You hum it.
We’ll play it.
Irish-themed songs from the early 1900s churned out by New York’s ‘Tin Pan Alley’ for homesick emigrés.
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Musician Leon Waves explain the largest chord possible in musical theory – Gmaj21x47#45×43#41×39#35#33#31#29#27#25#23#19#15#11 – requiring at least six hands (and possibly a running start) to play.
A whole new track assembled from the soundtrack of ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ (particularly the scene where Miles is singing along to Post Malone and Swae Lee’s ‘Sunflower’) by Jonny ‘Eclectic Method’ Wilson.
Previously: Slick Flick Schtick Mix
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Music journalist Nick Kelly
Meet the Fred Astaire of ‘dancing about architecture’.
Writer Nick Kelly has taken over the long-vacant post of Broadsheet‘s Music Editor overseeing the contemporary recording and live music scene in Ireland and ‘abroad’ and bagsing the good office beanbag chair.
Nick has been a music journalist for 25 years, starting off in Hot Press magazine in the mid-90s, before writing for The Times (UK), Billboard, The Sunday Tribune, The Irish Examiner and most recently as a rock columnist with the Irish Independent.
Nick’s duties will include new acts (details to Nick at broadsheet@broadsheet.ie), administering Bodger’s shots, upcoming concerts and the daily ‘You May Like This strand.
It’ll be free Nick Kelly every day!
Free Nick Kelly.
Suit yourselves.
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Enjoy jazz?
On december 12 at the Vintage Room in The Workman’s Club, Wellington, Quay, Dublin 2.
Aoife Concannon writes:
Improvised Music Company (IMC) wrap up a year of their monthly WAX ON series with a special Christmas edition presenting the music and life stories of the iconic artists of jazz, this time focused on both the popular and obscure Christmas recordings from the jazz canon.
Join Irish Times jazz critic Cormac Larkin and his expert panel for a festive WAX ON listening party in the cosy Vintage Room, listening to some much loved Christmas jazz classics from the likes of Nat King Cole and Ella FitzGerald with panel chats about the stories behind their recordings, as well as some less expected seasonal offerings from Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Dexter Gordon and others.
Any excuse.
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Off The Staff: visualisations of classical music (digitally generated using free music notation software Muse Score and Open Score) by ‘designer, data freak and fractal nut’ Nicholas Rougeux.
Above (from top): The Four Seasons: Winter, Antonio Vivaldi; William Tell Overture, Gioachino Rossini and Flight of the Bumblebee, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
In these circular sweeps, as if laid down by the minute hand of a clock, each instrument is represented by a different colour. Each dot represents a note in the score. Pitch is indicated by the distance from the centre of the image, while the time at which the note occurs is given by the angle from the 12 o’clock position. The size of the dot indicates the duration of the note.
Rougeux (who, rather adorably, can’t read sheet music) adapts the traditional representation of scale, telling MyModernMet:
I did away with that and showed all notes in their natural position on the scale—distance from center—no matter how high (farther) or low (closer) they were. Essentially, while sheet music shows notes from different scales on the same staff, my project shows different staffs on the same scale—hence the name, Off the Staff.