http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/09/30/shuffle-congruences-and-contrasts/ Music and culture, mostly. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:30:48 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/09/30/shuffle-congruences-and-contrasts/comment-page-1/#comment-40086 11V Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:23:15 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/09/30/shuffle-congruences-and-contrasts/#comment-40086 Thanks for commenting Dan. That's an unusual strategy. You don't indicate what the experience of listening like this was like? I know what you mean about listening to either in full. The Drift in particular I now tend to drop in on for a few tracks here and there, in no particular order. I gravitate towards the shorter tracks and otherwise choose based upon evening out each song's playcount - Cossacks Are has a count of 17 whereas The Escape has only been played 13 times. With that album I realise I'm always trying to eke out a sense of each song's difference, its individual character relative to the rest. Thanks for commenting Dan. That’s an unusual strategy. You don’t indicate what the experience of listening like this was like? I know what you mean about listening to either in full. The Drift in particular I now tend to drop in on for a few tracks here and there, in no particular order. I gravitate towards the shorter tracks and otherwise choose based upon evening out each song’s playcount – Cossacks Are has a count of 17 whereas The Escape has only been played 13 times. With that album I realise I’m always trying to eke out a sense of each song’s difference, its individual character relative to the rest.

]]> http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/09/30/shuffle-congruences-and-contrasts/comment-page-1/#comment-40018 Dan Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:08:55 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2007/09/30/shuffle-congruences-and-contrasts/#comment-40018 I tried another listening tactic on Friday - take two albums and alternate the tracks (one or two at a time). I did it with Scott Walker's The Drift and Rufige Kru - Malice in Wonderland, mostly just because I had it in mind to listen to both that day and couldn't decide which first, but also because I find both a little hard-going in one stretch. Possibly worth a go, though I wouldn't want to get too thoughtful about the combinations in advance. I tried another listening tactic on Friday – take two albums and alternate the tracks (one or two at a time). I did it with Scott Walker’s The Drift and Rufige Kru – Malice in Wonderland, mostly just because I had it in mind to listen to both that day and couldn’t decide which first, but also because I find both a little hard-going in one stretch. Possibly worth a go, though I wouldn’t want to get too thoughtful about the combinations in advance.

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