Re: [-empyre-] blast from the past :: listening habits

[Christina McPhee <christinamcphee@yahoo.com>]

i listen to greyworld tonight

i learn from the keyboard and like the evocative
spaces.
some wit here too.  good for summertime.

does it  affect my sound work? probably by just
reminding me of the value of a delicate touch

http://www.greyworld.org/music/index.html


christina
-http://www.greyworld.org/music/index.html-- Trace
Reddell <treddell@du.edu> wrote:
> > i think it would be interesting to hear what
> others members of this panel
> > and list enjoy listening to and why.  do you
> listen to relax?  do you
> listen
> > intently (analysing what you are hearing), or do
> you listen as background?
> > do you listen to music/sound that makes you feel
> good, or that shares
> > something in the way you think (i.e. lyrics that
> you identify with).
> 
> I wanted to resurrect this thread from the past, as
> I too am interested in
> what everyone listens to and why/how.
> 
> I'd say I listen for all of the reasons John lists:
> relaxation, intent
> listening, background to dishwashing. My tastes are
> eclectic (currently
> immersed in The Clash's _Sandinista_ again after
> many years), and I don't
> equate a certain type of music with a certain
> listening mode (e.g.,
> microsound for intent listening, post-punk-dub for
> dishwashing). I do find
> myself having less time for intent listening (two
> kids in the house now!),
> but when I do, I'm usually drawn to lyrical stuff
> right now, particularly
> narrative lyrics (Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen's
> "Born to Run" and "Darkness
> on the Edge of Town", The Smiths, Talk Talk's
> "Colour of Spring" and
> "Laughing Stock"). Much of my listening happens
> while busy on the computer
> building a web site for a project or writing or
> emailing.
> 
> Most microsound I listen to is my own, though I
> consider "own"-ership
> somewhat questionable. That is, I usually try to
> enact a situation (such as
> translating .txt data into MIDI) for musical
> generation that I can then
> listen to as it unfolds and, as it were, performs
> itself. I try to engage
> this process, multiple times, in a way that lets me
> filter out the more
> interesting results and mix from there into a single
> track. This is how all
> of my work up on the microsound projects has come
> about, as well as the De
> Quincey piece on Stasisfield.
> 
> I guess what's interesting to me about this question
> is the reminder that
> much of what I listen to has very, very little to do
> with what I produce.
> I'm certainly not listening to Tom Waits or The
> Clash looking to mine out
> samples and such. And I don't create rock-ish
> sounding microsound or glitch
> tracks, though one piece did bear some resemblance
> to the sonic mood from
> one of Talk Talk's Phill Brown productions.
> 
> Anyone else exploring the discrepancies between
> what/how they hear and
> what/how they produce?
> 
> -=Trace
> 
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