Hi from Spain

[Pessoa]

Hi, I´ve dropping in on this site once in a while searching for info, opinions, etc. I´m mainly into avant-garde (lately I´ve found out that Don Cherry sounds somehow like Xenakis in Eonta, I think, or the other way round). Listening to Berio while typing this. I´m not a musician myself, just an aficionado after 30 years. Nice site. See you!

[Mirror Image]

Welcome aboard! You like Xenakis and Berio? Nice! Who are some of your other favorite composers, Pessoa?

[kishnevi]

Bienvenidos! 

You'll find that there are a couple of other Spanish speakers here at GMG.  I'm not one of them.  I just have a whole bunch of neighbors who do (South Florida). 

I infer from the name you chose for GMG that poetry is another big interest for you.

[david johnson]

Hello, and welcome among us 

[Fafner]

Hello and welcome. Remember to have fun.   

[Papy Oli]

Hello and welcome !!

[Pessoa]

Thanks for your welcome. Yes,  I like poetry and literature in general, all my life has been spent among books; from Pessoa, I prefer his Livro do Desassossego to his poetry, to which I´m only attached to a bunch of sonets, but my chosing his name as a nick comes from the fact that I once joined a Portuguese forum and used that name because it refers to the writer but it also means "person" in Portuguese, When I saw that this site has the same layout as the one in Portugal, I decided to use Pessoa, so as to not load my memory with more usernames and passwords. Composers I like: Maderna, Sciarrino, Stockhausen, Cage, Feldman, Boulez, Oliveros (her electronic works, which is what I know from her and also from Luening), Reich, Ligeti, De Pablo...  And I dig Michael Franks! 

[Lisztianwagner]

Welcome to the forum and have a nice time!

[mc ukrneal]

Welcome. We have a number of members who really dig your list. Enjoy.

[Christo]

Welcome from one of the corners of the former Empire! 

[Pessoa]

 

The Netherlands, probably first modern European  revolution 

[Christo]

The Netherlands, probably first modern European  revolution 

... or one of the last acts in a Medieval Drama. 'Modernity' isn't something easily defined. 

[Wakefield]

The Netherlands... 

Welcome from the "Indian Flandes"! (this is a difficult one, I know  )

[Pessoa]

Welcome from the "Indian Flandes"! (this is a difficult one, I know  )

Somewhere in Central or South America? Chile? 

[Mirror Image]

Composers I like: Maderna, Sciarrino, Stockhausen, Cage, Feldman, Boulez, Oliveros (her electronic works, which is what I know from her and also from Luening), Reich, Ligeti, De Pablo...  And I dig Michael Franks! 

I don't care for Stockhausen personally. There's one member here who worships his music, though. From your list, I haven't heard any music from Oliveros or De Pablo. Can you recommend any of their recordings?

[Pessoa]

I don't care for Stockhausen personally. There's one member here who worships his music, though. From your list, I haven't heard any music from Oliveros or De Pablo. Can you recommend any of their recordings?

Yeah, lol, I´ve read some of those hot exchanges in the Stockhausen thread ( and in the Xenakis one as well). As for Pauline Oliveros, I like Rattlesnake mountain (accordeon and electronics, and the ones contained in Electronic works 1965-1966, Paradigm discs CD 1997). Luis de Pablo has a very long musical career; to name a few: We (for tape), Poema de madera (wood poem, for choir and 6 percussionists, 2 of them playing txalaparta, a traditional Basque instrument, a favorite of mine along with We), Figura en el mar (flute and orchestra), Melisma furioso (flute), Ritornello (8 cellos), Pocket zarzuela (mezzo and chamber orchestra)...

[Mirror Image]

Yeah, lol, I´ve read some of those hot exchanges in the Stockhausen thread ( and in the Xenakis one as well). As for Pauline Oliveros, I like Rattlesnake mountain (accordeon and electronics, and the ones contained in Electronic works 1965-1966, Paradigm discs CD 1997). Luis de Pablo has a very long musical career; to name a few: We (for tape), Poema de madera (wood poem, for choir and 6 percussionists, 2 of them playing txalaparta, a traditional Basque instrument, a favorite of mine along with We), Figura en el mar (flute and orchestra), Melisma furioso (flute), Ritornello (8 cellos), Pocket zarzuela (mezzo and chamber orchestra)...

Yeah, I don't frequent that Stockhausen thread (I have no business there), but the Xenakis thread has had some recent conflicts which have been sorted out rather nicely. Thanks for the recommendations. What do you make of Olga Neuwirth? You familiar with her music? I'm still very new to Contemporary classical having come in through the back door.

[Pessoa]

Yeah, I don't frequent that Stockhausen thread (I have no business there), but the Xenakis thread has had some recent conflicts which have been sorted out rather nicely. Thanks for the recommendations. What do you make of Olga Neuwirth? You familiar with her music? I'm still very new to Contemporary classical having come in through the back door.

I never heard of her, to be honest. She is younger than me... I read in the wiki she was  influenced by Nono, I must look for some of her music. And it´s good you mentioned, because my scope in music is very wide and my days of anxious searching are gone, so I´m glad to have a new selected name given to listen to.

[Mirror Image]

I never heard of her, to be honest. She is younger than me... I read in the wiki she was  influenced by Nono, I must look for some of her music. And it´s good you mentioned, because my scope in music is very wide and my days of anxious searching are gone, so I´m glad to have a new selected name given to listen to.

Yeah, I don't know much about her either. In fact, Nono is a composer I'm in dire need of exploring at some point as well. But, as I mentioned, I'm still a wide-eyed tourist in the world of Contemporary classical. I shouldn't say I'm completely ignorant of everything that is happening right now, but I certainly would like to familiarize myself with more of these composers. I really started off as a Modernist and have been slowly for the last 4-5 years building up my collection and exploring as much as I can from the first 50 years of the 20th Century. Now, I'm working my way ahead with post-WWII composers.

[Pessoa]

Yeah, I don't know much about her either. In fact, Nono is a composer I'm in dire need of exploring at some point as well. But, as I mentioned, I'm still a wide-eyed tourist in the world of Contemporary classical. I shouldn't say I'm completely ignorant of everything that is happening right now, but I certainly would like to familiarize myself with more of these composers. I really started off as a Modernist and have been slowly for the last 4-5 years building up my collection and exploring as much as I can from the first 50 years of the 20th Century. Now, I'm working my way ahead with post-WWII composers.

What do you think of Nixon in China and Eistein on the beach?
By the way, there is one composer in yor list who I seem to connect to a very large extent, always being moved by his music: Maurice Ravel.