via our twitter we have unveiled our new logo and a hint of the new look of the new Avant Media.
Friday Afternoon Links V-viii-2009
Friday Afternoon Photo Edition
First up, a couple of interesting photo-based blogs i’ve recently come across that show lovely and interesting stuff:
And secondly for a little bit of shameless self-promotion, I’ve recently taken up photography with the delightfully lo-fi Holga camera, and I’m positing the results to my Flickr.
A Massive Study in Time, Motion and Preparedness.
I’m finally back in New York after a month in my home state of Massachusetts, including two non-stop weeks in North Adams working for Nick Brooke as lead audio tech, sound designer and live mix engineer for his residency at Mass MoCA. I wish I could say I’ll have some time to relax, but I wont. While I do have some free time, though, I thought I’d share some thoughts of the last few weeks.
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Friday Afternoon Links: IX-xxvi-2008
This week’s links are minimal: it’s raining and I am exhausted – plus my bank has been seized.
Nick Brooke’s performance this weekend in Boston – Avant Media principal artist Mike Rugnetta is doing sound design and other sonic things for this performance. If you’re in the Boston area definitely go and see it.
On Attention to Detail
via Gizmodo: “Perhaps the explanation for this apparent lack of overall coherence is Android’s Design by Committee nature, something that seems to plague many of Google’s applications and most open-source projects. Hence the question: How many Google engineers does it take to tell the time?” – Read the rest of this amazing article on Gizmodo about Google Android’s attention to detail here.
Looking towards fall
I love this time of year.
Today was the first day that I really started to feel like Fall was upon us. I’m in very serious planning mode these days with a major redesign of this website, a couple of huge audition/application-based opportunities coming up, grant applications, and searching for space for a spring show focusing on text-based work, all on my plate. I have barely had time to be outside at all.
I went to meet Jo today to talk about fundraising, and as I walked up the street ran into a friend of mine who moved to NY right around the same time I did, and who I haven’t seen in probably six years. (more…)
Friday Afternoon Links: IX-v-2008
This weeks links – all music related posts this week.
My friend Kamal organized this amazing collection of covers
A great site discussing the association of time of day with Raga performance
Today is John Cage’s 96th Birthday:
John Cage concert listings directory maintained by André Chaudron
600+ year performance of Cage’s ASLSP in Germany
NYTimes review of the installation of 4’33″ at Dia Beacon
