Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Helicopters from abroad...

Playlist
Brian Eno - Lux
Stockhausen - Klavier Stuecke
Ligeti - Piano Etudes
Stockhausen - Helikopter-Streichquartett
Stockhausen - Plus Minus
Stockhausen - Kontra Punkte
Xenakis - Complete String Quartets

Snow this morning, continued from last night...

Brian Eno's best album in an age soundtracked...

Out front...


Out back...


In front of the trees...


On the pavement as I sped down the hill...


On the hills in the distance...


Motoring - look at that blurry hedge...


Once in town though, lighter and almost gone...


Good light today...


Especially on the cathedral...




At lunchtime, in the company of Mr Ligeti, a two and a bit mile walk to and from the Music Library...


...past Victoria Street...


...and, having borrowed two Stockhausen discs and one by Xenakis, back down the hill past the head office of what was Bank of Scotland...


...the Castle...


..the National Gallery...


Back home the Stockhausen and Xenakis discs were listened to tonight along with the Stockhausen Helicopter Quartet, freshly arrived from the States...

All very good stuff I must advise...

Second part of "Dancing on the Edge" was much enjoyed too, after last night's unmentioned debut...

And an apartment succesfully booked for the home leg of the upcoming European trip...

An enjoyable day...

Highlight of the day : A good long walk ending with interesting new music being obtained...

2 comments:

Sid Smith said...

Great walk - reminded me of my time in your fair city last year!

Cloudland Blue Quartet said...

Hopefully you guys will make it up again this year!

Cheers Mr S