fsz049 | 25:09 | june 2006

Two books touched me in my childhood : "Where The Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak and "The Giving Tree" of Shel Silverstein. I had made a track inspired by the first (in the album Middle), here is a free variation inspired by the second. These two children's books are absolute poetry. Chenard Walcker http://www.freesamplezone.org/fsz049.htm

I'm not very good at numbers. Listeners to the splogcasts know that. So unwillingly I cheated on the number of FE-adaptations that I found so far. It weren't 24 but 21. Anyway, here is the next mix.
Radio-program Für Elise (early eighties on Dutch classical staion Hilversum 4, later: Radio 4) invited an ensemble in each episode to give their version of Van Beethoven's piano piece. These so-called Elisades (by some described as the "systematic torture of Elise by De Sade") turned into more and more surprising compositions as the program continued over months, from rather faithfull to the original to tortured almost beyond recognition.

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with (a.o.) a short cheesy trip through the dutch-belgian sixties youth and eating culture. 28 minutes

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Yahoo groups seems to have some problems this morning. So all your folks are lucky. I will post todays mp3s here in public. We've been collecting Sloop John B. covers. Here are my favourites, though for pure nostalgic reasons.
While digging in old real to reals with Emiel earlier this year I found a recording of the short period that my father joined the choir on trombone. Here's a semi-religious dutch language version of Sloop John B (round 1970) by the Catholic Youth Choir in Vinkeveen

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And this one I probably posted somewhere before, a recording from what feels like centuries ago, the Stepping Stone Visit and girlfriends, tired and drunk, returning home from a gig in Malmédy, in the train somewhere between Verviers and Brussels:

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From now on splusp!!!! has a guest blogger: Marco will give us all the updates on WM recordings releases.

more at http://www.splogman.com/splusp/hoezenpoezen.html

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Lately I find it difficult to continue new projects after an enthousiastic kick off. Nevertheless I want to finish the Für Elise project properly. Here is a 53 minute mix of 17 adaptations of Van Beethoven's famous piece. Two other mixes will follow, bringing the F.E. collection up to 78 "versions".

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Yesterday afternoon I did another splogca... oops sorry, I mean broadcast at Radio Zwolle. There was live music from two teenagers playing very sophisticated classical music and I interviewed Marco from wmrecordings about netlabels. Naturally quite some music from WM-recordings, in particular from Zwolle was played.
first hour and second hour

Cheers,

Jan

Version 7 by Jeffrey Reid Baker


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version 3 by Birdman
"Fur Elise by Beethoven. Recorded it on my electric guitar, using the acoustic simulator on my RP2000."

version 4 by Amy Plamondon
"Fuer Her" - 1982? - 3:49 - baby grand piano: Amy Plamondon

I've read that Beethoven's "Für Elise" was actually entitled
"Für Therese" & was dedicated to Therese Malfatti, one of his pupils.
This dedication is said to have been written while he was so drunk
that his handwriting was unreadable to the publisher - leading to its
having been read, after Beethoven's death, as "Für Elise" instead
- that then being the name that stuck. When I started playing piano & reading
scores again at age 16, after a lapse of perhaps 7 years, I didn't play
the accidentals (the sharps & flats) - thinking them to be superfluous.
This is, therefore, "Für Therese" without its accidentals - in honor of
accidents & dedicated to my generalized love for women. "Für" is
written as "Fuer" in the title because in the score that I had for "Für Elise"
that's the way it was written - probably as a form of transliteration
without the use of diacritical marks unfamiliar to most English speakers.
Keeping it "Fuer" seemed to fit into the spirit of things. The title can obviously
also be read as a pun on the German word "Führer", which means "leader",
& which is probably most associated with Hitler. As such, the whole piece
can be interpreted as a slight poke at Our Leader: Beethoven & the
(not-so) "Golden Age" of Classical Music in general. (more)






version 5 by Shamine King
Piano performed by a 11 year old Filipina-Canadian musician, born in Holland, studied in Japan, Australia, and Holland.

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Version 6a by Jungl Ed Live at Sharkey's on 2005-02-08 (February 8, 2005) (more )

version 6b by Jungl Ed Live at Attitudes on 2005-03-21 (March 21, 2005)

"We opened up for Lotus, and Jeff covered all of Forest's and Mike's vocals to help changeover

Playing with Lotus was a nice treat on a Monday night in Blacksburg. I definitely ended up seeing the sunrise. Anyway, this set was a lot of fun. I think it flowed together nicely into one piece of music. And the Special Ed was tight. Fun, Fun, I love playing music. Twitch got arrested for pulling a knife outside of Attitudes, what a moron.

Recording Notes:
The recording sounds nice and smooth." (more)

http://jungl-ed.com/

Version 2 by Louis Clarck
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