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I like listening to little clips of music online. Sometimes I browse Amazon's music store for things to listen to during work. Anyways, I figured this would be a great place to share snippets we love to listen to.
Here's something good. Click on the little speaker next to String Quartet No. 5, mov. V (it's the only speaker on the page).
[EDIT: make sure not to link anything you're not sure is legal. This link is the official homesite, and it's just a sample, but we don't want to get the Cards in trouble linking to something that is hosted with copyright violations!]
The three songs that automatically play are from their new album released today. I'm really excited, though this album is quite a departure from their previous 4 studio ones.
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Really? Hmmm, I do like classical music, though most Glass isn't that classical, some of it certainly has strong overtones. For a example of some of his other work, you can try this one, and maybe this and this is pretty out there.
Some of his more inbetween stuff would be like this. I you like him, I can give you a lot more smaples and info! I love Glass. But I was going to try and find some samples from other people as well...
just curiously, why didn't you think I'd like classical?
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Carrie - they have some good sounds -- they're considered an indie band???? I'm probably going to pass that link over to my daughter -- she would like them -- although I haven't made out all the lyrics yet.
Their one "radio" song plays when you access the site. There's also an audio clips section with samples of alot of their songs.
I think they're great. At times they remind of me of radiohead. But i guess more poppy. Maybe a bit of Coldplay. Though none of them are british. Posts: 8741 | Registered: Apr 2001
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Here's an interesting mp3 from the composer's home site (he only has one sample mp3 ), though I think people would prefer Terry Riley's audio (try "Islands of Never Anger" first).
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The Steve Reich link is pretty good (this said by me, a known Yanni fan), but I couldn't listen to the Terry Riley stuff because I refuse to install Real Player on this machine.
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Steve Reich eh? He's a werid guy, some of his stuff (like that link) seem almost normal, some of his stuff is literally swing microphones on different length pendulems over speakers to see the rythms it produces.
His most famous is defaintly this, which I highl enjoy (click on the "play all" down the page a bit). He recorded trains sounds, and then went and interviewed both people who had accompinied him on train trips around the nation durring WWII as a child, train engineers working durring WWII, and survivors of the concentration camps. He then adds on two tracts of a string quartet and mixes in the other sounds, complementating the melody of the speech with that of the quartet. It's very enjoyable. (The last three tracks are electronic counterpoint, not all that interesting sadly).
For more tracts from the album of the mp3 I linked, try this (another amazon page).
Also this one is good, I'm not a big fan of the first two tracks, but the rest I like.
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Here's a term for you Hobbes. Instead of "Classical", think "Chamber".
Philip Glass, like many composers that work in this genre, is not so much "classical music" as "chamber music". Contemporary, often electronic chamber music, agreed. But that would be his genre, as opposed to folk music, like Rock and Roll and Hip Hop.
Your tastes are merely a cut above...
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Philip Glass is mostly referred to as "minimalist", though he hates the term and prefers “repetitive structure”. He is not, however, chamber music. Not that he doesn’t write a lot of chamber music, but for an example of something different check out this, this, and this. He does all types of music, though his chamber stuff does tend to be his most popular. I wouldn’t call Glass classical, but especially his modern stuff does seem to be becoming more so than his older works.
I don’t know exactly what you meant by “merely a cut above”, but I don’t listen to Glass to be “above” someone else’s tastes, I listen to Glass because I feel deeply moved by his music.
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Because it's Yanni, or because it's music at all?
I'm currently listening to Carmen Fantasy, I plan on putting in perhaps the entire Satyaghraha Opera (3 CDs) some of Einstein on the Beach, Dracula, the CIVIL warS, Drumming (Steve Reich), maybe some Nixon in China (John Adams) and who knows what else. Music kicks butt!
[EDIT: That link seems to be having issues, if you can't get it to work go here and then scroll down to the track listening where it also has samples. This is track 10]
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The only people on this earth who really know how to play waltzs are the Viennese. Sorry, this is just a fact of life, kind of the way the only fabric softener that both softens your clothes durring drying and gives them that pleasent, fresh-spring-air smell doesn't actually exist.
I think Annie and I may just dance in Chicago, but right now she's being responsible and working and being a source of strength for her family and those around her. Like normal.
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Actually I've only ever tried mouchinf off of one other person's dryer sheets and I don't think those were even fabric softeners that I took, so I've never really tried anything. It just seemed like the thing to say at the time.
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See CT, in reference to my “creep out” comment in the other thread (that I’ve now moved to this one since the discussion seems to have returned to the actual discussion topic ) the problem I have with the lyrics is the mental image it creates (the reason it creeps me out). If I had to describe what pops up in my head it would be something like this:
I’m tied to a simple, but well constructed wooden chair that’s bolted to the ground. My hands and legs are secured tightly, and I can feel the rope bite into my flesh and tear at me as I try to squirm out of the knots, to no success. My mouth is uncovered, but I no longer bother to scream, as I have shouted my throat raw and dry and to no avail. The slight lacerations from this exertion are causing trickles of blood to run down my throat.
There’s a women in the room, it’s too dark to see what she look like but she’s pacing back and forth in front of me, holding something. Something long and cylindrical and from the looks of it: heavy. Hope is gone now, I know I will not survive this, the only question is how much pain I’ll be forced to endure before the end.
Suddenly she swings the object at me, at my throat, and I find that it’s sharper than I thought, not really cylinder at all. My whole body rocks back with the force, but the chair will not tolerate any movement, and my body slows forward, pulling against the chords that bind me.
My throat is broken and bleeding, I desperately try to bring air into my lungs, to survive and keep breathing, but the pressure is gone and instead there’s merely a rasping noise. I try to shout but only a hiss of air escapes the wide split in my neck. Blood from the cut is seeping down into my lungs, building up there; some is crawling defiantly down, over my throat and onto my chest and clothes.
My brain is beginning to give into the lack of oxygen, I can feel synapses shutting off and a curtain is descending over my eyes. I can hear, as if far off and muted, the sound of scissors, snip-sniping away, a familiar clicking of metal brushing by metal. I feel the delicate wisps of hair as it falls down from my head, wafting pass my blurred vision and coming to rest somewhere down below. The hair mingles with the blood still gushing out from the fatal wound, causing it to coagulate around the hair, sticking to my sweaty body. Hair falling down into my throat, vibrating with my futile attempts at breath.
As my vision disappears and my mind shuts down the last thing I’m aware of is the vague and constant cutting and clacking, and the warm and gentle breaths as they lightly blow the lines of hair across my now empty body.
That creeps me out, it really doesn’t creep you out?
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Well it seems like there's some sort of link between throat-breaking and death. What do you picture when you hear it, or do you not react to music with a visual... phenomena?
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The guy swung the pipe at me. It hit my throat, smashing through it. Too much pain to say cut me into pieces, and I lay on the ground a little while, barely holding onto life.
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I only listened to the lyrics, I admit to not really reading them. I'm glad you're not here right now or I would have to explain to you that the color of face is in no way an endorsment for Communism.
I'd still love to hear the description of what those lyrics cause you to think of though.
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Kwea, my friends and I have become big fans of the BOCA albums - Best Of Collegiate Acapella... they've got assorted tunes by assorted collegiate choirs, and one comes out each year.
A lot of times, they try to be funny and do songs like "Lady Marmelade" and "Dancing Queen," but some of them are truly amazing. An all-female choir from some California school (UCLA?) does a version of Madonna's "Ray of Light" with all the techno noises and everything. My all-time favorite is Utah State doing "The Rainbow Connection." Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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