Music

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe

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No, this is not a physcis thing.
However, you may think you used to live in a tiny universe after you have spent an hour or two in the grip of these musicians. Small venues and up close are best.
I really enjoyed their performance at Bumbershoot last year and wish this relatively short set was amongst the over over 100 shows available for download or streaming at the Internet Archive.
If you like the music burn some copies for yourself and your friends, attend a show next time they are in your area and, yes, buy a CD or two.
And, while you are at it, thumb your nose at the RIAA and its albatross clients.

For Classical Music Lovers and Other Interested Parties

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Yesterday Arts Journal launched a 10 day blog called Critical Conversation:

THE QUESTION BEFORE US

If the history of music is the recorded conversation of ideas, then where do we find ourselves in that conversation at the start of the 21st Century?
The conversationalists are a dozen of the “top classical music critics in America” (YMMV) and based on the early posts the discussion might be pretty interesting.
Of note, also, is the description of this blog as a 10 day blog. A short finite lifetime to have a snapshot discussion of a particular idea. And you can join in via comments.
Another aspect is that while the blog may build interest in and traffic to Arts Journal with this short life the blog will not have any focus on building long term traffic and relationships to itself.
All in all a pretty nifty idea for.

Portland Report (preliminary)

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The Dead July 2, 2004 Columbia Meadows

1:44 AM
This will be brief this morning. I hope to write more during the drive to The Gorge tomorrow (later this morning).
Every Dead show is different. Those of you in the choir understand this. Boise and Portland were no exception…really night and day. And more discussion is what will have to wait….
For now simply
…Corinna shattered into a million shards of glass atomized as they scrape across the chalk board and the world recreated by primal drummers into a delicately searing Stella Blue…
tears fill the world.
When there is more it will be beneath the fold.
Updated 7/4/04

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