Tootfinder

Imagine a copyist's worst nightmare…
what does it matter if, when you hold the manuscript away from you, it looks messy? All that is important is that everything is there, correct and legible.
#notation
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"What if the 'material' of music could be something that transcends these more object-oriented forms? Can music, for instance, be a process, a way of relating, a way of listening, a way interacting? And if music can be de-coupled from objects, what might my role as a composer be in the creation of this music?"
— William Doherty — When Sound Becomes Like a Spaceship
#columbiacomposers

LOVE-LORE is a 35-minute, 43 song live-in-the-studio medley of covers unlike anything #Deerhoof or anyone else has ever put together. Love-Lore forages a wide-ranging selection of music from the 50s through the 80s to reflect upon the overly optimistic promises of progress that humanity was fed across the culture and music of the post-war era.
Instead of the projected 21st century in which…

The Omniverse Oriki | #MarshallAllen | High Two
https://hightwo.bandcamp.com/album/the-omniverse-oriki
> 3 track album

1962: MILTON BABBITT and the Music Machine | Monitor | Retro Tech | BBC
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jPsRHvRLFfs&si=1CBMblZL3rL7Zd7Q

Eedie & Eddie (And The Reggaebots) - Some Velvet Morning (Dr. Peter Langston)
Eedie & Eddie, two DecTalk (tm) voice synthesizers, hosted a dial-up demo of algorithmic composition at Bellcore (Bell Communications Research) starting in 1985. That demo went "off the air" in 1990 (or so) but before they retired, Eedie & Eddie were interviewed by magazines like Scientific American and Newsweek, and even made a record, or rather, a CD (published as an accompaniment to V…

When Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong tried to iron out how their 1953 joint tour would play out, egos clashed and Goodman dropped out. Goodman's decision proved to be a stroke of luck for trumpeter Al Stewart. As the Goodman band without Goodman fell under the direction of a more laid back Gene Krupa, Al Stewart found himself developing a bond with Armstrong, a relationship that taught him about music, entertainment and life.

Tiny Grimes--"Never Too Old to Swing"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kGGIiZR_y0g&si=5N9RQn29kMVHPiZP

Vanita Smythe - They Raided the Joint 1946
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qu84tD5UhiM&si=WJHi4bgNPohf1pvX

Blossom Dearie -- The Gentleman Is A Dope (1960)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bOA2VKKUwT8&si=fNVl-hNK3_dKdYOg