Learning Music - LMM 3.3 - KippLA

Learning Music - LMM 3.3 - KippLA
Label: Community Pool Tapes, Learning Music
Catalog#: cpt028
Format: 11 x File, MP3, 320 kbps
Country: US
Released: 04 Jul 2010
Genre: Electronic, Pop, Rock
Style: Experimental
artwork by Andy Hahn :: KIPP LA

This edition of LMM is a collaboration between myself and a group of middle school music students, many of whom started playing music only recently, under the direction of their instructor Jason Golday (author of LMM 1.8 - Burning Music). The process was a fairly simple one: Over the last academic year, the students have been writing pieces of music together, using what pitches they know (between five and seven different ones) on the available instruments (drums, glockenspiels, and recorders). Jason recorded these pieces and sent them to me. I manipulated them in various ways, adding voice and a few other sounds, paying close attention to the environmental elements of the recordings I had been given. In some cases, the sound of the space in which these pieces were initially performed is almost as important as the actual musical notes.

It was Jason's idea to attempt this. I have to give him a big thanks for suggesting it. He heard early on the mesmerizing compositions his students were writing, and knew they were worth doing something more with. Once I started working on it, I too realized how strong and unique their musical concepts were. Really, the album was done before I ever got to it. I'm really happy with how it all turned out.

Tracklisting:

1. Countoff • mp3
2. du Look • mp3
3. Again • mp3
4. Things To Bring On An Extended Journey • mp3
5. There's A Whale In That Mallet! • mp3
6. People Back Hear We Go • mp3
7. Acceleration of the Space In Between the Notes with Coda • mp3
8. An Absurdist Dream I'll Blame On Someone • mp3
9. Who Did This? • mp3
10. Okay Oak A Oh Kae • mp3
11. Orygun • mp3

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Learning Music - LMM 3.2 - Neapolitan Shake

Learning Music - LMM 3.2 - Neapolitan Shake
Label: Community Pool Tapes, Learning Music
Catalog#: cpt027
Format: CDr, Album, MP3 320 kbps
Country: US
Released: June 2010
Genre: Electronic, Pop, Rock
Style: Pop, Experimental
all songs written and recorded by John Wood, April 2010
artwork by Sharon Gong :: flickr

Here are three EP-length suites. The Big Sell EP is music written to accompany imaginary television commercials. The lyrical themes are derived from the three song topics supposedly most requested by advertisers looking for songs to place in commercials: "Thinking Ahead," "Brand New Day," and "Things Are Getting Better."

The three pieces that make up The Way of A. O. K. each conceptually combine a sound found in modern life (an ATM, a turn signal, a baseball stadium) with a short quote from Lao Tzu's Toa Te Ching. The keyboard sounds are meditations recorded at half speed, giving upon (faster) playback a broader perspective of their combined revelations. This music is unashamedly inspired by the sounds of Terry Riley's Rainbow in Curved Air.

The Ghost Transferences are stream of consciousness pop rants sung in part by channelled spirits, addressing topics of identity crisis and the random hauntings of modern memory.

Thanks for listening. Love, jw 

Tracklisting:
• Walk Like You're Brand New • mp3
• It'll Work This Time • mp3
• Your Lucky Day • mp3
• Don't Worry • mp3
•• Great Eloquence Seems Awkward (at the ATM) • mp3
•• Influential Yet Important Cannot Endure (a left turn) • mp3
•• When Good Is Abstracted (at the game) • mp3
••• Allegiances • mp3
••• Ghost Transference • mp3
••• Little Conversation • mp3
••• A Brief Aside • mp3

• The Big Sell EP
•• The Way of A.O.K.
••• Ghost Transference

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