The NACA Music, Art & General Creativity Thread

[icowden]

I've been listening to

My daughter was playing it and wanted to go see her at the O2. I'd never heard of her but she is essentially a jazz / swing singer who seems to have captivated the yoof. It was an excellent concert - just weird to see thousands of teenage fans for jazz and bossa nova...

 

[swee'pea99]

I just came to this on YouTube yesterday, having never heard of the guy before.

Set aside ten minutes and watch this. It is incredible.


View: https://youtu.be/s_nc1IVoMxc

Having only just stumbled across this thread, can I just say that this is the best thing I've seen on t'internet since I can't remember when. Stunning. And I join the numerous others in wishing the feller all the best.

 

[icowden]

Having only just stumbled across this thread, can I just say that this is the best thing I've seen on t'internet since I can't remember when. Stunning. And I join the numerous others in wishing the feller all the best.

Astonishing. Not everyone will appreciate how difficult that is to write, remember and play.

 

[AndyRM]

I've been listening to...

 

[TailWindHome]

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[TailWindHome]

Today I'm mostly listening to

 

[TailWindHome]

Today I'm mostly listening to

 

[TailWindHome]

Today I mostly listened to

 

[AuroraSaab]

There's a handful of people I would be prepared to pay big money to see these days. Tracy Chapman would be high up the list. There's more going on in the lyrics of Fast Car than most novels.

 

[Ian H]

This is brilliant.

View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWVxQYjiH00/?igsh=NnVzOWVya3l0a3dp

 

[briantrumpet]

This is brilliant.

View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWVxQYjiH00/?igsh=NnVzOWVya3l0a3dp

Ha, nuts! If you've not seen/heard his Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, they are interesting, and are slightly easier to appreciate as music.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

This is brilliant.

View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWVxQYjiH00/?igsh=NnVzOWVya3l0a3dp

I always get John Cage/John Cale mixed up! Fair play to whoever booked this all those years back. I doubt we would see something so avant garde on mainstream tv these days

 

[briantrumpet]

I always get John Cage/John Cale mixed up! Fair play to whoever booked this all those years back. I doubt we would see something so avant garde on mainstream tv these days

The 1960s were also the time when Radio 3 wasn't afraid to broadcast 'difficult' music, mostly because of William Glock.

I'm pretty sure that this will have featured at some point. It's deadly serious, but quite nuts, and almost impossible to make any aural sense of, as it's strayed so far from all the kinds of reference points (harmony, melody, groove, form, etc.) that most people would recognise as being part of the language of music.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQw7NMz4WNI

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

The 1960s were also the time when Radio 3 wasn't afraid to broadcast 'difficult' music, mostly because of William Glock.

I'm pretty sure that this will have featured at some point. It's deadly serious, but quite nuts, and almost impossible to make any aural sense of, as it's strayed so far from all the kinds of reference points (harmony, melody, groove, form, etc.) that most people would recognise as being part of the language of music.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQw7NMz4WNI

I quite enjoy Stockhausen. I think I must have come across him as so many great jazz figures cited him as an influence. I like music that has dissonance, in a strange way the lack of harmony creates its own harmony, the strength of the discord amongst the notes makes them hang together.

 

[briantrumpet]

I quite enjoy Stockhausen. I think I must have come across him as so many great jazz figures cited him as an influence. I like music that has dissonance, in a strange way the lack of harmony creates its own harmony, the strength of the discord amongst the notes makes them hang together.

I have to be in the right mood. I was well into Schönberg and Webern when I was at school and university, to a silly degree when I did an interview for Royal Holloway, and being shown a page out of a score, being asked to make comments on the music, I identified the piece of music (by Schönberg) by the edition number at the bottom of the page. But it's still quite a hard listen, even 100 years later.

And there's me laughing at trainspotters...