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    Music

    The Next Track

    Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.

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    Latest Episodes:
    Episode #197 - I'm Not an Audiophile, But... Nov 25, 2020
    Show notes

    A comment by a tech reviewer incited us to discuss who is qualified to pass judgment on the audio quality of devices. We discuss this with our favorite audiophile, Chris Connaker.

    Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks!

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    Guest:

    • Chris Connaker
    • Chris Connaker on The Next Track

    Show notes:

    • Apple HomePod mini Review: Siri in a Compact Speaker (Kirk's review)
    • A New Listening Room Part One
    • A New Listening Room Part Two: Acoustics, Speakers, DSP
    • The Next Track: Episode 167, Tuning the Perfect Music Listening Room
    • Apple HomePod Review - An Audiophile Perspective
    • Can a Good Soundbar Rival a True Surround-Sound System in a Blind Listening Test? (Wirecutter)
    • Amazon Music HD Is Still Lossy
    • Episode #159 - Has Lossless and High-Resolution Audio Finally Come to the Masses?
    • Josh.ai

    Our next tracks:

    • Brian Eno: Film Music 1976 - 2020
    • Spooky Tooth: Spooky Two

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    Special Guest: Chris Connaker.

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    Episode #196 - Really Don't Mind if You Sit This One Out Nov 11, 2020
    Show notes

    Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick is arguably the best progressive rock concept album of all time. Doug and Kirk have long been fans of this record, and discuss the genesis of the recording and the music, which still stands, nearly 50 years after its release, as one of the great albums of all time.

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    Show notes:

    • Episode #191 - Exile on Monday
    • Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
    • Thick as a Brick (Wikipedia)
    • Thick as a Brick - live in London, 1977
    • Thick as a Brick newspaper
    • Thick as a Brick lyrics

    Our next tracks:

    • The Eagles: Live
    • The Who: Quadrophenia

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    Episode #195 - Timo Andres: Making Home Videos and the Creative Process Oct 28, 2020
    Show notes

    We last spoke with composer and pianist Timo Andres early in the lockdown, after he made a series of videos for a recital program that had been cancelled at Carnegie Hall. Over the past few months, Andres has refined the art of filming himself at the piano, and uses both audio and video recording as part of his creative process.

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    Guest:

    • Timo Andres
    • Timo Andres' YouTube channel

    Show notes:

    • Episode #183 - Composer and Pianist Timo Andres on Concertizing at Home
    • Alex Ross: I hate "classical music."
    • Timo Andres: How can I live in your world of ideas?
    • IRCAM (Wikipedia)
    • Timo Andres: Debussy — Reflets dans l’eau / Ellington — Reflections in D
    • ORTF stereo technique (Wikipedia)
    • Adam Abeshouse
    • I Still Play
    • Sony RX100 VII
    • Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
    • Davinci Resolve
    • MKBHD (Marques Brownlee)
    • Score follower video: Stravinsky — Symphonies of Wind Instruments — piano transcription by Timo Andres
    • The Orchestra - iPad app

    Our next tracks:

    • John Dowland: Complete Lute Works, Paul O'Dette
    • Young-Holt Unlimited : The Definitive Young-Holt Unlimited

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    Special Guest: Timo Andres.

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    Episode #194 - Pianist Simone Dinnerstein Oct 14, 2020
    Show notes

    Pianist Simone Dinnerstein used the lockdown to record an album of music by Philip Glass and Franz Schubert. We discuss how she built her career, how she recorded this album, and talk about Schubert's wonderful last piano sonata.

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    Guest:

    • Simone Dinnerstein

    Show notes:

    • A Character of Quiet
    • Paapa Essiedu in Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company
    • Photo of Simone Dinnerstein playing for Philip Glass
    • Circles: Glass Piano Concerto No. 3, and Bach Keyboard Concerto in G Minor

    Our next tracks:

    • Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1984)
    • Led Zeppelin: Physical Grafitti (Deluxe Edition)

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    Episode #193 - Is Stereo Wrong? Sep 30, 2020
    Show notes

    Is stereo the right way to listen to music? After all, it is an artificial attempt to reproduce the sound of live music. Perhaps we should revolt against the tyranny of the sweet spot.

