Last Friday, WGBH hosted a live performance/recording of Stockhausen’s Mantra, for two pianos and four channel electronics.
It was set up in our fabulous new
Fraser studio, and was a collaboration involving WGBH and the IMSC at USC as well as the New England Conservatory.
WGBH Engineer Jim Donahue has […]
The origin of this blog’s title has to do with the most common tuning for the Dobro when played lap-style. It also is the tuning which Keith Richards uses for what the late critic Robert Palmer described as the “gritty crunch and bite, the close to the bones timbre” of Richard’s best work, circa ‘Exile […]
to paraphrase the confession of st. patrick:
Ego robertus, peccator rusticissimus …
I, Bob, a sinner, most unlearned, am confessing to the sin of sloth–having not posted in over a year. But I’ll try to get back in the habit.
I’ll start with the observation that there appears to be movement towards a centralization of back […]