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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 #167 - Tuning the Perfect Music Listening Room Jan 15, 2020
    Show notes

    Chris Connaker of Audiophile Style renovated the attic of his house and turned it into the ultimate listening room. He then tuned it using amazing speakers, acoustic treatment, and DSP (digital signal processing). He explains how he went about this, and how the room itself is perhaps the most important element in an audio system.

    Guest:

    • Chris Connaker

    Show notes:

    • A New Listening Room Part One
    • A New Listening Room Part Two: Acoustics, Speakers, DSP
    • REW (Room EQ Wizard)
    • DSP - Digital Signal Processing (Wikipedia)

    Our next tracks:

    • Yes: Close to the Edge
    • Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
    • Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
    • David Bowie: Heroes
    • The Clash: London Calling
    • Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
    • Brian Eno: Another Green World
    • The Who: Live at Leeds
    • Grateful Dead: Live/Dead
    • Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks

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    Special Guest: Chris Connaker.

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    Episode #166 - Our Year in Music Jan 02, 2020
    Show notes

    For the first episode of the new decade - the last one recorded in the previous decade - Doug and Kirk look back on their year in music.

    Show notes:

    • Honkyoku (Kirk's shakuhachi website)
    • The Zen of Everything (Kirk's podcast)
    • Rode Procaster microphone
    • Yamaha AG03 mixer
    • Episode #147 - Kirk's New Sonos Amp
    • KEF Q350 speakers
    • Q Acoustics 3020I speakers
    • Amazon Echo Dot
    • Tivoli Audio model One
    • Episode #162 - Apple's New Improved macOS Media Apps
    • Doug's AppleScripts
    • Time Out: We Don’t Give Music Enough Time to Grow on Us Anymore
    • John Cale: Music for a New Society

    Our next tracks:

    • Chick Corea Trio: Trilogy
    • Harry Nilsson: Pussy Cats

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    Episode #165 - Christmas Is in the Air Dec 18, 2019
    Show notes

    There’s got to be a German word for this. It’s that feeling, that first second, when you heard Jingle Bells in the middle of summer.

    Show notes:

    • Episode #58 – David Weigel on the History of Progressive Rock
    • Trio Mediaeval: Folk Songs
    • Bruce Springsteen: Santa Claus is Coming to Town
    • Do They Know It’s Christmas
    • We Are the World
    • Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart
    • Bob Dylan: Must Be Santa (video)
    • The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
    • Apple Music Christmas Playlist
    • Die Hard
    • It’s a Wonderful Life
    • A Charlie Brown Christmas
    • Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
    • I Wish it Could Be Christmas (article)
    • The Kinks: Father Christmas
    • Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song
    • Emerson, Lake & Palmer: I Believe in Father Christmas
    • Mannheim Steamroller: Christmas
    • Ghosts of Christmas Past
    • Roomful of Blues: Roomful of Christmas

    Our next tracks:

    • Harold Budd: Bandits of Stature
    • Frank Zappa: The Hot Rats Sessions

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    Episode #164 - Sid Smith on the Life and Times of King Crimson Dec 04, 2019
    Show notes

    Sid Smith is the official biographer of King Crimson. He recently updated his book, In The Court Of King Crimson - An Observation Over 50 Years, that tells the tale of this seminal band. We talk with Sid about everything Crimson.

    Guest:

    • In The Court Of King Crimson - An Observation Over 50 Years

    Show notes:

    • DGM Live
    • Episode #161 - Philip Thomas on Morton Feldman's Piano Music
    • Episode #97 - Jerry Ewing on Progressive Rock

    Our next tracks:

    • CBGB (movie)
    • Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow

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    Special Guest: Sid Smith.

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    Episode #163 - Lewis Shiner on His Novel Outside the Gates of Eden Nov 20, 2019
    Show notes

    Lewis Shiner's latest novel Outside the Gates of Eden is a saga that begins at a Dylan concert in 1965, then follows a musician and his friends as they age, up to the present. This novel has a huge scope, with moving scenes about music, and about a generation growing up. (Apologies for the sketchy Skype audio quality.)

    Guest:

    • Lewis Shiner

    Show notes:

    • Outside the Gates of Eden
    • Episode #28 – Music and Mystery: Author Peter Robinson on Music in His Novels
    • Why Bob Dylan Matters
    • Episode #67 – The Grateful Dead’s Legendary 5/8/77 Cornell Concert, with Author Peter Conners

    Our next tracks:

    • Fontaines D.C.: Dogrel
    • Mother's Finest: Another Mother Further

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    Special Guest: Lewis Shiner.

