From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #303 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, November 14 2006 Volume 12 : Number 303 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Observer Music Monthly's "Gay Issue" [adamk@zoom.co.uk] OT: Abra Moore ["Lucinda Clairemont" ] Re: OT: Abra Moore [Chris Morriss ] Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" ["Kim Justice" ] Re: Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" [alan ] Re: Observer Music Monthly's "Gay Issue" [birdie ] Re: Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" [meredith ] interesting article about hit-prediction software ["Karen Hester" ] interesting article about hit-prediction software [Steve VanDevender Subject: OT: Abra Moore Would anyone be able to send me MP3s of "Your Faithful Friend" and "I Do"? I am away from home, without my CDs, and would be grateful! :) Lu. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:46:42 +0000 From: Chris Morriss Subject: Re: OT: Abra Moore In message <99b435790611130723l6c5d616dhadf0c8e8f2cfcdca@mail.gmail.com>, Lucinda Clairemont writes >Would anyone be able to send me MP3s of "Your Faithful Friend" and "I Do"? >I am away from home, without my CDs, and would be grateful! :) > >Lu. I've only heard of her from the track on the 'Lilith fair' CD. (Four Leaf Clover). I'm very taken with that track but know nothing more of her. Any advice regarding what to listen to? Thanks, - -- Chris Morriss ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:09:49 -0600 From: "Kim Justice" Subject: Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" My workplace subscribes to brand-name Muzak (http://www.muzak.com/) with a couple of dozen flavors on tap. I was shocked today to hear KT on the ceiling speakers. Very weird. kj - -- Kim Justice justicekw@gmail.com "There can always be new beginnings -- even for people like us." - -- Susan Ivanova ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:16:37 -0800 (PST) From: alan Subject: Re: Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Kim Justice wrote: > My workplace subscribes to brand-name Muzak (http://www.muzak.com/) > with a couple of dozen flavors on tap. I was shocked today to hear KT > on the ceiling speakers. Very weird. I heard that as well. Very weird. (Though not quite as weird as hearing an instramental version of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" in a grocery store.) - -- Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? A: Because OCT 31 == DEC 25 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:41:55 -0800 From: birdie Subject: Re: Observer Music Monthly's "Gay Issue" Adam, Thanks so much for this. I completely agree with you. I've noticed that the media in general in the UK has taken a slide in quality....maybe it's a Murdoch invasion...but...even shows like The South Bank Show - which were once good now can come off like some tabloid dreck... It seems like all the good reading/viewing has moved to the internet! Birdie adamk@zoom.co.uk wrote: >I've never been a huge fan of this little insert to my Sunday papers: I feel >it embodies everything that's wrong with music criticism in its glibness and >short-term memory. This month they produced a special "Gay Issue". I'm not >happy with the ghetto-isation to begin with (what next? A Jewish issue?), but >inside they seem to equate "gay" with either "glam" or "camp". All the usual >suspects: Joe Meek, Brian Epstein, Elton & Jake Shears (the latter two in >conversation)and KD Lang gets a nod, but I thought it was a typically bone- >headed, wasted opportunity. I know, as a straight man I've little right to >cavil, but I was kind of hoping that it would be of a little wider scope than >it turned out. Indigo Girls? Janis Ian? Nope, no mention. A very Brit- >centric view also saw Melissa Ferrick, Ferron, Phranc and Ani DiFranco also >being ignored. When I was a student at NYU, the budding lesbians around me >listened fervently to Cris Williamson and Holly Near, but they'd need a higher >profile to make it into this article. That or a journalist who actually knew >what they were talking about and wanted to write a serious article. > >Any other UK ectos read this? Am I being totally unreasonable? Partly >unreasonable? > >Adam K. > >----------------------------------------------- >This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:45:18 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" Hi, Kim Justice wrote: > My workplace subscribes to brand-name Muzak (http://www.muzak.com/) > with a couple of dozen flavors on tap. I was shocked today to hear KT > on the ceiling speakers. Very weird. Was it the actual version, or a Moo-sick version? For your sake, I hope it was the former!! - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:13:44 +1300 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: interesting article about hit-prediction software http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,1943382,00.html Discusses many interesting