Comments on: Distractions and the Tyranny of Influence

By: Bradly Baird

Bradly Baird — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:06:16 +0000

Congratulations on the recordings. They are lovely. Will have an enjoyable time absorbing both. I hope that the live performance of “I Drink . . .” went well this week.

By: J

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:37:27 +0000

Definitely a very Noye’s Fludde feel to I Drink The Air.

By: Leah Kardos

Leah Kardos — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:50:00 +0000

Your analogy of the drone focusing the ear like nutmeg in a sauce will stay with me forever.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:12:49 +0000

Infectious obsessions! Lovely albums.

“Professor Bruno Latour,from the Centre de Sociologie de Paris argues that religion is not about a domain of reality, some specific entities, a certain type of morality, or a belief system-but literally a way of talking, a Verb, as the tradition says, or in a more technical vocabulary: a specific regime of enunciation. ”

http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=6925

By: Robert Rhodes

Robert Rhodes — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:48:25 +0000

My favorite, elegantly precise feature of your blog are the audio clips, like this Byrd piece offered alongside your own. Please repost the Britten arrangement of The Holly and the Ivy this Christmas. I listened to that for hours when you posted it before. Sublime. Also: both your new records are wonderful. Thank you for brightening my recovery from a rather untidy bout with cancer.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:53:14 +0000

Speaking of Chang, this here has been read: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/24/080324fa_fact_macfarquhar?currentPage=all.

By: Bunny Harvey

Bunny Harvey — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:14:47 +0000

What a brilliant use of the Rembrandt Joseph!
Your blog is always full of great illustrations with both bold and subtle connections to the writing. I can taste the undertone of nutmeg.
x

By: Matt Brown

Matt Brown — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:56:36 +0000

Congrats on the CDs, Nico! I look forward to getting “A Good Understanding” on the less-compressed format when it becomes available. I was one of the tenors, and we had a lot of fun in the recording sessions. I was especially fond of the “Senex” (a word which, during its repetition, started to sound like “Xanax” in some of the outtakes) and the title track.

Although I’m probably not the same “Matt Brown” you referred to in the post (there are probably about 300 of us in L.A. alone!), here’s my $.02 about the typesetting of note names:

I would just use capital letters–no bold needed. You might say G4 for added specificity. Solfegge is also acceptable, but using German note names would be a little silly (unless one is spelling out B-A-C-H).

Keep up the blog!

By: Pierre

Pierre — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:08:03 +0000

I’m seriously considering committing suicide. I just CAN’T download A good understanding for I’m stuck in that moody country that is France where the album is still not released ; and neither amazon.co.uk or iTunes UK will work. I atrocely miss the good old time when I could come and see you playing in London or listen to Thomas Gould performing Seeing is believing in Nottingham – whereas here in France nobody would play composers who are not dead yet. Can’t wait till I come back and finally settle in a civilised country – lovely Britain.
On that bitter moment I just wanted to say that your music is profoundly interesting and moving. I could never have enough of it. Roundhouse, Camden, in Spring was amazing. I can only wish you all the best with your work, please carry on filling our minds with wonder.
Pierre

By: frank

frank — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:28:10 +0000

Thanks for the generous link to Kyle Gann’s writing. The blog you selected–visual, informed, provocative–is a master class in miniature.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:53:12 +0000

This post gave me a serious shiver. I don’t know anyone who talks about music quite the way you do – from the inside, to be sure, but with a sensitivity to what will most help the listener sense the way a piece moves from start to finish.

This whole disc is glorious; even the familiar Bright Mass sounded new and the canons crystalline. Sometime I hope you will talk about your sense of endings.