<div dir="ltr"><div>First of all - I am not a fan of the results they achieved by mixing Goulds works with rap-music in Mr Hardings post. </div><div>But it's not like Gould himself was reluctant to use heavy editing, splicing and mixing to achieve his own results.</div><div>He even backs this up in his interview with himself (GG interviews GG about GG)</div><div><br></div><div>"G.G.: All right, I'll give you that, but every listener has a "project at hand", simply in terms of making his experience of music relate to his life-style.</div><div>g.g.: And you're prepared to have similar unauthorized permutations practiced on your own recorded output by listener or listeners unknown?</div><div>G.G.: I should have failed in my purpose otherwise."</div><div><br></div><div>/Kristian</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 1:33 AM, Pat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">pzumst@bluewin.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font size="4">Hi all</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">I would also like to chime in with best wishes for a birthday
that will never be celebrated, alas.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Matthew, don’t get me wrong here but I seriously doubt that
Mr. Gould would be overly fond of The Uninvited Project.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Now I know that they have good intentions. The idea has been
tried before with various degrees of success, Uri Caine and the Goldbergs,
Laibach and Die Kunst der Fuge are good examples of well-meant but spectaular
faliures or the ReComposed series on DG where some of the interpretations work
quite well (Matthew Herbert rearranges Mahler for example)</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Yet taking a few loops from a Gould recording and adding dope
beats and rhymes is not what Mr. Gould had in mind when he envisioned a future
in which the listener would take more control of what we hear and in which
context.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">I reckon Mr Gould has something more mundane in mind that we
all take for granted but unthinkable 50 years ago – The Playlist. Create your
own Symphony X with the first movement from source A, the second from source B
and so on.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Mashing up stuff, letting it collide with other elements,
remixing or rearranging is fine – but when the main source just becomes a
background sample and not the main attraction then you have failed.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Sorry lads, maybe next time. But please do keep trying
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<div><font size="4">Pat</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="matt@ktlgroup.ca" href="mailto:matt@ktlgroup.ca" target="_blank">Matthew Harding</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 26, 2015 6:06 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="f_minor@glenngould.org" href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org" target="_blank">Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn
Gould.</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [f_minor] Bringing sexy back...</div></div></div>
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<div>While we're celebrating Glenn's 83rd… I simply have to link to this - it’s
the best thing I’ve heard in years.</div>
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<div>I’m very sure Glenn would have loved this in his own way:</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKHxtuB-xZo" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKHxtuB-xZo</a></div>
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<div>If you liked that, you’ll love the rest of @goulduninvited (this is my
favourite <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WsRRBQVP74&sns=tw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WsRRBQVP74&sns=tw</a>):
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<div><a href="https://twitter.com/goulduninvited" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/goulduninvited</a></div>
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<div>Rock on Glenn - happy birthday.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Matthew</div>
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