2017-08-24

International Strange Music Day

Strange Loops for Strange Times - Patrick Grant and his Orchestra

    
One of those things I have always taken pride in are my esoteric tastes in artistic pursuits. I am teased at work over the electronic pieces of ambient and psych music I listen to routinely because they invoke some counter culture visions in a few of my cohorts.

Be all of this as it may, I certainly do not intend to stop listening to them and I find much of those selections a source of soothing relaxation in the midst of a tumultuous work day of code and technical issues surrounding me.

Strange Music Day is a vision of professional musician Patrick Grant. Among his endeavors are Strange Music Inc, a vehicle through which he releases compelling works and recordings. The crux of the theme of Strange Music Day involves listening to recordings you've never heard before ... and he is quite the broad spectrum diversified Julliard graduate involved in marking this day since August 24, 1998.

Over the years his celebration has been embraced by a number of radio stations and school programs and it never hurts to immerse yourself in something new and artistically relevant as well as technically worthy.