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    Show notes:

    • Grateful Dead June 1976 box set
    • Bob and Ray Throw a Stereo Spectacular
    • How To: Position Desktop Speakers
    • BOSE 201 Bookshelf Speakers
    • KEF Q350 speakers
    • Two ears - two loudspeakers?
    • KEF LS50 Meta speakers
    • Chris Connaker: A New Listening Room Part Two: Acoustics, Speakers, DSP
    • Sonos Arc
    • Q Acoustics 3020i Bookshelf Speakers
    • Episode #178 - Lieder and Opera Singer Ian Bostridge

    Our next tracks:

    • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Complete Schubert Lieder
    • Morphine: Cure for Pain

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    Episode #192 - The Same as It Ever Was Sep 16, 2020
    Show notes

    Following our discussion of CDs in episode #190, we continue our discussion about these plastic discs, mainly because Doug bought some new audio gear and is now CD-obsessed.

    Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks!

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    Show notes:

    • Episode #190 - Nostalgic about CDs
    • Elizabethtown
    • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    • Wendy Brooke on Twitter @ProgRockers
    • The story of the Grateful Dead Europe 72' release
    • The Cure: Faith (Cassette release)
    • A Certain Ratio: The Graveyard and the Ballroom (Wikipedia)

    Our next tracks:

    • A Certain Ratio: acr:set
    • The Flock: Dinosaur Swamps

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    Episode #191 - Exile on Monday Sep 02, 2020
    Show notes

    We begin an irregular series of key albums that stand out in the history of music. For our first foray into this type of discussion, we talk about The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street.

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    Show notes:

    • The Renaissance Men of Music
    • Exile on Main Street
    • Exile on Main Street (Wikipedia)
    • Stones in Exile (Wikipedia)
    • Robert Frank: The Americans
    • Exile on Main Street review, Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone
    • Side Splitter (AppleScript)

    Our next tracks:

    • Brian Eno & Jah Wobble: Spinner Brian Eno & John Cale: Wrong Way Up
    • Phil Manzanera: Diamond Head

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    Episode #190 - Nostalgic about CDs Aug 19, 2020
    Show notes

    We wax nostalgic about CDs, those plastic (and partly metal) discs that changed the music industry starting in the mid-1980s, and whose popularity has waned since the rise of streaming.

    Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks!

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    Show notes:

    • CD Text to CD Info AppleScript
    • Dave’s Picks Volume 34
    • FNAC
    • Goldberg Variations by Kenneth Gilbert
    • Compact disc bronzing (Wikipedia)
    • CD Single (Wikipedia)
    • BTHVN 2020 - Beethoven The New Complete Edition
    • BACH 333 – The New Complete Edition
    • Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition
    • NAD C538
    • Denon AVR-S540BT

    Our next tracks:

    • Durutti Column: Vini Reilly
    • The Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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    Episode #189 - Renaissance Men of Music Aug 05, 2020
    Show notes

    A reviewer suggested that we mentioned John Cage in this podcast as a "cheap marketing ploy." That made use think about taste: highbrow, lowbrow, and unibrow. We reflect on whether we are really the "Renaissance men of music."

    Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks!

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    Show notes:

    • John Cage Trust
    • Episode #186 - Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani
    • Episode #7 – Music and Genres
    • Brotherhood
    • The Murder Capital live from the Guinness Storehouse
    • Episode #187 - Live Performances during Covid-19, and After

    - Springsteen on Broadway

    Our next tracks:

    • John Cage, Witold Lutosławski - LaSalle-Quartett, String Quartets
    • Jack Bruce: Harmony Row

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    Episode #188 - Kathryn Williams on the Breath in Music Jul 22, 2020
    Show notes

    Kathryn Williams plays the flute, and, because of some health issues, has a unique approach to the breath. In addition to being a free diver, she has been commissioning pieces of music for one single breath. And she's going to try to break the Guinness world record for the longest sustained note on a wind instrument.

    Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks!

    Support The Next Track.

    Guest:

    • Kathryn Williams

    Show notes:

    • The Listening Service: Music and breathing - BBC Sounds
    • Royal Northern College of Music

    Our next tracks:

    • Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
    • The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band: Poor Until Payday

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    Special Guest: Kathryn Williams.

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