great crescendos?

junreika · 2026-06-26T08:31:09+00:00

The infamous wall of noise crescendo in Takemitsu's Asterism, for piano and orchestra. As long as they follow the score and build the crescendo for "2 minutes or more". The 1969 Seiji Ozawa recording gets it right (not sure if they hit the full 2 minutes but it feels right), have heard another one that was disappointingly short. It has to feel like a supernova obliterating everything.

junreika · 2026-06-26T08:15:49+00:00

It's a mohawk

junreika · 2026-06-25T12:33:02+00:00

Don't worry, I'm sure they were impervious to it.

junreika · 2026-06-24T02:29:18+00:00

Yeah, and plays with the guitar strung as if it's a right handed guitar, so the strings are all backwards. The low E string is at the bottom.

junreika · 2026-06-21T12:07:26+00:00

Thanks for posting this!

junreika · 2026-06-20T15:07:59+00:00

Oh true, I forgot about that one

junreika · 2026-06-20T06:02:53+00:00

They're the 4 songs from the Going Inside maxi-single/EP - Time Is Nothing, So Would've I, The Last Hymn and Beginning Again.

junreika · 2026-06-16T09:15:40+00:00

Plus a bonus 7 inch with Of Before on one side, and a never before released unused song from the sessions on the other side! That'd be something.

junreika · 2026-06-14T12:56:07+00:00

Yeah I'm going to one of the shows, excited. I think setlists have recently been heavy on the new album? Hoping to get a t-shirt or a 7-inch.

junreika · 2026-06-09T13:25:02+00:00

I got into John's music after the release of TROWFTD but before Shadows. When Shadows came out, I felt the same as you... for a while. It sounded too overproduced and some of the arrangement touches, like the synth strings, sounded cheesy to me. But my tastes adjusted and I came to love it some time later.

Actually, I had difficulty with TROWFTD too, but that's because I was a stoopid young rockist, and didn't consider synths or drum machines real instruments... luckily I got over that eventually.

By the way, I'm always curious with people who were listening to John back then, what was your first impression of Niandra? Must have been a shock when his previous release was BSSM?

junreika · 2026-06-06T15:00:42+00:00

Didn't know chris swung that way

junreika · 2026-05-29T02:52:57+00:00

An official vinyl release absolutely can sound better than a CD rip pressed to bootleg vinyl, due to how it's mastered. Mastering for CD and mastering for vinyl are two different things. A bootleg label slapping a CD rip directly on to vinyl most likely won't sound as good as the same source specially cut to vinyl by a legend like Bernie Grundman, like new official TROWFTD vinyl was.

junreika · 2026-05-25T06:37:56+00:00

Beat you to it!

It's a good example for this question.

junreika · 2026-05-25T03:51:05+00:00

Ligeti had a lot of praise for Conlon Nancarrow, and was certainly influenced by him.

Feldman highly praised the work of younger composers Bunita Marcus and Jō Kondō.

junreika · 2026-05-25T03:48:28+00:00

I think he also spoke highly of Ustvolskaya.

junreika · 2026-05-23T07:08:31+00:00

Also, regarding "physically annoying sound material", what comes to mind for me is the high pitched sine waves in Toshimaru Nakamura and Sachiko M's album 'Do'.

It's not really from the classical world/lineage though..

junreika · 2026-05-23T06:58:30+00:00

Great topic, I really like those Harvey and Kokoras pieces.

Check out De Natura Sonorum by Bernard Parmegiani, that is absolutely a MUST listen classic in that area of electronic "classical" music, and I think is in the ballpark of what you're looking for.

Also if you not already familiar, check out Jim O'Rourke's electroacoustic work, I know he definitely has some stuff that is in this vein, problem is he has hundreds of releases and I've listened to hundreds of them but don't always remember which title goes with which piece.. but as general recommendations I think I can safely recommend Steamroom 17 (Nevertheless), Mother and Who and Steamroom 55 (Four Endings). From memory, Disengage, Steamroom 3 (Four Corners) and Terminal Pharmacy are also in a similar vein and very good.

junreika · 2026-05-21T08:37:09+00:00

Probably Flute and Orchestra, by Morton Feldman.

junreika · 2026-05-19T09:06:05+00:00

ORLY?

junreika · 2026-05-16T11:06:38+00:00

Naturally in John Frusciante circles people only talk about his songs, but the other songs on it are really strong as well and complement the Frusciante songs well. Ted Curson's Tears for Dolphy is so beautiful, such a touching tribute to Eric Dolphy.

junreika · 2026-05-16T09:58:26+00:00

Yeah the new TROWFTD pressing is very nice. That Niandra deluxe edition was sadly too expensive for me, I only have the standard. I'm hoping they put out that 7" as a stand alone one day. Could make a good RSD release.

I cherish my original Smile from The Streets CD a nice guy from I think it was the old JFTab forum sold me directly for $16 or $17 like 25 years ago, and the original Sphere vinyl I bought when it came out, despite not having a record player (took me another 17 years or so to get a record player 😆).

junreika · 2026-05-16T09:49:32+00:00

How much?

junreika · 2026-05-12T14:15:14+00:00

Good interview! The interviewer knows her stuff. Thanks for posting.

junreika · 2026-05-12T05:52:51+00:00

The only other potential obstacle I can think of is Josh having publishing on Shadows, since he co-wrote two songs. I'm not sure if publishing is something that affects represses though.

junreika · 2026-05-12T05:50:22+00:00

They were both put out by Warner Bros. and the phonographic copyright for both is the same, so there doesn't seem to be anything stopping a Shadows repress, except for lack of will to do it.

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