Sunday, January 25, 2015

If anything

You know that thing Yogi Berra said? "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." If you want to see that principle at work, go to any Stop & Shop - really any supermarket - in Rhode Island anytime in the ten days before a Super Bowl the Patriots are playing in. The prospect of deflated balls doesn't seem to make a difference. I made an emergency cucumber run there tonight and wound up getting celery instead, but man, the lines!

But anyway, this is a video I semi-randomly clicked on tonight. The piece was composed by Conlon Noncarrow, which means that the pianist is most likely playing a melody that was originally intended for player piano. Hats off to her.

2 comments:

semiconscious said...

speaking of which, we're off to do our pre-blizzard shopping shortly (yogi's response on being told by his wife that she'd taken the kids to see 'dr. zhivaro': 'why, what's wrong with them?')...

well remember stumbling across the cd version of this band's 'music for airports' cover (now freely available here. really like it, tho i find that, most of the time, a little 'avant garde' goes a long way for me. more fun to perform (i once played eugene chadbourne's electric rake) than listen to?...

Ben said...

Don't know if Berra had heard of the Japanese term "wabi sabi" but he understood it, hence his statement, "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."

There's video of them playing Music for Airports in the middle of an actual airport, in Dusseldorf.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g1Ezvfh7po Kinda nice. The definition of avant garde music is pretty broad. And yes, some of it does put up kind of a barrier.