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diznave
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response 125 of 205:
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Oct 22 16:30 UTC 1997 |
Heh heh heh....I can see now that I'm *never* going to catch up with *all*
the different music I want to own. Before I can get stuff I know about, I find
out about even more stuff. The human life span sure seems short.
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krj
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response 126 of 205:
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Oct 22 17:45 UTC 1997 |
Not truly experimental, I suppose, but would anyone care to provide an
overview of the discography of The Art of Noise? I found a cache of
their CDs used, and I vaguely recall there were a handful of recommended
ones and lots to avoid.
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mziemba
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response 127 of 205:
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Oct 23 12:33 UTC 1997 |
Ken-
_(Who's Afraid of?) The Art of Noise!_ (1984)
_In Visible Silence_ (1986)
_In No Sense? Nonsense!_ (1987)
_Below the Waste_ (1989)
I found _In Visible Silence_ to be their most intriguing and polished
effort. Contains the recognizable "Peter Gunn", the Max Headroom'ed
"Paranoimia", the enigmatic "Instruments of Darkness", and the word-playful
"Opus 4".
_In No Sense?..._ struck me as similar, but not as interesting.
_(Who's Afraid of?)..._ is touted as fairly good, but I never
liked it as much as _In Visible Silence_, and even found it fairly cloying,
at times.
_Below the Waste_ is probably fairly forgettable.
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bruin
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response 128 of 205:
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Oct 23 13:20 UTC 1997 |
I'm surprised that, with the current discussion of the Art of Noise, nobody
has mentioned that the band teamed up with Tom Jones on a cover of "Kiss,"
originally done by The Artist Formerly Known As Prince (when he was _still_
known as Prince).
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mziemba
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response 129 of 205:
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Oct 23 15:01 UTC 1997 |
...appearing on _The Best of the Art of Noise_ (1988) compilation -- perhaps
the handiest AON album to acquire...
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krj
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response 130 of 205:
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Oct 24 19:15 UTC 1997 |
I went back to that cache of AON albums -- Wazoo in East Lansing, if
anyone else wants a stab at them -- and IN VISIBLE SILENCE was not among
them. I have a vague recollection that we own one of the other discs,
argh...
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mziemba
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response 131 of 205:
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Oct 24 19:57 UTC 1997 |
I've either heard or acquired any I wanted to, but thanks for offering.
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krj
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response 132 of 205:
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Dec 2 06:02 UTC 1997 |
Question for orinoco: in the item about the Twisted Village store
(item:99) you mentioned "three volumes of the new CRI Partch collection."
I haven't heard about this; can you elaborate?
(I moved the question here to keep all the Partch stuff in one item.)
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orinoco
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response 133 of 205:
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Dec 3 00:23 UTC 1997 |
Well, I bough one of those three, which has '11 intrusions', 'Plectrum and
Percussion dances', and 'Ulysses at the Edge'. One of the other two has 'The
Wayward' in it's entirety, and I don't recall what's on the other one besides
'Daphne of the Dunes' and 'Water, Water'.
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mziemba
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response 134 of 205:
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Dec 7 06:43 UTC 1997 |
Hehehehehe...I *finally* found Negativland's _Dispepsi_. Listening to it,
now...
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orinoco
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response 135 of 205:
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Dec 7 14:41 UTC 1997 |
And your opinion, Mark?
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mziemba
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response 136 of 205:
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Dec 7 18:26 UTC 1997 |
After several listenings, I'm not as impressed with it as I was with _Escape
From Noise_ or _Helter Stupid_. It's interesting, but just doesn't have the
same punch that these two did. It's struck me that they've gotten less
intense in the past several years. I can't see it as a direct result of their
_U2_ fiasco, either. Their most powerful material so far didn't require half
the sensationalism that they attempted with _U2_. It seems to me that they've
been so busy focusing on flash, that they've really allowed the technique to
suffer. Don't get me wrong...I think their ideas are interesting...but it
seems like they're getting overtaken by the adrenaline of picking a fight,
without spending enough time working on their left hooks...
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goose
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response 137 of 205:
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Dec 7 19:11 UTC 1997 |
I can see, er.. hear that. It's hard to top the intensity of _Esacape.._
and _Helter Stupid_.
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mziemba
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response 138 of 205:
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Dec 22 08:16 UTC 1997 |
What would you recommend as a good access point to The Residents?
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raven
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response 139 of 205:
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Dec 23 16:48 UTC 1997 |
Well the residents are pretty hard to access, but my favorites are "The
Comercial Album" which is 40 1 minute songs, Eskimo which features some
Inuit instruments and comes in white vinyl (very hard to find), and their
cover of Elvis songs just to see the king have his crown knocked off.
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orinoco
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response 140 of 205:
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Dec 25 03:39 UTC 1997 |
My copy of _The Bewitched_ came in! My copy of _The Bewitched_ came in!
<dan is _happy!_>
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mziemba
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response 141 of 205:
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Dec 29 21:24 UTC 1997 |
_Eskimo_ sounds pretty interesting. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
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mziemba
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response 142 of 205:
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Dec 29 21:25 UTC 1997 |
Dan- cool! Let us know what you think of it...
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orinoco
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response 143 of 205:
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Dec 29 23:24 UTC 1997 |
It's...interesting. But we already expected that. Frankly, I like some of
Partch's other stuff a lot better, but this was sort of a 'must-own' thing,
if only because I'm a fanatic.
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orinoco
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response 144 of 205:
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Jan 9 04:59 UTC 1998 |
This afternoon seppuku and I were fooling around with a metal bowl - which
I had discovered had a nice gong-like sound when you hit it - when we made
another discovery. At seppuku's suggestion, I filled it halfway with water,
and we found that this made the tone 'wobble' a little.
So just recently, I tried stretching a few old guitar strings across the
opening of the bowl - I was impressed at the results. Plucking the strings
gives a nasal sound with a bit of wobble due to the water sloshing around,
and when one string is plucked the other vibrates a little, making a nice
subtle drone. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to get more than one note per
string, so anything based on this would have to be more like a harp than a
guitar, but I'll be messing around with it a bit more in the next few days.
My next project is to try to get more strings to fit, to the point where I
can play a melody of some sort on it. I'll let you know how it turns out.
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raven
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response 145 of 205:
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Jan 9 05:54 UTC 1998 |
Wow that is a strange synchronicity, I was just messing with a metal bowl
in my kitchen and noticed the wah wah sound of it's chime, so I then tried
filling it with water to increase the wah. Great minds think alike. :-)
The guitar strings are a nice touch.
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orinoco
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response 146 of 205:
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Jan 9 20:44 UTC 1998 |
Synchronicitous indeed! (is that even a word?)
I just stopped by Herb David to grab some tuning machines - it turns out
that's the technical term for those tuning-peg-with-gear deals that guitars
have. I'm planning on putting on six strings to begin with, but I think I'll
be able to use the edge of the bowl as a bridge, which means 12 notes - i.e.
a chromatic octave, or nearly so. This will mean some hammering and sawing
and suchlike, meaning it may be awhile before it really comes together.
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lumen
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response 147 of 205:
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Jan 10 00:15 UTC 1998 |
*lumen is in awe*
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orinoco
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response 148 of 205:
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Jan 10 03:12 UTC 1998 |
Hey, I haven't gotten off my ass and _done_ anything yet - save that awe for
when it's deserved :)
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lumen
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response 149 of 205:
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Jan 11 02:04 UTC 1998 |
it's the principle of the thing-- I doubt I could actually make an instrument,
much less conceive of one.
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