Thanks, Steven.

It's becoming clear to me that blogs are beginning to supplement, and may replace, print reviews. I've never used RSS... I guess I'd better get started...

I don't get the feeling that things have settled down in terms of online venues for new pieces from composers who are not well known yet. There seem to be a lot of music sites and many of the more widely used ones really are only interested in dealing with labels, not individuals.

Best,
Mike


-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Yi 
>Sent: May 9, 2008 2:59 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Finding good new music
>
>I listen to a lot of music on Rhapsody, which also has related artists
>and artist radio stations.  My listening has been a bit everywhere
>lately (my rhapsody playlist has Joan Baez, Penderecki, Stravinsky's
>Greek Ballets, and the new Portishead album).  Some of that came from
>existing curiosities, the Stravinsky came from a concert I attended
>and wanting to know the piece better, and the Portishead came up as a
>new album last week and I check the new albums that show up on
>Rhapsody (and I like Portishead anyways :) ).
>
>For new music to explore, I'm finding that mostly I hear word from
>either blogs I subscribe to their RSS feeds or concerts I go to
>(though haven't gone to too many recently).  I subscribe to a lot of
>blog RSS feeds and usually scan the music feeds more carefully than
>others, and when there are CD reviews I will usually take a deeper
>look and if interested then check if it is on Rhapsody.
>
>Probably the most exciting in terms of exposure to new music was going
>to the Warsaw Autumn (http://www.warszawska-jesien.art.pl).  I still
>think it's best music festival for contemporary music I know of, and
>when I went two years ago it was incredible for discovering a lot of
>music.  (Got to hear Sciarrino's "Quaderno di strada", Gorecki's
>"Miserere", Murail's "Winter Fragments", Lachenmann's "TemA", and
>plenty of other pieces performed live and performed extremely well.)
>I ended up going to 16 concerts in 8 days, and that was without going
>to all of them!  I missed last year's but my girlfriend went and said
>it was fantastic.  Might be of interest to see the program from last
>year which is on the site.  (If you want to see notes from the
>concerts I went to a couple years ago, you can search "Warsaw Autumn"
>on my site kunstmusik.com).
>
>When I would go to brick and mortar stores (now very infrequently as
>the only one I would go to regularly in SF(Tower) is closed, and the
>other one I liked (Amoeba Music, in the Haight) is too far now that I
>am in Berkeley), I often would look by CD Label (Mode, Kairos, Auvidis
>Montaigne, ECM, etc.).  I guess music discovery is always a question
>of trusted authorities, whether it be concert, book, blog, website, cd
>label, friends, etc. and hopefully finding as many good authorities as
>one can!
>
>steven
>
>
>
>
>On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Felipe Sateler  wrote:
>> On Friday 09 May 2008 11:37:24 Michael Gogins wrote:
>>> Thanks for your response. I have never heard of last.fm, so I will now
>>> google to find out what it is.
>>
>> Last.fm has the bonus that it tracks what you listen to, and compares that to
>> other last.fm users. So you get recommendations based on that.
>> Also, it creates "neighbours", people who have similar artists in their
>> history. Then you can go to those peoples profiles and check what stuff they
>> listen to that you don't know of.
>> I've been using that lately.
>>
>> --
>> Felipe Sateler
>>
>
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