Catherine Anahid Berberian (July 4, 1925 – March 6, 1983) was an
American soprano and composer. She interpreted contemporary avant-garde
music composed, among others, by Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and Igor Stravinsky. She also interpreted works by Claudio Monteverdi, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Kurt Weill, Philipp Zu Eulenburg, The Beatles, folk songs from Armenia, also by the musical analyst Komitas Vartabed, and her own compositions. Her best known work is Stripsody (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds (onomatopoeia)...
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Friday 11 January 2013
Quentin Tarantino: 'I'm shutting your butt down!'
Quentin Tarantino refuses to discuss any link between movie violence and
real life violence during a heated interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
about his latest film Django Unchained
Thursday 10 January 2013
Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris
Three Kurdish women activists have been found dead with bullet wounds to the neck and chest in the Kurdistan information centre in Paris.
One of the women found in the early hours of Thursday was said to be Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK).
Officials in Turkey are currently holding talks with the PKK's jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to persuade the group to disarm. The decades-long conflict between the Turkish state and the PKK has killed about 40,000 people since the 1980s.
Another victim of the Paris shootings, Fidan Dogan, was part of the Kurdistan National Congress, based in Brussels. The third was a young activist.
The bodies were discovered on the first floor of the building in Paris's 10th arrondissement just before 2am after one woman's partner, concerned he could not contact her, called police.
The French interior minister, Manuel Valls, was at the scene and described the killings as intolerable and unacceptable. He said French anti-terror police would help with the inquiry. French police sources told reporters that the crime scene suggested "an execution", but the circumstances and motive remain unclear.
"The only certainty for the moment is that this is a triple homicide," a French police spokesperson told TF1 news.
French media reported a crowd of between 100 and 200 Kurdish people gathered in front of the building shouting slogans in support of the PKK.
Angelique Chrisafis @'The Guardian'
One of the women found in the early hours of Thursday was said to be Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK).
Officials in Turkey are currently holding talks with the PKK's jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to persuade the group to disarm. The decades-long conflict between the Turkish state and the PKK has killed about 40,000 people since the 1980s.
Another victim of the Paris shootings, Fidan Dogan, was part of the Kurdistan National Congress, based in Brussels. The third was a young activist.
The bodies were discovered on the first floor of the building in Paris's 10th arrondissement just before 2am after one woman's partner, concerned he could not contact her, called police.
The French interior minister, Manuel Valls, was at the scene and described the killings as intolerable and unacceptable. He said French anti-terror police would help with the inquiry. French police sources told reporters that the crime scene suggested "an execution", but the circumstances and motive remain unclear.
"The only certainty for the moment is that this is a triple homicide," a French police spokesperson told TF1 news.
French media reported a crowd of between 100 and 200 Kurdish people gathered in front of the building shouting slogans in support of the PKK.
Angelique Chrisafis @'The Guardian'
Michael Fassbender is...FRANK SIDEBOTTOM!
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Wednesday 9 January 2013
William S. Burroughs & Alene Lee (1953)
Photos: Allen Ginsberg
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CM von Hausswolff & Leslie Winer - I'll Be Mother
Images & Edition
Sébastien Chou
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CM von Hausswolff has just got himself into a spot of 'bother'
Sébastien Chou
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CM von Hausswolff has just got himself into a spot of 'bother'
David Bowie: The Next Day. That album cover design
Why “Heroes”?MORE
If you are going to subvert an album by David Bowie there are many to choose from but this is one of his most revered, it had to be an image that would really jar if it were subverted in some way and we thought “Heroes” worked best on all counts. Also the new album is very contemplative and the “Heroes” cover matched this mood. The song Where are we now? is a comparison between Berlin when the wall fell and Berlin today. Most people know of Bowie’s heritage in Berlin and we want people to think about the time when the original album was produced and now...
Tony Visconti On New David Bowie Material
Miles Davis - What I Say/Yesternow (Oslo, Norway 1971-11-09)
Bonus:
Directions (The Electric Factory Philadelphia November 17, 1970)
For Dave & Calypso Frelimo (Paris 1973-11-15)
Hear Some Cave Rock from Pacitan, Indonesia
In a small town in south
east Java, a family determined to preserve the local cave's endangered
cave "rock music." For more details, please visit www.mariabakkalapulo.com
(Photo by Niall Macaulay)
(Photo by Niall Macaulay)
Singers who came in from the cold
Frank Sinatra
When the Bobby Sox audience moved on Sinatra’s career went into swift decline. Re-emerged in the mid-50s with a new, sophisticated “swinging” style on In The Wee Small Hours. Now every out-of-ideas rocker makes a “swing” album.
Elvis Presley
They said “the King” was all washed up, starring in naff movies while the Beatles stole his crown. The 1968 “Comeback Special” TV show re-invented Elvis, 33, as a leather-clad rocker who had lost none of his sex appeal.
Marvin Gaye
After the 1973 triumph of "What’s Going On", Gaye became a troubled European tax exile, playing darts with locals an Ostend pub. His stunning return in 1982 with "Sexual Healing" is now the subject of a film starring Lenny Kravitz.
