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posted by netbros
on Nov 6, 2011 -
5 comments
"The day with its cares and perplexities is ended and the night is now upon us. The night should be a time of peace and tranquility; a time to relax and be calm. We have need of a soothing story to banish the disturbing thoughts of the day, to set at rest our troubled minds, and put at ease our ruffled spirits. And what sort of story shall we hear? Ah, it will be a familiar story. A story that is so very, very old, and yet it is so new. It is the old, old story of …" the
2012/13 touring production of
Einstein on the Beach.
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posted by williampratt
on Mar 2, 2011 -
21 comments
Minimal origami is paper folding with just one fold. A single fold in a piece of paper is enough to make a
swan or an interesting
curve. Notably,
Paul Jackson has made beautiful one crease origami structures.
posted by twoleftfeet
on Jan 31, 2010 -
16 comments
Terry Riley celebrates
the 45th anniversary of his groundbreaking composition,
In C. A major work in the history of
minimalist music, In C has an incredibly flexible
score and performance guidelines, which have inspired many musicians to make their own versions, including a
French guitar quintet, a
traditional Chinese orchestra, a
keyboard ensemble, an
all-synthesizer group,
CalArts Music students,
French-Canadian hippies, a
Danish vocal and percussion ensemble, another
percussion ensemble,
Japanese acidheads, a
"laptop orchestra", the
Bang on a Can Orchestra, and a
rock "orchestration" by the Styrenes. No two versions can sound exactly the same, but it's still an open question how they will compare to the performance of In C at its
Carnegie Hall debut next month. No recording of the original 1964 performance has ever been publicly released, but some eyewitness accounts can be found
here.
posted by jonp72
on Mar 4, 2009 -
40 comments
Counting in groups of 12 the first performer claps on 1,2,3,5,6,8,10 and 11. The second performer starts by clapping the same pattern but gradually shifts the pattern one step to the right. You are playing
Steve Reich's clapping music. If you are serious you will want to study the
score - and perhaps a
watch a performance). If you are happen to be Evelyn Glennie you can have a go at
both parts at once. - those slightly less more mortal are likely to end up like
this.
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posted by rongorongo
on Jan 14, 2008 -
25 comments
"“If the book were to be published as it is in its present edited form, I may never write another story, that’s how closely, God Forbid, some of those stories are to my sense of regaining my health and mental well-being.”
The New York Times
reported today that Raymond Carver's widow, Tess Gallagher, is pushing to republish the stories in Carver's acclaimed 1981 breakout collection, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," in their original, unedited form.
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posted by sock it to me monkey
on Oct 17, 2007 -
25 comments
MNMLST POETRY is an essay by
Bob Grumman about a strand of poetry that he claims is "unacclaimed but flourishing". Here are poems in this vein by
Aram Saroyan (
2),
jwcurry,
LeRoy Gorman,
bpNichol,
Michael Basinski,
John M. Bennett,
Karl Young,
John Martone,
Ian Hamilton Finlay and finally some
mathemaku by Bob Grumman, the essay's author.
posted by Kattullus
on Jun 8, 2005 -
12 comments
For over a decade,
reclusive Berliners Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald have published a distinctive style of minimalist techno through
Basic Channel and several other labels based out of
their record store. In 1996, they expanded into dub with
Burial Mix, a series of 10"s featuring long-lost reggae vocalists. (They've also begun reissuing out-of-print releases by NYC's
Wackies.) Although their vinyl-centric releases have always been relatively underground, they may soon be reaching a wider audience thanks to a domestic (US) release of their latest CD comp by
Asphodel. Also see the latest issue of
The Wire for a new quasi-interview.
posted by hyperizer
on Oct 3, 2003 -
15 comments
