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Musician Alex Temple joins the show again
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Notes from the interview
Last time: http://www.musicmanumit.com/2014/09/alex-temple-140901-music-manumit-podcast.html
Fish!
Early 2013.
Auston from Spektral Quartet
Didn’t work out in 2013 with Julia but performed by a flutist with a Tool cover band
Informal singing styles are good in certain circumstances. Classical music training is still good. Post-punk and jazz may not be written, but also have tricky rhythms
Album-length with Julia...studio album eventually should happen (in theory). Live recordings are online, but not CC.
Austin left Spektral, so they need a new violinist.
Still in Chicago.
Why don’t say “interesting”?
Interesting is a catch-all of sorts. Other words are more precise. 13 years ago!
Hail to the Thief.
“It would be surprising if this was the new Radiohead” is more precise than “It would be interesting if this was the new Radiohead”
Talking through the sheet? Sexy > interesting.
“Nice” and “fine” are other words
“Um” and “like” are not vague in the same way.
Theory and ear training?
Northwestern grad students have some say, but not a lot over what they teach
Aural skills, is not exactly ear training. Sight
Tom’s son is a singer in a band (knows piano and guitar)
Learning by doing works by people
http://www.singingwood.com/tone-deaf/ ← maybe the article
Behind The Wallpaper was a year and a half ago. No performance in Behind The Wallpaper.
http://www.alextemplemusic.com/2015/09/insides/
Insides is multimedia performance art. Katie Doyle is a ceramicist (I guess that is a word?)
Drinking milk.
Insides was performed 3 times at 3 venues. Sept, Feb, Mar.
Blindfolded
Retro dress...think 1955. Blindfolds come off.
Amps are hooked to “scopes” which were single headphones...set up as
At the person switch, mood switches as
Improv comedy person imitated scope noises
Huge variety of moods. Somber, playful, and depended on performance.
Plants in the audience to know when it is over
#wreckage
“Wreckage of kittens“
#ThisIsEntireSentenceHashtagForExample
Deirdre Harrison: http://ragdale.org/residency/resident/deirdre-harrison/
David Tutor premiered 4’33’’ in 1952: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3
Conspiracy theory about natural tuning
440 American (Japanese might be hire)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche
Videos of performances? No video of Insides, because it would leave out blindfold.
Behind The Wallpaper was videoed in Chicago
John Waters smellivision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision
Anything else you want to tell us about?
Ann Arbor: Women Composers. Some sort of benefit. A minute-long piece! No words in this particular
Bowling Green
Theatrical piece
Closing track: This Changes Everything (sax version) CC BY-NC-SA
Electronic version was written in 2005. It was written for two Rachel’s playing cello. Cello duo piece wasn’t working. Oingo Boingo lead to syn, but doesn’t sound like Oingo Boingo.
Is there anything but a little bit of minimalism?
Difficult rhythmic piece.
