Comments on: Picking the Greens

By: Dance Art

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:13:12 +0000

Bought one from Amazon!

It is good!

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By: mark ferdman

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:08:44 +0000

By: from randolph

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:47:24 +0000

-==-=–hello
lynn showed me the newyorker article today at the library. congratulations. i met you a few times playing soccer, as a young VerMonster.
::SO:: did you have a sampler between your legs in your vid? the one with the piano riff bangers
well–=-==i never knew about the russian doll theremin before. the newest dr.sample 555 has a fucking built in theremin too !
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i wish you clarity and strength

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By: Kent Johnson

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:26:29 +0000

Nico,

I was wondering if you knew the work of the Mexican composer Javier Alvarez? He lived in London, where he taught at the Royal College of Music for many years and now lives in Medellin, Mexico. His most widely performed piece is for maracas and electronic tape, though that goes back to the 90s (it’s on his first cd, Papolotl). He and I were roomates in Milwaukee back in the 1980s, which is a long time ago, and I’ve lost his trace in the past year. Actually, one of the reasons I’m writing is to ask if you or anyone reading this might have contact information for him.

thanks very much,

Kent Johnson

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By: marcus

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:35:20 +0000

In regard to ‘picking the greens’, this may be the perfect convergence of food and music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY

vegetableorchestra.org

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By: dan

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:54:36 +0000

Nico! I have an excellent transcription of some lion dance drumming that Ian did last year. We both played with the lion dance when the DSO did a Chinese New Year special last year. One of their drummers was an Elvis impersonator!

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By: tanya

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:46:54 +0000

never having tasted pork
it would seem a mystery
yet, your music strikes me
{thank you, new yorker}

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By: charlie

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:44:35 +0000

nico! i’m so happy to see how some obscure recommendation i gave you ages ago is part of your palette now.

that CD was on a label called largo which seems to be defunct now, which is a shame since they released a lot of good stuff at cheap prices. as for mcguire, he lives in nyc, i think he was even attached to columbia once, but when i talked to him (like 8 yrs ago) it seemed like he hadn’t really been pursuing any composition stuff for a long time.

you could always try this guy.

http://www.rte.ie/tv/therestaurant/mcguire/mcguire_john.html

æå–œå‘è´¢ to you too! i’ve been in beijing since september, so the other day there were fireworks in every square cun of sky. chinese is harrrrd. but now i have pritty handwriting.

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By: Liner Notes Danny

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:37:38 +0000

Those Variations are hardly available anywhere, but they’re available really cheap. No supply, no demand, apparentlyâ€”insane.

Anyways, try Amazon (dot com) or Berkshire Record Outlet (also dot com) if you want a CD at better-than-iTunes prices. Maybe if we all start demanding this record there’ll be a run on them and they’ll start printing copies again and it’ll show up on iTunes and John McGuire will be inspired to write the sequel, which will be called Another 48 Variations.

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By: Sam

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:37:41 +0000

those mcguire variations are so pretty!

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By: Patrick

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:25:17 +0000

From what I can tell the piece is attributed to a “John” McGuire (for anyone looking to obtain it), but nonetheless fascinating and frustratingly not available on iTunes! Thanks for the tantalizing exposure to it, though 🙂

Nico responds: Thanks, Patrick, for your correction; I just was going through an email from somebody called George McGuire and it slipped out! The post has been edited.

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