musictusnews-digest Thursday, April 16 1998 Volume 98 : Number 008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:22:31 +0100 From: Alessia Ciuchi Subject: musictusnews Translation *_ __ ___ _ _ ___(_) ___| |_ _ _ ___ _ __ _____ _____* | '_ ` _ \| | | / __| |/ __| __| | | / __| '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / / __| | | | | | | |_| \__ \ | (__| |_| |_| \__ \ | | | __/\ V V /\__ \ |_| |_| |_|\__,_|___/_|\___|\__|\__,_|___/_| |_|\___| \_/\_/ |___/ *Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music News and Discussion List* * * Rosario Piazza wrote: Hi. Here I am again after my initial message and after a few private messages sent to some of you. As you have surely already understood, we're leaving for Italy ... to be precise, on June 1st. As you can well imagine, it's a very busy moment with all the things we have to do before our departure. However, the goal of this message was to let you know, that in a couple of months we will start our ministry in Italy (at the beginning we'll start from Naples, the city where I come from), so I would like to invite all of you who have offered to help us, to keep in touch. Obviously, in a couple of months time my old e-mail will not be usable anymore. For this reason, I've chosen another e-mail address that is always directed to the same receiver. The new address is : rosario@starmail.com I would like to ask Walter to correct what's needed. At the moment both address are still on ... obviously after June 1st only the new one will be on. I hope the Lord may give us the chance to get in touch personally with some of you, and that He may use us to proclaim His Gospel through music, the arts and the gifts He has given us. See you soon. In Christ, Rosario Piazza ___________ To post to the list, address email to: musictus@musictus.com To unsubscribe send an e-mail command to majordomo@musictus.com In the body of the message type ONLY the following: 'unsubscribe musictusnews' or visit http://www.gospel.it/musictusnews/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:11:04 +0100 From: "Dario Lacqua" Subject: musictusnews Hello everybody *_ __ ___ _ _ ___(_) ___| |_ _ _ ___ _ __ _____ _____* | '_ ` _ \| | | / __| |/ __| __| | | / __| '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / / __| | | | | | | |_| \__ \ | (__| |_| |_| \__ \ | | | __/\ V V /\__ \ |_| |_| |_|\__,_|___/_|\___|\__|\__,_|___/_| |_|\___| \_/\_/ |___/ *Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music News and Discussion List* * * Hi everybody, just joined in, thanks to the boss. Please let me know all about concerts you know of in northern Italy, I might be of help for many things. If you need help to find PC programs I have lots which can be useful. Just call me. Best wishes for Easter holidays. Dario - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ciao a tutti, appena arrivato grazie al boss (?!) Tenetemi al corrente di eventi musicali nel Norditalia, potrei anche dare una mano in un sacco di cose. Se cercate programmi per PC ne ho un sacco che possono servire. Chiamate. I migliori auguri per le vacanze di Pasqua. Dario ___________ To post to the list, address email to: musictus@musictus.com To unsubscribe send an e-mail command to majordomo@musictus.com In the body of the message type ONLY the following: 'unsubscribe musictusnews' or visit http://www.gospel.it/musictusnews/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:32:16 +0100 From: Walter Aresca Subject: musictusnews Proposte Artistiche di Musictus *_ __ ___ _ _ ___(_) ___| |_ _ _ ___ _ __ _____ _____* | '_ ` _ \| | | / __| |/ __| __| | | / __| '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / / __| | | | | | | |_| \__ \ | (__| |_| |_| \__ \ | | | __/\ V V /\__ \ |_| |_| |_|\__,_|___/_|\___|\__|\__,_|___/_| |_|\___| \_/\_/ |___/ *Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music News and Discussion List* * * Cari amici, vi presentiamo le nostre Proposte Artistiche 1998/99. Contattateci per ricevere ulteriori informazioni. --------------------------- Jessy Dixon & Band & The Chicago Community