They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo
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Preisser and LaVelle: moving the 30’s and 40’s
June Preisser warming up and “getting the kinks out” in Babes in Arms (1939). Miriam LaVelle, acrobatic tap dancer routine in Seven Days Ashore (1944)
while we live, we’ll remember.
“You have to invent life.” Agnès Varda “In my mirrors I met others.” Agnès Varda “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.” Agnès Varda [in interview with Richard Williams/The Guardian, 2009] “While I Live, I Remember.” Agnès Varda
forever walking after her own freedom
«and the furthest remoteness is nearest to the nearest closeness» – Ljubica. Marić, Zapisi (Scripts) The Fantasia of Emancipated Expressiveness Whether coincidence or a sign, Ljubica Marić was born practically on then same day when the first atonal composition (Schoenberg’s Three Piano Pieces Op.11) was composed. In the time when music in Serbia was mainly focused on vocal…
Ten years ago today… a Star-Knower died. Only to give birth to future
It seems only appropriate to start this post with simply putting this here: And it would be easy to just also finish here. Because this music… it tells tales that words cannot do justice.But, as this specific piece, and performance, also carry a very personal meaning, and a tale, I will proceed. I didn’t know…
remembering. reliving. rebuilding. self.
Haukur þór Harðarson’s music balances between what is perceivable and non-perceivable, yet physically felt and present.If one would to listen to his “Through the Whole Fabric of Your Being” they would constantly be bounced and flipped between the layers of air. One of which freely moves, and the other one slowly crystalizyng in front of…
Pomen II – the seductive dance of the world of living and the world of dead
Last week tonight was THE night – had the outmost chance of listening live performance of Milica Djordjevic’s “Pomen II” for solo viola, played by Paul Beckett (ensemble recherche) at Ultraschall Berlin.And boy oh boy what a performance it was! Milica Djordjevic leads us into the intriguing coquetry of life and death. Celebration and grief.…
Farewell Jonas Mekas
I do not feel like doing anything today. I want to listen to music Jonas Mekas, the 365 Day Project – Friday January 12th 2007 http://jonasmekasfilms.com/365/day_test.php?month=1&day=12
Listening to Galaxies faraway, here and now.
I don’t think that there will ever be words accurate and nuanced enough to express the love and admiration I have and feel for Iannotta’s music, and all the “imaginatoriums” that it takes my mind to. Her sound world is so extraordinary, and extraordinarily detailed and different for each work that sort of each one…
Yes! Sa(o)undE(a)rs
“… the physicality of the listening experience becomes all the more emphasised I think through working spatially. As composers we always think of course spatially, we don’t just hear this dry thing in our head, the music does not live until it is moving and it is being carried through space and the physicality of…