What Ever Happened to George Gurdjieff’s Music???

March 14, 2012Uncategorizedapostolic, arabic, armenian, folk, georgeivanovitch, gomidas, greece, gurdjieff, komitas, lucine, Music, russia, terceman, tercemann, tribal, vartabed, vertabed, zakariangorebagg

To be fair, not all Gurdjieff’s music was from Gomidas. Actually a number of them were reconstructed from memory and were Arabic and tribal songs from the Caucasus and general region of Greece and Armenia, from which Gurdjieff had come when he arrived in Russia. Here is a very good example of what Gurdjieff could not present to his dance students in France, but which we can construct today from what little remains of the cultures he encountered back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Well, first off, a good deal of Gurdjieff’s Sacred Music wasn’t Gurdjieff’s music in the first place; Continue reading →

Hapi Hour with EJ Gold

March 11, 2012Uncategorizedbarbershop, demo, drum, drumming, drums, ejgold, hapi, instructable, instructible, radio, show, steeltongue, tag, tags, theater, theatre, tutorialgorebagg

Tune in for the Hapi Hour with EJ Gold on http://www.justin.tv/gorebaggtv/ where I’ll be using the Hapi and from time to time filming tutorials — can’t quite bring myself to use the term “instructible” or “instructable” — they’re wrongly constructed terms. Watch the ICW this morning for demos and more about the two shows…oh, did I not mention “Gorebagg’s Tags”??? It’s a show where I demo how to construct barbershop quartet “tags” and much, much more. Tune in to both shows every day. Follow me on twitter and facebook for the latest info on shows, because they’re at odd times until I can settle into a routine with them, if that’s even possible.

http://youtu.be/xo7iRIbA7xA

Pagagnini — Something You’d Not Likely Find On Your Own

March 7, 2012Uncategorizedmagical, master, pagagnini, quartet, string, tradition, violin, violinist, wildgorebagg

Here’s a magical quartet calling itself “Pagagnini” after the wild and crazy violin master himself; they dance, play and carry on in the wild tradition, with wildly funny results.

Music Rights — new information

March 4, 2012Uncategorizedgorebagg

Okay, here’s the no-bullshit rundown on music rights:

Rumblefish tracks your REGISTERED output that they have issued toward the downstream marketing outlets both online and brick & mortar, if any remain.

Your song is tracked by YOUR WAVEFORMS, not by codes or numbers. That means that any “cover” of your song will NOT be monetized for you unless the covering artist is legit and registers their song as a cover of your song, but that’s another story and it gets really messy to try to force others to respect your song rights.

Here’s the best you can do at the moment Continue reading →

Moksha & the Saw of Damocles

March 3, 2012Uncategorizedcountry, eastern, gladyshulot, household, hudost, instrument, moksha, musical, orchestra, saw, sciemusical, tenor, theramin, theremin, tomfinkgorebagg

http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv44/gritpr/moksha-1.jpg

Thanks to someone who gave me a wonderful birthday gift, which I will soon replace with another just like it, Moksha, of the amazing “Country Eastern” musical experience, Hu Dost — which is currently on tour — now has an official musicalsaw.com tenor musical saw to add to their List of Mystical Inventory. Here’s an example of a musical saw used in a highly technical manner:

Back in 1949, I heard my music teacher at Camp Woodland, Grant Rogers, play the musical saw; then Joe Hickerson played it, after which Joanna Cazden, Louise deCormier and, as I remember it, Happy Traum or Geoff Kaufman tried it.

Well, heck-darn, I asked for, and got, a musical saw for my 70th birthday last December 27th.

When I first encountered the musical saw it was immediately post-war, World War II (which is the Roman numeral “II”, not the Arabic numerals which we use today, as in “World War Eleven”, as some kids insist on calling it) when instruments made of steel were almost unobtainable, and was amazed at how much like the newly invented Electronic Theramin it sounded. Here are some stunning examples: Continue reading →

Multitracking your voice in the 21st century

March 2, 2012Uncategorizedacapella, appetite, barbershop, cellphone, daniscool, dannyfong, html5, julienneel, monetize, Music, playlist, sgtsonny, sing, song, sonnyvandeputte, technology, tinpanalley, tracks, trudbol, video, virtual, virtualbeck, vocal, youtubegorebagg

How to use all this new cellphone, video and html5 technology? No sweat; here’s one suggestion…video yourself as a choir, adding ALL the parts into the whole, one by one. The conclusion I came to is that this very talented kid has a hell of a lot of time on his hands. I spend more than 5 minutes making a Tin-Pan Alley Hit on youtube and I feel like I’ve failed. Enjoy. He’s really quite exceptional. I hope he monetizes the hell out of his efforts!

Here’s more to tantalize and whet the appetite for multitrack a capella vocals… Continue reading →

Great Jazz Group Disguised as Rockers

March 1, 2012Uncategorizedfolk, jackiemcshee, jazz, johnrenbourne, Music, pentangle, rockgorebagg

Yep, you guessed it; hadda be Pentangle.

But that’s not always what Pentangle sounded like. Continue reading →

Holy Modal Rounders

February 29, 2012Uncategorizedfolk, gerde's, greenwichvillage, holymodal, morayeels, Music, peterstampfel, seductions, shop, slavery, unionizedgorebagg

Remember Peter and Antonia Stampfel and the Holy Modal Rounders? Probably not, but if you saw them on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In in 1968, they looked like this:

http://youtu.be/vkjJs5gKtFs

A few weeks later, Continue reading →

What Ever Became of Gayle McCormick???

February 29, 2012Uncategorizedband, bread, cover, easyrider, guitar, mamasandthepapas, mccormick, Music, original, piano, rock, smith, vocals, weightgorebagg

http://youtu.be/O6atUODsWGs

Gayle was stunningly drop-dead gorgeous, bursting with positive energy and expansiveness that enabled her to become one of the biggest stars of the Los Angeles rock scene — but then, suddenly, bam! She dropped out of sight, leaving a legacy with “Smith” and a few indie singles that made the charts to #44, not an impressive showing. What the heck-darn happened to her, anyway? Continue reading →

Problems in World-Making

February 27, 2012Uncategorizedcostume, development, fred, game, igotrhythm, juniorjiffy, post, worldgorebagg

I thought you might like to listen to comedy barbershop quartet Fred sing I Got Rhythm — which they sing in strange non-rhythm — while you’re reading this post.

This is a post for my Junior-Jiffy World-Maker students, but anyone can learn from it:

Most of the problems for game-makers almost always is one of three possible go-wrongs:

1. Failure to follow directions by the numbers — by far the most common problem. See Calculus to cure this illness of jumping ahead of yourself.

2. Failure to follow directions precisely, meaning it’s an Attention Problem; some folks dress their attention up in spectacular costumery, not realizing that they have nowhere to go.

3. Failure to follow directions at all, meaning that they wanted to do it differently and THEREFORE better.

Do try to remember that running ahead of the PoG makes you vulnverable and generally means someone else has to go back to where you fell into a pile of crap and dig you out. Don’t be a hero. You’ve waited this long to learn how to make a world, surely it will wait a day or two. This whole universe took less than a weekend, and with a little practice, you can do it, too!