I am Music

[pelegrino]

I carry on with some more "self-fucked, high brow" music from the early 20th century for the classical guitar which I used to bask in London underground fetching a lot of money. Green Park and Piccadilly square tubes were good pitches!
Middle brow and low brow people don’t have to listen to it, much worse comment on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0AJUoR5cmc
Anon: Spanish Romance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEfFbuT3I6A
Isaac Albeniz: Asturias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYJ6fSr-on4
Agustin Barrios Mangore: La Catedral

 

[Trixareforkids]

Aww damn, does that mean I have to stop liking 12 string guitar?

Nope ya can't make me.

And I admire buskers, they put themselves in the middle of an audience and I've yet to see one frown on dancing or swaying along. Maybe because they're trying to earn a dollar but I think not.

So as a busker, if the rent's not due. Would you rather have a staid admirer that stops a moment and leaves a tip or a happy girl or boy that dances to your tune and has to be drug away by friends or parents?

Edit: thanks for those, #1 was lovely, #2 reminded me that I want to learn to belly dance #3 didn't strike a chord with me, but two outta 3 ain't bad.

 

[pelegrino]

My previous post was not meant as a dig at you, Trix, if you read a bit further back.

 

[Trixareforkids]

I've read it all and it fits me as well as anyone, no worries, even if it were aimed straight at my head I got hit in the face with enough dodge balls to learn to catch and return them without (much) rancor.

It was an honestly curious question I posed however. Which would you rather have brief appreciation of skill, with or without monetary evidence, or rapt attention accompanied by jubilant expression?

 

[pelegrino]

Why can I not have them both?


As I am still in classical guitar mode here is a piece by the early 19th century Italian composer
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829). The piece apart from brilliant is quite high brow as it operates in
sonata form, which form's "mechanism" you've got to understand a little before you can fully appreciate the music.

 

[Hypoxia]

So as a busker, if the rent's not due. Would you rather have a staid admirer that stops a moment and leaves a tip or a happy girl or boy that dances to your tune and has to be drug away by friends or parents?

Not mutually exclusive, and not all the possibilities. Depend on staid regulars who leave a coin or bill every day as they walk past. Delight in dancing drunks and children. Despise the competitor who sets-up across the way (and is louder and maybe better). Admire someone who pulls out their instrument and plays in sync. Chat-up the flashers and mashers and trashers. Pack up when the God Squad shouters show up. All part of the mix.

A few of my stories include busking (music and street-mime) scenes. More are forthcoming. Hmmm, I should expand the tale of Uncle Ron's mime experiences, and maybe do a series on streetcorner singer-songwriters. [/me jots in notebook]

 

[Trixareforkids]

Whoops!

 

[Trixareforkids]

You CAN have it all.

Generally though, not all at the same time

John Butler, Ocean

Jimi Hendrix, 12 String Blues bonus pimp hat and bell bottoms

which reminds me of Bell Bottom Blues

 

[pelegrino]

You CAN have it all.

Generally though, not all at the same time

John Butler, Ocean

Jimi Hendrix, 12 String Blues bonus pimp hat and bell bottoms

which reminds me of Bell Bottom Blues

Nice links!
I liked best Jimmy Hendrix doing his thing on an acoustic 12 string!
The other guy is a brilliant technician but no much musical substance there, I thought.
Just using an open tuning and playing 12 minutes of an E major chord really.
Well, it's only an opinion.

Life is sweet, anyhow!
O dolce vita mia - Adrian Willaert (1490 -- 1562)

 

[pelegrino]

more 50ies avant garde here
( just an excerpt)

and background information about it and the controversy it provoked here

the videos can make you sick (they made me), so don’t watch them, just listen to the music.

"IL CANTO SOSPESO" di Luigi Nono (1924-1990). conducted by: CLAUDIO ABBADO, 1956.

for the full version of the work go here

 

[Angeline]

Sometimes you just need the blues.

 

[pelegrino]

Sometimes you just need the blues.

Thanks, Ange, I well damn needed that. Much appreciated!

 

[Tzara]

For Pelegrino

Cage: Fontana Mix

 

[Tzara]

Also for Pelegrino

Max Neuhaus's realization of Cage's Fontana Mix.

One version of it, anyway.

 

[pelegrino]

Thanks, Tzara, for both versions. It's ages since I heard Cage's music.
Technology overtook electronic and tape composition in my opinion, but still it cannot come up with
the old quality.
(or with his philosophy and free thinking on music)

 

[pelegrino]

This is how 20th century music begun back in 1890.
(according to Paul Griffiths, that is, but I agree).

 

[pelegrino]

Five Bagatetelles by William Walton for classical guitar (1970-71).

 

[pelegrino]

Peo Kindgren plays Beatles' songs on classical guitar

 

[Trixareforkids]

I thought his playing of Stairway To Heaven was more moving

 

[Trixareforkids]

An original guitar piece I find beautiful
Because You're Here
Daniel Khoroshansky

 

[Trixareforkids]

And for something different, I also love the didgeridoo, here's a guitar fusion piece by William Barton, Didge Fusion

The didgeridoo he's playing is beautiful. The fusion doesn't come into the piece until around the two minute mark.

 

[Tzara]

The Thermals, live on KEXP.

 

[Tzara]

Gesang der Jünglinge by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

 

[Trixareforkids]

The Thermals, live on KEXP.

I have found a lot of good music through the KEXP song of the day podcast and their website. A great place to wander about.

 

[pelegrino]

Gesang der Jünglinge by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Thanks Tzara for this link also!
I admire very much the sheer skill, knowledge and inspiration of this pioneering work.
Stockhausen at his early best, self-possessed!
(Its "theology" leaves me indifferent, but I do appreciate religious works for their inspirational quality and technical merits).