yep, that's a guy with a vision.
― historyyy (prettylikealaindelon), Thursday, 30 December 2010 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Incredible - I'm going to be listening to his recordings in a different way from now on.
― Webern conducts Berg (Call the Cops), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Incredible is right.You can really see why automated mixing boards had to eventually be invented!
― Sanford, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, he's conducting microphone levels there, it's kind of painfully imtimate to watch the control freak side running wild but it also confirms what the payoff of the control freak thing was
― the tune is space, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.vivaverve.com/shopimages/products/ribbon/GlennGould5.jpg
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 April 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
my downstairs neighbour told me this week that he used to live downstairs from him in toronto in the 60s/70s and could hear him practice all the time
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 22 April 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
been binging on him on and off for the past six months or so
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
gould soundz
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
:)
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
for fans of that youtube of Gould conducting at the mixing board upthread, Sony put out an interesting two disc set last year -- first disc is all of his 'acoustic orchestrations' compiled on one disc, and the second disc is a CD-ROM containing all four mic rank recordings of a single Scriabin piece, allowing you to mix it yourself
http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-glenn-gould-the-acoustic1/
it's total fun. there's a youtube up of someone doing an odd mix
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
something addictive about his approach to bach for me -- makes it hard to listen to anyone else (on piano at least. I dig Landowska on harpsichord)
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Monday, 15 April 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Are some of his recordings known to have weird pitch issues? I've been listening to his English Suites and I feel like there's this very slight speed-up/slow-down thing going on a lot of the time. The thing is I actually kind of like it, but I want to know if I'm crazy that I'm hearing it.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Also just noticed a weird piano warble on Two and Three Part Inventions which sounds like maybe it's coming from the piano itself?
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
Re the 2 and 3 part inventions, that was explained in the liners to the Sony Glenn Gould Edition version (from the series with the butt ugly white covers). That particular piano had taken a hit of some sort and after being repaired had a weird double-strike problem on certain of its hammers. Gould recorded that album with it anyway, professing to sort of like the effect (I can't say I agree)
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
Idk about pitch stability on the English suites, I'll try to have a listen. Seems weird for tapes of that vintage to have that problem!
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.metafilter.com/145757/Radio-as-Music
― Gombeen Dance Band (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 January 2015 12:32 (nine years ago) link
whoa cool!
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Thursday, 1 January 2015 13:34 (nine years ago) link
this is terrific, fvck you mozart u dweeb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JauII1jCG6Q&feature=emb_logo
― mark s, Saturday, 24 October 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
"for ten bars he did absolutely nothing except cover up in the most delinquent way with scales and arpeggios precisely those rather inane chords"
drag his ASS gg
― mark s, Saturday, 24 October 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
glenn gould and cecil taylor were so nearly the same age: in a better world they'd have been on TV robustly debating gg's over-simplified line here on improvisation as largely a happy-go-lucky art of the moment
but still this is v good on the battle between the explosive mischief of invention & the productive self-denial of structure
― mark s, Saturday, 24 October 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
(or maybe sonny rollins if you can't imagine cecil's mischief-making letting up long enough to allow a gouldian dialectics through)
― mark s, Saturday, 24 October 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link
I came here to post that same video!!
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Sunday, 1 November 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link