DGM HQ A short and
10.04
DGM HQ.
A short and welcome eruption of sunshine now compromised by cloud I…
II...
11.50 A call from the Minx with news of a positive development in her business affairs.
David and myself have a lunch appointment.
15.13 A fab lunch with Chris H, our former RBS bank manager, now with Coutts in the Strand (Coutts was taken over by the RBS) at
The Horseshoe in Ebbesbourne Wake, and highly recommended to any visitors to the valley. Lotsa business and personal catchings-up.
Returning for officing. To a possible interviewer…
one to one does not work as well as where there is a third element. like, an audience, or a third participant. the dynamic shifts quite considerably.
i suggest that you both come down to DGM HQ one morning, and david will most likely be here as well. with an open agenda, and see where it goes.
there are four main areas: KC, the alternative career (eno, bowie, hall, gabriel, sylvian et al), the hands-on business side and DGM, and Guitar Craft.
most interviewers address KC, spend two hours taking things as far as 1981 and then going home. that doesn't interest me very much as it is only one area of my interest; has been extensively covered already; and mostly grief, dissension and distress.
and none of this is an imperative for me. my life has got much better since i stopped doing interviews, and much much better than that when i stopped performing in public. so, if this doesn't ring your bell, no probs at all and thanks for your interest.
That Awful Man…
15.35 A hand-delivery from David…
The archiving continues in DGM SoundWorld II with a cheerful Mr. Stormy…
15.50 Let’s hear it for auto-translation! From two Dutch papers I…
The music of Robert Fripp is often referred to as 'experimental' grouped. Wrongly… his music is really well thought out. Thought about sometimes, on the mathematical ex.
The harmonies on "The Wine of Silence 'betrayed that aid is not a coincidence. Fripp soundscapes made six by his guitar echo and reverb effects to subjects. The soundscapes sound on this CD in a version for orchestra: Bert Lamb made it and transcripts of the British composer Andrew Keeling completed the orchestral arrangements. In 2003, the Metropole Orchestra of the compositions from the Paradiso in Amsterdam. The inclusion of that session is to be heard on this CD - with the proviso that also the uptake again by the digital mangle is achieved.
Not only the way there, but the result is particularly sounding. 'Midnight Blue' is a heavy piece which sounds continuously wash and drain. It is music that fans of the work of Henryk Górecki and minimal music to speak to. Those influences are audible from behind a thick wall of sound.
II…
… There are passages that sound downright chilling. Frightening. But sometimes heaven, stunning, thin, light years away.
Sunday, May 6 plays the Metropole Orchestra who orchestrated some of the Music Soundscapes in Amsterdam. An introduction to the concert is given in the form of an interview with Bert Lamb (California Guitar Trio, made the transcripts), Andrew Keeling (composer, arranged the pieces) and David Singleton (producer, with Fripp responsible for the remix now on CD appeared).In the Exchange on Saturday, May 12, 2012 is their vision and this new CD are discussed. But first we must go back to the beginning.
Soundscapes that were still recording of ambient sounds that the computer be edited into a kind of abstract radio play? Not the soundscapes of Robert Fripp .That emerged from an experiment with Brian Eno in 1973. Peeling an evening with two tape recorders and Fripp's guitar work led eventually to the disconcerting lp No. Pussyfooting… Some twenty years later, Fripp took up the thread, now armed with a rack full of electronics. He played his solo improvised soundscapes around the world. Sometimes with the public verwarrring result, as in "ordinary" rock concerts or festivals. Sometimes with a devout and dedicated public that is brought into higher spheres knew, as in churches and cathedrals. But always uncompromising, opinionated, inescapable.
The digital mangle, public verwarrring, but always uncompromising, opinionated, inescapable: I couldn’t put it better myself.
18.08 E-flurrying continues. A call from the Sistery Person, discussing possible Fripp & Fripp presenting next year.
More arisings on the UMG dissension: an inexorable forward motion.
Good news: David has played me a Vicar animation-viddy. Ace. David has just set off down the damp street…
An evening computing ahead.
23.12 It calls!…
