Music For The Night People

Jazzy here - this current selection is for you night people -

Rokia Traoré - A Ou Ni Sou

Library Tapes - Leaving

Stargaze - Last Chance For A Slow Dance

Biosphere -The Silent Orchestra

Enjoy

Good Morning

Fruits Of Silence

Peteris Vasks - The Fruits Of Silence : Winter

Enjoy.

Word Of The Day

Today's scintillating word is -

Tombeau


A tombeau (plural tombeaux) is a musical composition (earlier, in the early 16th century, a poem) commemorating the death of a notable individual. The term derives from the French word for "tomb" or "tombstone". The vast majority of tombeaux date from the 17th century and were composed for lute or other plucked string instruments. The vast majority of tombeaux date from the 17th century and were composed for lute or other plucked string instruments. The genre gradually fell out of use during the 18th century but reappeared in the early 20th.

The tombeau genre went into decline at the end of the 18th century. It reappeared in the 20th century with Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin (1919). Other 20th-century tombeaux include Manuel de Falla's Le Tombeau de Debussy for solo guitar, Arthur Benjamin's Le Tombeau de Ravel for clarinet and piano, the last movement of Pli selon pli by Pierre Boulez, and Tombeau for Michael Collins (1987) by Mona Lyn Reese. Surely between the tombeau and the hommage the instrumental Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt and for Morton Feldman (1987) by Stephen L. Mosko.

Tuesday Thoughts

On the whole it was sunny and mild. Some drizzle in the afternoon but not much.

I popped into town for my usual lunch at the pub, and had the mixed grill with a jacket potato and then followed by American style pancakes with ice cream.







A very delicious satisfying lunch meal.

I also popped into the Past Sentence bookstore and sold some books for four pounds.

Finished another quick read.

Jazzy's Tuesday Modern Classical Box

Time for some musical bon mots -

Anna Clyne - Within Her Arms

Performed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Gloria Coates - String Quartet No.7 "Angels"

Gloria Coates (* 1938): Quartetto per archi n.7 "Angels" (2000) -- Kreutzer Quartet; Philip Adams, organ directed by Michael Finnissy
cover image by Marc Chagall

Gyorgy Ligeti - Volumina

Luciano Berio - Requies

Enjoy

A New York Trilogy

Three songs about the Big Apple.

Frank Sinatra - New York New York

Billy Joel - New York State Of Mind

LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

Enjoy

An L.A. Trilogy

Three songs about L.A.

The Doors - L.A.Woman

Garrison Starr - Beautiful in Los Angeles

Frank Black - Los Angeles

ENJOY>

Simulacrum

The French theorist Jean Baudrillard contended that the difference between actuality and mere simulation had long since broken down and that this idea pervades the current politics we are in right now, which is encapsulated in the post-modern concept of hyperreality. There is a lack in the desert of the real and that everything is a hyperreal simulacrum. The sociologist Zygmunt Baumann, in his book Intimations of Postmodernity, summarised Baudrillard's portrayal of a culture in which "images represent nothing but themselves, information does not inform, and desire turn into their own objectives". This shines a penetrating light on the politics of today.

"We live in a world where there is more and more information and less and less meaning," wrote Baudrillard in 1981. This social media age surely proves him right. That is, the sheer volume of content, the dizzying number of narratives and counter-narratives, and the pace of the news cycle are far too much for any singular person to process. We are in an ocean of information overload and sometimes find ourselves on a raft trying not to submerge.

A possible solution then, to misquote Timothy Leary, is to turn on, tune out and drop out from the external social-political games.

Just Wondering

How often do you vacuum/sweep or does it vary by room?

If a friend told you that they wanted to stop exchanging gifts for special occasions, would you be happy or sad?

Do you own any home gym equipment? Do you actually use it?

Not A Selfie

More Music For The Night People

For you midnight owls -

Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano: Study No. 6

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Remembering

Tenzin Choegyal - Emptiness

Michel Massot - Elixir

Catriona McKay - Kaus Borealis

ENJOY
Good night