Long Siesta and Lucifer.

So there I was doing my two visits in Medway and Sheerness on a very blustery day, decided that I have a dinner in Spoons - with a few beers - before I go home and then arrive home only to fall asleep till an hour ago. Normally I have to do these reports for this company by midnight but luckily they were still available for me to finish the reports at at 0130 in the night. Now done and hence awake,

So I shall continue watching the new season of Lucifer. Yes, the devil himself is back from Hell. Watched four episodes on Friday.

Just Wondering

Have you ever won a trophy?

Would you ever consider using or trying a love potion?

What is your thought on beauty pageants?

Good Morning

Word Of The Day

Today's word is -

spectralism

A musical composition practice in which compositional decisions are often informed by the analysis of sound spectra.

The spectral approach to musical composition was first given a name in 1979 by Hugues Dufourt, in an article he entitled "Musique spectrale" (Spectral music).
In spectral music, the spectrum – or group of spectra – replace harmony, melody, rhythm, orchestration and form. The spectrum is always in motion, and the composition is based on spectra developing through time and exerting an influence on rhythm and formal processes. Spectral music seeks to exteriorize the inner reality of sound, to project its inner dynamics into an acoustic space and time, and to transmit to the public the reality of sound in all its complexity.

Defined in technical language, spectral music is an acoustic musical practice where compositional decisions are often informed by sonographic representations and mathematical analysis of sound spectra, or by mathematically generated spectra. The spectral approach focuses on manipulating the spectral features, interconnecting them, and transforming them. In this formulation, computer-based sound analysis and representations of audio signals are treated as being analogous to a timbral representation of sound.

The (acoustic-composition) spectral approach originated in France in the early 1970s, and techniques were developed, and later refined, primarily at IRCAM, Paris, with the Ensemble l'Itinéraire, by composers such as Gérard Grisey and Tristan Murail. Murail has described spectral music as an aesthetic rather than a style, not so much a set of techniques as an attitude; as Joshua Fineberg puts it, a recognition that "music is ultimately sound evolving in time". Julian Anderson indicates that a number of major composers associated with spectralism consider the term inappropriate, misleading, and reductive. The Istanbul Spectral Music Conference of 2003 suggested a redefinition of the term "spectral music" to encompass any music that foregrounds timbre as an important element of structure or language.

Might post a spectralistic music post later today.

Bunnitude

Sunday Slouching

I walked into town and met Ewart at the Bear pub after getting some food items at the supermarket. I gave him a Bohuslav Martinu promo CD from the Bohuslav Institute which is devoted to this classical composer. He was well pleased! Here is a taste of his music.

Bohuslav Martinů - Piano Concerto No. 4, 'Incantation'

BBC Proms, Ivo Kahanek piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jiří Bělohlávek conductor in 2007

I posted off another eBay sale item. Had a few beers of Jaipur in Spoons before going home.

Fell asleep for awhile as well.

Sunday Grooving

Some music based on my cheap finds yesterday -

New Order-True Faith

Bix Beiderbecke - Riverboat Shuffle

Duke Ellington - La Plus Belle Africaine

Simphiwe Dana - Sizophum' Elokishini

Enjoy

Spectralism

As mentioned here is some spectral music as defined in my Word of The Day.

Gérard Grisey - Espaces acoustiques

Gérard Grisey
Espaces acoustiques 2/2
Modulations, pour trente-trois musiciens
Transitoires, pour orchestre
Épilogue, pour quatre cors et orchestre

Jens McManama, Jean-Christophe Vervoitte, Pierre Turpin, Vincent Léonard, cors
Ensemble intercontemporain
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris
Pascal Rophé, direction

Tristan Murail - Gondwana (1980) for orchestra

Tristan Murail - Désintégrations

Naturally the Wire did a whole primer on the music