These maniacs, these complete creeps.

A few quick things while I’m working on my first longish post.  I’m using writing muscles I haven’t used in forever, so it’s taking some time.

• I’m reading The Rest is Noise (see above) and it’s good so far, even if you don’t know shit about Schoenberg or Mahler or Wagner or whoever, like I don’t.  There’s also a sweet companion website with excerpts of some of the works discussed in the book, although I have yet to listen to any of them.  My plan is to use this book as a guide to stuff I should download on Emusic in order to get a better grasp on 20th century classical music.

I stumbled across a couple of interesting podcasts this week:

• The Tone Generation is about “the development of electronic music across the world in the classic era of analogue technology.”  I’ve only listened to the first episode so far and it was about British people making creepy clangy music that’s not much fun to listen to.  I find the subject interesting enough to give it a few more shots, though. Odeo, iTunes.
• Solid Steel was a radio show that the Coldcut guys started back in 1988.  I haven’t started downloading anything yet, but it looks like a lot of the podcast is made up of “best-of” archived stuff, and the “best-of” these guys in that era is probably pretty fucking tight.  Odeo, iTunes.

~ by mattbrownlie on November 14, 2008.