Damn seagulls.
Thu, Jan 12 2012, 4:41PM
I live on the coast and everytime I hear seagulls 'calling' I think of the opening bars of Carl Nielsen's 5th symphony. Does anyone else think of a piece of music when they hear a certain sound, or am I just going mad slowly.
Thu, Jan 12 2012, 8:18PM
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RE: Damn seagulls.
Would that be BBSeagulls?
Very good pun.Not too shabby.
Fri, Jan 13 2012, 8:32PM
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RE: Damn seagulls.
Every time the rebel soldiers who live across from us load up their canon and discharge it, I think of the 1812 overture. Thankfully they usually manage to aim over our house, though my wife does get a bit jittery. As do the cats!
Likewise, when the mad woman who lives at no. 42 sings aloud in her front garden, usually after midnight on Sunday morning, I think of Madame Butterfly. Maybe one day she will just drop in mid-flight, the neighbours will rapturously applaud (standing), and I will chuck her a bunch of flowers!
And, if I ever walk past a house and hear someone practising scales, I think of Mozart!
So Gottfried, or Norma, or Pablo or whoever I am talking to...
Seriously well done Gottfried, because I think there is some mileage in this topic, if we are talking about associations that sounds bring - like the lovely thread on musical memories.
How about - an obvious one really - the sound of trains...and Honegger's Pacific 231?
Yours
Friedrich Hoover
(on Mark's computer - Partsong is on sabbatical leave...)
Sun, Jan 15 2012, 12:04AM
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RE: Damn seagulls.
My Mum's old Fiat Punto used to make a two tone beeping noise when reversing that was the first two notes of Fur Elise, more or less at the right tempo.
Slightly off the subject, I was listening to the LP "Cecil Taylor Unit" the other evening and the opening flurry of the first track "Idut" sounds just like Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale! Only for about 5 seconds, but it's uncanny - I doubt they intended this as it's fiercely improvised stuff from the 70's. Then it quickly morphs into a section that reminds me of a Birtwistle piece (but I can't remember which), then it's off into a full-on Cecil Taylor kaliedoscopic thing. Excellent album.
Mon, Jan 16 2012, 2:59PM
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RE: Damn seagulls.
I would love to say that my o/h has got an alarm clock that has the dulcit tones of bach's air on a g string. But unfortunately it is more like the screams of a man hanging by a g-string. :(
The mother of my o/h has a voice that reminds me of Wagner's Flight of the Valkyries, does that count?
Would that be BBSeagulls?
Pause for thought.