Christian Hymns Salve Jewish Soul: Ex-Yeshiva Girl Finds Comfort in Rootsy Sacred Harp Music This is a spoken word radio piece – http://www.forward.com/workspace/assets/audio/BESHKIN_SACRED_HARP.mp3. About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair … Continue reading → […]
IMO 6 am is the *perfect* time for recording my loudest mandolin playing in a hotel room. What does the guy in the next room know. Sleep? Wha? #sorryboutthat #jetlag The tune is http://www.paperclipdesign.com/19ctunes/japanesa_1m.gif […]
I transposed the sheet music for an old tune called Jenny Lind Polka so that I could easily jam on this song with players of various different instruments. This song was popularized in 1846 by a dance instructor named Allen … Continue reading → […]
I played the liquor aisle at the supermarket this weekend. No lie. There are artistes who would be repulsed by this situation, but I am not one. It was not a bad gig at all, I swear. I played hard, … Continue reading → […]
About a year and a half ago I answered an ad for musicians to participate in an art project. The project was about “rewilding.” As far as I could figure it out I think the idea was nature taking back … Continue reading → […]
A couple songs from Ghost Solos are in a short film called There is work for you in the sky: see Mars! The short has a lot of charm. There is work for you in the sky: see Mars! from … Continue reading → […]
When I previously blogged the old old sheet music for “Pompey Ran Away”, I used a scan that only an insane person would try to read: To make restitution I dug up a better source and clipped out the image … Continue reading → […]
Says it all! Downloading ruled when streaming wasn’t feasible. But once streaming comes into play, my opinion is that most of the download market will be split. I love listening to my favorite songs but after the first few days of assembling the collection, they are now seldom transmitted from the FLASH universe they occupy. That is not to say that I will delete them from there anytime soon. But, I still listen to my car radio and watch TV everyday … a lot.
Wow – a picture is worth a thousand words. Music is always changing – to quote KCentric from ccMixter. Can we evolve with technology without resorting to lawsuits to prevent progress? May innovation win.
The thing that this dialog misses is changes in the nature of the music. For example, the way that the ccMixter site influences the kind of music that community members make.
August 23rd, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Says it all! Downloading ruled when streaming wasn’t feasible. But once streaming comes into play, my opinion is that most of the download market will be split. I love listening to my favorite songs but after the first few days of assembling the collection, they are now seldom transmitted from the FLASH universe they occupy. That is not to say that I will delete them from there anytime soon. But, I still listen to my car radio and watch TV everyday … a lot.
September 4th, 2010 at 11:52 am
Wow – a picture is worth a thousand words. Music is always changing – to quote KCentric from ccMixter. Can we evolve with technology without resorting to lawsuits to prevent progress? May innovation win.
September 4th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
The thing that this dialog misses is changes in the nature of the music. For example, the way that the ccMixter site influences the kind of music that community members make.