The World
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The World’s Ken Bader tells us about a travelin’ man named Ottmar Liebert.
Thursday
Started to mix three unreleased pieces from the archive yesterday, but was suddenly overcome by a cold or something. Could not do much today, even spent some of the afternoon in bed.
Art
(Via the music of sound)
Good old Ludwig did not say “Music is the electrical soil in which I live, think and invent…”
I find that this excellent TED Talk is related and mentioned it in the Diary before. Who creates works of art? (((Ha! And who is reading these lines on the screen…))) Humans have wondered about this for thousands of years. The Romans maintained that creativity came from Genius and that Genius was thought to be a separate entity that helped and inspired the human artist. It was only relatively recently that we started calling a great artist Genius – earlier they “had a Genius”.
Sound Advice 041
(Via the music of sound)
Unreleased
Here is an example of the music available at Ottmar-Friends:
(Subscribers receive a link to download a high-quality 320 kbps mp3 of this track.)
This is a unreleased and unnamed bossa from 1993. It was recorded during the sessions for The Hours Between Night + Day in Santa Barbara, California. I have no notes from the sessions, but it sounds like the musicians were:
OL – guitars
Jon Gagan – upright Bass, synthesizer + piano (listen for the unison between upright bass and piano about two thirds into the piece)
Davo Bryant – kick drum + dumbek
Mark Clark – percussion effects
Osamu Kitajima – koto
