Prodigy

Profile of 12-year-old music prodigy Alma Deutscher

 

Hot fun

Sunday Morning had a segment on Sly and the Family Stone, more specifically, Sly's new book. It made me remember how much I loved their music and brought back all kinds of high school memories.

 

 

Feeling 17, 18 again!

 

  

 

Wonderful world

I always cry when I hear "What a Wonderful World". I always have. Always will. I love Armstrong.

 

 I always wonder, when will I quit finding so much talented artist on the internet? I have worried about that for so many years ... and I still discover the most amazing talent out there.

Helen Geglio's Apron Strings Series. Apron Strings is a body of artwork that explores the complex relationships we have with our children. This is a stitched meditation on motherhood—marking the countless moments of passage until we set our sons and daughters loose into the world.

And her A Dozen White Shirts. This work began with the discovery of a dozen white cotton dress shirts, wadded into a box in a dark basement corner. The toil of weekly laundry; washing, bleaching, line drying, starching and pressing, took many hours, and untold energy. It is no surprise that my mother was an early adopter of permanent press, or that these shirts were cast off at the first opportunity. I can still smell the freshly hung laundry and the spray starch she used as she dutifully ironed six white shirts a week. Many years later, the shirts provided me with a blank slate for mark-making and fabric manipulation in a visual exploration of connections between women, work and textiles

Henry Mancini

I am sorry David could not have watched this. He loved the Peter Gunn theme song. Seems Henry Mancini was the epitome of cool. 

 

  

This was always one of my favorites! 

 

 

  

 

1978

 

  

 

Songs in the wind

I ran across an ad for Koshi Chime Ignis ($62) but they seemed a little expensive. So I did some online searching and found these Bamboo Chord Wind Chimes for Relaxation tuned chimes for them online as a lesser price. PS, if you are selling Wind Chimes online, it is essential that you include a audio sample!

 

But while searching I ran into some really, really expensive Wind Chimes. I was pretty shocked.

  This is the Quartal

 

In real time 

  

Or I could just download 9 hours of relaxing wind chime music from YouTube. 

 

 

Violins, cellos and oboes, oh my

When David first looked through my music, he said he had never seen anyone who owned so many copies of Vivaldi Four Seasons. Sometimes I forgot how much I love my favorite classics. I listened to them so many times that I can let my mind dance over every note as through I could play it myself.

 

  

  

  

  

  

 When I need a good cry, I listen to Gabriel's Oboe. Do not ask me why this is so emotional for me.

  

And then there is a cello version. 

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

Mom Rap Battle

I like rap and thought this was very clever, rap song for Tru Earth. 

Theme song

A good theme songs can send chills down my spin every time the series starts off! 

"Midsomer Murders" is one of my favorites. Celia Sheen plays the theme tune from ITV's drama series "Midsomer Murders" on the Theremin. She has done so, along with incidental music, on the soundtrack of every episode for fourteen years. This fascinating instrument was the world's very first electronic instrument, invented in 1920 by Russian scientist Lev Theremin. 

  

 Vera

  

Endeavour

  

 Inspector Morse

  

The 50 Best TV Theme Songs of All Time

I love music and I forgot how much

This music came on the other night and jolted me awake ... I said to David (who was watching Jay Leno) "Who is this, I love this song!" 
 Drop City Yacht Club - Crickets



Matt and I were talking about the kind of music I like ... the sunlit summer, breezy kind that you would listen to driving the open road with all the windows open. I listen to too much NPR and not enough music (that is what I have decided). More fun, less serious talking news.

Which made me start thinking about my other breezy faves. 

Edie Brickell. She has a fun Song of the Day section. Remember  Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - "Air Of December"? 

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - "Air Of December" from john doe on Vimeo.

Glorious Gregorian chant

I just found this Gregorian chant site. With loads of tracks. For free. I have been listening to Gregorian Chants a long time, I find them very soothing. The 99 Most Essential Gregorian Chants is one of my favorites.

Why is chant called Gregorian? 

"That "Gregorian" chant was named for and credited to Pope Gregory I (r. 590-604) is an accident of politics and spin doctoring. Tension between the Pope (the Bishop of Rome) and other Bishops regarding the authority of the Pope as "first among equals" was matched by tension between the Pope, as spiritual ruler of Rome, and Rome's secular rulers. This tension was an off and on thing until as late as the 15th century, when the "Conciliar Conflict" (c. 1409-1460) pitted the power of the Council of Bishops against the power of the Pope and Cardinals. 

Gregory I has been credited with many things, including the writing, collecting, or organizing of the body of plainchant in use at the time, as well founding the first singing school (Schola Cantorum) in Rome to train singers for the church, organizing the church's annual cycle of liturgical readings, and first establishing the church's authority over the secular rulers of Rome. There are any number of lovely stories and legends associated with Gregory.

There are paintings showing a bird singing chants into his ear as he wrote them down. (Unfortunately, of course, there was no usable music notation at the time.) There are stories of his sending out missionaries with instructions to bring back any new music they encountered, saying "Why should the Devil have all the good songs?"

Whether he actually did any of these things is questionable. They were attributed to him in later centuries in an attempt to build up and support the primacy of the papacy. Those who attributed wondrous accomplishments to Gregory were doing the same job that spin doctors do today for politicians and entertainers.

In point of fact, the chant that was used in Gregory's time is now known as Old Roman, which barely survived into the era of musical notation, passing from one generation to the next by ear. In about the year 800, two centuries after Gregory's time, the Emperor Charlemagne sent to Rome for authentic liturgical books and chants. Singing teachers were dispatched from Rome to teach the Franks by ear, but they did not get along well and the Franks made major changes in order to adapt the chant to their taste and their ways of singing.

The chant of the Franks is the style that eventually propagated. As a result, what we call Gregorian chant should probably be called Carolingian chant, but the easy way out is simply to use the term plainchant and leave it at that." 


John Howell

Peter Ali

I meet Peter Ali yesterday at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery. He is an Native America Flutist. I love Native America music and I pair it with some bird songs playing in another room for the full spiritual experience. 

Try to walk away ....

There is a reason I avoid YouTube, because it is dangerous for me. I would spend so much time listening to music and get completely lost!



Found Irma, looking for Macy Gray's It try song ... 


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Lorelei

I really dig the sound of SHANNON EILEEN, especially her rendition of 'Time in a Bottle'. I read her Happiness Is... Blog. Also on iTunes, have a listen!

RadioUnited Records

RadioUnited Records has a new music video, "This Time I Meant It". 

In a groove

radio movies I really love this song - Philip Sheppard's Launch from the In the shadow of the Moon, it makes me happy ;) Found via Rockey Monkey art blog. 

 

Recent Films by Radiomovies Green Button Music. 

I think coming up with titles for these sounds is as fun as choosing a name for a color! So I wonder if they have the title first for inspiration? Below links,  few of my favorites. You could listen to these all day!
 
Memory Surface  

Ice Trails  

The Dawn of a New Day 

 
Mboutokou  

Haunted Mansion  

A Fall Day 
 
Redemption  

Sewing Machines  

The Journey Within  

Random Rab Music

 

Lovely Day!

I always forget how much I love this song. 

Explosions In The Sky

I discovered this Texas band referenced on a friends website the other day, Explosions In The Sky talking about this song - Your Hand In Mine. More samples. I really like the music! Looks like they are going to be in Seattle in July!

Interpretations

I is interesting to listen to different interpretations of the same song - Love Will Tear Us Apart



This video-sketchbook



Stanton Miranda


Susanna and The Magical Orchestra