Saturday, December 25th, 2010
Oregon artist Rose transforms a 30-voice choir into his studio for a new performance piece at Portland City Hall.
Tags: Baskaru, Create Media and Digital Culture, Ethan Rose, Flash Choir, Giuseppe Ielasi, iPods, Liz Wade, Music, Oaks, Oaks Park Rink, Oregon, Portland, Powell's Books, ProTools, Senufo, Seth Nehil, Sound Art, Umbrella Action, Washington State University
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Intransitive pals and supporters Joke Lanz, Simon Whetham, Steve Lowenthal, and more weigh in on their best anythings of the past year…
Tags: 2010, Angela Sawyer, Brainbombs, Eric Mattson, Feeding Tube Records, Hair Police, Hasil Adkins, Howard Stelzer, Joke Lanz, Jonathan Coleclough, Madeiradig, Music, No Balls, Oral Records, Otto Muehl, Pam Grier, Patrick McGinley, Simon Whetham, Sound of Siam, Steve Lowenthal, Sudden Infant, Tony Rettman, Top Ten, Weirdo Records, Why Be Something That You're Not, Yellow Tears
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
For children, nothing is a problem if you present what you know as you know it and if you don’t try to oblige them with a detached attitude.
Tags: David Dove, Education, France, Hatali Atseli, Intransitive, Jon Mueller, Knud un Nom du Serpent, Lionel Marchetti, Lyon, Michael Chion, Music, musique concrete, Round Table, Seijiro Murayama, Teaching, Vic Rawlings
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Hiroshi Kumakiri: “We’d be ecstatic if you felt a certain lovability from our song titles.”
Tags: 160/240, Alan Cummings, Angela Sawyer, Can, Hiroshi Kumakiri, Hronir, Interviews, Janus, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Meme, Musashino Art University, Music, Nerve Net Noise, Tagomago, Various Amusements
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
A conversation with Susanna Bolle, one of four members of the Non-Event group: “We try to play an active role in shaping and defining the series, rather than just putting on shows by artists who happen to be passing through town.”
Tags: Annette Klein, Ashley Paul, Back Bay, Benny Nelson, Boston, Brookline, Café Fixe, Christoph Heemann, Dan Hirsch, Danny Gromfin, Detlef Gericke-Schönhagen, Ernst Karel, Goethe-Institut Boston, improv, jazz, Maks Milstein, Massachusetts, Music, New England, noise, Non-Event, Put Me On the Guest List, Rob Forman, Susanna Bolle
Posted in Music, Put Me on the Guest List | 2 Comments »
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Jorge Boeringer, aka Core of the Coalman, talks about the experimental music scene in “the Twin Peaks of Europe”
Tags: Alvin Currin, Animal Collective, Birds Build Nests Underground, Core of the Coalman, Czech Republic, Fred Frith, Head In Body, Intransitive, Jorge Boehringer, KlangUndKrach, Le Quan Ninh, Merzbow, Milos Vojtechovsky, Music, No Pavarotti, Noyade, Opak Ptak, Pan Sonic, Peter Brotzman, Plastic People of the Universe, Prague, Radiohead, Radiolaria, Rob Mazurek, Ruinu Kaspar Von Urbach, Scene Not Heard, Sightings, Solska 28 Gallery, Sudden Infant, SunO))), the BOOM Orchestra, the Brown Bunny Ensemble, the Butthole Surfers, The Road That Leads Nowhere, Vaclav Havel, Venetian Snares, Wolf Eyes
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
Will Guthrie: “I was tired of always being in a position of asking clubowners for a gig, sending demos, trying to lie and say our music was easy to listen to, asking, hustling, trying to get a gig, It just seemed so much easier to do it ourselves.”
Tags: Apo33, Bitche, Blockhaus, Cable#, Cave12, Erell Latimer, France, Geneva, Julian Ottavi, Larsen Commercial, Manu Leduc, Melbourne, Melbourne Improvisers Association, Metz, Music, Nantes, Paris, Put Me On the Guest List, Ren Walters, Thomas Chatard, What is Music? Festival, Will Guthrie
Posted in Music, Put Me on the Guest List | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
by Mike Bullock I’m curious to know how much musicians’ relationships with their equipment is related to the music they play, and whether or not that music is “their own.” In the Autumn of 2006, I asked twenty experimental musicians about their relationships to their gear. The research was conducted in the context of a [...]
Tags: contact microphone, contrabass, Danelectro, DOD, Fielder Blank, iEAR, Intransitive, Jefferson Pitcher, LAG-26 Audio Generator, Leader Electronics Corporation, Mike Bullock, Music, Plasti-Dip, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tomie Hahn
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