Good Morning

CD Finds Today

Sunny morning but cooler than yesterday , so far. i was in town this morning having the traditional breakfast at Spoons, as it was still under three quid plus any drinks.
I was going to go to a supermarket to get some provisions but I got side-tracked into the Fleurs Bookshop. They were doing CD's for fifty pence each.

I picked up the following CDs -

Various Artists - Salsa Dance (World Music Network)
Glenn Gould - Bach Goldberg Variations (CBS)
Various Artists - The Night Is Blue (Camden Jazz)
Fats Waller - The Essence Of (Delta Music)
Lisa Knapp - Wild And Undaunted (Ear To The Ground)



A nice selection.

Word Of The Day

Today's excellent word is -


pediculous

adjective | pih-DIK-yuh-lus

1. infested with lice : lousy

Count on the English language's Latin lexical options to pretty up the unpleasant. You can have an entire conversation about lice and avoid the l-word entirely using pediculous and its relatives. None of the words (from pediculus, meaning "louse") is remotely common, but they're all available to you should you feel the need for them. There's pediculosis, meaning "infestation with lice," pedicular, "of or relating to lice," and pediculoid, "resembling or related to the common lice." Pediculid names a particular kind of louse—one of the family Pediculidae. And if you'd like to put an end to all of this you might require a pediculicide—defined as "an agent for destroying lice."

ElectroAcoustic Music

I do love electroacoustic and experimental electronic music and one of my CD's in my collection is a dual format CD/DVD of electroacoustic music.
Just four tracks and here are two of them. The first track is a different version of the piece to the one on the CD by Peter Zinovieff.


Sir Harrison Birtwistle - Chronometer

Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco

Artist: Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology
Artist: Jonathan Harvey
Composer: Jonathan Harvey

Enjoy

Just Wondering

Did you go to college? If so, what was your major, and was it your major from the start or did you change your mind?

What is the weirdest thing about you?

Have you always had the same political beliefs?

More ElectroAcosutic Music

For the night people and other late nighters -

Javier Alvarez - Temazcal

Mira Calix - Nunu

The sound of crickets sonically manipulated.

Scientists tell us that across the world insect numbers are declining as a result of habitat loss and pesticides, particularly among species of bee and butterfly, and this has a knock-on effect for other animals, the insect being the bedrock of the food chain. Mira Calix highlights these problems with her sonic manipulations such as Mantis & Bee.

Thomas Koner - Nuuk (day)

Enjoy.

Good Night