Mr Arkadin

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1431167792' post='2768409']
I was joking about The Who!
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Another search engine fail till quite recently was The The which should doubly annoy amnesia.

I think on the bad taste front, and guaranteed to get yourself blanked by most media outlets, was 'The Leah Betts Experience' (I even feel dirty just typing it). Looking around a bit apparently they changed their name to Foeticide. Much better.

Oops, sorry for the repeat. Didn't see that other thread as the title didn't really convey the story.

Described in the news as a guitar, turns out it's a five-string Warwick 😀

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11581596/Idiotic-driver-pictured-playing-guitar-at-wheel-on-A27-near-Chichester.html

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1429941300' post='2756489']
Ziggy Stardust has to be in there.
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Erm... it is.

It does seem the underlying trend that no-one cuts frequencies anymore. It's all about the bass after all...

Even mixing at home I cut like crazy - start with a basic 80Hz cut on most ibnstruments and raise it to at least 150Hz. This is on instruments that are nothing to do with bass and it's often surprising what does contain bass, so I will cut guitars, synths, even cymbal samples.

I'm with Truckstop - cutting is the key.

Up next, tuning reference should be 432Hz. etc.

If you start a new thread and say 'This guy came to try out as a singer' there's no defamation there.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1428710178' post='2744061']
I'm learning over time to play everything in all fourths tuning. There is some adaption necessary, but it is working out for me.
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Interesting as I was just looking into this only last week - and in relation to my baritones. Nearly missed this thread - there's a guitar section nowadays on BC guys!

I have three baritones:

Fender Jaguar Baritone - replaced stock pick-ups with Bare Knuckle and added a ToneStyler replacement tone pot. Currently tuned B E A D F# B.

Fender Telecaster Baritone - my current fave. Replaced stock pick-ups with Catswhisker ones, it came with Fernandes Sustainer pick-up already installed. Added Greasebucket mod to tone pot. Currently tuned B E A D F# B.

Yamaha Drop-6 - odd one this. Currently tuned BBB bbb unison tuning - three low strings, three mid strings, for Glenn Branca-type stuff.

Actually as a guitarist I noticed I was getting lower and lower in pitch and eventually just decided I should get a bass! Love my baritones though.

On the synth forums they always recommend definitely not using WD40 for pots and sliders and to use Caig DeOxit instead. Not easy to come by in the shops but Amazon and eBay have it.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1427631523' post='2732433']Have you listened to anything by Nico Muhly, he's very Glass like ? Drones is probably my favourite album his, but Mother tongues is pretty good. He was a programmer and I think keyboardist for Glass, hence the influence.
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I've seen him live quite a few times as he curated a season at the Barbican which included Glass, LDavid Lang, Julia Wolfe (who dedicated here piece to the late Steve Martland who I didn't knopw had died a couple of days before), Tristan Perich, The Villagers and even Jarvis Cocker.

He would open wih these Indian-type drones which I liked (sounds like that album might be similar), but I didn't really like this big choral piece he performed. I'll have to hear more before I'm convinced but I think Drones sounds like it's up my alley (I love drone music).

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1427569022' post='2731872']Messiaen is amazing.[/quote]

Yup.


[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1427569022' post='2731872']
I'm doing a masters starting in September in composition too, though more experimental stuff, well hopefully anyway, gotta graduate from my bachelors first [/quote]

Wish I'd done something like that in my life.


[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1427569410' post='2731877']I love Glass's music, and have a few albums by gavin Bryars. Have you listened to the a change of light album by Bryars ? It features one of my tutors on cello, a really beautiful album.[/quote]

I have a ton of Glass (possibly literally - I do have a hundred-odd CDs just of his stuff I think) and lots of Bryars. Hadn't heard of this album you mentioned though, which is odd as I like David Lang too who is on there, plus it's done by some Icebreaker guys who are a great modern ensemble (along with Bang On A Can from the USA, featuring Lang). Not easily come by even on Amazon, but a quick Google revealed a site where you can buy direct from them, which is what I've just done. Cheers

At least a few more names are popping up now. Here's a few pieces that are 'moving' in quite different ways.

