Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Friday Music: A beat is more likely to get things done than a ballad

Thomas Lumley

Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:40:46 +1200

Often I sit down to listen to music and then get distracted from really paying proper attention. But, judging from when I've been trying to learn songs, even the background music is getting in. Oh, and judging from the earworms. Right now, it's bits of Hamilton.

For at-home listening I…

Murray Pawson

Tue, 08 Aug 2017 19:55:29 +1200

30 yo LINN LK1/LK280 & LINN Nexus speakers piped through an Airport Express from iTunes for my lounge. As I move around a lot I gifted my Linn Sondek and 30 year collection of vinyl to my niece. She was crazy happy with that.

JBL GO for the bathroom piped through…

Vivid

Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:45:06 +1200

the basic Bose Companion 2 multimedia speakers

I scored a set of those for $80 at a second hand shop a few years ago, they're brilliant. This, however, leaves them in the dust for anything requiring full bass or volume (also scored cheap when apple was transitioning to the lightning…

Russell Brown

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 10:15:16 +1200

I had to work and missed the big-screen premiere of Simon's film on Friday afternoon, but I'm very happy about my Builders-at-Golden-Dawn evening out that night.

Lots of odds and ends early on (including a version of WH Auden's 'Death of a Fascist') and then, with the band, what seemed…

Hugh Wilson

Sun, 06 Aug 2017 16:08:59 +1200

The guy behind this comp is from NZ – thinking it’ll be a good one for the warmer days to come

Annoyingly it won't embed, but click thru

https://soundcloud.com/spacetalkmusic/crown-ruler-sound-compiled-by-jeremy-spellacey-mini-mix

Gareth

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:44:42 +1200

Well, I could hear that with my deaf ear, so it must be good...

linger

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:59:32 +1200

Also worth noting: an upcoming series of Radiotopia Showcase podcasts under the heading “Ways of Hearing”, on the theme of how digital technology has changed the way we listen to music. (The first one, on “Time”, appeared last Tuesday on 99 Percent Invisible.)
Ways of Hearing is a six-episode series…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:48:37 +1200

three articles of interest from Stuff today:

Dave McLennan's book on the Wellington music/punk scene in the '80s.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/95297507/flashback-fascination-st--the-cure-jam-and-party-with-wellingtons-postpunks

A new bike & ebike shop and the traffic mix in Chchch:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/95455672/moving-on-from-the-almighty-car-a-change-up-for-christchurchs-transport-mix

A story on Pacific Underground and the family that started it in Chchch:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/95450094/going-underground-life-at-18-wattle-drive

Russell Brown

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 13:32:42 +1200

Duh. I left one thing out of my listening practices – my computer speakers.

I bought the basic Bose Companion 2 multimedia speakers several years ago and it was $200 very well spent. I’d recommend them to anyone. They're what I hear most music first on.

bob daktari

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:30:39 +1200

I've been revisiting Hardfloor of late... you might appreciate their remix of Yeke Yeke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDZ9HYCAknc

Gareth

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 09:14:44 +1200

It's a deaf sentence (David Lodge book – very funny).

Apparently they can trigger the little hair cells to regrow in mice. And the recent progress in linking cochlear implants with iPhones is encouraging. I think computational hearing is going to be very interesting – think hearing aids that can…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 07:48:55 +1200

Making a good impression!
Chchch Print junkies rejoice
The Ferrymead Printing Society has a showing
of this recently released US movie
Pressing On:The Letterpress Film
Friday, August 11 at 6:30 PM – 10 PM (Next Week)
Student Atrium, ARA / Polytech (yellow building)
Christchurch Campus 130 Madras Street
see:
https://www.facebook.com/events/461147724247630/…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 07:34:43 +1200

Over the last ten years I have become, to all intents and purposes, deaf in my left ear.
Life with 'dextear'
a lot less 'sinistear'...
:- )

ear today, gone tomorrow..
My (ears) are deteriorating as well, I have this 'cilia' image in my head of the inner ear represented…

Vivid

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:59:04 +1200

Sennheiser HD-25's and an iPod Classic for years – they're both ancient. The headphones are a little like grandads old axe. so many replacement parts – are they still the same headphones.

Gareth

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:31:44 +1200

Over the last ten years I have become, to all intents and purposes, deaf in my left ear. Thus my views on listening to music have changed, as have my preferred methods. There is a certain irony in all this, given that for a good chunk of my younger years…

Alan Perrott

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:00:42 +1200

argh, Bill Direen, and I’m on bleeding kids duty.

listening-wise; with great difficulty. I’ve got a t/t into the kitchen which helps – I made the call to go vinyl-only a few years back (to force myself to to play them rather than any hipster cred – otherwise after bedtimes…

Hugh Wilson

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:57:44 +1200

My consumption habits have changed a bit in recent years.

My old bachelor pad had a good setup, although the lounge and kitchen were at opposite ends of my flat, so two systems required. The kitchen one was hooked into my computer, and I used to listen to that a…

bob daktari

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:47:07 +1200

do most of my listening on my computer which has a cheap set of speakers and sub connected, youtube mainly – has all the house/techno/electropnic stuff that no one has licensed to any digital platforms

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:20:19 +1200

oh, if only my daughter was over K pop! When she was home last, before she set off for Japan and was playing relentless K pop, Josephine had to have a quiet word with her for the sake of my sanity.
I favour my iPod, with top quality earbuds, and…

Russell Brown

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:29:31 +1200

This just in: Stuart Page has posted a picture showing exactly how the Builders are fitting two drumkits on that Golden Dawn stage tonight :-)

Ken Double

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:29:25 +1200

We've recently bought a car than runs on electrickery and I've gotta say its near silence makes it a brilliant place for music. Certainly better than my charming but rorty old Prelude. In that respect the future is shade-wearingly bright.

I've always hankered after one of the old school Lexus…

Rob Stowell

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:41:48 +1200

I like the car, but mostly, on my own, tend to listen to the RNZ. So handing the ‘aux’ cable to the teenagers has been fun – and a great way to hear new stuff. Thankfully they are done with K pop. At the moment, some lovely 60s tinged pop…

TurtsPaulTaylor

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:45:02 +1200

I love getting lost in music in the gym. Blue tooth buds. Gangster Rap, fast and heavy rock and roll for the boxing bag, and a definite King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Moon Duo psych vibe currently for the monotony of the rowing machine. Random iPod headphone mix for…

andrew r

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:35:57 +1200

Almost only stream now via paid subscription and offline (the later is super handy on the road). Solid collection of vinyl fun to have though not recently updated and mostly sits there. Stream into solid old school big speakers and via old school amp in living room. Head cans I…

Russell Brown

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:34:08 +1200

Oh look: Micronism's Inside a Quiet Mind re-release is album of the day on Bandcamp.

Public Address

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:34:07 +1200

Discussion from blog post.