Comments on: My (Throwing) Muse: Kristin http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin another retired fourstones blog. Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:55:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Pazdan http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin#comment-19662 John Pazdan Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:47:27 +0000 http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin#comment-19662 @Frank: absolutely agree …when I heard KCentrics “guilty by association” spoken word piece I got an immediate feel for Hitchcock/Ralph Ellison stylee alienation. And tried a movie/soundtrack string arrangement… with no beatzzz. and it worked. who woulda thought..

]]> By: gurdonark http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin#comment-19312 gurdonark Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:58:07 +0000 http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin#comment-19312 One of the unalloyed pleasures of the CC thing has been visiting Kristin’s site after Lucas mentioned her CASH project in his weblog. Like most of us, I knew and respected Throwing Muses, and like many of us, I had nonetheless not been a steady Muses listener. To find that she’s going down the CC path has been a great joy–and songs like “slippershell” really show she’s still a very strong artist. I like that Kristin makes not only ‘pells but stems available, that her weblog is very read/write, and that she’s trying to figure out ways to earn artists a living.

Her recent 10-4 project was amazing. Each fan could pay a flat fee, and choose 10 songs for her to play individually for the listener. A daunting task, and one that of course sold quickly and became perhaps a time-consuming effort–but something that shows me that she “gets it”.

I am virtually unable to remix melodic ‘pells at all, as I use software which does not detect pitch all that well, and my own ear for pitch is insufficiently tutored to let me figure out melodies. But if I could remix Kristin, I would, because she has the right spirit.

]]> By: Frank http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin#comment-19291 Frank Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:08:59 +0000 http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin#comment-19291 Don’t feel bad, Vic. In your defense, I’d say you’re not the first person to have the situation when dealing with my voice. After listening to your Kirstin remix and hearing her voice, I can probably tell you what I think part of the problem is. I believe it’s a combination of context and timbre. Most folks hear my voice and can only seem to hear it in a particular genre or style. So no matter what they do, part of them always goes to their initial feeling and it never seems quite right to themselves. That’s kind of what so amazing about CCMixter. I don’t know anyone on the planet other than Sr Privado who would think to take an R&B styled a cappella vocal and adapt it to a Puerto Rican guitar-folk style called Aguinaldo (?) and jam them together. But it worked! And it worked better than anyone imagined. Or hear some of the stuff sleeperspaceborn did with some of my vocals. Fantastic!!! He was able to hear the song in a totally different context. ‘Cuz as we all know, most creativity happens between your ears before touch anything to get it down. I’m going to uploading some not so R&Bish stuff in the future & I’d hope you’d tackle some of that stuff. You won’t have to fit a style you think you should be doing – you’ll just do the Fourstones ‘treatment’ and you will pleasantly surprised.

Be EZ!

fhciii

]]> By: fourstones http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin#comment-19288 fourstones Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:38:01 +0000 http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin#comment-19288 She’s a major deal to me right now ;)

How cool is it that artist her calliber (check out
http://ccmixter.org/people/shannonsongs ) are literally just showing up on their own?

]]> By: Lucas http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin#comment-19273 Lucas Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:09:29 +0000 http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/my-throwing-muse-kristin#comment-19273 Kristin Hersh is uploading pellas to mixter? Jesus christ. That is fucking amazing.

She was a major deal in Boston in my years there…

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