Sunday, October 6, 2013

Circket Song — Slowed Down

Further evidence of infinite possibilities for astonishment:
And then Loreen McKennit — did she know when she wrote this that she was playing cricket music?
 (Many thanks to my friend Cz. for turning me on to the crickets!)

Just now while I was listening to the McKennit piece, I opened the cricket piece at the same time (to copy the URL to email to a friend), and they played simultaneously. Curious — all day yesterday I was ruminating on the notion of "audio collages", that is, producing a single piece of music that layers  tracks from different musical eras one on top of the other, fading in and out to create an entirely new sound.  Of course I completely lack — at the most basic level — the know-how and technology to even begin to tinker with something like this. But then, there it was, a fortuitous accident, and it wasn't a pairing that I could have even conceived of yesterday.

O glorious glorious!

This morning I'm singing praise for what is, and for the windows (ha! I first typed widows) and doors that have slid open to allow these cracks of light to shine through.

And of course, Leonard Cohen had it right —
there is a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in.

3 comments:

  1. "Anthem" is one of my favorite songs of his. You can see a FABULOUS version of it on YouTube if you search for Perla Batalla. She was one of his long-time back-up singers until he encouraged her to strike out on her own.

    I'll have to get to the videos later - I'm having very slow moving internet today - grrrrrr.

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    1. During tonight's facebook Cohenathon, I must've listened to Anthem 6 times. What a great song.

      Please do come back for these videos....you won't be disappointed.

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  2. Coinkydink? FIrst song that played on my ipod this morning? Anthem with Julie Christiansen and Perla Batalla. Totally random. I love how the universe works. Sometimes.

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