Muziekblog 74:33 brengt playlists bij plaatjes
Dragontape is een geweldige dienst om videomixtapes mee te maken. Ik was daarom aangenaam verrast te zien dat het Italiaanse muziekblog 74:33 het gebruikt om haar muziek mee aan te bieden. Over de achtergrond van deze stijlvolle website, die de stemming van afspeellijsten verbeeldt door afbeeldingen, foto’s en illustraties:
74:33 is a music blog curated by a collective of designers, journalists, filmmakers, writers, artists and music lovers, born for sharing good music, old and brand-new, on playlist. We have a 74 minutes and 33 seconds cd per day to fill in. Time will be our only limit. We will make you listen to everything, long as it’s beautiful.
Each column is created by its own curator.”
De reden om te kiezen voor de naam 74:33 is overigens indirect te danken aan Beethoven. Het verhaal gaat dat de echtgenote van Sony-topman Norio Ohga, in 1980 de wens uitsprak Beethoven’s Negende Sympony op een cd te willen zien:
“The performance by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, lasted for 66 minutes. Just to be quite sure, a check was made with Philips’ subsidiary, Polygram, to ascertain what other recordings there were. The longest known performance lasted 74 minutes. This was a mono recording made during the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1951 and conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. This therefore became the maximum playing time of a CD. A diameter of 120 mm was required for this playing time”.
bron: Lost At E Minor
