Sacred River: Six hours of continuous sacred music Sunday 26 November

[DracoM]

Of course the R3 apparatchiks are going to celebrate its 'success'. What else could they do?

I fear that after the ominous 'Mix-tape' at 7 p.m. the pattern is being set. Programmed algorithms rather than listeners' tastes / yearnings / producers' tastes etc from the Digital archives. A R3 without any speech at all?

Individual pieces were fine enough, but it's the intention and thus place of this structure / 'experiment' in any future of R3 that truly frightens me. Drama? Talks? Live concerts / relays?

I shuddered as it went on - and that wasn't just form the fierce oop 'ere cold.

[eighthobstruction]

On that basis it fulfilled the brief. Unfortunately I was expecting something approximating to its mission statement, and for me the exploration part was completely missing. Where were the other faiths/belief systems? Not so much 'vignettes' 'peppered' as specks lost in the furnishings. I had been expecting to hear music from rituals other than christianity although I accept that music which other cultures find inspiring spiritually was probably a hope too far. 95% white, anglo-saxon, christian, european,male,(just look at the faces on the playlist) is unimaginative and unnecessary.

....yes, indeed....

[eighthobstruction]

Of course the R3 apparatchiks are going to celebrate its 'success'. What else could they do?

I fear that after the ominous 'Mix-tape' at 7 p.m. the pattern is being set. Programmed algorithms rather than listeners' tastes / yearnings / producers' tastes etc from the Digital archives. A R3 without any speech at all?

Individual pieces were fine enough, but it's the intention and thus place of this structure / 'experiment' in any future of R3 that truly frightens me. Drama? Talks? Live concerts / relays?

I shuddered as it went on - and that wasn't just form the fierce oop 'ere cold.

....and there is that too, yes, i see your point....

[DracoM]

Yeah, but...yeah but....yeah but....the closer you looked at the selection of music, the more baffling it got to a 'sacred river'. Erm...........??

What on earth is going on?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

GOOD GRIEF!

They really are full of themselves!

[DracoM]

Typically emetic up themselves BBC.

[oddoneout]

"many contemplative traditions"
Name them.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"many contemplative traditions"
Name them.

Navels, perhaps?

[MrGongGong]

Thought-provoking:

"We may be able to think without language, but language lets us know that we are thinking."

Is it just language that does that?
(I don't think music is a language... before someone starts on that one )

We're getting the whole of the plainsong Dies Irae just now. Which is good.

But how can we know what we're supposed to be thinking if we can't hear the words properly?

Blimey, when I make music and performances I don't necessarily think there is something that people listening are "supposed" to be thinking.

I had to go out delivering stuff this afternoon... so had a listen... I loved it and heard things I wouldn't normally listen to.

[MrGongGong]

GOOD GRIEF!

They really are full of themselves!

You must feel perfectly at home then

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

You must feel perfectly at home then

I hate you!

[jonfan]

You must feel perfectly at home then

Nice one
Actually I enjoyed the sequence and listened for most of the six hours. I liked how the ending segued into CE. A neat touch.

[oddoneout]

And why "even the atheists". Does being an atheist also mean inability to enjoy/appreciate music that might have been inspired or motivated by a faith system?

[jean]

Blimey, when I make music and performances I don't necessarily think there is something that people listening are "supposed" to be thinking.

If I set a text I'd expect my setting to have something to say about the text I was setting, otherwise I wouldn't bother to set it.

And if I listen to someone else's setting, I want to be able to understand the text they've set.

[oddoneout]

Nice one
Actually I enjoyed the sequence and listened for most of the six hours. I enjoyed how the ending segued into CE.

That had me confused for a couple of minutes thanks to the clock on my desk being slow - I was just thinking it was a strange follow-on from the Mahler!