[f_minor] Bjork ( GG App ?

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Dear all

According to Dante the lowest pits or malebolge in Inferno (Hell) are made of ice, and it is very dang cold down there...jus' sayin. And since the Eagles got together again it must be very bleeding cold down there indeed...

Now back in ye ole days when Interactive CD-Rom was the buzzword and dinosaurs roamed the earth someone had produced one of these featuring GG. I never got my hands on one of these but one of the features was being able to "remix" as it were the Opening Trio of IoN.  Not that I want to contradict Mary (mainly because she is sharper than me) but it has been done before. And that feature still sounds intriguing after all these years.

Björk is using a new technique to market her latest album: an iPone/iPad app. That little app will allow you to explore and discover her strange universe and while I have no intention whatsoever to buy that record the idea sounds interesting and reminds me of what Peter Gabriel had in mind with eVe back around the time of said GG CD-Rom.

The idea of a GG app sounds interesting, at least to me. Interactive features like being able to remix that Opeing Trio, exclusive news and pictures, a youtube channel and whatnot. Pop artists like Björk and NIN have used apps to a great effect and I reckon the launch of such an app would cause some interest in the classical community in general, the GG crowd in particular. 

Of course such an idea will cause comment from the more conservative minds, but it would be a sign that that whoever is in charge of GG's Legacy has arrived in the present. These people will correctly point out that the current app frenzy will pass on one day, but once you have reached someone with a tool like this his or her love for GG 's recordings will stay.

Probably not the best idea I had today, but rather a bad idea than no clue at all.

Pat
Am 11.08.2011 um 21:42 schrieb maryellen jensen:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbPYoaAiyc
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> The only Bjork I ever liked but merde I'm a just sucker forhedgehogs
> and Ophelia. Who isn't?. My Iceland is Sigur Ros, practically everything they
> ever recorded.. 
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> It would be a very very cold afternoon in hell when Glen Herbert Gold let anyone on this
> transitory plane fiddle and/or otherwise mix with his 'perfect' recordings. If you read and
> listen to what he really said on the subject of "mixing" you will realize that he never spoke of
> his own recordings the way he offered up  those of other artists for the 'mix'. 
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> Gould 'tampered' with his recordings so that you the listener wouldn't have to. 
> He was the decider, not you - oh except for your treble and bass dials...
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> Mary
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> From: Kpapademas at aol.com
> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:43:43 -0400
> To: f_minor at glenngould.org
> Subject: [f_minor] Bjork
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> Came across this article which mentions Glenn Gould's vision of mixing music to suit the performer/listener/composer.
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> So, music assembled ala Gouldian principles and mixed with science and Bjork!
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> http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/08/05/f-bjork-app-album.html
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> Katherine, listening to GG playing Jacques Hetu's Variations.
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