Singers. Il sette volte vincitore del Grammy Award, il re del Soul-Gospel con la sua band e 8 cantanti di colore facenti parte del famoso coro Gospel di Chicago. Disponibilita': Luglio/Agosto 1998 Majoy. Dalla Svezia un incredibile quartetto di acrobati delle corde vocali sullo stile Manhattan Transfer o New York Voices. Disponibilita': dal 15 al 30 Agosto 1998 Black Nativity. Da Broadway, lo show Gospel piu' conosciuto, il musical degli anni 60 divenuto leggendario in tutto il mondo. Diretto da Alberta Carter Bradford con la partecipazione di Jessy Dixon. Disponibilita': dal 9 Novembre al 30 Dicembre 1998. Autunno 1999. Edwin Hawkins. "Oh Happy Day" e' diventato un evergreen e ha consentito ad Edwin Hawkins di diventare una leggenda quale inventore della musica Gospel Contemportanea. Disponibilita': Dicembre 1998. Gennaio 1999. Continental Singers. La musica Cristiana Contemporanea, realta' da anni negli USA, sta prepotentemente arrivando anche in Europa. I Continentals riuniscono gruppi di 20/30 giovani talenti facendoli esibire in tutto il mondo per promuovere questo tipo di musica. Disponibilita': dal 25 Luglio al 30 Agosto 1998. Ginger Brew. Attuale vocalista di Paole Conte, Ginger ha collaborato con James Carter, Don um Romao e Arthur Miles e si esibisce in un repertorio di Gospel & Spirituals. Disponibilita': a richiesta. Giuseppe De Chirico. Cantautore mantovano, propone una miscela di folk-rock, ballads e cantautorato legato alla tradizione italiana, un'elegante interazione tra musica e testo. Disponibilita': a richiesta. Darrell Mansfield. Con la sua band da Los Angeles, ritorna dopo Sanremo Blues del '91 uno dei piu' acclamati armonicisti blues-rock (feat. Van Halen). Disponibilita': Agosto-Settembre 1998. Gospel Sound. Giovane quintetto vocale italiano, si esibisce con successo in un reportorio di Gospel tradizionali e "Praise & Worship". Disponibilita': a richiesta. --------------------------- Per informazioni: Musictus - Italian Gospel Music Piazza I Maggio, 1 14047 Mombercelli AT ___________ To post to the list, address email to: musictus@musictus.com To unsubscribe send an e-mail command to majordomo@musictus.com In the body of the message type ONLY the following: 'unsubscribe musictusnews' or visit http://www.gospel.it/musictusnews/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:24:40 +0100 From: jmphancock@juno.com (JMPM Hancock) Subject: musictusnews Melodie di Lode *_ __ ___ _ _ ___(_) ___| |_ _ _ ___ _ __ _____ _____* | '_ ` _ \| | | / __| |/ __| __| | | / __| '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / / __| | | | | | | |_| \__ \ | (__| |_| |_| \__ \ | | | __/\ V V /\__ \ |_| |_| |_|\__,_|___/_|\___|\__|\__,_|___/_| |_|\___| \_/\_/ |___/ *Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music News and Discussion List* * * Ciao a tutti, ho appena ricevuto "Melodie di Lode" una raccolta di canzoni cristiane in italiano che e' appena stata pubblicata ... contiene 438 canti con melodia, accordi e parole! La rilegatura e' di ottima qualita'...le canzoni sono varie in genere musicale e provenienza . E' proprio fatto bene! Allora che aspettate??? E' un'ottima raccolta per la chiesa, gruppi giovanili e incontri del genere! Fra i songwriters italiani ci sono: Renato Giuliani - Alberto Santoro -Marco Di Nunzio - Danilo Valla - Pino Prota - Albino e Cinzia Montisci - Rosa Battista - Rosita e Michele Maggi - Giuseppe De Chirico - e tanti altri... fra quelle tradotte ci sono canzoni di : Graham Kendrick - Wayne Watson - Twila Paris - Bob Fitts - Scott Wesley Brown etc.. Per ordinare copie della raccolta questo e' il numero da chiamare: tel. 0360 - 880422 o numero fax 045 - 8000018 "Melodie di Lode" a cura di Rosa Battista e Alberto Santoro edizione a cura di Biblos di Adank Walter Via Muro Padri 12 37129 Verona Inoltre questa vuole essere la prima raccolta di molte altre... cosi' se avete traduzioni di canti stranieri, vostre composizioni che si addicono al canto comunitario potete spedire il materiale a uno di questi due indirizzi Rosa Battista Via dei Marrucini 25 71015 Sannicandro G. (Foggia) Alberto Santoro Via G. Fania 52 71100 Foggia "Cantate all'Eterno un canto nuovo"!!! Ciao da Maria Hancock! