Naxos Music Library on your iPhone!

Did you know the Naxos Music Library is now mobile? That's right! If you have an iPhone, you can add the Naxos app for free and get anytime access to your favorite pieces and playlists on Naxos!
To add music to your iPhone:
* Go to the Naxos Music Library.
* Click “Playlists” in the top menu bar.
* Click “Login” or “Sign up.”
* After logging in, you’ll see a list of current playlists.
* To add music to your playlist, browse of search for music, select tracks, then click “add to playlist” on the left. A window will pop up to ask you where to save it. Choose to add it to the current folder and name the playlist.
* Download the Naxos Music Library iPhone app.
* When you open the app for the first time, log-in using your playlist log-in info.
* Your playlist should appear in the corresponding folder in your iPhone app.
* Enjoy!

Haven't used Naxos? What are you waiting for? You can stream a wide range of music, from Hungarian Jazz to The Submarines to Beethoven.

For more information, and troubleshooting, see technical requirements for Naxos. (Mac users: if you have problems setting up playlists in Safari, try Firefox.)

Or, come into the library and contact pedrosian@oxy.edu for additional help.

Featured Score: Cage

Today we are featuring a very special score from the Herklotz stacks: John Cage prepared piano sonatas. (pictured is the score for the first sonata) in the middle of the twentieth century, John Cage was responsible for several stunning innovations. His concept of indeterminitism reframed the compositional process forever, and successfully introduced his interest in Zen into the classical music lexicon. This particular score features another one of Cage's innovations: the prepared piano. This work is written for a piano with specific objects wedged between and through the strings. the effect is that some keys remain tonal, and some produce varying percussive sounds. These works are very ethereal, and they make an even more satisfying listen when following the score. So come on down and take a look at a very important document in 20th century artistic thought!

Music Library Hours During Spring Break

The Music Library will have the following hours during spring break:
Saturday, March 6 thru & Sunday, March 7 : CLOSED
Monday, March 8 thru Thursday, March 11 : 9:00am-4:30pm
Friday, March 12 & Saturday, March 13 : CLOSED
Normal Hours will resume on Sunday, March 14.

Contact the librarian for additional use by appointment only: pedrosian@oxy.edu.

'Black Noise'

Like dance music? Dancing? Music? Looking for an entre to the growing world of international techno? A Berlin musician named Pantha Du Prince just released his amazing new album, 'Black Noise' and I recommend you listen to it. His first album, 'this bliss' is a nearly flawless work of minimal techno, and on black noise he cranks it up a notch. Pantha du Prince opens up cavernous spaces on Black Noise; it is always elegant and always dark. and it makes me want to dance. in a genre dominated by repetitive, at times atonal music, his songs are always shifting, always gorgeously tonal, and very meditative. check out his stellar collabo with Panda Bear 'Stick to my Side"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEd4Hzpj604

Ex-Oxy Prof. Larry Karush to Perform at Santa Monica College

Larry Karush will be performing in a Quintet on Friday, March 26th, at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center's Edye 2nd Space. The Quintet includes Karush on piano, Chris Colangelo on bass, Randy Gloss and Joey De Leon playing percussion, and Danilo Lozano palying the flute.

This concert will include performances of "Songs for the New City ll - lV" (with revisions created during Karush's 2008 artist-in-residency at the Ucross Foundation), a new version of "Seven Samba", featured solos by the ensemble members, as well as a little boogie-woogie in some form or another.

Jimi Hendrix Tribute Concert

What kind of music would Jimi Hendrix make if he were still alive today? Of course, we'll never know the definitive answer to one of rock's great what-if questions, although tantalizing clues might be found on the upcoming Valleys of Neptune (due next month), a collection of previously unreleased recordings whose mere existence (and recent rediscovery) is somewhat astonishing, given how many times Hendrix's musical tomb has been ransacked over the past 40 years. Near the end of his short life, the prolific Seattle guitarist was exploding in seemingly a hundred different directions at once, jamming with Miles Davis and inventing his own fusion of fluidly grooving space funk and otherworldly world music. One thing's certain, however: Hendrix — who was increasingly frustrated that his teenybop fans only wanted to hear the early hits — probably wouldn't still be trotting out his oldies with the kind of deferentially unimaginative note-for-note treatment that often occurs at tribute concerts like this.

Grooveshark: Online Music At Your Fingertips

Sorry Pandora, but you have been downgraded. When it comes to free, online music, we love the internet radio sites that allow us to customize our own stations so that it plays the type of music that we like. Nevertheless, we sometimes wish we could just choose, precisely, which songs we listen to. A new online music resource, called Grooveshark, allows users to do exactly that. No, it doesn't create radio stations for you, but it does allow you to create your own playlists from a wide selection of tracks. As long as you're connected to the internet, you can access the millions of Grooveshark tracks that range from the mainstream to the barely known. By creating an account, you can save your playlists just like you would in your own iTunes library.

Check it out at: www.listen.grooveshark.com