Brooklyn Academy of Music

Wikipedia - "Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, United States, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance. The Brooklyn Academy of Music presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in 1908. Today, BAM has a worldwide reputation as a leader in artistic innovation and has grown into a model urban arts center focused on both international issues in the arts and local community needs."
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BAM
NYT: Brooklyn Academy of Music

Rumble and Whine

"Cosmology Device is a musician of indeterminate geographic origin, based online at soundcloud.com/cosmology-device and with just two tracks to its (his? her?) credit, along with no outbound referential links to, say, Twitter or to a proper home page. The second of those two tracks, posted a few days ago, takes its name from the software that it employs, a synthesizer that takes its name from Blade Runner."
disquiet (Video)

Charlie Patton

Wikipedia - "Charlie Patton (between April 1887 and 1891 – April 28, 1934), better known as Charley Patton, was an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the 'Father of the Delta Blues', and is credited with creating an enduring body of American music and personally inspiring just about every Delta blues man (Palmer, 1995). Musicologist Robert Palmer considers him among the most important musicians that America produced in the twentieth century. Many sources, including musical releases and his gravestone, spell his name 'Charley' even though the musician himself spelled his name 'Charlie'."
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Charley Patton - Delta School
Charlie Patton – Folksinger
YouTube: Spoonful Blues (Delta Blues 1929), Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues, Going To Move To Alabama, I'm Goin' Home, Some These Days I'll Be Gone, Magnolia blues, Banty rooster blues, Hang It On The Wall, Oh Death (C. Patton & Bertha Lee), Heart Like Railroad Steel, High Water Everywhere

The King of Marvin Gardens

Wikipedia - "The King of Marvin Gardens is a 1972 American drama film. It stars Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn and Scatman Crothers. It is one of several collaborations between Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson. The majority of the film is set in a wintry Atlantic City, New Jersey, with the plot and the cinematography by László Kovács."
Wikipedia
Roger Ebert
Criterion Files #550: ‘The King of Marvin Gardens’ Explores What Remains of an Old Hollywood
Criterion: The King of Marvin Gardens, Bob Rafelson
Criterion: The King of Marvin Gardens: A Killing
YouTube: Atlantic City
The Daily Motion: Opening

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

"From The Museum of Modern Art's founding by three pioneering women in 1929 to the disruptions and interventions of the 1960s and 1970s by women artists drawing attention to their own lack of representation in the Museum to contemporary work by women of the postfeminist generation, the history of women at MoMA is inextricable from the history of the institution. Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art, a groundbreaking examination of the Museum's collection, looks at work over the course of this history, by the modern and contemporary women artists whose diversity of practices and contributions to the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century have been enormous, if often underrecognized."
MoMA
MoMA: Jackie Winsor (Video)
MoMA: Art and Everyday Spaces (Video), Modern Women Through MoMA’s History, Riot on the Page: Thirty Years of Zines by Women
Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art
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The Technology of Tears - Fred Frith

Wikipedia - "The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre) is a double album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is the first of a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made, and is sometimes subtitled Music for Dance volume 1. ... Frith composed all the music and plays most of the instruments, with assistance from John Zorn, Tenko Ueno, Christian Marclay and Jim Staley."
Wikipedia
amazon
YouTube: Extract of a film by Pierre Hébert with music, dance piece by Rosalind Newman, The Technology of Tears 1:00:21

Influences: Steve Reich

"In preparation for the 2012 Bloc Festival, organizers interviewed the headliners, including pioneering electroacoustic and classical composer Steve Reich. Reich talks about the relationship between West African and Balinese music and his early tape loop music. He goes on to discuss how this affected his early works. Reich’s work has been tremendously influential in electronic music, and is echoed in works by Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield, The Orb and many others."
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Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

Wikipedia - "Unknown Pleasures is the debut album by the English post-punk band Joy Division, released in 1979 through Factory Records. Martin Hannett produced the record at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England. The album sold poorly upon release, but due to the subsequent success of Joy Division with the 1980 single 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', Unknown Pleasures is now better known. Factory boss Tony Wilson had so much faith in the band that he contributed his £8,500 life savings toward the cost of producing the initial run of 10,000 copies of the album."
Wikipedia
amazon
Pitchfork
Joy Division Central
YouTube: Disorder, Day of the Lords - Apollo Theatre, Manchester, 28.10.1979, Transmission, She's Lost Control (1979 TV show), Dead Souls, New Dawn Fades, Shadowplay

2008 March: Ian Curtis
2009 August: Factory: Manchester From Joy Division To Happy Mondays
2010 November: Love Will Tear Us Apart
An Ideal for Living EP

Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike - John Wieners

"John Wieners’ Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike was printed by Good Gay Poets out of Boston in December 1975. It is described by Wieners on its title page as 'A collection of poetry written by John Wieners in the The United States. Cinema decoupages; verses, abbreviated prose insights.' It feels appropriate to be discussing this book under the heading of craftwork, as so many of its finest attributes, (voice, velocity and variety) have found their way into not just into my own work but also that of my contemporaries."
Poetry Foundation
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2009 December: John Wieners
2011 May: John Wieners: June 21, 1959