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joe, Maria, Paolo & Melody Hancock "Io Voglio Conoscere i Pensieri di Dio...per il Resto si Tratta Solo di Dettagli" "I Want To Know God's Thoughts...The Rest Are Details" -Einstein- ___________ To post to the list, address email to: musictus@musictus.com To unsubscribe send an e-mail command to majordomo@musictus.com In the body of the message type ONLY the following: 'unsubscribe musictusnews' or visit http://www.gospel.it/musictusnews/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:53:21 +0100 From: Paola Maschio Subject: musictusnews FESTIVAL *_ __ ___ _ _ ___(_) ___| |_ _ _ ___ _ __ _____ _____* | '_ ` _ \| | | / __| |/ __| __| | | / __| '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / / __| | | | | | | |_| \__ \ | (__| |_| |_| \__ \ | | | __/\ V V /\__ \ |_| |_| |_|\__,_|___/_|\___|\__|\__,_|___/_| |_|\___| \_/\_/ |___/ *Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music News and Discussion List* * * A.I.C.A. Associazione Italiana Cultura e Arte Roma, Via Casilina 1390 (Castello di Torrenova) Tel. 06 - 20427557 Sezione musica e spettacolo L'associazione Italiana Cultura e Arte A.l.C.A. organizza un festival di musica cristiana dove artisti e Associazioni a sfondo Cristiano potranno esibirsi ed esporre in appositi stands i loro prodotti, attivita' ed iniziative. Il Festival e' aperto a tutti coloro che con la propria attivita' in particolare nella musica, testimoniano il proprio servizio al Signore. Il nome della manifestazione "THERAPON" e' il segno che indica lo spirito del progetto, in quanto il suo significato, in lingua greca e': "Colui che serve nella giusta maniera". L'iniziativa, nata dal desiderio unanime di testimoniare questo significato tra i giovani, realizzabile attraverso una delle espressioni artistiche piu' dirette e piacevoli quali la musica; con il patrocinio dell'Associazione organizzatrice e delle Istituzioni locali, si svolgera' nella Sala polivalente del VIII Circoscrizione del Comune di Roma comunemente detta "Teatro di Torbellamonaca", sita in Roma, Via Duillio Cambellotti n' 11, nella giornata di Venerdi' 5 Giugno 1998 con il seguente programma: dalle ore 7.30 inizio dei lavori per la sistemazione degli stands. dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 14.00 prove tecniche dei gruppi all'interno del Teatro (20 min. circa a gruppo) ore 10.00 apertura al pubblico degli stands delle varie associazioni che interverranno. ore 15.00 inizio dello spettacolo con esibizioni musicali (inderogabilmente 25 min. per ogni artista). ore 22.00 fine della manifestazione e chiusura degli stands. Le Associazioni e gli Artisti interessati, possono contattare l'organizzazione per qualsiasi chiarimento, nella persona di Emiliano De Angelis all' utenza telefonica 0347 - 6445728 o potranno far pervenire entro il 15 Maggio 1998 la richiesta di adesione al n' di fax 06-71587840. Per i partecipanti si consiglia di far pervenire stesso mezzo, nome del gruppo o dell'Associazione con recapito, il genere di attivita', la biografia (e per chi ne e' in possesso inviare un proprio CD o musicassetta) fermo restando che tutto il materiale inviato non e' impegnativo. E' prevista la partecipazione gratuita per gli stands e per tutti i partecipanti, con un costo di lire 30.000 a notte a persona, e' possibile prenotare la sistemazione in posto letto presso l'Istituto religioso sito nella zona della manifestazione. All'evento tra gli altri interverranno come ospiti : Don Mario Migliarese (sacerdote cantautore e presidente fondatore dell' Ass. Magnificat artisti cristiani Europa) D. GianDomenico Valente (Organizzatore ed ideatore della Hope Music) Corrado Montalto (Presidente Associazione "il mio Dio canta Giovane"), Don Domenico Sigalini (Responsabile Ufficio Pastorale Giovanile della CEI Conferenza Episcopale Italiana) e Roberto Bignoli (Cantautore). L'organizzazione si riserva altresi' di effettuare delle variazioni di programma, restando sempre a disposizione