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December 31, 2007
Random 2007 Music notes
| Top 10 on my iTunes (#Play Count) | ||
| Adieu Mario (Extrait de Mon oncle) | Jazz | Trio Rousseau, Tortiller, Vignon |
| What a Difference a Day Made | Jazz | Sarah Vaughan |
| Life On Mars? | Pop | Seu Jorge |
| Habla Con Hella | Soundtrack | Alberto Iglesias Featuring Vicente Amigo & El Pele |
| Yumeji's Theme (In the Mood for Love) | Soundtrack | Umebayashi Shigeru |
| Cantaloupe Island | Jazz | Herbie Hancock |
| Koop Island Blues | Electronic | Koop |
| I Say A Little Prayer | R&B | Aretha Franklin |
| Linus & Lucy | Jazz | George Winston |
| Just Can't Get Enough | World (???) | Nouvelle Vague |
Recent and automatic favourite right after seeing them live at the San Francisco Jazz Festival: Tord Gustavsen Trio
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In musicology, my main field of interest is the psychology and phenomenology of improvisation. Although recognizing the importance of established jazz analysis and jazz history, I try to develop this field of research in directions that are not covered very well in jazz theory as we know it. I draw heavily on the psychology of relationships developed by German psychoanalytic Helm Stierlin and Norwegian psychologist Anne-Lise Løvlie Schibbye, both of whom offer a very exciting approach to the ancient notion of dialectics. It's all about living the paradoxes of life and art dynamically and fruitfully. It's about coming to terms with contradictions recognizing both sides of polarities without getting stuck in the middle-of-the-road. It's about synthesizing – locally, non-monolithic and (if you like) "post modernist" – your dilemmas. It's about moving creatively in a neo-Hegelian "Aufheben" kind of way. I approach dilemmas like closeness vs. distance, moment vs. duration and gratification vs. frustration, and I try to explore them combining empirical jazz research (interviews and analysis) with contemporary "scenic" music theory, psychodynamic theory and dialectical philosophy. -- Tord Gustavsen on the themes of his Musicology Ph.d. Dissertation
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In love with Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition". The piano original version, not the silly Ravel orchestration.
"Pictures at an Exhibition was written as a group of pieces for piano in 1874. The pictures were mainly watercolours, painted by Victor Hartman, a friend of Mussorgsky, who had died the previous year.
The piece is a musical description of walking around an exhibition of Hartman's paintings. A recurring 'Promenade' movement represents the visitor. Each of the pieces has a movement conjuring up the mood invoked by the picture, or in some cases even painting the picture in music." -- from the BBC
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Posted by Pedro Faro at January 9, 2008 03:50 PM