Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

I've come to listening to #Bach music by being completely fascinated by "Gödel, Escher, Bach" as a teenager. Kinda cargo-culty: that's what cool nerds do, right?

But my, were they on to something!

When I need to focus and think, this is the music I put on. (The Musical Offering, Art of Fugue, Goldberg Variations ...)

Gould, Koopman, Loussier, Douglass-Ishizaka, Emerson ...

But my most recent obsession are the a-cappella versions by #SLIXS.

Oct 22, 2025 at 12:58pmWeb
Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷Oct 22, 2025

I grew up with essentially zero musical education and background: I'm not well equipped to actually make sense of what's happening to my ears beyond "it's pretty miraculous isn't it".

The first time I listened to a quadrophonic version of The Art of Fugue in a Cologne Church (I think by ... Ram Shenkar?) and was able to isolate the different streams, I started to cry.

Show threadPeter Jakobs ⛵Oct 22, 2025
@larsmb I have found that, for me, things that touch me are things that are nut just beauty but also depth - Bach has that in enigmatic ways, not in your face but for those who know how to appreciate it.
Show threadPeter Jakobs ⛵Oct 22, 2025
@larsmb and yes, GEB is the passageway for that, the book that you only enjoy if you prefer complexity over simplicity, questions over answers, woven networks over simple strings
Show threadslowtigerOct 22, 2025
@larsmb Das, äh, haben wir gemeinsam, nur hab ich ihn schon vor dem Buch gehört (und gesungen).
Show threadMaximilian WilhelmOct 22, 2025
@larsmb Do you already know McVeigh et.al.? This has become my go-to coding soundtrack 😊
Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷Oct 23, 2025
@BarbarossaTM I just wanted to check that out, but it seems there are _plenty_ of artists with "McVeigh" in the name (none "McVeigh et.al." literally).
Can you be more specific? Definitely curious!
Show threadMaximilian WilhelmOct 23, 2025
@larsmb D'oh, I copied the link, but forgot to add it to the post 😅🙈 I mean Richard McVeigh:
https://youtu.be/vIzJZsvgmJ4?si=nwjHw1N8RZwPKhob
🎵 JS Bach's Most Popular Organ Works // 32 pieces 16 Organs 12 Organists

YouTube
Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷Oct 23, 2025
@BarbarossaTM Thanks!
Show threadJens-Christian FischerOct 23, 2025
@larsmb similar story here. My parents were into classical music (and I hated it, of course) but GEB brought me to Bach as well. And since then my appreciation of (some) classical music has grown. Bach still reigns supreme though.