degli interessati per qualsiasi chiarimento o idea. La sezione Musica e Spettacolo AICA - -- INFORMAZIONE MUSICA CRISTIANA Paola Maschio http://users.iol.it/mariastella ___________ To post to the list, address email to: musictus@musictus.com To unsubscribe send an e-mail command to majordomo@musictus.com In the body of the message type ONLY the following: 'unsubscribe musictusnews' or visit http://www.gospel.it/musictusnews/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:53:15 +0100 From: Simon Paul Allen Subject: musictusnews guardian-weekly file gw-culture/1998.4.12/260 *_ __ ___ _ _ ___(_) ___| |_ _ _ ___ _ __ _____ _____* | '_ ` _ \| | | / __| |/ __| __| | | / __| '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / / __| | | | | | | |_| \__ \ | (__| |_| |_| \__ \ | | | __/\ V V /\__ \ |_| |_| |_|\__,_|___/_|\___|\__|\__,_|___/_| |_|\___| \_/\_/ |___/ *Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music News and Discussion List* * * Ciao a tutti, ecco un pezzo in inglese, di cultura generale musicale. qualcuno magari lo trova interessante, specie fra quegli ibridi strani di musicisti smanettoni! Ciao, Simone From: Majordomo@guardian.co.uk Subject: Majordomo file: list 'guardian-weekly' file 'gw-culture/1998.4.12/260' Arts / Bird by mouse Computers have learnt to jam just like Charlie Parker. Well, almost. Steven Poole reports Bird by mouse Can a computer swing? Sure it can, if you hang it up by a rope and kick it hard enough. No, man, what I'm saying is: can a digital cat play jazz? Jazz, the apotheosis of cool, the fiery crucible of 20th century musical authenticity, the spontaneous outpouring of one man or woman's artistic self-expression through the irreducibly physical medium of a sax, a trumpet, a piano, a double bass? That's one citadel of humanity, surely, that could never be stormed by the creeping hordes of artificial intelligence. Never? Better think twice. Last month on BBC television jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine was jamming along on his soprano to the sounds of a computerised jazz quartet. Nothing unusual there: computers have been able to provide adequate, if stiff-backed, accompaniment to practising soloists for years. But then Pine stopped blowing -- and another, invisible saxophone continued to play with impressive fluidity and melodic interest across the harmonies, sounding weirdly like the late giant of the alto, Charlie Parker. Extraordinarily, this was the work of a computer program, Improvisor, and -- crucially -- the ghostly sax was not just playing a predetermined line, but making it up as it went along in real time, just like a real jazz musician does. The necromancer responsible for summoning up this digital revenant is jazz musician Paul Hodgson, who is also a skilled computer programmer. His interest in the subject began in the eighties, when he was working as a music teacher, trying to teach children how to play jazz. He knocked up a program that, while playing the chords of a song, would analyse the harmony to work out and play a mode for the current stage of the tune (a "mode" is a kind of altered scale). His students could then listen and pick up the appropriate modes as they went along, to give them some basic building blocks for soloing.In the meantime Hodgson began to wonder whether he could get the computer itself to generate an interesting solo. And that is where Charlie Parker comes in. "I started analysing lots of Parker solos," Hodgson remembers, "trying to look for patterns and repetitive structures that he was using, and seeing if I could work out a way in which these solos could actually be put together. I ! abstracted out sets of variable-length patterns from different solos, and then I started working on ways of applying these patterns to different tunes, to create new solos. And that's basically what you heard." In jazz the term "pattern" can denote a group of notes that a musician learns to play at speed in numerous keys until it can be instantly recalled during a solo -- the notes fall naturally under the fingers, leaving the brain free