Late Saturday Evening Link
Friday Afternoon Links VII-iii-2009
To honor America, may I present
An amazing look into the most deleted songs on last.fm
Anyone want to fess up to listening to some Lady GaGa?
Happy america day people.
ana baer in giessen germany
photo: Frank Sygusch
Sofia was my little assistant and we had a ball!
Links from Giessen-server.de (in German)
Friday Afternoon Links V-xxix-2009
The Recession Special edition
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.
In C – Friday Afternoon Links IV-xxiv-2009
Tonight is an epic performance of Terry Riley’s In C at Carnegie Hall.
The Kronos Quartet has assembled an absolutely amazing collection of performers including Mashkoor Ali Khan, Michael Harrison, Margaret Leng Tan, and So Percussion. This should prove to be an absolutely amazing concert. (more…)
Friday Afternoon Links IV-xvii-2009
I linked to this yesterday on my twitter account but thought it was definitely worth reposting here.
While we’re at it, Avant Media is now on Twitter – the account is still set to private while we work out some of the specifics, (we will go public with the launch of the new website) but if you’re interested in following the behind the scenes life here at Avant Media, we welcome you.
A New Way of Looking at Dance
My Friend Josephine posted this to her twitter today, and it has proved endlessly interesting.
They have also posted an interesting blog post about using this as a teaching tool. Which is a big part of what I think is so interesting about it. So many people look at modern dance and don’t necessarily understand what is going on, maybe because there’s no story being told, it’s not narrative etc. A tool like this breaks down the dance into a series of themes and connections, which is what I, as a composer, find so intriguing about writing for dance.
For those of you familiar with the protools, final cut model there is a beautiful score of the dance shown in real time that really delineates how this dance is working, and what exactly is going on.
Imagine Peace
The Imagine Peace Tower at Night
Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower is up in Reykjavík until Saturday. It is a stunning and interesting work, and there is a live webcam that is particularly amazing at night. Take a look around the Imagine Peace site. [via]
I’ve always been drawn to Ono’s work for its simplicity of vision and statement. As derided as she often is, I think she’s truly attempting to make change in this world. I have seen many of her works in person, and a truly breathtaking performance at the old Tonic on the Lower East Side a few years ago. Until you’ve experienced her work in person, and been allowed to interact with it in the way she hopes, it is difficult to see the power of her simple ideas.
