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As any regular reader of this blog must know, I've taken a summer break from blogging about music. I can only deal with one art form at a time, or so it seems. My main focus for the past number of months has been photography. Not music.
But this is about to change.
Today I made a visit to the Other Minds office in San Francisco, mainly to have lunch with our director, Charles Amirkhanian and to talk about events for the coming year.
And to clean out my mailbox. I haven't checked the incoming cd's in many months. And there was quite a stash of new recordings waiting for me.
So this evening I've been listening to a bunch of new recordings from Cantaloupe Music in NY.
Actually, it's been pretty quiet around here this summer. After an intense winter and spring, I decided turn off the music while I exercised my visual cortex instead. And this has been rather good. I still have the habit of starting each Sunday with something by Bach or Vivaldi, something I started over 30 years ago. But other than that the CD player has been underutilized, the internet radio player gone silent, and I've been spending time sitting on the porch not listening to anything in particular.
It's been a summer of letting the ears go fallow. But in its place I've been spending a lot of time looking at things ... looking at photographs and photography blogs. Trying to determine what makes a good photograph. Not sure if I've come to any conclusions so far. But I think I now know where I stand.
So it's back to music. My weekly radio program, Music From Other Minds, has been on reruns all summer. The first new program of the season, #115, is September 7th. The pressure is back on, so I'll probably get a couple of shows done in advance.
Lots to choose from in this stack of CDs. The first one I sampled tonight was a recent Cantaloupe release by Evan Ziporyn. It's called Frog's Eyes, and I urge everyone to buy this recording. Four pieces for large ensemble, performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. The recorded sound is quite spectacular, and the music is riviting. You'll be hearing a lot from this CD on Music from Other Minds! Congratulations, Evan.!
Now I can get started cranking out more programs.
By the way, see the recognition we got on another blog, Bob Shingleton's On An Overgrown Path. And he mentions Other Minds in this video.
Stay tuned.
