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Sue

Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:23:38 +1300

Douglas Lilburn memory – first heard his compositions studying School Certificate music alongside Threnody to The Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki. Someone must have been smoking something serious to create that years Curriculum

linger

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 21:36:00 +1300

Troublesome even in US English. One of the stewardesses in Flying High was given that name, just for that joke.

Steve Barnes

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:44:30 +1300

“Hi. I’m Randy.”

But I will satisfy myself with This Article from Wikipedia.
then his dear friend Hendrix died, a depressed California left Spirit. He recorded Kapt. Kopter & The Fabulous Twirly Birds, which included California and Cassidy's version of Paul Simon's "Mother and Child Reunion" plus a slew…

Joe Wylie

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:17:44 +1300

Randy California: is that a person or a place?

Yes :-)

It’s a name that’s never worked too well in non-US English, i.e:
“Hi. I’m Randy.”
“Oh good for you.”

That said, Mr California, who pretty much was Spirit for the last 20+ years of his life, died a bona…

Steve Barnes

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:46:04 +1300

Randy California: is that a person or a place?

Yes :-)
But Rand California, the person, had a unique guitar sound that just don't show its age.

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:39:45 +1300

Randy California: is that a person or a place?

Russell; what's on Media Take next week as I may be able to join you (sans students)?

Steve Barnes

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:25:25 +1300

As its Friday and we don't have a music thread today I thought I'd post this. An album that never seems too old...
Spirit. The twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus. featuring the late Randy California.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXXdZjispHs

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:12:54 +1300

to DSIR with love…*
The acoustics section at DSIR….
Stirs a memory of a photo i always meant to take
and then the possibility disappeared…
Near where the RIU typesetters were (’80s, Airedale St , Auckland?) there were some old commercial buildings that became un-tenanted and eventually abandoned looking and…

Kumara Republic

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:51:35 +1300

We are currently working on a digitisation plan for the TVNZ Collection in order to increase access.

Are there any openings or otherwise opportunities to volunteer? I wouldn't mind being part of the solution.

Ross Mason

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:31:28 +1300

This 1970 clip of Lilburn ”demonstrating the sounds produced for a modern dance performance that include the electronic reconstitution of the sounds of the extinct huia bird” is wonderful. In this part of his career he was our BBC Radiophonic Workshop, in a way:

The acoustics section at DSIR in…

Sacha

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:07:20 +1300

Thank you, Ellen.

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:39:58 +1300

Kia ora Ken and Robyn,

Rest assured that Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has no intention of carrying out a cull of TVNZ Archive content.

At Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision we are committed to preserving New Zealand’s audiovisual heritage, and making it available for current and future generations to enjoy.

We…

Peter Darlington

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:48:00 +1300

I'm most excited about track one. Not only is it a new track from Stromae, but it also features Pusha T, Q-Tip, Haim and Ms Yelich-O'Connor herself. Hurry up, 17 November!

Impressive indeed!

Sacha

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:28:42 +1300

Ta. Seems to be working again for me.

Russell Brown

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:54:04 +1300

which of Facebook or Google must I unblock for Soundcloud embeds to actually work?

I can't see anything in the code that invokes either directly. It's just an iframe embed.

Sofie Bribiesca

Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:44:26 +1300

I like, smarter than the average bear :)

So, wise and talented beyond her years, the Girl'z got skillz .

Bart Janssen

Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:13:35 +1300

Mental age, like high and low functioning ,have eugenic undertones and are from the age of institutions. But I know what you mean.

Yes, I find the term a bit odd too. But that’s how it was quoted in the story.

I like, smarter than the average bear :)

Russell Brown

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 23:28:52 +1300

Mental age, like high and low functioning ,have eugenic undertones and are from the age of institutions. But I know what you mean.

Yes, I find the term a bit odd too. But that's how it was quoted in the story.

Steve Barnes

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:37:16 +1300

You know, it never occurred to me that Nico actually had a real name. I couldn't get beyond femme fatale....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjjDmX9Tkss

Grant McDougall

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:11:49 +1300

the Christa Paffgen storyI’ll be your memoir…I also just found my copy of the 1992 book Nico – Songs they never play on the radio by her keyboardist James Young, it’s yours if ya want it, lemme know.

