Recording of August 1989: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Recording of August 1989: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Oct 01, 2010 First Published:Aug 01, 1989

<B>MAHLER: <I>Das Lied von der Erde</I></B><BR>
James King, tenor; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein<BR>
London (CD only). Gordon Parry, eng.; John Culshaw, prod. AAD. TT: 66:32

Paganini and Purple Haze...

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Submitted by Buddha on

My kid is learning a Paganini piece on his electric guitar...and he can't recall the name of the piece.

No biggie.

But! Part of it is the intro to Purple Haze!

He hit that part of the Paganini and I laughed, saying, "Hey, cool! You snuck Hendrix into Paganini!"

He said, "Yeah!" And then played Purple Haze without ever having learned the song before!

I tried to Google the connection, but came up blank.

Anybody know which Paganini piece has the first several notes of Purple Haze hidden in it?

Something for Stereophile?

Submitted by Freako on

Talking newspaper ads startle India

NEW DELHI (UPI) -- Police in India are asking residents not to be afraid of talking Volkswagen ads appearing in two of the country's largest newspapers.

The Volkswagen Vento ad, which appeared Tuesday in The Times of India and The Hindu, prompted numerous calls to police in New Delhi when a voice began reading the print ad aloud in a style similar to a radio commercial, ABC News reported.

Any experience with Norh 9 speaker?

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Submitted by AudioRigger on

I'm thinking of dabbling in the Norh 9 speaker for fun. Does anyone have experience with this speaker?

The concept is intriguing. It's shape is based on an African drum, is made of solid marble and has great drivers. Good reviews too, but it would be nice to here if someone has heard these speakers in action.

http://www.norh.com/Norh_Loudspeaker/Norh_9.html.

Time spent on hard drive housekeeping

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Submitted by Drtrey3 on

I am currently spending a lot of time on hard drive housekeeping. I got a new computer, which is great, but now I am consolidating two libraries, a full and high rez external hard drive for WMP and my mp3s for iTunes.

So I am spending about 30 minutes a night making sure that every album has cover art and that they are in the right genre and so on and so forth.

It is a pain. And I end up doing it when the drives are stable too. About 10 minutes a night then.

Am I alone in this? Is your hard drive demanding?

Trey

Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal

Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal

Sep 28, 2010
Returnal (Editions Mego EMEGO 104), the fourth full-length release from Oneohtrix Point Never, explodes into the listening room (or out from the speakers or out from the headphones) with real violence and penetrating force. We are thrust into a heavy storm, a maelstrom; we find ourselves standing beneath an ocean of falling glass, falling sky, falling electronic haze. If instruments could scream, their screams might sound like this, like the opening few moments of Returnal, moments that don’t seem like an opening at all, but someplace else, some other time that escaped us, that started without us, before we were ready. I don’t mean scream in the way that guitars and saxophones and other instruments can and do scream. I mean that if instruments could be dealt such pain that they were brought to life, given sentience, to wail with wonderful suffering, it might sound like this, like the opening few moments of “Nil Admirari.”
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