1000000 songs from SPOTIFY about...

[Globaltruth]

Global, reading this dialogue between you and Paul had me longing for a bit of Laurel and Hardy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDoeOuxiReQ

Personally I think it's more...

[Lateralthinking1]

Now that's what I call a proper film.

[Paul Sherratt]

Whereas I was thinking more along these lines :

http://www.moviecritic.com.au/images/fitzcarraldo-klaus-kinski-pulling-a-boat-up-a-moun1.jpg

http://operachic.typepad.com/opera_chic/images/2008/04/16/klaus_kinski.jpg

Crewe Hall post real do, do was, as these things often are, dominated by an awfully loud disco thing. Groom's father mentioned it to the very large dj but was informed that was how it had to be.

Bloody philosophers.

Now I'm crying off again today and tomorrow as our once-in-two-years trade fair is on. It always falls during gorgeous weather. What a waste !

[Globaltruth]

Whereas I was thinking more along these lines :

http://www.moviecritic.com.au/images/fitzcarraldo-klaus-kinski-pulling-a-boat-up-a-moun1.jpg

http://operachic.typepad.com/opera_chic/images/2008/04/16/klaus_kinski.jpg

Crewe Hall post real do, do was, as these things often are, dominated by an awfully loud disco thing. Groom's father mentioned it to the very large dj but was informed that was how it had to be.

Bloody philosophers.

Now I'm crying off again today and tomorrow as our once-in-two-years trade fair is on. It always falls during gorgeous weather. What a waste !

Well I'm away for most of next week in Wales; our visas are in order and the lava has been bred.

On volume - we went to see some live music last week and that was our overwhelming impression. Too loud. When we left and walked about 100 yards away we could hear much more clearly..but I was told that it was an age thing.

[Lateralthinking1]

Global, I'm gardening. I've managed to find the device that enables a partial detachment from my computer screen.

Will you be contributing from Wales? I just need to know if, say, after Tuesday we need to get the Heddlu out. In the olden days, when Plaid Cymru had two members and both of them lived in flowerpots, it was so much easier. No one could leave this country because all the signs on the border were turned back towards Crewe.

It is probably good news that Mr Sherratt is only otherwise engaged for two days. With JC, Martin and me holding the fort, you know what would be happening. You would both be returning to a message board renamed "Cecil Sharp House - sponsored by The Cat and Celtic Connections". Come to think of it, how long do you expect to be gone?

[Globaltruth]

I'll certainly be taking a small ubiquitous computing device with access to wifi hotspots as well as some larger iniquitous vices with axes of wifely hotpots.

So you never can tell (and a copy of Erewhon)

[Lateralthinking1]

Pardon? (Where in Wales are you going?)

[Globaltruth]

Hey JC - check this out

http://ubuweb.com/sound/bryars.html

(but don't expect a fast download - they appear to be using a server based in Mexico, and it takes a while for some of the irregularly shaped bytes to recompose themselves into an aural shape)

and any one else who wants to listen to or download (right click then save as) an mp3 of some of G. Bryars greatest works from 1975...
Gavin Bryars says about the piece:

In 1971, when I lived in London, I was working with a friend, Alan Power, on a film about people living rough in the area around Elephant and Castle and Waterloo Station. In the course of being filmed, some people broke into drunken song - sometimes bits of opera, sometimes sentimental ballads - and one, who in fact did not drink, sang a religious song "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet". This was not ultimately used in the film and I was given all the unused sections of tape, including this one.

When I played it at home, I found that his singing was in tune with my piano, and I improvised a simple accompaniment. I noticed, too, that the first section of the song - 13 bars in length - formed an effective loop which repeated in a slightly unpredictable way. I took the tape loop to Leicester, where I was working in the Fine Art Department, and copied the loop onto a continuous reel of tape, thinking about perhaps adding an orchestrated accompaniment to this. The door of the recording room opened on to one of the large painting studios and I left the tape copying, with the door open, while I went to have a cup of coffee. When I came back I found the normally lively room unnaturally subdued. People were moving about much more slowly than usual and a few were sitting alone, quietly weeping.

I was puzzled until I realised that the tape was still playing and that they had been overcome by the old man's singing. This convinced me of the emotional power of the music and of the possibilities offered by adding a simple, though gradually evolving, orchestral accompaniment that respected the tramp's nobility and simple faith. Although he died before he could hear what I had done with his singing, the piece remains as an eloquent, but understated testimony to his spirit and optimism.

[Lateralthinking1]

Some bad news -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13078302

[Globaltruth]

Some bad news -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13078302

News often looks worse at 3.00 am Lat.
You can get round this quite easily by setting yourself up as a new user every 6 months. That new person can access all your (and the rest of the group's) playlists.

First thing in the morning the world is new and full of fascinating possibilities...

[Lateralthinking1]

Global - Thanks for your tip. Things already look brighter. I am having some funny hours of sleeping and not sleeping. I imagine it feels a bit like what jet lag feels like. I was walking in the neighbourhood at around 3am yesterday morning - the all night garage - and in the garden around 8am yesterday moving compost from one box to another to prepare for my big vegetable launch.- Lat.

[Globaltruth]

Song 3579

I would particularly recommend song 3579 to members of the Chain Gang, and, of course, other guests, for your delectation.

Hopefully this will clarify once and for all,and in a particularly enjoyable way, your technical concerns with regards to this particular technology.

I believe the inspiration for the tune owes more to Albert Einstein than mere frivolity, viz his quote

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

although, sadly that is not acknowledged by the performing artistes.

[Lateralthinking1]

Einstein was a nutter and that is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the best song clips I have seen/heard all year.

[johncorrigan]

That's mews to me!

[Globaltruth]

That's mews to me!

Ah no, I think you are referring to song 3580...