Well, hell, you could not have written a post more tailored to me, since all I do is write papers and talk about music. I am sending you a paper I wrote on Wagner and masochism; please forgive the wonky formatting, as I wrote it on spec for Cambridge Opera Journal, and they have all kinds of bizarre house style requirements. I hope it is not too music nerd for your project.
Now, as to recommendations: I am going a little bit on faith, since I don't have a very clear sense of what you like in general (if you tell me a little bit about what you like in general, I'll be able to recommend a lot more stuff), but this is wild speculation re: stuff I think you'd like--it's stuff I like, anyway.
1) Do you like minimalism much? Because the classic thing to recommend is Glass's "Einstein On the Beach", and if you don't know that, you should absolutely check it out. Here's a link to the last.fm of the first Knee Play, which is the first thing you hear when you go into the space. It's really beautiful and weird and I love it a lot. Steve
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Kelsey - You are awesome and these recommendations are amazing! And yeah it's true about this post: you write papers about music, for god's sake! Anyway please don't feel sorry about the length of the comment - I really appreciate it and would like for you to go on for pages about this stuff.
Anyway as for what I like - your list actually really fits in with much of what I've been listening to these days. I really like Philip Glass and Steve Reich (they're the only ones on your list that I'm familiar with) and I've been listening to interesting (I think) 20th-century type stuff like Morton Feldman, Olivier Messiaen and Anton Webern. I really want to know more about this kind of thing. I've also been listening to old Folkways type stuff like Elizabeth Cotten, Roscoe Holcomb and Andrew Rowan Summers. But again, I want to know more. I've been starting to listen to old gospel recordings which I love but know basically nothing about. And I love klezmer, especially when it's really melancholy-sounding - there's this group I really like
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This is so exciting, especially because it sounds like we have really similar taste in music, and all of my friends around here are either listening to the same stuff as me already or sick of me giving them CDs. So, based on this, here are a couple more things I bet you'd like:
1) If you don't know it already, the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music is a really great collection of old folk and gospel and blues with some really stellar performances on it
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Kanye West is really amazing. And I can send you some motions to dismiss criminal cases if you're interested. They're not exactly essays, but they're pretty much all I've written - save for livejournal entries - since like 1999.
okay can you show me what one design might look like? for a book? just an idea? also i have been listening to a lot of taiko and kodo drumming recordings. so heart pounding tribal and enthusiastic!
oh i never responded to this! sorry... anyway i haven't actually designed any book covers yet so it's hard for me to say... have you seen those "Great Ideas" paperbacks from Penguin? I love the look of those, though my designs probably won't be as good. did you get my email btw?
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Now, as to recommendations: I am going a little bit on faith, since I don't have a very clear sense of what you like in general (if you tell me a little bit about what you like in general, I'll be able to recommend a lot more stuff), but this is wild speculation re: stuff I think you'd like--it's stuff I like, anyway.
1) Do you like minimalism much? Because the classic thing to recommend is Glass's "Einstein On the Beach", and if you don't know that, you should absolutely check it out. Here's a link to the last.fm of the first Knee Play, which is the first thing you hear when you go into the space. It's really beautiful and weird and I love it a lot. Steve ( ... )
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Anyway as for what I like - your list actually really fits in with much of what I've been listening to these days. I really like Philip Glass and Steve Reich (they're the only ones on your list that I'm familiar with) and I've been listening to interesting (I think) 20th-century type stuff like Morton Feldman, Olivier Messiaen and Anton Webern. I really want to know more about this kind of thing. I've also been listening to old Folkways type stuff like Elizabeth Cotten, Roscoe Holcomb and Andrew Rowan Summers. But again, I want to know more. I've been starting to listen to old gospel recordings which I love but know basically nothing about. And I love klezmer, especially when it's really melancholy-sounding - there's this group I really like ( ... )
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also i have been listening to a lot of taiko and kodo drumming recordings. so heart pounding tribal and enthusiastic!
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