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songs of earth and sky
Jul. 14th, 2016 06:08 pmRalph Vaughan Williams - The Wasps Overture
A metaphor for the Athenian legal system.
There's a recording called Broken Hearted Dragonflies that is nothing but insect recordings from Laos and Burma.
Tán Dùn - Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds
A Cantus Arcticus for the 21st century instead of the 20th, for New England instead of northern Finland, with audience participation and birdsong on smartphones rather than tape recordings. So it sounds like it's all around us. It's broken up into four parts: Birds whose breeding status has remained stable: American robin, black-capped chickadee, house wren. Birds whose breeding status has increased: carolina wren, house finch, warbling vireo. Surprisingly no cowbirds. I've been seeing a lot of those lately. species whose breeding status has decreased: whippoorwill, white-throated sparrow, purple finch. species whose breeding status has seriously declined: eastern meadowlark, brown thrasher, golden-winged warbler. It begins and ends with the sound of wind. From outside, the human world encroaches; an ambulance siren, a helicopter, an airplane.
I think I mistook the chickadee's call for a phoebe's.
Reinhold Gliere - Russian Sailor's Dance
By now, the metaphor of the human world encroaching upon the natural world is meaningless and the helicopters are incredibly annoying.
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
One of the violinists in the youth orchestra wanted to show off her singing talents, so they arranged a Jackson 5 tune for orchestra.
Aaron Copland - Music For Movies
New England Countryside and Sunday Traffic depict polar opposites. Sunday Traffic is oddly pleasant and doesn't sound at all like actual Sunday traffic, which involves a lot of "gas brake honk. gas brake honk. honk honk PUNCH. gas gas gas."
Our town is in a fictional New Hampshire town Grover's Corners with the coordinates 42°40' N, 70°37' W, which places it in the Atlantic Ocean just north of Rockport, MA.
Michael Gandolfi - The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
It started out with nine movements at its premiere and has grown to sixteen as the garden itself has grown. Stylistically over the place is an apt description, but despite this, never really strays from sounding like John Adams.
The Zeroroom opens with the songs of the common chaffinch and other Scottish birds and sounds very much like Adams. The entrance hall is decorated with tennis racquets that are depicted quantum tunneling through the wall and images of the universe and the garden's place in it. IUIUIUIUEYEWEYEWEYEWEYEW is inscribed under a mirror. On the mirror's frame is a carved pair of eyes, one can look through and see a yew tree.
Soliton Waves reminds me of Adams with more bombast, passing themes from instrument from
The Snail and the Poetics of Going Slow sounds like you'd expect.
Symmetry Break Terrace uses a lot of repetitive percussion and depicts two terraces at once.
The Willowtwist is a jazzy mobius-looped klein bottled manifolded dance fanfare for trumpet and trombone and ends with strings that remind me of the background music in the game Afterlife layered over organ chords and then finally with songs of the common chaffinch.
This is an actual garden in Scotland, by the way.
Ottorino Respighi - The Pines of Rome
I remember hearing this along with The Firebird and maybe some other things long before the Landmarks Orchestra was a thing. Sitting near me was a guy wearing a t-shirt that depicts Homer Simpson saying every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain" and and someone said "I come bearing cake" and it was on July 6th that's all I remember.
The first movement depicts children playing soldier on the grounds of the Villa Borghese, and no bass instruments are used.
The second depicts catacombs and monastic rituals.
The third depicts night and daybreak with the recording of a nightingale, originally on phonograph and the first time recorded sound has ever been used in an orchestral work.
The fourth depicts Roman legions marching along the Appian Way. In our case, we had trumpeters and tromboners (tromboner, by the way, Mr. Largo, is not a word. The proper term is trombonist) in the audience.
It was a long concert so there was no encore.
I drew Henry the green-winged macaw. This is the first time I've ever drawn a macaw and he was a bit reluctant to pose. I think that like goats they have a spidey-sense for when people are trying to photograph them. Henry doesn't talk. He's a program bird and having him talk over people would be distracting and maybe an African Grey could do his own talk but a macaw probably couldn't.
Alligator teeth grow constantly but not in rows like a shark's.
Jaguars have the strongest jaws of all the great cats and they have a very prominent sagittal crest and they crush the skulls of their prey rather than the jugulars like lions do. Bears have the strongest bite of mammals and crocodiles have the strongest bite of living animals. Strongest bite ever probably belonged to the Tyrannosaurus rex.
Jaguars have rosettes with spots inside, leopards have rosettes without spots inside, and cheetahs have spots.
