July 2010
23 posts
“Odysseus would never have to be tied to the ship mast when the sirens were...”
– Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dover Beach, op. 29 by Samuel Barber →
Conservatory students of the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia) performed a concert on March 15, 2010 celebrating the centenary of American composer Samuel Barber’s birth, at the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium. I captured the concert with a modest one-camera setup. The performers of this work are: Thomas Shivone, bass-baritone Jeoung-Yin Kim, violin Rebecca...
Grinderman - When My Love Comes Down (Treacle Session) Source: vimeo.com The Treacle Sessions feature Grinderman playing live in a tiny east London studio. The performance was filmed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. Grinderman are Nick Cave, Martyn Casey, Warren Ellis and Jim Sclavunos. www.grinderman.com
Bliss. The board of directors at work. Brilliant camerawork/editing by Forsyth/Pollard.
Hamac Cazíim Documentary Stills →
Op-Ed Contributor - No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class - NYTimes.com
Source: www.nytimes.com
A “female Viagra” won’t cure what ails America’s bedrooms.
Another insightful op-ed piece by the brilliant Camille Paglia.
Chuck Close (and more) at the Corcoran →
Today (Sunday, July 18) is the last day of a wonderful convergence at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Although you would most associate the museum with “static” art, for the past few months…
Laurie Anderson →
The blog has been rather catatonic for the past few weeks, essentially fulfilling that stereotype of the medium: new blogs get-it-on for just a few months, because everything’s fresh - but after…
Production Stills from "R. Luke DuBois: Running... →
WatchA little while ago, I set my thirteen-year-old nephew up with some modest facilities for composing electronic music, in a redux of my sullen childhood. He came back with a “debut album,” so: for the occasion of his fourteenth birthday (and also to terrorize his younger sister, like any good uncle), I couldn’t resist cutting this short little video to his music. I had just...
Finland the first country in the world to make broadband access a legal right — Engadget
Source: www.engadget.com
We knew this was coming, but starting today, every citizen of Finland has the legal right to a 1Mbps broadband connection, meaning that providers are
How Wagner Called Hollywood’s Tune - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.com
Source: ideas.blogs.nytimes.com
Friday | Today’s idea: The composer Richard Wagner, pioneer of leitmotif and the grand synthesis of performance arts, is also the father of the modern film score, an article says. [http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/17/entertainment/la-et-wagner-movies-20100617“>Los...
DIRTY PROJECTORS + BJORK :: Store
Source: app.topspin.net
This studio recording has just gone on sale today, and all proceeds benefit a project of creating international marine protected areas. Bjork’s involvement hearkens to “Medulla,” her a capella experimentations a few years ago.
