Comments on: The 1 GB Challenge

By: bob

bob — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:45:11 +0000

Ketil Bjornstad & David Darling – The River

Beautiful modern classical album!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:51:39 +0000

Thanks Benoit, will check out.

By: Benoît

Benoît — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:59:50 +0000

a bit of chamber music:
Giacinto Scelsi – Ko-Lho – I
Giacinto Scelsi – 04 – Ko-Lho – II
Harry Partch – Two settings from Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake – I. Isobel
Harry Partch – Two settings from Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake – II. Annah the Allmaziful
Iannis Xenakis – Anaktoria
Julian Carrillo – Preludio a Colon
Lou Harrison – At the tomb of Charles Ives

…Hope this can help

By: jonathan

jonathan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:34:30 +0000

Yeah, no complete works. Everyone has a bad day, most people more.

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:15:05 +0000

Aw c’mon Doug. Then I’d have to respond with “the complete works of Elliott Carter,” and we’d start a flame war!

By: Doug Balliett

Doug Balliett — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:59:04 +0000

The complete works of Birtwistle

By: Tom DePlonty

Tom DePlonty — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:36:02 +0000

Oh, I didn’t mean to leave the impression that this was “the best this composer had to offer”. I put this list together in a half hour, working from my iTunes library, and it is prejudiced more than anything toward the small files, so as to get a greater number and wide variety of composers/music.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:00:33 +0000

Thanks for the additional info. Having looked at it more carefully, I find the list on Dillon’s site a bit cumbersome.

The thing that really makes Tom’s list so excellent is it’s specificity. It gives movements or moments, not pieces or albums. For me this is especially good, because I can hear what someone perceived as the best this composer has to offer, and if I like it, too, I can move further with it.

By: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:34:07 +0000

I get asked this, so regarding Kalvos & Damian:

Shows #1 to #374 (May 27, 1995 – August 3, 2002) use RealAudio codecs that are no longer updated for Macs. Older Macs and Windows (at least through XP-SP3) play them fine.

Shows #375 to #537 (August 10, 2002 – September 17, 2005) are encoded in both MP3 and RA. From #538 to #554, only MP3 is used.

(Our partner program Noizepunk & Das Krooner has only used MP3 for their 41 shows.)

Dennis

By: Christian Carey

Christian Carey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:56:24 +0000

As Dennis’ post above points out, we’d be remiss if we didn’t include Kalvos.org as an important resource for audio treasure-seekers.