Lists lists lists! Aural Wes members each send in a song they've been listening to the past week. Contributions span genres and moods. It's fun for children of all ages. Maybe write home to your mom about it. Hit the jump below to read on.
On Tuesday I met up with John Welsh (Grad '13) in the music studios lobby to find out some information abou his upcoming recital. A composition graduate student and guitar player, Welsh has been studying with Anthony Braxton and other professors here for the past two years. His concert will take place on Thursday at 7pm in Beckham Hall. Read the interview after the jump
On Saturday night Eclectic's doors were temporarily unshackled (thanks MC Apper '13!) for "Zammuto (of the books), Snow Blind, and The Japanese: A WESUConcert." Seven of our writers were there, in various states of sobriety, taking notes.
A couple of nights ago, I found out about a radio function on VLC while I was with some friends. You might've heard of VLC — it's a program that allows you play videos in formats that QuickTime (and probably the Windows Media Player?) don't recognize, to play .flac files, and whatever else it can do. It also has the Icecast Radio Directory which has hundreds of radio stations to choose from.
Lists lists lists! Aural Wes members each send in a song they've been listening to the past week.
Jacco Gardner is a musician that's kind of hard to contextualize within the musical landscape of 2013. When I asked a handful of my friends what his music sounds like, it seemed telling that the best they could do was "uh, sorta like the Beatles." That's not a terrible comparison, though, despite the fact that every band after the Beatles sounds sorta like the Beatles. His recent release, entitled "Cabinet of Curiosities," seems remarkably estranged from the aesthetics our modern blogosphere dotes so heavily on: there's no lo-fi tape-hiss to be found, ethereal electronic soundscapes are few and far between, and nobody's mentioned "60's revivalist baroque-pop" since Grizzly Bear's 2006 release "Yellow House."
