



Just as a matter of interest.

Shiv

[Hardy Heinlin]

Ah, interesting!

Thank you, Shiv!


Cheers,

|-|ardy