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By: Horace Weston’s SF Jig « Soup Greens

Horace Weston’s SF Jig « Soup Greens — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:45:24 +0000

[...] travelogue video using Horace Weston's Old Time Jig for the soundtrack, I especially like the canned Windows Movie Maker transitions from cut to [...]

By: gurdonark

gurdonark — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:58:02 +0000

Today I finished my meetings in time to catch the BART back to SFO and my hotel. I was able to hike on the San Francisco Bay trail in Burlingame. The trail featured American redhead and mallard ducks, coots, seagulls, gray clouds, passing planes, cute dogs being walked, and ice plant flowers, bumblebees, waves on rocks, and distant foggy hills.
I took a lot of pictures. I also took a lot of video with a special camera–a little Chinese 4 megapixel camera I got on eBay for 25 dollars [a sunplus], whose light sensor gives an ethereal effect that Mr. Holga, whomever he may be, would envy.
I brought the video to my room at the Crowne Plaza, downloaded Windows Movie Maker 2.6 into Windows 7 ( which, does not come with the best MS program). I’ve long been a huge fan of your jig, and
made it the soundtrack to “Impressions: San Francisco”. It’s a kind of lo-fi sense of my afternoon:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/46183897@N00/4369844116/

By: gurdonark

gurdonark — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:56:54 +0000

I took a lot of pictures. I also took a lot of video with a special camera–a little Chinese 4 megapixel camera I got on eBay for 25 dollars [a sunplus], whose light sensor gives an ethereal effect that Mr. Holga, whomever he may be, would envy.

I brought the video to my room at the Crowne Plaza, downloaded Windows Movie Maker 2.6 into Windows 7 ( which, does not come with the best MS program). I’ve long been a huge fan of your jig, and
made it the soundtrack to “Impressions: San Francisco”. It’s a kind of lo-fi sense of my afternoon:

By: gurdonark

gurdonark — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:41:08 +0000

I was just reading about Joaquin Rodrigo, the Spanish fellow who composed those concertos which make effective use of classical guitar. The bio related back to this discussion, because apparently he never himself mastered the classical guitar. It’s common in pop, of course, for pop piano songwriters to be poor pianists,
but one would imagine that the classical guitar composer might have a greater challenge, particularly in sorting out the aspirational from the achievable in a particular guitar piece.

Yet it all highlights a form of “cloud computing” that existed long before the computer existed–the conceptual way in which recorded music can be “seen” so that it can be “played” even by those who cannot “play” the music (and, without belaboring the obvious, in Rodrigo’s case, cannot “see” the music literally). I like this music of the mind–the idea that so much of music is not only live performance so much as figuring out a mechanism to get what is in the mind into the ether.

By: Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:24:04 +0000

Having accordion as his personal starting point makes a lot of sense. His ideas don't feel at all like they're about the banjo. Compare to Bauer's concepts, which are pure banjoism, in "Too Utterly Too".

By: gurdonark

gurdonark — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:31:43 +0000

Before I read anything about Horace Weston, I’d have said that the way that he uses the jig form to write
an instrumental line which is so evocative in its own right anticipates jazz, because the instrument has almost a patient, singing quality about it. Then I read his fascinatnig biography at:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Mjbwkgx785IC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=horace+weston&source=bl&ots=t7AYrm9T4o&sig=EtauIXZsFS38l7FbQVWuRCS_w7Y&hl=en&ei=gkAWS7KSNNSztgfetqD7BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBYQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=horace%20weston&f=false

and I say instead that perhaps this is a man who learned the accordion prior to taking up the banjo at age 30, and whose ideas for the banjo were informed by first thinking in other instruments.

By: Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:21:49 +0000

What do you think of the composing, Bob? Any thoughts on what it might say about ol’ Horace Weston?

By: gurdonark

gurdonark — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:04:54 +0000

I keep coming back to this song because it has a cool lilt that I enjoy.

By: Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:34:51 +0000

It’s cool to swap songs as part of meeting. Very music industry in a good way.

Superdogand supersally5 is fun.

By: Perry

Perry — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:23:14 +0000

nice stuff
I enjoyed meeting you at music hack day in boston.