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Tag Archives: music
I’ve got a little list
Like Rob Gordon and his shopmates in High Fidelity, one of my musical obsessions is compiling song or record lists. I could rarely narrow things down to “top fives;” the best I can usually do is 10 or 20. Before … Continue reading
Like Rock Band, only less fun
I had a classical station on the radio while I was driving Miles home from school today. The Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor was playing and I was humming along with it. Miles asked “Dad, how do … Continue reading
The return of when gadgets mate
As promised in an earlier post, I tried my hand at making some generative music with my small collection of musical gadgets. Here’s what I came up with: The result is more ambient/drone-like than the Japanese original, mostly due to … Continue reading
70,000
While adding new music to the iTunes library today, I noticed that I had broken the 70,000 song mark. It’s not Robert Klein’s “every record ever recorded,” but it’s a substantial amount of music. I’m waiting for the half-terabyte iPod … Continue reading
… and on keyboards …
I grew up outside of New York City, so it was inevitable that I would be dragged to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I resisted what I thought would be a day-long exercise on boredom, changing my opinion only when … Continue reading
Love or confusion
I’m not one to pay a lot of attention to lyrics, especially for songs I only hear on the radio instead of in my music library. I was playing Rock Band, and selected “Lump” by The Presidents of the United … Continue reading
My brother, the genius
My younger brother Chris has won three Grammy awards in his career as a recording engineer and producer. Two of those are for Bob Dylan records: “Love and Theft,” and Modern Times. He contributed some remastered tracks to The Bootleg … Continue reading
When gadgets mate
I have a small collection of music-making gadgets: a Buddha Machine II, ElektroPlankton and the Korg DS-10 for my Nintendo DS, and Bloom (by Brian Eno) and RjDj Album on my iPhone. Today I found this video via the Create … Continue reading