Interactive Poll 2021 0010: Duos of Contrast

suitkees wrote: Snicolette wrote: suitkees:  Iannis Xenakis “Kottos”   Grangs and burps, angry bees begin the piece, I quite enjoy the drony bits.  More swoops and deep swirls and hard attack with bow, the bees are not very happy, I tell you.  I like that they have the actual music accompanying the piece in the video, fun to watch along with it.  This would be excellent as a film score for a bomber attack, so far).  Back to rapidity about 4 minutes in, with some swoop sounds interspersed.  Lots of dynamics from highs to lows, then back to rapid bowing, sometimes on multiple strings. Ends with some slippy-slidies on the strings.  My old dog, Beau, would not have approved of this piece, however, I find it rather fascinating. Hildur Guðnadóttir “Elevation”  At under a minute, I already love this piece.  Deep, tranquil bowing, rising and falling in intensity throughout, no need to rush or display fireworks.  Lovely. Nice reading your assessment (as always!). I think "fascinating" or "intriguing" are indeed the words for this Xenakis piece. My cat seems to like it, but she has a very eclectic taste regarding music. She likes Pink Floyd, Yes, Hawkwind, Eisler, Saga.... That is, when I asked her if she liked Xenakis she said "meow", and when I asked "you don't like it?" she said "meow" too... (it is all a matter of interpretation...). Anyway, she didn't seem to appreciate Xenakis less than Guðnadóttir, so that's a good thing...

  Glad you "got," my descriptions, suitkees!  Cats do generally have pretty good taste in music.  My husband always wrote with at least one at his side for their critiques....in fact, some of the notation lists "Fred E. Kong," as the composer (which was one of the cats).  :)  I also know of an African Grey Parrot who has decidedly firm tastes in music, he lets his humans know whether he approves or not, quite vociferously.  He does enjoy quite a bit of prog.  

Well I certainly do hope you can think of something that you are happy with Cristi, or both happy and sad about at the same time for the sake of added contrast. ;)

I just thought of this alternate pairing:

Alone Again Naturally



Love Shack



Or Simon and Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence and Brokencyde's Get Crunk.

And not sure about Nick. I will wait until tomorrow to put these up.

The list:

- Logan: Mica Levi's "Lipstick to Void" & Mono's "Disney Town"

- Shadowyzard: Chiara's "What If We" & Netta's "Toy"*

[Note that the video for "Toy" does not work in my country, and I see a number of vids on youtube.



I do see that Geo found another and has it in the cuurent playlist (and Nickie earlier).

- nick_h_nz: As said, if you wish to nominate specific ones from Asian Death Crustacean and Olkhon, I, like Nicky, am fine with bandcamp(we would want to direct link to the specific songs). If you wish to and see this, I can add those to the end of the list later today (was going to post about this last night but the site went down),

- jamesbaldwin: Steve Wynn's "Carolyn" & "Strange New World"

- I prophesy disaster: Kula Shaker's "Grateful When You're Dead / Jerry Was There" & Red Hot Chili Peppers's "Sir Psycho Sexy"

- The Anders: Kashmir 's "The Cynic" & "The Push"

- Lewian: Langham Research Centre's "Algebra of the Sky" & Eliane Radigue's "Adnos I-III"

- TCat: Alabama Shakes' "You Ain't Alone" & Arcane's "My Mother is Not the White Dove"*

* {not terribly arcane factoid} there are a number of Arcane's, including one included at PA in Heavy Prog from Australia.

- Snicolette: "Michael Penn's "No Myth" & Owain Phyfe's "Hearts Ease"*

*Quite the balladeer/ troubadour who has played Neo-Pagan festivals and Renaissance faeres or fairs, featuring the ghost of The Bard himself on Keytar (not heard, but there in spirit)

- mathman0806: Dmitry Lisenko's "Prometheus" & Author & Punisher's "Nihil Strength"

- suitkees: Iannis Xenakis' "Kottos" & Hildur Guðnadóttir's "Elevation" *

* I considered Xenakis as well for this.

- Cristi: Place Vendome's" Streets of Fire" & Helloween's "Longing"

I hope I caught all of the entries. I'll add options in now, and hopefully official voting will start later on today.

Edited by Logan - January 25 2021 at 10:34

Here are my first thoughts on your secondary option, Logan, and also on your entry, Cristi's.

Shadowyzard wrote: Logan wrote: - Shadowyzard: Chiara's "What If We" & Netta's "Toy"* [Note that the video for "Toy" does not work in my country, and I see a number of vids on youtube. Nickie, can you please share Netta's Toy here, if it (the video you watched) is from a linkable source, so that I can add it to my original post?

Shadowyzard wrote: Snicolette wrote: Shadowyzard wrote: Logan wrote: - Shadowyzard: Chiara's "What If We" & Netta's "Toy"* [Note that the video for "Toy" does not work in my country, and I see a number of vids on youtube. Nickie, can you please share Netta's Toy here, if it (the video you watched) is from a linkable source, so that I can add it to my original post? This is all I could find and you did say that it wasn't the full one you'd entered.  But here it is, at least one can get an idea, I think, if nothing else will work.  I had to resort only to this one, for my own summation. Thank you. This is the semi-final + final performance together (I don't know how they handled the audial differences BTW) but better than nothing.

Edited by Snicolette - January 25 2021 at 12:24

Not sure what the OP wanted here...and I have read his post several times...yin and yang..sort of.....call me confused....

Edited by dr wu23 - January 25 2021 at 12:52

Cristi wrote: Snicolette wrote: Cristi:  Place Vendome “Streets of Fire”  The piece begins with some very pretty piano, then full-on onslaught of a very rocking band.  Has a feeling of grandness in the music.  Very competent male rock vocalist sings a song of fighting for survival in a war-like setting.  Helloween “Longing” Acoustic guitar strumming and mournful lyrics are sung by another powerful vocalist.  Nice, strings provide a bolster and interest to the piece.  I think this is my favourite that I’ve heard from you, Cristi and they are both very different from each other.  Well done!  Michael Kiske sings in both songs.

I guess I didn't read your description that well (or remember).  I started to listen then had to stop and come back later and start again, without reading it again, lol.  So much for my short-term memory!  I did enjoy these, thanks, Cristi!  

Logan wrote: Just lost my post Doug. It was longer and more explanatory. I'm just looking for two selections that contrast with each other (they can be opposites in some way, but don't need to be). I meant to be pretty open in how one might approach this, and went for some humour that didn't work. I like to leave room for individual interpretation and approach and see the approach that others take (this is very common with me when I make topics). I'd often rather that people think a little out of a box than box people in. I can add those since no one has voted yet. I can do super vague and hard to decipher, but I actually thought this was reasonably clear and offered a lot of flexibility and variance in approach. "Each of your two choices should contrast with each other (a sort of yin and yang dualist proposition). This does not mean that they must be opposites per se, such as hard vs. soft, aggressive vs. gentle, happy vs. sad, consonant vs. dissonant and so forth, but they should feel quite tonally different to you and at least provide some interesting contrast from your perspective." I have added your choices.

And one more, just in time: