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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Mueck
Artist Ron Mueck currently has an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. I find his out-of-proportion yet hyper-realistic sculptures fascinating to look at. Here’s a behind-the-scenes slideshow of how the exhibition was installed. Bonus: video filmed during Ron Mueck’s residency at … Continue reading
Posted in Visual Arts
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Modern Day Varèse
Interesting review of a recent concert by the Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble performing Edgard Varèse. A notable quote: Having grown up surrounded by hiphop, industrial, and electronica, these kids find nothing unusual in the idea of a piece … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music
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СпиÑок форумов!
Информационный форум. ЗдеÑÑŒ вÑе желающие могут размещать актуальную информацию (Ñтатьи, интервью etc.) о Заппе и музыкантах когда-либо Ñотрудничающих Ñ Ð½Ð¸Ð¼! So yeah, I had no idea there was a zappa.ru. :)
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Misc
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The Voice Of Cheese: Joe Cronin
It’s a joyous day here at KUR as we kick off our Voice Of Cheese series! The first contribution comes from Joe Cronin. Joe says: It’s pretty strange but seems to have a circular sort of logic about it… I … Continue reading
Posted in Music, The Voice Of Cheese
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Announcing The Voice Of Cheese!
Now then: about that poll. At this time of writing, out of 257 voters, 39% (a nominal 99 votes) declared they not only play music, but have recorded some of it as well. The plan, as obvious as it must … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Site News, The Voice Of Cheese
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400 Electric Guitars
That’s what musician/composer Rhys Chatham needed for a piece entitled “A Crimson Grail Part One”. Download the whole thing here and while you’re at it, read this review. (via)
Posted in Music
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Kent Ohio ’73
Someone somewhere must have been extra nice to Barry this week; not only did I get bread with my gruel, but he also insisted that this week’s show should be May 1st 1973. And, as Barry always gets what he … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
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How Does Ry Cooder Use iTunes?
Like so: Then Mr. Cooder noticed something else: When he burned a copy of the album using Apple’s iTunes software, it sounded fine. He didn’t know why until one of his younger engineers told him that the default settings on … Continue reading
Posted in Music
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12 Questions For Pete Townshend
Via Here Comes The Flood, 12 questions for Pete Townshend: Our music was quite vengeful in a way. The uplifting subtext came from a mixture of humour and a genuine belief that music could set us all free. It seems … Continue reading
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God Hates Fags: News At Eleven
Get this (via): One of the most dangerous ways homosexuality invades family life is through popular music. Parents should keep careful watch over their children’s listening habits, especially in this Internet Age of MP3 piracy. … which I guess pairs … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Sex, Silly
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Modernism In Music
Bernard sent in this link which I thought was an interesting read: Music is the Healing Force of the Universe: Why is that modernism in the visual arts has received so more widespread acceptance than modernism in music? Virtually everyone … Continue reading
Captain Midnight
A creepy incident occurred at Chicago’s WGN-TV on 22/11/’87: The pictures on the station monitors in the studio suddenly began to jitter and twitch. Across Chicago, countless other televisions did the same, as Dan’s clips of the Bears game were … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Pop Cult
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Geni
Build your own family tree online: Geni. How long before someone signs up as Dweezil?
Posted in Geek
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