A hilarious, rip-roaringly-good read. Chocker full of brilliant anecdote after brilliant anecdote,…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:17:03 +1300

Snap
I have that Arthur Brown LP too...
Incandescent times!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eawL6aJ2nBc

the Christa Paffgen story
I'll be your memoir...
I also just found my copy of the 1992 book Nico – Songs they never play on the radio by her keyboardist James Young, it's yours if ya want it, lemme…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:02:20 +1300

NZ His story...
...people like Keith Sinclair
...who married my cousin Raewyn Dalziel – we don't need need no six degrees of separation in NZ, everyone knows everyone else!
:- )

Samuel Scott

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:45:17 +1300

My Grandad Michael Forlong commissioned Lilburn very early on in his career for this weird film.

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/rhythm-and-movement-1948

Pete

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:36:15 +1300

Really looking forward to that Charli XCX/Simon Le Bon track – Charli has yet to release her best stuff I reckon

Meantime still catching up with some Future Islands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CM0mTqcTRBA

Hilary Stace

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:08:00 +1300

Mental age, like high and low functioning ,have eugenic undertones and are from the age of institutions. But I know what you mean.

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:06:26 +1300

Looking forward to Elbow next Saturday and C W Stoneking (especially after hearing Nick Bollinger's interview with him). An interesting lineup for Womad 2015 too--Richard Thompson in particular. Such bountiful music,!

Richard Hulse

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:00:39 +1300

Back in the 1980s when I started music recording for Radio NZ Concert (or the Concert Programme as it was then) a reasonable amount of Lilburn’s music was being recorded, much of it new.

I recall one time when Margaret Nielsen (with whom he had a long association) was to…

Sacha

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:11:39 +1300

which of Facebook or Google must I unblock for Soundcloud embeds to actually work?

Sacha

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:04:34 +1300

it's either that or admit she is genuinely a more talented human being than most of us.

fine with that

Sacha

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:01:18 +1300

she had, at the age of six (when, according to the story, she was assessed as having “a mental age of 21” on several criteria). Things kind of fall into place when you know that.

Aspies rock

Sacha

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:56:09 +1300

We will post some of the tribute video we have produced for the show as soon as possible after the awards

thank you

BeShakey

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:26:20 +1300

Two shows in Auckland in mid-December. I've seen them a few times and these should be cracking.

Steve Barnes

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:03:01 +1300

Bit more up to date...
Loving this at the moment...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ9IXScip68
Sound a bit like NZ's answer to Dylan, Mike Scorey. Wonder what he is up to now, must find out...

Hilary Stace

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:56:29 +1300

Keith Sinclair was a regular at Turnbull Library events. I remember several of us librarians and historians squashed into someone's little car to go somewhere. I sat next to Keith Sinclair. I remember thinking this will be a good story to tell sometime.

Steve Barnes

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:52:58 +1300

Voices New Zealand Female Choir, with harp and two horns

I guess the Devil is in the detail with a heavenly choir.
Anyhoo.
First record I bought, went halves with my brother.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaHEusBG20c

Followed by this one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ojrruaMYYg&list=ALBTKoXRg38BAr333JSUzqT1hpQ1RjX7XQ
All down hill after that.
;-)

Ant Healey

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:37:02 +1300

I'm really thrilled to read the personal responses to Lilburn's upcoming induction into the NZ Music Hall of Fame.
Researching the story for the awards next week has been fascinating and his is a story so worth telling. We are determined that this particular vehicle for honouring our musical pioneers…

Russell Brown

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:22:42 +1300

I mean, if they're just removing duplicates that are also in the old Film Archive, that's not such a terrible thing.

It might be if it goes from "TVNZ Archive practice" to "Film Archive practice". Under the former, people can basically get what they want if they can pay production…

Russell Brown

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:16:17 +1300

It’s either that or admit she is genuinely a more talented human being than most of us.

Yup.

One of the things I wondered about for a while was whether she’d ever been formally diagnosed as gifted. And then along came Duncan Greive’s Metro story which confirmed that, yes, she…

Bart Janssen

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:08:51 +1300

And yet there are still New Zealanders convinced that she’s just some management puppet.

