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Florestan

Sometimes I turn on a classical radio station and hear a random, ear-scratching noise; then I say to myself "Oh boy, their broadcasting system must be seriously fucked up."

Every time it turns out to actually be some Xenakis.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Gurn Blanston

Quote from: ggluek on August 06, 2012, 03:47:30 PM
Back to the original thread:

1) If Vivaldi had never existed, there wouldn't be a single note he wrote that I would miss.

4) Mozart wrote fewer than a dozen works that are essential to a well-lived life.

He uses a marvelous Ab crochet in 'Summer', I would miss the hell out of that.   ::)

Maybe so, but Wagner didn't write any, so a 12:0  ratio is fair. :)

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TheGSMoeller

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snyprrr

Quote from: Florestan on August 09, 2012, 05:37:05 AM
Sometimes I turn on a classical radio station and hear a random, ear-scratching noise; then I say to myself "Oh boy, their broadcasting system must be seriously fucked up."

Every time it turns out to actually be some Xenakis.

ok, now I no longer like this Thread! ;) ;D

Opus106

Quote from: Florestan on August 09, 2012, 05:37:05 AM
Sometimes I turn on a classical radio station and hear a random, ear-scratching noise; then I say to myself "Oh boy, their broadcasting system must be seriously fucked up."

Every time it turns out to actually be some Xenakis.

The internetz is full of people who can't distinguish a fact from an opinion.

>:D

Regards,
Navneeth

Gurn Blanston

Quote from: Opus106 on August 09, 2012, 06:55:06 AM
The internetz is full of people who can't distinguish a fact from an opinion.

>:D

No need to be self-deprecating, Navneeth....  >:D

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John Copeland

Quote from: Florestan on August 09, 2012, 05:37:05 AM
Sometimes I turn on a classical radio station and hear a random, ear-scratching noise; then I say to myself "Oh boy, their broadcasting system must be seriously fucked up."

Every time it turns out to actually be some Xenakis.

:D :D :D
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Opus106

Quote from: Gurnatron5500 on August 09, 2012, 07:09:05 AM
No need to be self-deprecating, Navneeth....  >:D

8)

::) Dude, I thought you were on my side.

Regards,
Navneeth

Gurn Blanston

Quote from: Opus106 on August 09, 2012, 07:19:00 AM
::) Dude, I thought you were on my side.

Dude, I am. I can't help myself sometimes.... :-\

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DaveF

Quote from: Florestan on August 09, 2012, 05:37:05 AM
Sometimes I turn on a classical radio station and hear a random, ear-scratching noise; then I say to myself "Oh boy, their broadcasting system must be seriously fucked up."

Every time it turns out to actually be some Xenakis.

Do you have the wavelengths and/or Internet Radio URLs for these wonderful stations that actually play Xenakis?

And an opinion: the Baroque era was when musical padding was invented.   Music has never quite recovered.

DF
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Opus106

Quote from: DaveF on August 09, 2012, 07:36:39 AM
Do you have the wavelengths and/or Internet Radio URLs for these wonderful stations that actually play Xenakis?

He can probably give you the frequency in Mega-hurtz.
Regards,
Navneeth

Leon

Quote from: DaveF on August 09, 2012, 07:36:39 AM
And an opinion: the Baroque era was when musical padding was invented.   Music has never quite recovered.

Baroque "padding" vs. Xenakis' shrieking - hard choice; NOT!




Karl Henning

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TheGSMoeller

Quote from: karlhenning on August 09, 2012, 08:37:31 AM
(* munches popcorn *)

Wait, Karl, popcorn is actually fairly popular.

Opus106

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on August 09, 2012, 08:46:52 AM
Wait, Karl, popcorn is actually fairly popular.

All the more reason to greedily munch it in front of its fan-base.
Regards,
Navneeth

Superhorn

   This may be off topic, but it just occrred to me that Karl Henning's Latin motto
    "Et quid amabo nisi  quod  aenigma est ?  has the word "amabo"  , which is Obama backwards ! 
    Coincidence ? 

DavidRoss

Quote from: Opus106 on August 09, 2012, 06:55:06 AM
The internetz is full of people who can't distinguish a fact from an opinion.
Not just the internetz, but newspaper, radio, and television press rooms, schools, voting booths, shopping centers, highways, sports arenas, and damned near everywhere else people congregate.

Personally, I don't believe that everyone is entitled to an opinion, but only those who have taken the time and made the effort to educate themselves so that their opinions are informed by understanding all of the information relevant to the subject.

It's liberating to have opinions on only a few subjects.   ;D
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DaveF

Quote from: Arnold on August 09, 2012, 07:46:07 AM
Baroque "padding" vs. Xenakis' shrieking - hard choice; NOT!

Not even a choice; take the beginning of Metastaseis: Xenakis takes thirty-five bars to get from a unison G to a chord containing all 12 notes.  Palestrina would have done that in two beats.  Sheer padding.

DF
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eyeresist

I finally heard some of Biondi's Vivaldi yesterday. I thought it was crap, though the terrible, terrible production may have been an influence.

North Star

Quote from: eyeresist on August 09, 2012, 07:41:33 PM
I finally heard some of Biondi's Vivaldi yesterday. I thought it was crap, though the terrible, terrible production may have been an influence.
What recording exactly?
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