A delightful dilemma!

[gradus]

My turntable /pickup emits the most irritating buzz when I plug into the amp. There are earthing wires for turntable, separate power supply and pick up arm and figuring out which earth connection should go where is time consuming and fiddly and gets in the way of playing LPs, some of which have lain unopened for nearly 50 years, a bit like the books I bought but have simply not yet got round to reading.
LPs still awaiting discovery include the complete DFD Schubert lieder set on DGG and Brendel's complete Schubert on Philips and several boxes from DGG's complete Bach edition. In truth I should really get of them but can't bring myself to do it, just as I find it very difficulty to get rid of books.

[Petrushka]

I’ve notice your concert format and seems a good one - a possible downside is that you come to the second half and when you’d got your seat and programme you suddenly think - I don’t fancy that now - well the positive side is you can change it - which of course you can’t do in the concert hall!

The usual problem is to decide between different recordings of the same work and occasionally I'll change my mind at the very last second.

Some might remember a project I did three years ago of repeating all of Simon Rattle's 'Towards the Millennium' concerts in CD recordings. It was a fascinating exercise and I even bought some CDs specially for it (Henze's Raft of the Medusa was one, Turnage's Blood on the Floor another). The project was a terrific way of using my CD collection, learning new repertoire and having a thoroughly memorable time. It could well be worth doing again!

If anyone is also interested in following it up themselves the concerts are listed on 'The Rest is Noise' thread. I'll try and add a link shortly.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?9750-The-Rest-Is-Noise-Listening-To-The-Twentieth-Century-through-its-music/page51

Just keep on scrolling down for my posts in the thread!

[Leinster Lass]

I posted elsewhere (perhaps Joseph's earlier thread) that I am quite happy to have music as background, though I've curiously not been doing that so as much since March, partly because my partner has been working at home more, and I don't like using headphones (expect when travelling). But I can't do with anything vocal/choral, as I do find that distracting (as is inane chat on some radio stations, so I choose carefully). For me, I find that it's a good way of assimilating (subliminally?) unfamiliar music, so when I come to listen more seriously to a piece I can get more out of it. Of course, maybe the 'surprise' element is then taken away.

This morning I had some editing to do for a friend: an article on technical measurements of earth movements for a journal splendidly named [I]Landslides[/I]. I was tempted to post this message earlier, and ask for appropriate music to have on while I was working!

And I certainly won't get round to listening to all the CDs in my collection (some as yet unplayed) again in my remaining lifetime either.

There's an Australian group called The Avalanches ....

[Ein Heldenleben]

My turntable /pickup emits the most irritating buzz when I plug into the amp. There are earthing wires for turntable, separate power supply and pick up arm and figuring out which earth connection should go where is time consuming and fiddly and gets in the way of playing LPs, some of which have lain unopened for nearly 50 years, a bit like the books I bought but have simply not yet got round to reading.
LPs still awaiting discovery include the complete DFD Schubert lieder set on DGG and Brendel's complete Schubert on Philips and several boxes from DGG's complete Bach edition. In truth I should really get of them but can't bring myself to do it, just as I find it very difficulty to get rid of books.

I had the same problem on my Thorens TD 160B deck. Turned out the u shaped metal connector on earth lead that connects to the amp had oxidised . Bit of sandpaper sorted it out - a technique also handy for dodgy battery connections.

[jayne lee wilson]

I posted elsewhere (perhaps Joseph's earlier thread) that I am quite happy to have music as background, though I've curiously not been doing that so as much since March, partly because my partner has been working at home more, and I don't like using headphones (expect when travelling). But I can't do with anything vocal/choral, as I do find that distracting (as is inane chat on some radio stations, so I choose carefully). For me, I find that it's a good way of assimilating (subliminally?) unfamiliar music, so when I come to listen more seriously to a piece I can get more out of it. Of course, maybe the 'surprise' element is then taken away.

This morning I had some editing to do for a friend: an article on technical measurements of earth movements for a journal splendidly named Landslides. I was tempted to post this message earlier, and ask for appropriate music to have on while I was working!

And I certainly won't get round to listening to all the CDs in my collection (some as yet unplayed) again in my remaining lifetime either.

Robert Simpson's Volcano, Birtwistle's Earth Dances.... though you may find these just a shade distracting....

Or perhaps the self-named.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTM7GUyCXmw

Lovely comments from the students ......I guess "tectonic" rhymes with "mnemonic" and we can't have too many mnemonics...

[Pulcinella]

Robert Simpson's Volcano, Birtwistle's Earth Dances.... though you may find these just a shade distracting....

Yes, I might have!
I had thought about Hovhaness' Mount St Helens, but the article was specifically related a landslide (4 million cubic metres, in a place called Poggio Baldi, on 19 March 2010) rather than a volcano (or earthquake, though I've edited an article in the past related to the earthquake in L'Aquila).
I settled for ABC Classic, Melbourne.
Can't remember a single piece that was played, but there wasn't too much chat.


PS: Just spotted your addition: some seriously groan-worthy rhymes there!

[Serial_Apologist]

The point about our large collections, is that what happens to them when we are not here?

Like lifelong trusted friends (of whom there are few) they sit there, patiently offering themselves whenever wanted, companions through all of life's travails, always there for you.

[cloughie]

There's an Australian group called The Avalanches ....

The Fleetwood Mac song!

[Roslynmuse]

Courtesy of Jon Leifs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQtDYngwWcY

[BBMmk2]

Like lifelong trusted friends (of whom there are few) they sit there, patiently offering themselves whenever wanted, companions through all of life's travails, always there for you.

Yes but when we have passed onto that great CD collection in the sky?