What music do you like?

When you're in the darkroom, or at your computer doing the digitial

thing, what are you listening to?

 

Me: Pink Floyd, The Cure, The Beatles, Led Zepp, Roger Waters, (Mimi

yelling to fold my whites), ZZ Top...

Mahler for film, Stravinsky for digital.

Johnny Cash does it for me.

In the shower I like water music.

Tom Waits, Bob Marley, Miles Davis, North Mississippi Allstars, John Prine, Billie Holiday, Townes Van Zandt, Ray Charles, Dave Alvin, James Brown, Cake, Ella Fitzgerald, Lyle Lovett, and a few dozen others.

You assume its music, I listen to BBC Radio 4, the worlds best radio station.

Eerie similarity...except, strike off ZZ top...and replace with Coldplay, U2, Paul Oakenfold (great for driving too), Verve, Dire Straits,...

 

Coldplay is hands down one of the best "new" bands to emerge since U2, and hope they don't break up like the Verve.

U2, Pacvarotti, Bocelli, Bach, Chopin.

This week: Amadeus, Janis, Billie, Lucinda Williams, Coltrane, Bob Marly, Vivaldi, Queen

Ida, Salieri :)

ska/jazz/ambient/early brit punk

As of this weekend I am a huge fan of <a href="http://www.pbase.com/rsilfverberg/image/56891208">Jamie Cullum</a href>.

alot of mono ( www.mono-44.com ) and BBC

this week: The Saints, MC5, PJ Harvey. and Kool and the Gang.

I'll listen to most anything- if it's good. Since December, it's been

Mary Wells, The Marvelletes, Shirelles, Destiny's Child, Dinah

Washington, Smokey Robinson, Johnny Cash, Curtis Mayfield,

War, and a few others I can't think of right now. It's the first time

I've really concentrated on these artists and first time I've heard a

good portion of it. Old school, but that doesn't matter when the

music is timeless. This adds to a huge list, of which Miles,

Dylan, Beatles, Ellington, Monk, Satchmo, Etta James, Ray

Charles, Beethoven, Gershwin, and many others- have been

obsessions at one time or another. I guess the only new music I

have much contact with right now is some Hip Hop, but I don't

care too much for the macho gangster aspect of Rap.

in no particular order: Steely Dan, Yellowjackets, Marcus Miller, Mike Stern, Jamiroquai, Lenny Kravitz

Rap. Crank it up and you don't have to agitate the film.

LCD Soundsystem, Rennie Pilgrem, ascii disko, Blim...

While I listen to all kinds of music, in the darkroom it's strictly funk only. Having examined my prints carefully it became clear that the very best ones were made while listening to The Lafayette Afro Rock Band. Herbie Hancock produces a high edge acutance in my prints and Bobby Womack the best tonal range. For toning Isaac Hayes works well.

Ah Andy, have you tried putting on 'Bitche's Brew?' If you really

want to get something done...

As a subscriber to Sirius Satellite Radio, I listen to that a lot. My favorite stations are Standard Time and Broadway's Best. Sometimes, I opt for classic country (Hank Sr, Patsy, Tammy, etc). Still, at other times, I like a hard edged folksy-rock sound (Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, et al). Really, it all depends on the mood, and sometimes on the subject matter of the photos being printed.

Mozart,Beethoven,Vivaldi,Schubert,Mendelson,Paganini,Verdi,Wieniavsky,Dvorak; Fritz Kreisler, Yehudi Menuhin, David Oistrach,Glenn Gould;Zhou Xuan,Chinese lute,Peking Opera.

Ramones

Miles ..

Coltrane

Mingus

Radio 4 BBC

 

Beethoven

(a) In any case Brahms. Especially his own four-hand piano arrangements, e.g. of his string quartets.

<br>(b) Frank Zappa. For me, that's classical music, too

"Ah Andy, have you tried putting on 'Bitche's Brew?'"

 

that's one of my fave songs, Ray