GOGSoc

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rottcodd

ha! I had asked to be banned for a couple of months so I could get on with some work, but, being weak-willed, only lasted about a week before tsr become more interesting than Bunting.

Bunting? Is that sort of like punting, except that you do it with a capital bee?

Reply 1982

3

hobnob

Bunting? Is that sort of like punting, except that you do it with a capital bee?

Much like punting with a capital bee, yes. Except that it's a person rather than a boat. And he has a moustache on his face rather than a student with a stick.

(listen to him read briggflatts - I can't decide whether his voice is annoying or not. Tennyson's voice scares the hell out of me.)

Reply 1983

12

rottcodd

Tennyson's voice scares the hell out of me.)

The coconuts he's bonking scare me more.

Reply 1984

14

Da Bachtopus

The coconuts he's bonking scare me more.

His style of reciting actually reminds me a bit of a recording I heard once, of a famous late 19th-century actor doing a soliloquy from Hamlet and laying on the pathos so thick it's absolutely ridiculous...

Reply 1985

12

Vaguely related, this cracks me up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZXL3I7GPCY

Reply 1986

3

Meh, it does it for me. Though it's more to do with the dodgy recording that creeps me out rather than his tone or the subject.

Edit: in response to hobnob, not youtube.

Reply 1987

3

Da Bachtopus

Vaguely related, this cracks me up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZXL3I7GPCY

Makes me think of dead children at a fairground with a merry-go-round still going round.

Reply 1988

12

rottcodd

Meh, it does it for me. Though it's more to do with the dodgy recording that creeps me out rather than his tone or the subject.

Edit: in response to hobnob, not youtube.

I don't know what I would think if that recording did it for you.

Reply 1989

14

Da Bachtopus

Vaguely related, this cracks me up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZXL3I7GPCY

Ugh.

I like Brahms, and I suppose the recording is an interesting document and all that, but it sounds bloody awful. I think my ears started bleeding halfway through...

Reply 1990

12

hobnob

Ugh.

I like Brahms, and I suppose the recording is an interesting document and all that, but it sounds bloody awful. I think my ears started bleeding halfway through...

I'm more amused by the way he must have belted his name into the phonograph than the subsequent clunking (a hundred years ahead of its time :wink:

). Brahms: meh, I like some of it, but a lot is rather too saccherine for my taste. Unfortunately, I think I listened to all the good stuff first so whenever I try out unknown Brahms works these days I'm always disappointed.

Reply 1991

12

Incidentally, I think Bunting's style of reading was probably imitative of Pound's, which is in turn very much in the C19th incatatory fashion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujxZd3tBG18

There is some weird **** if you search for Pound on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt-uDl_up5g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TL3-65QcgI

I think I've just lost the right to use "WTF" for a whole month.

Reply 1992

Clearing and Applications Advisor

14

Ooh, look, a new league table. :biggrin:

Reply 1993

PQ

21

hobnob

Ooh, look, a new league table. :biggrin:

I like that one :biggrin:

5th sunniest university ;yes;

Reply 1994

musicbloke

17

I'm in agreement that Brahms is a bit lame (at least wax cylinder at least makes him sound vaguely 1960s electro-acoustic.) There are the occasional half-decent pieces: Clarinet Trio and Clarinet Quintet are both alright. Horn Trio has a nice third movement (and is good fun to play, if playing the horn is ever fun.) The two songs for Alto and Viola Op. 91 are pretty good too.

MB

Reply 1995

3

Da Bachtopus

Incidentally, I think Bunting's style of reading was probably imitative of Pound's, which is in turn very much in the C19th incatatory fashion:

I also read that Briggflatts is supposed to emulate or at least be in a similar structure to one of Scarlatti's sonatas. I've been listening to it all week to try and figure out in what ways Bunting sounds like Scarlatti because they couldn't possibly sound any more different to me.

Those Pound links are amazing by the way, I love that kind of trippy stuff - especially the second one.

Reply 1996

musicbloke

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rottcodd

I also read that Briggflatts is supposed to emulate or at least be in a similar structure to one of Scarlatti's sonatas. I've been listening to it all week to try and figure out in what ways Bunting sounds like Scarlatti because they couldn't possibly sound any more different to me.

Those Pound links are amazing by the way, I love that kind of trippy stuff - especially the second one.

If you scan me a copy of the sonata I can tell you what's going on in it and that may help.

MB

Reply 1997