me:mo episode 25
❧ What is Polyphony and why does it sound so boring? ❧ Daniele Barbaro’s Renaissance Architecture ❧ Gioseffo Zarlino’s sounding geometry ❧ Alberti’s rational perspective ❧ Leonardo’s aesthetic of ruin ❧ A new composition |
me:mo episode 24
❧ Keynote held at the Digital Cultures conference in Warsaw: ❧ The issue with preserved music ❧ The question for Early Music’s relevance ❧ Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas and Proust’s mémoire involuntaire ❧ How me:mo works ❧ Digital court culture |
me:mo episode 23
❧ My CD-debut »Bella incognita – The imagination of Marco dall'Aquila« on glossa. ❧ Pietro Aretino's pornographic sonnets ❧ Pietro Aron and the Greek modes ❧ Il est bel et bon & the fallacy of a »sexless past« |
me:mo episode 22
❧ Dance and portraiture in Elizabethan England ❧ Social Networks and court society ❧ John Dowland’s dedication pieces ❧ Nicholas Hilliard’s miniatures ❧ Aristotle’s phantasmata ❧ Guest performance: A brand new lute song with Carine Tinney! www.carinetinney.com |
me:mo episode 21
❧ Interview with improvising lutenist Bor Zuljan, Geneva. ❧ The newly reconstructed »bray harp lute«, according to Vincenzo Capirola. ❧ Speculations on the lute's sound aesthetic. ❧ Improvisation in the Renaissance. ❧ Francesco da Milano's »Fantasia a dui liutti« played with silver thimbles. |
me:mo episode 20
❧ The Vincenzo Capirola lute manuscript. ❧ Methods of preserving music for eternity. ❧ The first »piano« sign and ornament indications in music history. ❧ What Renaissance men thought of music from the 70s. ❧ About illuminated manuscripts. |
me:mo episode 19
❧ CD review: graindelavoix’ »Portrait of the Artist as a Starved Dog« ❧ Cipriano de Rore and the Madrigal ❧ Vocal Aesthetics in Flanders, Corsica, Georgia and England ❧ Titian’s style shift ❧ Lute intabulation: »Se ben il duol« |
me:mo episode 18
❧ The cultural significance of strings. ❧ Broken strings found in Vanitas still lifes. ❧ How to deal with a broken string, Marco dall’Aquila’s »Recercar senza canto«. ❧ Tuning as a metaphorical ceremony. ❧ A brand new composition. |
me:mo episode 17
❧ What Christmas means to us. ❧ – and where this feeling comes from. ❧ Piero della Francesca, Josquin Desprez, Gerard David, Arcangelo Corelli and their take on the nativity. ❧ How music transports an emotion through time. ❧ Michael Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros enstsprungen / Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming. |
me:mo episode 16
❧ The woes of making Early Music for a living. ❧ Giorgione & Marco dall’Aquila ❧ What was »The End of Early Music«? ❧ And why is it making a comeback? ❧ Digital Patronage: me:mo on Patreon. |