Really? BK?
― Trip Maker, Monday, 16 May 2011 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw that pic on the "unlikely celebrities together" thread and had to look up who Terry Riley was."A Rainbow in Curved Air" is blowing me away right now (esp the second half).
i feel like if i listen to it loud enough i might levitate.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
He's one of a kind!
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
he's the best. hope terry and big boi got crazy high together before going to BK.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
XD
― am0n, Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
has this been posted? damnnnnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE2CEh66gTg&feature=player_embedded
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 May 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub5kV34oJgY
― am0n, Thursday, 19 May 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
still looking for a recording of sunday morning blues without drums, does anyone have an mp3 or whatever knocking about?
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN-MRK0K4A8
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
A Rainbow in Curved Air + Poppy Nogood = the unimpeachable shit. I just hit up the Rene Hell thread because I realized his stuff taps into this vein in a really deep way. The sub-bass in Poppy Nogood will rattle speakers.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
add 'Persian Surgery Dervishes' and 'Shri Camel' and that's about right.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
mentioned above, but harp of new albion can't be recommended enough. endlessly beautiful.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm all over it... The title is really mellifluous. And I'm a huge sucker for alternately tuned piano pieces.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
No love for Lisbon Concert? I am kind of obsessed with it right now.
What other music is like Lisbon Concert?
― lol goat on table (admrl), Monday, 26 September 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Terry-Riley-Moscow-Conservatory-Concert/dp/B0006SWRCAhttp://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=2470 (room recording, tracks 1-3-4-7)
^^ those two the closest to Lisbon, i.e. solo piano in equal temperament
though nothing compares to the solo piano albums in just intonation -- The Harp Of New Albion is my favorite Riley
― Milton Parker, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks - any solo piano of this stripe recs would be great, don't have to be Rley
― lol goat on table (admrl), Monday, 26 September 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
I love Lisbon Concert SO MUCH
― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Monday, 26 September 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
yay
― lol goat on table (admrl), Monday, 26 September 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
New one 'Aleph' is a 114 minute late night solo on the Korg Triton from 2008 in an alt tuning devised by Lou Harrison. He's been using the Triton for over a decade now because of the tuning control. The alt-tuning records are my favorite Riley by far, but I have occasionally been a little wary of the CDs he puts out with the Triton because some of the sample presets he uses are a little cheesy no matter what temperament they're in. 'Aleph' stays on one strings & muted-horn patch while he just spins out playing his patterns and it gets to work fairly instantaneously
about halfway through I almost started thinking it was too much but then I ended up playing disc 2 about four times in a row
― Milton Parker, Monday, 20 February 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
Finally got that Wolfgang's Vault concert (the dadrockinest place to buy music), it's really good. Needs to be put on vinyl.
― flared bass (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 16 December 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
got "salome dances for peace". the idea of the kronos quartet doin a bleedin string quartet, you or i might have reservations about, it not being DIY echo machine malarky n what have you. but verily, tis GRAND! the stamina ! the variety ! just intonation !and where eyvind kang gets a good % of his "inspiration" from.
― massaman gai, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
It's a Terry Riley Friday.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
(For me.)
Finally hearing as much of Music for the Gift as Spotify will let me. Some of this sounds like it could have come out tomorrow.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
I thought I had checked it out a bit actually, but I'm not remembering any of it, so I guess not.
Last weekend I drove out to Imperial County to go see Salvation Mountain. Two and a half hour drive. I saw a fox run across Highway 111. This is one of the albums I listened to on the way there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHv7M0o_OL8
― del griffith, Saturday, 16 February 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
really like unmellow riley. music for the gift & especially bird of paradise are pretty noise. love the mescaline mix too.
― ogmor, Saturday, 16 February 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
― tylerw, Tuesday, May 24, 2011 2:33 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this post is totally otm
― tylerw, Sunday, 17 February 2013 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
just put a rainbow in curved air on the turntable
― just sayin, Friday, 29 March 2013 10:23 (eleven years ago) link
Wish I could set up my turntable to play that in reverse once it gets to the end. And back and forth over and over.
― ProAm Chomsky (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 29 March 2013 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
Buy a cd player
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 29 March 2013 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
NO
― ProAm Chomsky (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 29 March 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
This happened on Sunday and I missed it because SAM has the worst publicity for any city museum in history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPSvKpIAuug
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Saturday, 30 March 2013 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
shouldn't this thread be called "terry riley In C/D, S/D"?
― dan selzer, Saturday, 30 March 2013 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
Jeez, I am amazed you of all ppl missed this; I cannot imagine how much this museum sucks and like tell ppl abt shit that's going on.
― Room 227 (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 30 March 2013 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
This Padova Concert is great. Also, Diamond Fiddle Language.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 2 May 2013 05:59 (eleven years ago) link
Alpha version of 'in c' ipad app by Matt Ingalls
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=OXUn0ZG758Y
― Milton Parker, Friday, 18 April 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
Apparently today is the 50th anniversary of the premiere of In C.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
nICe
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Cool! Listening now to the Ars Nova version. Coincidentally, I bought The Cusp of Magic with Kronos Quartet and Wu Man the other day. It's cool, and was cheap.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
http://tpr.org/post/you-can-join-soli-stage
i signed up to play in this ppls concert of "in c", so fuckin stoked!!!!
― resting waterface (m bison), Sunday, 16 November 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
really good interview -- sheds light on his relationships with daevid allen and edgar froese, among others
http://www.innerviews.org/inner/riley.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 30 November 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
excellent, thanks
love this:
Sometimes a big feedback thing would happen. When that occurred, I would drop the saxophone and start working with the feedback. If something like that happens, the music is trying to tell you something. It’s telling you to work with what’s going on instead of stopping. If you stop, you’re interrupting the messages that are coming into you. You’re blocking information. So, I like the idea that there aren’t mistakes and that things are always happening as they should.
― sleeve, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
also this:
http://www.innerviews.org/inner/riley/daevidterry.jpg
― sleeve, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:56 (nine years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
― sleeve, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
I've had this idea forever that somebody should do a variation of "In C" called "Is C" which would strip out melody altogether and deal only in timbre and rhythm. Arrange it so that, for instance, you assign every C in the score to piano, every C# to flute, every D to plucked violin, etc.--each specific note is played solely on one instrument with its own unique timbre. Then, instead of having the flutes actually play a C# or the violin play a D, they all play C's. You still follow the rhythms of each module of the score, and I imagine it would turn into some kind of whirlwind hocketing texture.
Basically, I just want to know what this would sound like--would the constant rhythmically alternating C's of different timbre be musically interesting or just mush. You'd have to remove the improvisational aspect of the score; even so, it would probably be nearly impossible to actually play it. You could put it together with some kind of software, a bunch of sampled C's, talent, time, focus and drive; sadly, I have none of those things.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 1 December 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
I'm hearing a MIDI version of that in my head now. Thanks a lot.
― Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 December 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link
Missed a performance of Rainbow in Curved Air last week because I thought I didn't need to pre-book. I was wrong. So gutted.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 1 December 2014 10:52 (nine years ago) link
Everyone loves Terry, don't they? I mean, why wouldn't you?
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 1 December 2014 10:59 (nine years ago) link
He seems like a pretty cool guy. I didn't know he was involved with Daevid Allen way back in the early 60s; great interview.
― Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 December 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link