Elise really likes the name Asa. I brought up Grampa's war buddy Asa but Elise doesn't watch the Simpsons. In real life, it's Hebrew for healer. It shows up in other languages. Ryan, who has a handlebar mustache, said that it's not easy to carry clay but I could sculpt later. It's not so much the hassle of carrying shit around, it's the lack of facilities in which to sculpt. Also, I kinda gave my portrait of Tiana a few of Elise's features. Not intentionally but it sounds like a cool idea. Elise was a clarinetist and Tiana was a drummer.
Someone I met was visiting Switzerland.
Romansh, which I know about from Archer. I had to look up the context, though, and, yes, Archer focuses on Romansh. But everyone speaks English.
Switzerland is known for being a. a place for diplomacy, b. ardently neutral, so if Zapp Brannigan had one of Professor Farnsworth's doomsday weapons, he'd use it on Switzerland. Famously neutral during World War II but like Sweden, not all believe they had clean hands. I guess that's what they'd have to do, since Belgium and the Netherlands declared neutrality and Hitler invaded them, and the Netherlands doesn't have much in the way of resources going for it aside from tulips and windmills and wooden shoes. I suppose Ireland could get away with being neutral. c. extremely hostile to outsiders; there are people whose families have lived in Switzerland for generations and aren't citizens. d. has an extremely right-wing government. There's no real head of state but two of seven in the Federal Council are SVP and they're the largest party in the National Council. So, like the rest of Europe, they're run by a center-right government. c. they're not really a country at all, it's just a federation made from the leftover bits of Italy, France, and Germany, with a few isolated Romansh-speaking villages for good measure.
I finally saw Fruit Tree. A real apple rots away but a plastic one lives forever. It's 23 feet tall.
On my way between Fruit Tree and the Esplanade was a woman with bright russet hair, a woman with teal and blue hair, a woman with bright orange hair, a woman with bright red hair.
The woman with the choker and bead hanging from it and striped shirt really liked my Cats Against War shirt. She had to get off at Downtown Crossing or maybe South Station so I had to move on to woman with a choker with a bell on it, a pendant of a five pointed star in a sun, bronze colored, a stag's antler. Her hair was curled on one side, straight on the other.
I drew a man with dark orchid-pink hair.
Burning Question: remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?
A metaphor for the Athenian legal system.
There's a recording called Broken Hearted Dragonflies that is nothing but insect recordings from Laos and Burma.
Tán Dùn - Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds
A Cantus Arcticus for the 21st century instead of the 20th, for New England instead of northern Finland, with audience participation and birdsong on smartphones rather than tape recordings. So it sounds like it's all around us. It's broken up into four parts: Birds whose breeding status has remained stable: American robin, black-capped chickadee, house wren. Birds whose breeding status has increased: carolina wren, house finch, warbling vireo. Surprisingly no cowbirds. I've been seeing a lot of those lately. species whose breeding status has decreased: whippoorwill, white-throated sparrow, purple finch. species whose breeding status has seriously declined: eastern meadowlark, brown thrasher, golden-winged warbler. It begins and ends with the sound of wind. From outside, the human world encroaches; an ambulance siren, a helicopter, an airplane.
I think I mistook the chickadee's call for a phoebe's.
Reinhold Gliere - Russian Sailor's Dance
By now, the metaphor of the human world encroaching upon the natural world is meaningless and the helicopters are incredibly annoying.
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
One of the violinists in the youth orchestra wanted to show off her singing talents, so they arranged a Jackson 5 tune for orchestra.
Aaron Copland - Music For Movies
New England Countryside and Sunday Traffic depict polar opposites. Sunday Traffic is oddly pleasant and doesn't sound at all like actual Sunday traffic, which involves a lot of "gas brake honk. gas brake honk. honk honk PUNCH. gas gas gas."
Our town is in a fictional New Hampshire town Grover's Corners with the coordinates 42°40' N, 70°37' W, which places it in the Atlantic Ocean just north of Rockport, MA.
Michael Gandolfi - The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
It started out with nine movements at its premiere and has grown to sixteen as the garden itself has grown. Stylistically over the place is an apt description, but despite this, never really strays from sounding like John Adams.
The Zeroroom opens with the songs of the common chaffinch and other Scottish birds and sounds very much like Adams. The entrance hall is decorated with tennis racquets that are depicted quantum tunneling through the wall and images of the universe and the garden's place in it. IUIUIUIUEYEWEYEWEYEWEYEW is inscribed under a mirror. On the mirror's frame is a carved pair of eyes, one can look through and see a yew tree.
