[xmca] Re: Muisc on YouTube

And a fantastic resource for loads of other gorgeous music- eg
Rostroprovitch.
Wow
Thanks a lot! It's really good for focusing the mind.
Shirley
On 15 Nov 2007, at 17:18, David Preiss wrote:

> MARVELOUS!
> DAVID
>
> On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:23 PM, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote:
>
>>
>> What a truely fascinating time we live in. Please consider the
>> following:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ
>>
>> hope this gets directly to Glenn playing in his bathrobe!
>>
>> eric
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "E. Knutsson"
>> <eikn6681@studen To: "eXtended
>> Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>> t.su.se> cc:
>> Sent by: Subject: Re: [xmca]
>> G. Gould
>> xmca-bounces@web
>> er.ucsd.edu
>>
>>
>> 11/15/2007 04:32
>> AM
>> Please respond
>> to "eXtended
>> Mind, Culture,
>> Activity"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> For those who think that Glenn Gould is more interesting than
>> S.J.Gould:
>>
>> "Glenn Gould was a quintessential 'McLuhanesque' figure, living as
>> though
>> technology was an 'extension' of himself. [...] Gould claimed that
>> at night
>> the
>> hourly news sometimes provided the material for his dreams. Gould
>> was also
>> able
>> to make use of his radio environment, to put it to work for him. His
>> constant
>> audio input, sometimes provided by more than one audio source,
>> supplied
>> Gould
>> with a means of dividing his areas of concentration. 'Quite
>> mysteriously, I
>>
>> discovered that I could better learn Schoenberg's difficult piano
>> score,
>> Opus
>> 23, if I listened to them both at once, the FM to hear music and
>> the AM to
>> hear
>> the news.' On another occasion Gould described how he began to
>> master a
>> particularly difficult passage in a Beethoven sonata by placing a
>> radio and
>> a
>> television next to his piano and turning them up 'full blast.'
>> 'The fact
>> that
>> you couldn't hear yourself, that there wasn't audible evidence of
>> your
>> failure
>> was already a step in the right direction.' Gould's ability to
>> divide his
>> various levels of consciousness through the manipulation of his audio
>> environment resembles the type of simultaneous awareness that
>> McLuhan spoke
>> of
>> in relation to the 'field' experience of the 'oral-aural' person. ...
>> Gould's
>> notorious irrepressible habit of singing while playing the piano,
>> which is
>> clearly audible in many of his recordings, is perhaps another
>> indication
>> that,
>> more than most musicians, Gould was indeed McLuhan's 'oral-audial'
>> man -
>> incapable of remaining silent, totally involved in an activity that
>> required 'the participation of the whole body and the whole mind.'"
>>
>> (Paul Théberge, "Counterpoint: Glenn Gould & Marshall McLuhan";
>> Genosko, G.
>>
>> (ed.).Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory.
>> Vol. II.
>> London & New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 49-50).
>>
>>
>>
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