Philip Glass - Satyagraha:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHKUt5fDbH0"]https://www.youtube....h?v=CHKUt5fDbH0[/url]

Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oVMRADOq5s"]https://www.youtube....h?v=2oVMRADOq5s[/url]

Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp2oxWdRMuk"]https://www.youtube....h?v=sp2oxWdRMuk[/url]

Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0WaNVgJqCU"]https://www.youtube....h?v=f0WaNVgJqCU[/url]

Glenn Branca - Symphony No.3:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjf60RxXghU"]https://www.youtube....h?v=Mjf60RxXghU[/url]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4]György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna:[/size][/font]
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iVYu5lyX5M"]https://www.youtube....h?v=-iVYu5lyX5M[/url]

Howard Skempton - Lento:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG7JcwWm5WU"]https://www.youtube....h?v=fG7JcwWm5WU[/url]

Barry Guy - After The Rain:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09KY0PXZx6A"]https://www.youtube....h?v=09KY0PXZx6A[/url]

John Adams - On the Transmigration of Souls:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jCdOjOaJsU"]https://www.youtube....h?v=1jCdOjOaJsU[/url]

Krzysztof Pendercki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA"]https://www.youtube....h?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA[/url]

I had the money for a 4003 in 2012 so I bought one. Now that some muppet on the internet has enlightened I will whip myself accordingly. Of course unlike him I won't actually sell it to someone else as that would be hypocrisy of the highest order, I will hold a ritual bonfire with an effigy of John Hall on top.

Can't say I've ever been impressed with the sound at Roundhouse for any gig I've been to.

I like the venue but maybe they need to hang some giant 'mushrooms' like that other round building that's acoustically challenged: Royal Albert Hall.

Maybe round buildings just don't lend themselves to good sound. Also it never seems loud enough, and this is from someone who hates over loud gigs.

Likewise. Is there a mute button for trolls like that?

Lots of UK handwinders nowadays - always good to add another.

http://www.adeson.co.uk/
http://www.armstrongpickups.co.uk/
https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/
http://www.bulldogpickups.com/
http://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/
http://www.creamery-pickups.co.uk/
http://deacci.com/ (formerly RD Pick-ups)
http://www.geminipickups.co.uk/
http://heavyairpickups.com/
http://www.hotrodguitarparts.com/ (formerly Wizard Pick-ups)
http://www.houseoftonepickups.com/
http://www.irongear.co.uk/
Ironstone
http://www.kentarmstrong.com/
http://www.melvynhis...om/pickups.html
http://www.mojopickups.co.uk/
http://oilcitypickups.co.uk/index.html
http://ox4pickups.co.uk/
http://www.radioshoppickups.com/
http://www.regentonepickups.co.uk/
http://www.thelittle...nd-pickups.html
http://www.voltageguitarpickups.com/


Of these I have used Bare Knuckle, Catswhisker and Mojo. I am finding Creamery and BK a bit expensive these days. I will certainly look at Oil City and others in the future.

Any more UK winders I have missed?

[edit]Added some more I found plus some mentioned later in this thread. Didn't realise there were so many to be honest.[/edit]

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1425395216' post='2706882']
I thought the A432 went from Bristol to Old Sodbury.
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True, but you only feel the benefit of the road during an equinox, and if the rings of Saturn are in Uranus.

Sure it's interesting but I don't just accept stuff, I like to investigate and come to my own conclusions. Ask your tutor where he got that number from, because if it's any of that stuff I linked to it is nonsense.

You don't even have to use common sense if you are lacking in that, just do the maths (literally in this case). It doesn't add up.

Picking a different centre frequency does make your music sound different, but it won't make it more harmonious with the universe or the water in your body.

These people seem to conveniently forget that we use a compromised equal temperament system. So your start frequency gets divided in some nasty ways. You'd need some system based on pure fractions to maintain the 'purity' of that number (if there was such a thing). Additionally, using any kind of fretted system (excluding compensated frets) like guitars and bass you're using a further compromise of the already compromised equal tempered system.

Told you the Nazis would figure in there somewhere, they always do.

The Beatles as WMD, genius stuff.

432Hz is often cited as some mystic frequency.

The proof ranges from the resonant frequency of the earth divided by the diameter or some such nonsense. Also some Buddist temple somewhere has 432 statues and the ratio of the pyramids is 432, the Moon figures in somewhere. All sorts of cobblers.

I thought everyone had seen this nonsense by now.

The problem is none of the so-called maths works. Here's a link to the typical bollocks that accompanies 432Hz:

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/12/21/heres-why-you-should-convert-your-music-to-432hz/

Further, 440Hz is cited as 'impure' and leading the stressful feelings and the Nazis pushed for its standardisation, no doubt to upset everyone and win the war.

Oh not this again. Does the Internet rounds every few months. You only have to use your brain for a millisecond to realise what rot this is.

Actually Friday just gone (20th) in Paris. Just got back. Probably the most amazing gig of my life. Playing to a 1000 people, but I did have 99 other people to hide behind.

You can just see me far right edge (middle) with yellow guitar strap on YouTube video. Nice gurning!

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tko5z5ynSI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=4Tko5z5ynSI[/url]

Another +1 on where are you based? London is pretty big. Also your web link needs an extra "w" to be useable.

I'm going to sound like a pretentious twat, but Philip Glass' Glassworks (especially Opening) was a favourite. Or maybe I was really sophisticated.