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“Be Free, Big Organs!”
Via bebopified.com
Apr 8
Recapping our Zorn @ 60 music marathon Saturday, Pamela Espeland writes on John Zorn’s solo midnight organ concert at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral: “It was dramatic, deeply spiritual and thrilling. Let’s start a movement. More improvised music in churches!”
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Soundings
Via nytimes.com
Apr 5
Sound is “getting recognized as a frontier,” says Barbara London, who’s curating MoMA’s upcoming Soundings: A Contemporary Score. The museum’s first big sound art show, it features recordings of, among other things, flying bats and Taiwanese factory.
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Rock Doc
Via thecurrent.org
Mar 28
In concert (ahem) with the March 31 broadcast of MN Original’s mini-documentary on Rock the Garden 2012, The Current shares a few web-only extras—footage of Doomtree, Trampled by Turtles, and Howler (covering Hüsker Dü’s “Don’t Wanna Know if You Are Lonely”).
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Open Air
Via bbc.co.uk
Mar 25
On Monday, Christian Marclay inaugurated Open Air, a weeklong series of audio interventions broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and commissioned by Artangel. His contribution: an audio collage of BBC radio figures remixed in unexpected ways.
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Bed Peace
Via imaginepeace.com
Mar 20
To celebrate their marriage on March 20, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their first Bed-In for Peace 44 years ago. Part Vietnam protest, part honeymoon, the in-bed event drew such media attention that they staged a second one in Montreal two months later.
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Yorke GIF
Via pitchfork.com
Feb 28
For electronic supergroup Atoms For Peace’s new video, “Ingenue,” Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke (AFP vocalist) delves into contemporary dance, pairing with dancer Fukiko Takase. Like many a Yorke dance move, this one, too, is now available in GIF form.
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Fade to White
Via hyperallergic.com
Feb 21
A SoHo storefront filled with records might give vinyl collectors pause: It’s stocked only with copies of the Beatles’ White Album, and none are for sale. An installation by Rutherford Chang, We Buy White Albums chronicles the use and abuse of the 1968 classic.
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DJ Dinos
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 20
Artist Dinos Chapman is “terrified” how Luftbobler, his debut album of “experimental ambient electronic noise,” will be received. “I can’t hide behind my brother. Jake and I do this thing where I can blame it on him or he can blame it on me. This is just me.”
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Band’s End
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 19
“Staff Benda Bilili, at least as we have known and loved them for the past few years, are no more.” Andy Morgan reports what happened to the Congolese group of street musicians who rose to international stardom before finances and suspicion effectively did them in.