Kate Bush
Twelve years of silence ended when Bush emerged from a life of domestic bliss with Aerial, an ambitious double album mixing pop, classical and folk themes. Energised by the positive response, it took Bush just six years to produce its successor.
Morrissey
Languishing without a record deal for six years after a series of critical failures Morrissey’s 2004 "You Are The Quarry" album marked a surprise return to form, spawning four top ten singles and elevating the ex-Smiths singer to festival headliner status.
Leonard Cohen
Retreated to a Buddhist monastery in 1994 with little intention of performing again but embezzlement of his pension funds forced Godfather of Gloom out on tour and now is playing his finest shows, aged 78.
and then there was David Bowie
Tuesday 8 January 2013
Happy Birthday Mr. Bowie
And thank you for the new single.
From Quietus:
Joyous news this morning as we tuned into Radio 4's Today programme only to find that David Bowie has surprise released a new track at 5am to celebrate his birthday, and has a new album in 2013. Oh my! With Bowie's recent health scares, we thought that this might never happen. The Next Day will be released on March 16th 2013. Now, not that we want to speculate, but is this a fourth part to the Berlin trilogy of albums? According to the artwork on iTunes, the artwork is the same as Heroes, but with a white square and the words 'the next day' superimposed on it. Then, just listen to the Tony Visconti-produced new track 'Where Are We Now?', with it's lyrics "had to get the train / from Potsdamer Platz" and the video (see above) that features footage of Berlin, and Bowie's face projected onto a shape, by long-time collaborator Tony Oursler. The song itself, well, it's proper Bowie, but with a really gorgeous swell, and at times heart-rending reflective tone to it. Brilliant stuff. My word. Go to the Bowie website here to listen. The Telegraph quotes a "spokesman" as saying the news came "from out of nowhere", adding "Throwing shadows and avoiding the industry treadmill is very David Bowie despite his extraordinary track record that includes album sales in excess of 130 million not to mention his massive contributions in the area of art, fashion, style, sexual exploration and social commentary."
Monday 7 January 2013
♪♫ Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye - Seneca (1/1/13)
Patti and Lenny perform at the 39th Annual New Year's Day Marathon at
St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. Patti spoke of the tragedies of 2012:
Hurricane Sandy and the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. She sang this
song for the children.
Izhar cardboard bike project
Photography: Uri Ackerman
Contact for the bike: rob@cardboardtech.com
For more information and content about this project:
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Mattress Grave - Let’s Go Over Information To A Centre Of Culture
bodies that need electricity to survive, therefore libraries need electricity to live
main street looking for emergency services to continue my lifespan
trend #2 today where two hours would be incredibly beneficial
libraries that are document archive experiences
the visceral nature of this by all who can order escapist fantasies off the short order menu
getting with H. sapiens and the painstaking efforts of government service providers
higher self through self-help guides and tourist maps
paradigm of “need” changing, evolving, and is very little left in arteries
laptops with super-intelligence that provide funding for 2,509 Libraries
mind uploading, everything that was on Google circa 1999
released 06 January 2013main street looking for emergency services to continue my lifespan
trend #2 today where two hours would be incredibly beneficial
libraries that are document archive experiences
the visceral nature of this by all who can order escapist fantasies off the short order menu
getting with H. sapiens and the painstaking efforts of government service providers
higher self through self-help guides and tourist maps
paradigm of “need” changing, evolving, and is very little left in arteries
laptops with super-intelligence that provide funding for 2,509 Libraries
mind uploading, everything that was on Google circa 1999
(Thanx SJX!)
Secret and Lies of the Bailout
Wrong.
It was all a lie – one of the biggest and most elaborate falsehoods ever sold to the American people. We were told that the taxpayer was stepping in – only temporarily, mind you – to prop up the economy and save the world from financial catastrophe. What we actually ended up doing was the exact opposite: committing American taxpayers to permanent, blind support of an ungovernable, unregulatable, hyperconcentrated new financial system that exacerbates the greed and inequality that caused the crash, and forces Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to increase risk rather than reduce it. The result is one of those deals where one wrong decision early on blossoms into a lush nightmare of unintended consequences. We thought we were just letting a friend crash at the house for a few days; we ended up with a family of hillbillies who moved in forever, sleeping nine to a bed and building a meth lab on the front lawn...
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Matt Taibbi @'Rolling Stone'
The Blue Notes in Europe
ANTIBES JAZZ FESTIVAL, FRANCE
July 1964
First appearance of the Blue Notes in Europe
Chris McGregor - piano, leader; Dudu Pukwana - alto saxophone; Nick Moyake - tenor saxophone; Mongezi Feza - trumpet; Louis Moholo - drums; Johnny Dyani - bass
Nick Mokaye returns to South Africa where sadly he soon dies.
July 1964
First appearance of the Blue Notes in Europe
Chris McGregor - piano, leader; Dudu Pukwana - alto saxophone; Nick Moyake - tenor saxophone; Mongezi Feza - trumpet; Louis Moholo - drums; Johnny Dyani - bass
Nick Mokaye returns to South Africa where sadly he soon dies.
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