What are your favorite darkroom hits?

[Les McLean]

Wasn't that "Les & The Pyro Cats?"

In the music days Pyro was definitely not what I was into!

 

[Les McLean]

What was Jimmy like? He looks a bit different now with a radical crop of his hair.

He had just cleaned himself up from the drugs and booze so I don't think he had realised that he was in the world of the living. He was very friendly and interesting to talk to especially listening to his views on the musical abilities of same rather well known names. My wife though he was very sexy.

 

[brimc76]

My choices vary from Natalie McMaster to ZZ Top depending on the mood I'm in that day.

Brian

 

[lee]

I listen to two kinds of music....country and western. babump!

lee\c

 

[glbeas]

Country and western eh? My niece is singing in your area. Had an album out a couple years ago.
http://www.geocities.com/brooke_beasley/

 

[Shesh]

I listen mostly to new age (Patrick O'Hearn, Will Ackerman, Secret Garden, Narada etc.,) or Indian classical music (both Hindusthani and Carnatic - although I know I have lost most of you by now ;-). The volume is low enough for me to hear my metronome while burning and dodging.

 

[FrankB]

Country and western eh? My niece is singing in your area. Had an album out a couple years ago.
http://www.geocities.com/brooke_beasley/

If we're giving plugs, this is the site of the band my sister is in.

Dead Link Removed

The cartoon on the splash screen is a "must see". It was done by the husband of one of the band's members (surprisingly he's still alive! ). There's a link on there to a sample from their CD too.

Regards

Frank

...My reality check just bounced

 

[Jeremy]

Blue October... wonderful band out of Houston, TX. They create an incredibly creative atmosphere, especially their first cd.

 

[Ed Sukach]

Diana Krall - singing "Popsicle Toes". Damn music has me enraptured.

 

[glbeas]

Frank, I love that site! Sounds are good too, if ever I run on to any of thier music I may well buy a copy. Thanks!

 

[Ole]

I've got a marathon session coming up soon - still trying to make up my mind whether to go for Mahler's Symphony nr.8 or Philip Glass' "Satyagraha".

Both last for about 3 hours...

 

[roy]

still trying to make up my mind whether to go for Mahler's Symphony nr.8 or Philip Glass' "Satyagraha".

For dramatic b & w prints I would opt for the Mahler ! Don't get too wrapped up in the music though. Am not familiar with Satyagraha - something else for my wish list !

 

[lee]

Can't say I ever heard your niece, glbeas. I know a Brook Beasley but I think it is not the same one. Her dad is a surveyer. She went to Eastern Hills HS with my daughter in Ft Worth.

I was joking about only listening to country and western. I do listen to that genre mostly but I really love rock and roll. Roots blues is a big favorite and rockabilly. I have not had music in my darkroom for a long time so I am not sure if I can put up with it. A friend has a big honking CD player in his and he is one the second floor. I can not listen to music there while printing as I tend to dance around and pat my foot to the music and in that darkroom you get movement in the print. So, there I like no music.

lee\c

 

[PaulH]

I've got a marathon session coming up soon - still trying to make up my mind whether to go for Mahler's Symphony nr.8 or Philip Glass' "Satyagraha".

Both last for about 3 hours...

Try "Einstein on The Beach" :twisted:

 

[Ole]

Satyagraha has two advantages over Einstein on the Beach:

Satyagraha has the same tempo throughout, makeing it easy to be consitent in the timing.

I have Satyagraha on CD, I don't have EotB...

 

[FrankB]

Frank, I love that site! Sounds are good too, if ever I run on to any of thier music I may well buy a copy. Thanks!

Glad you like it. The CD isn't on general release but can be obtained for the princely sum of a tenner from this site:

http://www.tradmusic.com/shop/productinfo.asp?productID=GERDAPICKIN&artist=Luce Women

All the best,

Frank

...A career is a job that has gone on too long.

 

[dr bob]

To change the picture a little , I was recently printing a landscape/sunset for submission in a local show. The subject was the Chesapeake Bay after a storm (with Jacob’s ladders and other weather related aspects). I generally listen to a public radio station specializing in “classical” music. This evening, the program included the prelude to Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolda”. I found the music very appropriate to the image and quite inspiring. I’ll let you know how the judging goes.

When l clean up or engage in maintenance, I like ZZ-Top. I guess you might say I am a semi-professional tenor as I am paid for some performances. I like all forms of music – renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, modern, jazz, Elvis, Beetles, blue grass, but no country or RAP – whatever that is? Go figure!

Truly, dr bob.

 

[ann]

I enoy a large range of music, but in the darkroom it is only classical as I find anything else a distraction.

 

[Thomassauerwein]

I did try the red gel ed B/w tv for a while. To many commercials + Tv sucks to many brainwaves and does not leave enough to "focus" on my task at hand. But theirs nothing like music in a dark room. Loud and lingering works for me.

 

[Eric Rose]

anything BUT country!

 

[Flotsam]

I like listenining to the radio rather than CDs in the darkroom. Printing sessions are the perfect venue catching up on new or rarely heard music. WFUV, a public station out of New York is my station of choice. Big variety of music from folk to rock to Blues to International. I'm a bit on the fringe of their signal so I listen to them via the Internet at wfuv.org. On the weekends they play a lot of Celtic music, they are the Fordham University station.

If there's nothing on radio, then it is anything off of my shelf that suits my mood. From Django Reinhardt to Kurt Weil, from Blue Cheer to Elvis Costello.

-Neal

 

[inthedark]

Gosh, I'm jealous, I can't hear music in my darkrooms most of the time as I have to have vacuums running for both my copy board and my negative carrier. I hear there are some whisper quiet vacuums available now, but there's no $$ left. Wish lists are great aren't they? Mine is getting loooonnnnnggggg.

 

[Loose Gravel]

Darkroom Chromacrafts

Can't you put the vacuum in the other room?

 

[dr bob]

Well, as I posted previously,

.... I’ll let you know how the judging goes.

, The dramatic landscape took (only) Third place behind a couple of digital prints of flowers. I think the judge was not a landscape lover. My mate suggests I diversify. Perhaps she is right. What music would be good for relaxing subjects _and_ the photog in the studio? I've tried singing Irish ballads but found that it irritated the model(s) Opera is out of the question... maybe some "New Wave"?

Truly. dr bob.

 

[roy]

What music would be good for relaxing subjects... maybe some "New Wave"?

That would be bland enough to send them to sleep IMHO !