Soliton Waves reminds me of Adams with more bombast, passing themes from instrument from
The Snail and the Poetics of Going Slow sounds like you'd expect.
Symmetry Break Terrace uses a lot of repetitive percussion and depicts two terraces at once.
The Willowtwist is a jazzy mobius-looped klein bottled manifolded dance fanfare for trumpet and trombone and ends with strings that remind me of the background music in the game Afterlife layered over organ chords and then finally with songs of the common chaffinch.
This is an actual garden in Scotland, by the way.
Ottorino Respighi - The Pines of Rome
I remember hearing this along with The Firebird and maybe some other things long before the Landmarks Orchestra was a thing. Sitting near me was a guy wearing a t-shirt that depicts Homer Simpson saying every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain" and and someone said "I come bearing cake" and it was on July 6th that's all I remember.
The first movement depicts children playing soldier on the grounds of the Villa Borghese, and no bass instruments are used.
The second depicts catacombs and monastic rituals.
The third depicts night and daybreak with the recording of a nightingale, originally on phonograph and the first time recorded sound has ever been used in an orchestral work.
The fourth depicts Roman legions marching along the Appian Way. In our case, we had trumpeters and tromboners (tromboner, by the way, Mr. Largo, is not a word. The proper term is trombonist) in the audience.
It was a long concert so there was no encore.
I drew Henry the green-winged macaw. This is the first time I've ever drawn a macaw and he was a bit reluctant to pose. I think that like goats they have a spidey-sense for when people are trying to photograph them. Henry doesn't talk. He's a program bird and having him talk over people would be distracting and maybe an African Grey could do his own talk but a macaw probably couldn't.
Alligator teeth grow constantly but not in rows like a shark's.
Jaguars have the strongest jaws of all the great cats and they have a very prominent sagittal crest and they crush the skulls of their prey rather than the jugulars like lions do. Bears have the strongest bite of mammals and crocodiles have the strongest bite of living animals. Strongest bite ever probably belonged to the Tyrannosaurus rex.
Jaguars have rosettes with spots inside, leopards have rosettes without spots inside, and cheetahs have spots.
Elise really likes the name Asa. I brought up Grampa's war buddy Asa but Elise doesn't watch the Simpsons. In real life, it's Hebrew for healer. It shows up in other languages. Ryan, who has a handlebar mustache, said that it's not easy to carry clay but I could sculpt later. It's not so much the hassle of carrying shit around, it's the lack of facilities in which to sculpt. Also, I kinda gave my portrait of Tiana a few of Elise's features. Not intentionally but it sounds like a cool idea. Elise was a clarinetist and Tiana was a drummer.
Someone I met was visiting Switzerland.
Romansh, which I know about from Archer. I had to look up the context, though, and, yes, Archer focuses on Romansh. But everyone speaks English.
Switzerland is known for being a. a place for diplomacy, b. ardently neutral, so if Zapp Brannigan had one of Professor Farnsworth's doomsday weapons, he'd use it on Switzerland. Famously neutral during World War II but like Sweden, not all believe they had clean hands. I guess that's what they'd have to do, since Belgium and the Netherlands declared neutrality and Hitler invaded them, and the Netherlands doesn't have much in the way of resources going for it aside from tulips and windmills and wooden shoes. I suppose Ireland could get away with being neutral. c. extremely hostile to outsiders; there are people whose families have lived in Switzerland for generations and aren't citizens. d. has an extremely right-wing government. There's no real head of state but two of seven in the Federal Council are SVP and they're the largest party in the National Council. So, like the rest of Europe, they're run by a center-right government. c. they're not really a country at all, it's just a federation made from the leftover bits of Italy, France, and Germany, with a few isolated Romansh-speaking villages for good measure.
I finally saw Fruit Tree. A real apple rots away but a plastic one lives forever. It's 23 feet tall.
On my way between Fruit Tree and the Esplanade was a woman with bright russet hair, a woman with teal and blue hair, a woman with bright orange hair, a woman with bright red hair.
The woman with the choker and bead hanging from it and striped shirt really liked my Cats Against War shirt. She had to get off at Downtown Crossing or maybe South Station so I had to move on to woman with a choker with a bell on it, a pendant of a five pointed star in a sun, bronze colored, a stag's antler. Her hair was curled on one side, straight on the other.
I drew a man with dark orchid-pink hair.
Burning Question: remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?
