“Children need art and stories and poems and music as much as they need love and food and fresh air and play… … We say, correctly, that every child has a right to food and shelter, to education, to medical treatment, and so on. We must understand that every child has a right to the…
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Enchanting and whimsical: Suzanne Ciani’s Buchla Concertos, here to stay
The enchanting and whimsical “Buchla Concerts” (1975) of Suzanne Ciani – the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. “… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational…
“some very nice things are prickly, I’ve heard”
“Some of us who write music today, we don’t write very far out music, we don’t write very populist music, we write what we believe in and to communicate a vision. … Our music is to be used, we write it for us and sometimes it’s a little prickly but some very nice things are prickly,…
“Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.”
“What is art?,” asked Tarkovksy. “Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.” “Never try to convey your idea to the audience,” said Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, “—it is a thankless and senseless…
Reiter’s “Lichtenberg Figures”
Have you ever thought how would it be if you could see the process of thought, the process of thinking? How would it feel? To be inside a brain. To see it in all its glorious action. Experiencing the performance, looking and listening, of the “Lichtenberg Figures” it was as close to this experience. The…
a romance in lower mathematics
“Based on the book by Norton Juster from 1963, this 1965 short film won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Created by classic animation artist Chuck Jones, the story was inspired by the Victorian novella “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions,” in which the protagonist visits a one-dimensional universe called Lineland, where women are…
Balance
Balance is a German surrealist stop-motion animated film, released in 1989. It was directed and produced by twin brothers Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein.
Interpretations. The Reader
Following the festival that took place in December 2014, Q-O2, has put together a publication highlighting different positions towards the topic of interpretation. It is an excellent read, with contributions by Christoph Cox, Camille Henrot, Roland Barthes, Giaco Schiesser, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval & Ivan Palacký, Andrea Neumann & Christian Kesten & Labor Sonor, Jennifer Walshe, Franziska…
A different kind of Vortex
So this curious speckle was on Friday at WIELS for Rosas+ICTUS’ Work/Travail/Arbeid. Although I could only spend couple of hours, in a way I think I had the luck to experience to quite an extent the piece. The work. Coming to the exhibition, I tried having as little expectations possible – as difficult as that…
Wrapped in Sound
Have you ever wondered how it would be if you could see a sound and all its spectra… How would it look if you could be wrapped in it and by it and while being in this sonic whirlwind see it, in pixels… Listening to Cindy Castillo and Aurélie Franck, in Claude Ledoux’s “Notizen-Fragmente” and…