Still a busy couple of days that included the completion of Richard Karpen’s recording for his piece ‘Strandlines’ for guitar and live electronics (which Stefan Östersjö will be releasing in the near future) as well as the release of SuperCollider 3.4 (which is uploading to Sourceforge as I type… for some reason, releases and their uploading to SF take a VERY long time, and with the release there are 8 packages to upload). So, while those finish I’ll briefly mention what was ripped last night and tonight.

A good amount of French baroque music, mostly harpsichord works by François and Louis Couperin (with a few smaller chamber works thrown in as well) and tonight a stack of CDs featuring Henryk Górecki, Giya Kancheli and Sofia Gubaidulina. I have the Kronos Quartet recording of Górecki’s third string quartet on right now, and like so much of his music I really like how slowly ideas develop and unfold. And it often has a bit of a romantic intense feeling as well that I think he pulls off. However, the build up in the first movement just disturbed a napping Tamiko, so I will take that as a cue to move on. I don’t blame her. Not happy night time music. I won’t move on to his thrid symphony either (the recording on Naxos which, as much as the Dawn Upshaw recording is ‘the favored’ version, I really thing this one is much better).

Should start having more time again to write more soon. I’m looking forward to things slowing down a little at some point soon!