Concert Record: The Cook Trio April 30, 2010 - Om Bar
If you have never heard of the awesomeness of gypsy jazz, I recommend you check this band’s site out and go from there!
Posts tagged with music
David Byrne postulates that venues (clubs, chapels, arenas, cars, mp3 players) shape music instead of the other way around. You could say he’s a step short of declaring a ‘survival of the fittest’ paradigm where the music best suited to the venue is the one that becomes successful.
Strangely, it kinda makes sense a little bit…
All records are $5 or less (or more if you choose to)!! Records by bands like Tera Melos, This Town Needs Guns, Rx Bandits, Omar Rodriguez Lopez… I could go on, but I’m gonna go check it out now. :P
A product of Music Hack Day, this piece of Python code will apply ‘swing’ to any piece of music. How does it do it, you ask? Well, it alternatively ‘extends’ and ‘compresses’ (time-wise) the beats of a song, giving it that ‘daa-ts daa-ts’; or, swung note, if you’re more musically inclined.
I suppose this wouldn’t quite work with a band like Tera Melos. :D
Gymnopédie No. 3 by Erik Satie
I heard Gymnopédie No.1 while watching Man on Wire a while ago and became obsessed with the song. I found the music sheets for all 3 gymnopédies and transcribed them all to the guitar. This is the third one.
Have you ever seen that Monty Python skit where two mafia guys try to extort some protection money from an army base general?
Strangely (sadly?), this story (and a few others that I’ve heard of) makes me think of that skit. You open a nice little coffee shop and things are good. Shortly after, an ASCAP rep comes to your door ramming this ‘copyright infringement insurance’ contract down your throat.
It seems that even though the owners tried to reason with them arguing that they were local bands, they all played original music, and had no cover charge, there is only this ‘one size fits all’ kind of contract.
Check this part out:
The first letter from ASCAP, which Hopper received Nov. 13, included a general license agreement for Hopper to sign verifying that he was playing ASCAP-licensed music and agreeing to pay the fees to continue to play the music.
To sign that contract would be pretty damning. It basically implies that you admit you have been playing copyrighted music! I better get a law degree before I open up a coffee shop because, frankly, this is pretty ridiculous.
Would you sign this contract?
Gymnopédie No. 2 by Erik Satie
I heard Gymnopédie No.1 while watching Man on Wire a while ago and became obsessed with the song. I found the music sheets for all 3 gymnopédies and transcribed them all to the guitar. This is the second one.
This has got to be one of those “why didn’t I think of that” moments!
With the magic of <canvas> and some Javascript (thank you HTML5!!), Mohit Muthanna has managed to make pretty sheet music for the browser. The code seems to be inspired directly from Lilypond. I’ll be eagerly checking in on its progress often, I’m sure.
Kudos Mr. Muthanna, a stroke of genius!
