Hello Des Moines! Are You Ready to Chill Out?
Or Speed Up with an Allegro Vivace
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Hello Des Moines! Are You Ready to Chill Out?
Tilde Elektriske Kretser - Fjærlett
Otto Klemperer - Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-Flat Major, K. 495: III. Rondo. Allegro vivace
Hello Des Moines! Are You Ready to Chill Out?
This Post is going out on Saturday morning, July 19th. The concert is at 7pm tonight. xBk Annex, 24th & University in Des Moines, right by Drake University. Free!
It’s a small space. Capacity is allegedly 40. There are chairs and couches. They have a little bar for drinks. I’ll have physical media / art giveaways and perhaps some visuals. We’ll see.
I’ll be providing ambient sounds for the space for a couple of hours, at least. Feel free to talk, look at your phones, come and go, say hi, and take a look at my setup. I’ll try to keep the frequencies moving along. I might have a guest later on.
Tilde Elektriske Kretser - Fjærlett
This week, my Fjærlett arrived. I was on the wait list for 5 years.
What is it?
The Fjærlett is an audio feedback instrument made by Kristoffer Gard Osen in Norway. You create feedback through reverb springs and shape that feedback signal with a graphic eq, or you can input / output on the back.
It’s a bit too new to bring to the xBk Annex gig. I haven’t spent much time with it, other than initial unboxing and some playing around. It’s a keeper, though.
Otto Klemperer - Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-Flat Major, K. 495: III. Rondo. Allegro vivace
After the concert, I am taking a few days off from work. I’m not going anywhere. I need to take a break and do next to nothing.
I’ve had rehearsals of my music in the evening. During the day, at work, I thought I’d listen to something completely different.
On Qobuz, the streaming service, I found some Mozart Horn Concertos conducted by the late Otto Klemperer in 1961, featuring Alan Civil on horn. It’s a rondo in allegro vivace, a fast and lively pace.