things, such as why we may like some music that sounds (on the surface) very dissimilar to our usual preferences, and a parallel universe experiment in which different songs become hits. Sample paragraph: The result, which Sulzer titled Most Wanted Song, is a monstrosity. But it's a horribly familiar-sounding one, like a collaboration between Celine Dion, Kenny G and the world's worst elevator-music composers. It feels as if you've heard it a thousand times, in shopping centres or in taxis, or while trying to find a radio station. "Every day I think of love/I thank the angels up above," a female voice warbles over a backing of electric piano and twiddly alto sax. "They sent you into my world/Baby let me be your girl ..." (Sulzer also composed a B-side, Most Unwanted Song, using the same data to create a track he predicted would be liked by fewer than 200 members of the world population. It features abrupt changes of tempo, a soprano rapping about cowboys and plenty of bagpipes.) Karen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:17:53 -0600 From: "Southpaw" Subject: RE: OT: Abra Moore I'm a pretty big Abra Moore fan. I'd recommend checking out her 1997 release "Strangest Places" Wade - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Chris Morriss Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 1:47 PM To: fte@smoe.org; ecto@smoe.org Cc: fte@smoe.org; ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: OT: Abra Moore In message <99b435790611130723l6c5d616dhadf0c8e8f2cfcdca@mail.gmail.com>, Lucinda Clairemont writes >Would anyone be able to send me MP3s of "Your Faithful Friend" and "I Do"? >I am away from home, without my CDs, and would be grateful! :) > >Lu. I've only heard of her from the track on the 'Lilith fair' CD. (Four Leaf Clover). I'm very taken with that track but know nothing more of her. Any advice regarding what to listen to? Thanks, - -- Chris Morriss ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:45:30 -0800 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: interesting article about hit-prediction software Karen Hester writes: > (Sulzer also composed a B-side, Most Unwanted Song, using the same data > to create a track he predicted would be liked by fewer than 200 members of > the world population. It features abrupt changes of tempo, a soprano rapping > about cowboys and plenty of bagpipes.) Wow. That sounds really Ecto. Like Throwing Muses with bagpipes. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:40:28 -0800 From: Troy J Shadbolt Subject: Re: Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" a little left of this; but the Starz! network is using "How to be Invisible" in there promotional slots between movies and have been for about 2 months now. Nearly knocked me over when I heard it. On Nov 13, 2006, at 2:45 PM, meredith wrote: > Hi, > > Kim Justice wrote: >> My workplace subscribes to brand-name Muzak (http://www.muzak.com/) >> with a couple of dozen flavors on tap. I was shocked today to hear KT >> on the ceiling speakers. Very weird. > > Was it the actual version, or a Moo-sick version? > > For your sake, I hope it was the former!! > > > -- > =============================================== > Meredith Tarr > New Haven, CT USA > mailto:meth@smoe.org > http://www.smoe.org/meth > =============================================== > hear at the HOMe House Concert Series > http://hom.smoe.org > =============================================== > > - --- troy j shadbolt www.voyuz.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:45:12 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: interesting article about hit-prediction software That's a really fascinating article. It'd be interesting to know where some of ecto music fits into that pardigm. neal . At 3:13 PM +1300 11/14/06, Karen Hester wrote: >http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,1943382,00.html > >Discusses many interesting things, such as why we may like some music that >sounds (on the surface) very dissimilar to our usual preferences, and a >parallel universe experiment in which different songs become hits. > >Sample paragraph: > >The result, which Sulzer titled Most Wanted Song, is a monstrosity. But it's >a horribly familiar-sounding one, like a collaboration between Celine Dion, >Kenny G and the world's worst elevator-music composers. It feels as if >you've heard it a thousand times, in shopping centres or in taxis, or while >trying to find a radio station. "Every day I think of love/I thank the >angels up above," a female voice warbles over a backing of electric piano >and twiddly alto sax. "They sent you into my world/Baby let me be your girl >..." (Sulzer also composed a B-side, Most Unwanted Song, using the same data >to create a track he predicted would be liked by fewer than 200 members of >the world population. It features abrupt changes of tempo, a soprano rapping >about cowboys and plenty of bagpipes.) > >Karen ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #303 ***************************