to figure out what to play next. Some musicians don't do any more than this. An unimpressed (or envious) jazzer might damn a colleague with the gravelly expletive "patterner". In this way the method of the program Improvisor is close to the way a mediocre musician operates. But does the fact that Parker's style can be imitated by a computer mean that the great Bird was a mere patterner? Of course not. "It doesn't actually tell you how the patterns were created in the first place," Hodgson observes. "Parker might use similar patterns, but he mo! difies and sculpts them to the context of the music that he's playing." That said, Hodgson has found to his surprise that the computer comes up with phrases that he has never heard Bird use. "It's actually creating new stuff -- and some of it is bloody good. This raises the question of whether Bird's style could evolve further in cyberspace." Hodgson has concluded that one aspect of creativity is the way an artist chooses patterns and puts them together. "It applies to painting as well. "You've only got to look at 20th century art and abstract painting to see that there are lots of common patterns that artists are using." However, the reason top players are popular is not just the notes they play, but the distinct characteristics of the sound they make. If you add to Hodgson's melodic calculations something to account for this idiosyncratic control of timbre in real time, the computation becomes forbiddingly complex. And, of course, any real jazz musician is always listening to what everyone else in the band is doing -- which Improvisor doesn't do! . There'll be no silicon stars of free jazz for a good while -- if ever.Courtney Pine's own verdict on the computer program was interestingly mixed. On the first take, which the BBC didn't show because of the pungent language, Pine said it was "bloody brilliant". But as for replacing humans - -- well, no cigar yet. "You can't replace the human experience, the human feel," Pine smiled. "What's missing, I suppose, is some of the soul, some of the spirit." Hodgson's own researches have brought him to the conclusion that the idea of a top-flight artificial musician is an oxymoron: "To create music you have to be alive in the world. It's not possible." What he is now looking at instead are ways to use his system to create new musical interfaces -- for disabled children, and for artists working in other media. Computerised image-tracking could provide an instantaneous soundtrack for a ballet, or future disco queens could alter a record's sound with flailing limbs. In a way his work has pleasingly come full circle: from trying to replicate human creativity electronically, to producing an electronic tool that can be used to enhance human creativity. This will be a relief to people who prefer to snap their fingers at a real, groovy-shirted person on stage, rather than nod their heads at an offensively beige lump of extruded plastic. And Hodgson sounds a note of warning: "Maybe there's an in-principle limit to what we can do. It's our quest to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and be completely knowledgeable about everything in the world -- and in so doing, what we could easily do is destroy it, by building things that don't have any spiritual consciousness and become out of our control." With that unpalatable scenario ringing in our ears, perhaps it's best to go back to the old records again. After all, a computer might study ornithology, but it'll never know how it feels to fly. The Guardian Weekly Volume Issue for week ending , Page 26 - -- Simon P. Allen |(.) (.)| tel. +39+2 2138438 Software Dept.,INPECO, | @ | fax. +39+2 26923133 Segrate(MI),ITALY | \___/ | e-mail: allen@inpeco.com ___________ To post to the list, address email to: musictus@musictus.com To unsubscribe send an e-mail command to majordomo@musictus.com In the body of the message type ONLY the following: 'unsubscribe musictusnews' or visit http://www.gospel.it/musictusnews/ ------------------------------ End of musictusnews-digest V98 #8 *********************************