Podcast Panel #11

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Richard Emsley - '...from swerve of shore to bend of bay'

Today's MP3 came without blurb or explanation from its shy submitter: it can be downloaded in full on that direct link or streamed at http://freakytrigger.co.uk

[Poll #1140876]

POLLS STILL OPEN: Keke Palmer! Natalia y la Forquentina! Avenged Sevenfold! and ending tomorrow Fleet Foxes!

POLL CLOSED: Trina ended up with a score of 6.44 with (I think) the highest NUMBER of votes so far (a still quite low 18).

HALL OF FAME: Lancelot Link's score of 7.2 is the highest (though it dipped after polls closed when dubdobdee voted.)

BUMF: To submit a track to the Podcast Panel send an MP3 to leagueofpop@gmail.com

Comments

[koganbot]

... to heighten the listener's sense of temporal 'depth of field' in such a way that (to continue the spatial analogy) the near and the distant may be simultaneously perceived. In strictly temporal terms, the intention is that the immediate experience of individual elements (the 'near') always be simultaneous with an awareness of the work's broader time-spans (the 'distant'), and indeed with imaginary spans extending far beyond the temporal boundaries of the piece (the 'infinitely distant').
--From Emsley's Website, what he was working on in his early work

I'm sort of the opposite of Tom, in that I liked this best right at the start, where it did some good quiet skin creepy-crawlies, whereas when it then fills out with the full ensemble sounds my mind wanders (which is the fault of my mind more than the music's, I'm sure). My guess is that this works best when you concentrate on, say, one instrument, while half-attending to other notes as they skitter around it, then you follow those other notes while half-catching different notes skittering at variance, then you get beached in interludes of silence, then capture a new line of notes. But I miss the shivering mood from the start (which'd have elicited an 8 or 9 from me), so I'm dropping this to 7.