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    Episode #162 - Apple's New Improved macOS Media Apps Nov 06, 2019
    Show notes

    Doug and Kirk spend a half hour or so discussing Apple's new apps that replace iTunes on the Mac. They rant, they praise, they shrug, they laugh, and they reminisce on what was, while imaging what could have been. It was a very good year.

    Show notes:

    • The iTunes Guy column on Macworld
    • CarPlay Crashes Constantly in My Car
    • The iTunes and Everything Apple forum on Audiophile Style
    • Kirk's new book, Take Control of macOS Media Apps
    • Poll: What Do You Think of the New macOS Media Apps that Replace iTunes?
    • In Praise of the iTunes Column Browser
    • hierarchically /ˌhaɪəˈrɑː.kɪ.kəl.i/
    • Search Results to Playlist AppleScript
    • Join Together
    • Most Recent AppleScript Updates

    Our next tracks:

    • Dietmar Berger: The Manchester Gamba Book
    • The Pretty Things: Greatest Hits

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    Episode #161 - Philip Thomas on Morton Feldman's Piano Music Oct 23, 2019
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    Episode #161 - Philip Thomas on Morton Feldman's Piano Music

    Philip Thomas has recorded a 5-CD set of all of Morton Feldman's music for solo piano. We discuss with him one of the most interesting of 20th century composers and the unique nature of sound in Feldman's works.

    Guest:

    • Philip Thomas
    • Morton Feldman Piano box set on another timbre

    Show notes:

    • Episode #155 - Running a Small Record Label: Another Timbre
    • Morton Feldman (Wikipedia)
    • David Tudor (Wikipedia)
    • American Sublime - Morton Feldman’s mysterious musical landscapes (Alex Ross in the New Yorker on Morton Feldman)

    Our next tracks:

    • Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble: Officium
    • XTC: Black Sea

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    Special Guest: Philip Thomas.

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    Episode #160 - Golden Years Oct 09, 2019
    Show notes

    Ginger Baker has died, and we reflect on older musicians and how they keep on performing, even without any new material, until their golden years.

    Show notes:

    • Ginger Baker obituary (The Guardian)
    • Beware of Mr. Baker
    • Episode #143 - Too Old to Rock 'n Roll
    • Cream Farewell Concert (YouTube)
    • Town Hall / Symphony Hall, Birmingham
    • Steve Hackett: Selling England by the Pound Cruise
    • Episode #24 – Composer Timo Andres on Contemporary Classical Music

    Our next tracks:

    • Orchestral Manoeuvers In the Dark: Souvenir
    • Mike Oldfield: Five Miles Out

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    Episode #159 - Has Lossless and High-Resolution Audio Finally Come to the Masses? Sep 25, 2019
    Show notes

    Amazon announced a new lossless and high-resolution music streaming service. Has high-res music finally come to everyone? We talk with Chris Connaker, of Audiophile Style, to try to understand Amazon's logic.

    Guest:

    • Chris Connaker: Audiophile Style, Superphonica

    Show notes:

    • Amazon Music HD
    • Amazon Launches Amazon Music HD (and Lies a Lot)
    • Apple's Mastered for iTunes; now called Apple Digital Masters
    • Amazon's press release, with the quote from Neil Young
    • Book Review - Neil Young's To Feel The Music: A Songwriter's Mission to Save High-Quality Audio
    • Episode #38 – New in Audio at the Consumer Electronics Show (where we discuss MQA)

    Our next tracks:

    • Franz Schubert: Piano Trios Op.99 & 100
    • To Cry You a Song: A Collection of Tull Tales (Discogs info)

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    Special Guest: Chris Connaker.

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    Episode #158 - What We Did this Summer Sep 12, 2019
    Show notes

    Doug and Kirk discuss some audio-related projects they carried out this summer, new Sonos gear, streaming audio in the home, the iTunes visualizer, and more.

    Show notes:

    • My New Vitsœ Shelves Have Freed Up Space in My Office
    • Rams (documentary about Dieter Rams)
    • Kef Q150 speakers
    • Q Acoustics 3010i speakers
    • Kirk's comfy chair is an older model from this brand, similar to this style.
    • Sonos Move
    • Sonos One SL
    • Sonos Port
    • Sonos Connect
    • Kef LS 50 wireless speakers
    • Netgear Orbi mesh wi-fi system
    • Episode #136 - Breaking Up with iTunes?
    • Episode #145 - The Future of iTunes Redux
    • Episode #152 - Flogging a Dead App: Is it Really the Death of iTunes?
    • Sculpting Time - The Andrei Tarkovsky Collection
    • Three Dog Night (Wikipedia)

    Our next tracks:

    • Tarkovsky Quartet: Nuit Blanche
    • Three Dog Night: Captured Live at the Forum

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