I have posted a follow-up to my blog, ¨A Universe Symphony Plea¨ on my blog site. www.berestbeating.com If you do not view it until May 1, it can be viewed...
Johnny, I still haven't gotten around to buying your Universe Symphony yet. Went to the Stereo Society site, and saw that it is available via iTunes (half as...
Many, many thanks again, Patrick - what a treat to hear this (and the sound quality is fine) - Tony ... From: Patrick Petit To: charlesives@yahoogroups.com ...
Hi Kirk, This is info for The Stereo Society, which I am sending along. The CD is correct, so iTunes must have inverted them, somehow. Hopefully, this will...
Please add me to the sea of thanks! (I finally got a listen!) As for George, I'd give most anything to experience his Coney Island piece. Johnny ... From:...
... Please remember that iTunes downloads are the equivalent of 128Kbps which isn't really a good encoding for classical material. Even Apple's own iPod is...
... Well, it's $20, compared to $10 on iTunes... As for "not being good encoding", can you tell me why you think this is the case? Have you compared CDs and...
I'm as poor as the next person but the cost of the Universe CD, with postage to the moon even, is minimal for what you get -- I'm feeling I should send in $20...
... Perhaps. And have you heard a difference? In what kind of music precisely? (I'm asking because I've tested, and had others test, and only in rare occasions...
... and ... on ... Well, I have very good speakers. And use very good 'phones with my DAP. Certainly not "audiophile" stuff - not that wealthy or picky. AND,...
... I have good speakers (Eclipse Lulét), and good phones (Sennheiser HD580). ... Are you using MP3 or AAC? If you're using MP3, I'd agree - 128 kbps MP3s...
... altec lansing ada890 and audio-technica ATH-EC7 ... OGG Vorbis ... is ... I was mixing "politics" with hearing. Although, I'd guess that Stereo Society...
Amazingly enough, the Universe Symphony we released was recorded straight to disc. There are no masters, unless you mean the glass master. It took me a while...
... Straight to disc? You mean to LP or CD? I didn't think they did that... So that means there is _no_ post-production at all? Kirk Co-author of: Podcasting...
I'm doing a short project on Ives's Concord Sonata for my MA and I really need to see Ives's own manuscripts or facsimiles, copies or microfilms of them. I...
Hello Andrew, I had to make the trip to the Yale Ives Room to do some research. Even when I could get shrunken copies of the original sketches I was looking...
Yes kirk, i dont find any AAC codec for os9 ,maybe Itunes can encode under classic ? But it seems impossible to convert sound file in AAC under the old os...
... No, it's possible that my memory is too short, and that they didn't use AAC back then... Kirk Author of: Take Control of Customizing Microsoft Office ...
An Ives Newsletter - 6 May 2006 New World Records reissues "Ives Plays Ives" New World Records has absorbed the important CRI catalogue and their first ...
Alexei Lubimov is the Russia pianist that has done much to introduce the music of Charles Ives to Russian audiences. He was in the audience when Leonard...
... This is great news! I'd still like (as I think you would too) to see Performance #2 in the US, but if Russia wants it, their gain, the US arts community's...
I had the honor of videotaping the concert last Sat in NYC of the American Festival of Microtonal Music's MicroFest 2006 -- please check it out -- we haven't...
... check ... I had a most enjoyable evening with these videos. Of course, one piece is absolutely fabulous! (Having been a bass trombone player in a former...