Collapse Imminent or perpetuum equilibrium?
Those are Michael Kontopoulos'wooden sculpture. They will collapse? Or Can we trust on a perpetuum equilibrium? Machines that Almost Fall Over from Michael Kontopoulos on Vimeo .
Posts
Steve Reich Awarded Pulitzer Prize
Steve Reich has been awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece Double Sextet: "a major work that displays an ability to channel an initial burst of energy into a large-scale musical event, built with masterful control and consistently intriguing to the ear." (Pulitzer citation)
John Zorn on Equinox Festival
The line-up for Equinox, a new UK festival dedicated to “spiritual discovery and mystical tradition” will have John Zor n along with z’ev , Rob Mazurek and many others. Personally, I got really curious about Pestrepeller , an experimental drone-rock Noise group made up with musicians, broadcasters, writers and designers, including Edwin Pouncey (aka Savage Pencil). Equinox - London, Conway Hall, 12–14 June EquinoxFestival.org
New Tom Waits bio
The May issue of The Wire is out now! On the Print Run section there is a new biography of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns - Lowside Of The Road: A Life Of Tom Waits : "A ventriloquist, but no dummy" ! The Wire - May 2009
Little red riding hood as a collection of infographs
A geek dad must have a collection of infographs. You never know when you will need them. This vision of little red riding hood is simply essential. Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo . Via INFOGRAFANDO
Amos Oz, Israel's voice of reason: I'm a peacenik, not a pacifist
Some highlights from an impressive interview with Israeli writer Amoz Oz at The Independent : about his own life and the tragedy between Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Arab. "It's a tragedy, because it is a clash between right and right. The Israelis are in Israel because they have nowhere else to go. The Palestinians are in Palestine because they have nowhere else to go. This is a conflict between victims, and between people who both have a just claim to the land." "The tragedy is that these people believe they are motivated by the best in human nature." "I think a two-state solution is inevitable. The Israeli Jews are not going anywhere. There are five and a half million of us, and we're not going anywhere – we don't have anywhere to go. The Palestinian Arabs are not going anywhere, either – they don't have anywhere to go. " "Hamas fired some 10,000 rockets on southern Israel, where I live. And I don't think any country in the wo...
Playing the dance. Erkki Kurenniemi's video camera organ
Erkki Kurenniemi is a key name in the history of electronic music. He founded the electronic music studio for the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki in the early 1960s. Kurenniemi built several electronic instruments and one of his most ambitious project was the video synthesizer DIMI-O (1970-1971) that converts movements recorded by a video camera into instaneous music compositions. According to Wikipedia , "Kurenniemi created the first commercially manufactured and marketed microcomputer in 1973,two years before the American MITS Altair 8800".