love all of the albums from the " virgin " years .
and the new band members using the TD name are actually pretty dam great sounding .
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It’s Proms season. Tonight I’ve been listening live to one of the most sublime oratorios ever written, Händel’s Saul.
Here on YouTube is John Eliot Gardiner’s performance of the piece.
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sounds nice , but I still picture you dancing around with the flashy led ring thing lol .
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I’m getting a horrible sinking feeling about this. If I clarify that I would not consider anything beyond a solo cantata on a solo instrument, will somebody dig out a rare example of a solo oratorio?
<insert suitably light hearted emoji here>
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I know this tune well! It’s a staple of the stream I’ve been listening to lately. Essenger is in the discord for that stream quite often. It’s kind of a smooth-jazz influenced Synthwave (as opposed to OSC which is more of a smooth-jazz with synthwave elements.)
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OSC? I googled a bit and the most plausible hit was Opus Science Collective. Their track Girls On Bikes is electric funk that makes me nostalgic for the seventies (well, the late nineties actually because that’s when I finally caught up with Parliament and Funkadelic on my list of things I ought to listen to some day.)
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I cant believe i havent shared Tally Hall here. This is one of those bands that i consistently come back to throughout my life. Its one of those bands that have been there for a lot of happy and sad moments in my life. As such, I get that whole “re-experience” kinda feeling of those memories listening to it. 
Highlights / My favorites in order:
30:08 - Spring and a Storm
12:19 - Taken for a Ride
27:01 - Just Apathy
43:26 - 13 / Ruler of Everything
7:08 - Welcome to Tally Hall
22:52 - Banana Man
3:25 - Greener
0:00 - Good Day
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I don’t know whether this BBC link will be viewable everywhere. It’s a video of thereminist Carolina Eyck performing her version of the Doctor Who theme.
-Mod note: edited because of autoplay-
link:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08nnj31
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Seems to work okay in Des Moines today, but it looks like it’s buffering the whole time…
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She has an active YouTube account so I hope it’ll appear there in due course. I don’t get the buffering problems, but maybe the BBC website is set up to serve requests from UK sources preferentially. That would make sense because we pay for the BBC.
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Works fine from my US and UK VPN no buffering. Also, thats some legit theremin playing.
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I think this has been posted already but here it is again .
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https://primeloops.com/blog/blog/post/slug/bizarre-circuit-bending/?utm_campaign=CIRCUIT%20BENT%20(ACTUAL%20SEND)%20(TyTXSW)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Competition%3A%20The%20Gaslamp%20Killer%20Tickets%2C%20&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJkZXZpY2V4NjJAeWFob28uY29tIiwgImtsX2NvbXBhbnlfaWQiOiAiUHhOVm5oIn0%3D
found Sam and the furby organ in a Prime Loops article on circuit bending down towards the bottom if you want to check it out .
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To be absolutely plain, you cannot get all those sounds at one time from a solo theremin. I think somewhere I read that part of the sound is from digitised samples of her old Bob Moog “Big Briar” theremin, which is a rough contemporary of the long running Doctor Who. The theremin she’s seen playing here is her Moog Etherwave Pro, which I think has the most striking looks of all theremins. Most of them look like oblong boxes mounted on a tripod or microphone stand as an afterthought, whereas the Pro looks as if it was designed for its purpose.
The melodramatic hand gestures Eyck uses in the video, particularly of the right hand which controls the pitch, are according to a system of playing she developed herself and has successfully taught. The right hand divides the octave up and can find any note simply by adapting the precise position of the part of the hand closest to the pitch antenna, which is largely a matter of altering the shape of the hand while keeping the wrist in a fixed position. The left hand movement controls the volume and the gestures used here are more free, by swoops and pecks expressing the dynamics of the piece.
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2020 be like:
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