It's either that or admit she is genuinely a more talented human being than most of us. In a way it's the tall poppy syndrome framed slightly differently. And it's bizarre given how easily we accept…

Russell Brown

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:43:30 +1300

Makes me feel old that I remember Douglas Lilburn very clearly as an active, living person.

I'm delighted that you and others are sharing these memories. It humanises the man and it's lovely.

I've dwelt quite a bit in the past decade on how many of my cultural heroes --…

Gary Elshaw

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:59:50 +1300

Douglas Lilburn was my neighbour in the late 90's until he died in 2001. I'd been a fan of his music for a long time and had no idea he was my neighbour until he became very sick and another neighbour who regularly looked after him told me who he…

Hilary Stace

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:34:51 +1300

Makes me feel old that I remember Douglas Lilburn very clearly as an active, living person. We share some trivia too. The Lilburn House in Ascot Street Thorndon is a lovely modernist house built by Frederic Schwarzkopf who was one of those talented Jewish architectural emigres. It is now Historic…

Russell Brown

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:26:12 +1300

You know what’s cool? The upcoming soundtrack for The Hunger Games 3 that Lorde has curated. Just look at the track list:

Totally! I was going to to feature it but I didn’t have time to do it justice.

How many 17-year-olds do you know roll like this?

None. This…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:18:10 +1300

You know what's cool? The upcoming soundtrack for The Hunger Games 3 that Lorde has curated. Just look at the track list:

1. "Meltdown" – Stromae ft. Lorde, Pusha T, Q-Tip & Haim
2. "Dead Air" – CHVRCHES
3. "Scream My Name" – Tove Lo
4. "Kingdom" – Charli XCX ft.…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:12:40 +1300

Christchurch folk have some live Lilburn coming up next year (not sure if this will be his full on Electronic compositions though):
Christopher’s Classics announce their 2015 season artists:
March: Bonanza Trombone Quartet return with a great new programme.
May: Aroha String Quartet play Haydn, Lilburn & Schubert.
August: Mark Menzies…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:07:23 +1300

Maybe someone needs to approach Nga Taonga Sound and Vision to see if they can supervise the cull?

Isn't that exactly what's happening? The old TVNZ Archive is now under the guardianship of Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, so it's not TVNZ doing the culling, it's Nga Taonga. I'm interested to…

Ken Sparks

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:50:21 +1300

TVNZ archive is about to be gutted, anything considered not worth keeping will be dumped. I can't tell you how I found this out but noises should be made and LOUD ones.

This is quite alarming news. I don't trust TVNZ to do the right thing here. given their attitude…

Ken Double

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:33:23 +1300

Lee Ann Womack’s crystalline version of “Out on the Weekend” is a fitting intro to her terrific, plainspoken, periodically God-bothery new record, The Way I’m Livin’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtcx-zv-ijg

And I’ve given up trying to discern whether there’s a chewy centre to Fazerdaze’s charming earcandy. She’s like a gauzy Frankie Cosmos, if…

Ken Sparks

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:26:15 +1300

I took Douglas Lilburn's electronic music course at his studio at Vic in 1975. There were only a handful of students and lectures mainly consisted of Douglas playing all sorts of fascinating stuff – both his own and what he considered the best from overseas. He also gave us a…

Tim Michie

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:27:32 +1300

And this seems on opportune place to mention These Hopeful Machines and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8MJFrdfGe0

bob daktari

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:58:11 +1300

the Complete Electro-Acoustic Works is a equally wonderful listen – his classical stuff isn't too shabby either (mild understatement)

http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/35542/douglas-lilburn.html?full=1

such a great addition to the Hall Of Fame

Steve Barnes

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:57:49 +1300

This 1970 clip of Lilburn "demonstrating the sounds produced for a modern dance performanceTVNZ archive is about to be gutted, anything considered not worth keeping will be dumped. I can't tell you how I found this out but noises should be made and LOUD ones.

Grant McDougall

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:49:16 +1300

The 1975 three LP box-set prosaically…

bob daktari

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:36:29 +1300

damn that Phil Collins track is good, top share! Liked his take on ACR's Shackup on his soundcloud page too

Now I have something to temper my usual reaction to that mans name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEQ0JCYqquQ

Public Address

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:36:28 +1300

Discussion from blog post.