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3 Quarks Daily search for contributors
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One of my favourite blogs: 3 Quarks Daily is looking for New Monday ColumnistsDear…Continue
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Event Thread: June 17-19, 2010
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Welcome!"COMPOSITION is 'the assembling of musical materials, generally accessible to every musician, into a NEW order'; IMPROVISATION is 'the instantaneous realization of composition without the…Continue
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IF wiki - Volunteers Needed
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Imho, time's ripe now for a wiki entry about Improvfriday. (as a promotional tool as well)What do you think?Continue
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the Bourges (France) electroacoustic studio needs your help:read about the present situationand…Continue
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Inexpensive, effective, and utterly characteristic.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lives-remembered-john-dawkins-2157459.htmlRichard Dawkins' inspiring obituary about his fatherSee More
Lee Noyes commented on adam's blog post Some Reflections about Sound, Music and Art
"http://adagio.calarts.edu/~msabat/ms/MSwork.html = plenty to inspire... listening to acoustic midi-output piano and tuned sinetones now. Liking this..."
Carla J. Patterson commented on adam's blog post sound-only movies
"This is the best video I've seen/heard in ages. So funny! Thanks for sharing it here, Kavin. ;)"
Norbert Oldani commented on adam's blog post Some Reflections about Sound, Music and Art
"Once again: Thanks for this post Adam !!
Norbert"
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sound-only movies
Movie soundtracks have long interested Eno; early in his solo career, he released an album called Music for Film. He calls the pieces on his new CD, Small Craft on a Milk Sea, "the mirror-image of silent movies — sound-only movies."As if he were speaking about a certain IF aesthetics... :)from hereand one more:"The micro-compositions are the pieces…See More
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Music is an emotional art. You can't deny that.
What is buried in the word emotion? Motion. Movement. Sound moves. It's changing. It's an emotional art. A lot to agree and a lot to disagree with in what Dillon says in this interview. And a lot mystification of course - without that one wouldn't be able to work as a composer.Whatever you do is a rich mixture of calculation and mystery.See More
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Ed Lawes about brevity in non-tonal music
I quote his blog entry in its entirety. (Not sure yet if I agree or not - or only partly...)If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd agree with me.I've said it many times before (at a party last night for instance, fascinating company me) but now it's official.Thereare exceptions that prove the rule of course (prove as in testobviously, prove as in confirm would be a bit mental) but generallyspeaking non-tonal music is…See More
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Pop Music in Bad Times
Americans are so obsessed with escapism that they can’t even createart that resembles reality, that they’ve become so mentally derangedfrom years and years of hopes and dreams andlife-is-great-everyone-can-be-a-millionaire indoctrination that they’reunable to produce art that gives meaning to their own lives.We all know someone who’s been laid off, had their home foreclosed, lost money in the stock market, or had their 401k destroyed. Few of us have health care. And many of us are graduating…See More
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Big Words - Ana Mendieta (1996)
I'm quoting:The question of integrity in aesthetics is rather a mind boggling question for me, because I am an artist who feels that art is first of all a matter of vocation. Now vocation is a limiting factor, which extends even to the kind of art an artist is able to make. In other words, I believe an artist is limited to what he or she can give life to. I make the art I make because it's the only kind I can make. I have no choice. The Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset said: "To be a hero,…See More
Kondor IF titles Oct 2010.pdf
I'm thinking about some kind of collaboration with a video-artist who would create a movie stream and it could be presented together with the whole playlist as a 12 hour event.
Of course there is the problem of copyright in all the mixes. As I understand the rules here it was free to use them in the context of IF but the story will change if some income starts to trickle. At the moment it is just theoretical but let's talk about it before it's too late!...
I'm thinking about some kind of collaboration with a video-artist who would create a movie stream and it could be presented together with the whole playlist as a 12 hour event.
Of course there is the problem of copyright in all the mixes. As I understand the rules here it was free to use them in the context of IF but the story will change if some income starts to trickle. At the moment it is just theoretical but let's talk about it before it's too late!...
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- At 9:44am on September 5, 2010,
David John Baer McNicholas said… - hi Adam, thanks! i took that pic in my home with my cell phone. it is the sun coming under my bathroom door, close up of crack in door and floor, pic turned sideways. ;#
- At 12:40pm on January 21, 2010,
Michael Waller said…
- At 2:00pm on November 1, 2009,
J.C. Combs said… - Hey those are some good points made on your latest. Especially re: food preparation. I'd never thought of that.
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Inexpensive, effective, and utterly characteristic.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lives-remembered-john-dawkins-2157459.html
Richard Dawkins' inspiring obituary about his father
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 6:05am
sound-only movies
Movie soundtracks have long interested Eno; early in his solo career, he released an album called Music for Film. He calls the pieces on his new CD, Small Craft on a Milk Sea, "the mirror-image of silent movies — sound-only movies."
As if he were speaking about a certain IF aesthetics... :)
from here
and… Continue
As if he were speaking about a certain IF aesthetics... :)
from here
and… Continue
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 6:58am — 3 Comments
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