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Keith Reid, Who Brought Poetry to Procol Harum, Dies at 76

March 31, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Keith Reid, Who Brought Poetry to Procol Harum, Dies at 76 He did not perform with the group, but his impressionistic words made it one of the leading acts of the progressive-rock era.

Posted in: Faits Divers, Modern Music, Obituaries Tagged: Keith Reid, lyricist, Procol Harum, rock star

Fuzzy Haskins, Who Helped Turn Doo-Wop Into P-Funk, Dies at 81

March 24, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Fuzzy Haskins, Who Helped Turn Doo-Wop Into P-Funk, Dies at 81 [NY Times requires a subscription] As a teenager, he joined forces with George Clinton. Their vocal group, the Parliaments, morphed into Parliament-Funkadelic, one of the wildest acts of the 1970s.

Posted in: Faits Divers, History, Modern Music, Obituaries, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: Calvin Simon, Doo-Wop, funk, Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, George Clinton, Grady Thomas, obituaries, P-Funk, psychedelic rock, Sly and the Family Stone, the Parliaments

Angelo Badalamenti, Is Dead at 85

December 12, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Angelo Badalamenti, Composer for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Is Dead at 85

Posted in: Faits Divers, Modern Music, Obituaries Tagged: 1990 Grammy, Angelo Badalamenti, Composer, David Lynch, films, Isabella Rossellini, music, musical, Soundtrack

Judith Davidoff, Master of Long-Dormant Instruments, Dies at 94

January 7, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A NYT obituary on Judith Davidoff, Master of Long-Dormant Instruments. A master of the viola da gamba and other stringed instruments, she was a central part of the early-music scene. By Neil Genzlinger Jan. 6, 2022 “She toured all over the world looking for instruments to play,” Ms. Terry, a past president of the Viola … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Modern Music, Obituaries Tagged: Baroque, Boston Camerata, Consort of Viols, early-music, Judith Davidoff, Pro Musica, the Chinese erhu, the rebec, the vielle, Viol, Viola da Gamba

how the first piece of AI music was born in 1956

December 7, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

‘He touched a nerve’: how the first piece of AI music was born in 1956 Long before Auto-Tune and deepfake compositions, university professor Lejaren Hiller premiered a concert recital composed by a computer and became an overnight celebrity The Guardian Electronic music Jeff Gage Tue 7 Dec 2021 Illiac Suite

Posted in: Faits Divers, Modern Music, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: AI, artificial intelligence, classical, classical music, computer, Computing, David Rosenboom, electronic brain, Electronic music, experimental, Experimental music, George Andrix, Iannis Xenakis, Illiac, Illiac Suite, John Cage, Lejaren Hiller, Leonard M Isaacson, Sanford Reuning, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Modern Times Playlist

August 3, 2021 by sergneri 1 Comment

Alan Chapman hosts Modern Times On Saturday nights between 10 and 12 P.M., on KDFC radio (and www.kdfc.com), Alan Chapman hosts Modern Times, his curation of modern “classical” music. I’ve been logging the titles played over the course of the last 18 months and present them here as a “Playlist” one can use to explore … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Modern Music, Thinking about Tagged: Alan Chapman, classical, KDFC, Modern Times, music, Playlist, radio, streaming

FIP

July 19, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I am reading an article in the Atlantic – “What Will Happen to My Music Library When Spotify Dies?”. I do use some music streaming services and there is one which I think is an exceptional value, because it is free. I first heard of FIP while living in Switzerland. A friend of ours who … [Read more…]

Posted in: IT Failures, Modern Music, Politics, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: Brewster Kahle, ELECTRO, FIP, France, French, GROOVE, Internet Archive, jazz, MONDE, NOUVEAUTÉS, POP, Radio France, REGGE, ROCK, Spotify, streaming, www.fip.fr

Jon Hassell, avant-garde US composer, dies aged 84

June 27, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A nice obituary, by Alexis Petridis on the Guardian for Jon Hassell, a musician who blew me away in 1980 with sounds I couldn’t categorize. I still can’t. as Eno put it, “one overriding principle in Jon’s work [was] that of respect – he looks at the world with all its momentary and evanescent moods … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Modern Music, Obituaries, Pandemic, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: 1980, avant-garde, Brian Eno, Can, David Sylvian, electronic effects, Fourth World 1: Possible Musics, global sounds, Hassell, Holger Czukay, Indian music, Irmin Schmidt, jazz, John Cale, Jon Hassell, Karlheinz Stockhausen, La Monte Young, Pandit Pran Nath, Peter Gabriel, raga, Robert Moog, sampling, Sterling Morrison, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, Terry Riley, Theatre of Eternal Music, trumpet, trumpet player

The Rozz-Tox Manifesto

April 9, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Rozz-Tox Manifesto Gary Panter (1980) tem 1: The avant-garde is no corpus. It merely lies in shock after an unfortunate bout with its own petard. It feigns sleep but one eye glitters and an involuntary twitch in the corner of the mouth belies a suppressed snicker. The giggle of coming awake at one’s own … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Modern Music, Nuclear Industry, Obituaries, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: "rip-off", "sell-out", amusement park, art talent scouts, atomic TV beatnik furniture, avant-garde, better media, capitalistic society, capitol realities, Elitist Art, eternal life, faith in glamour, god printers, high school, inter-office memos, mutant, patronship, Pavlovia, petard, pseudo-avant-garde, Ralph Records, rubbery genius, Saturday morning, tendencies, the cereal Nirvana, top-40 radio, two-dimensional phosphorescence, wildcat speculation

Barbara Ess, 76, Dies

March 10, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Artist Blurred Lines Between Life and Art An avant-garde musician and photographer, she was widely known for her large-scale ambient works shot with a pinhole camera.

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Modern Music, Obituaries, Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: “No Wave” bands, avant-garde, avant-garde musician, Barbara Ess, being hurt and confused., Death, discovering who you are, mixed-media, No Wave, photographer, pinhole camera, punk, relationships, sex
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