Les Mains Noires

"LesMainsNoires.blogspot.net is a project with multiple facets destined to all curious and to music & images lovers. In a society where culture is hidden by a mass education, it seems necessary to me to contribute, to my scale, to preservation and
sharing of world musical patrimony. That's why this place is dedicated to worldwide forgotten musical gems, contemporary music company and people who give their life to find, preserve and share music & culture."
Les Mains Noires (Video)
YouTube: Papa Yankson - Wogye W'enyaado - Obi Pe Wo A Pen Bi (Medley), Kamal Ahmed feat. Noor Jehan - I Am Very Sorry, Ama Maiga - Deny Tologuelen, Robert Loison - Jean Fouillé Pie Foui, Fred Williams & The Jewel Band - Tell Her, L'Orchestre Kanaga De Mopti - Kanaga

Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia

Paul Gauguin: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1898)
"The theme of an earthly paradise, or Arcadia, has been popular in theater, poetry, music, and art since antiquity. In France during the early 1900s, this idea of a mystical place of contentment and harmony was especially potent--illustrated in mural-sized paintings which were often commissioned for public viewing."
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Yale: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse, Visions of Arcadia
ArtFinder

Henry Hills

"Henry Hills has made 22 short experimental films since 1975. ... He received an M.F.A. in filmmaking in 1978 from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied with James Broughton, George Kuchar, and Hollis Frampton. His early San Francisco films (Porter Springs 1-3 and the North Beach series) are ornate, intensely rhythmic single-frame silent landscape studies."
Henry Hills
PennSound: Henry Hills - Experimental Video and Film (Video)
amazon: Henry Hills: Selected Films 1977-2008
YouTube: Gotham, SSS

Shemekia Copeland

Wikipedia - "Shemekia Copeland (born April 10, 1979)[2] is an American electric blues vocalist. Copeland was born in Harlem, New York City, United States. She is the daughter of Texas blues guitarist and singer Johnny Copeland. She began to pursue a singing career in earnest at age 16, when her father's health began to decline; he took Shemekia on tour as his opening act, which helped establish her name on the blues circuit."
Wikipedia
YouTube: Never Going Back to Memphis, Beat Up Old Guitar 2001, Shemekia Copeland & Robert Cray - I Pity The Fool, Turn the Heat Up, My own tears, Talking to Strangers, When A Woman's Had Enough, The Other Woman, Lionel Hampton

Beautiful Abandoned Train Stations From All Over the World

Abandoned Station in Abkhazia
"Here at Flavorpill, we’re suckers for gorgeous photographs of abandoned and decaying spaces, and of course, for lovely architecture, no matter what state it’s in. Recently, we showed you some of the most beautiful train stations in the world – but what happens when those gorgeous places run their course? Though much beautiful architecture tends to fall to pieces beautifully, we think there’s something particularly fascinating about looking at a place that was once such a bustling center of activity after it has gone to seed, a specific feeling of lack that imbibes the place with an eerie glow."
Flavorpill

The Gladiators

Wikipedia - "The Gladiators are a Jamaican roots reggae band, most popular during the 1970s. The core was Albert Griffiths (guitarist and singer), Clinton Fearon (bassist and singer) and Gallimore Sutherland rhythm guitar and singer. The two most famous albums are Trenchtown Mix Up (1976) and Proverbial Reggae (1978) with songs as 'Hearsay', 'Jah Works', 'Dreadlocks the Times is Now'. 'Mix Up', 'Music Makers from Jamaica', and 'Soul Rebel' – a song written by The Wailers. Gladiators also cooperated with the toaster U-Roy."
Wikipedia
last.fm
YouTube: The Gladiators recording session, Soul Rebel, Jah Works, Look Is Deceiving, Jah Jah Time has come, The rich man poor man, The Race, Man of Stone, No Wrong Ideas, Get Ready

Realism

Woman with a Rake, 1856–57 - Jean-François Millet
Wikipedia - "Realism in the visual arts and literature refers to the general attempt to depict subjects as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation and 'in accordance with secular, empirical rules.' ... Realism often refers more specifically to the artistic movement, which began in France in the 1850s. Realism in France appears after the 1848 Revolution. These realists positioned themselves against romanticism, a genre dominating French literature and artwork in the late 18th and early 19th centuries."
Wikipedia
Realism (1850-1880)
Met Museum: Nineteenth-Century French Realism

Johnny Cash Show Compilation

"Skillful, top notch compilation of many of the classic moments from Johnny Cash's eponymous TV program, including those from: The Monkees, Roy Clark, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, Carl Perkins, Stevie Wonder, Roy Orbison, CCR, Bob Dylan, and Derek and the Dominos."
YouTube

Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City

"Artist Tomás Saraceno (born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973) will create a constellation of large, interconnected modules constructed with transparent and reflective materials for the Museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Visitors may enter and walk through these habitat-like, modular structures grouped in a nonlinear configuration. Over the past decade, Saraceno has established a practice of constructing habitable networks based upon complex geometries and interconnectivity that merge art, architecture, and science."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Video)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Installation Photos
NYT: Futuristic Aerie With a Park View
YouTube: 'Cloud City' on NYC's Met Museum's Rooftop

The Bob Moog Doodle Synthesizer

"In celebration of Bob Moog's Birthday, Google created a web based synthesizer for the world to enjoy. Moog's Chief engineer Cyril Lance overviews the doodle' s capabilities to help you get started crafting sounds. Now everyone can explore the wonders of subtractive synthesis and express their creativity by sculpting sounds. Remember, experimentation and learning will reward you with a lifetime of rich synthesizer experiences."
The Bob Moog Doodle Synthesizer (Video)
Moog Music: Google Doodle How
YouTube: Cumbias En Moog "Cumbia De Sal"
Soundcloud: Nina's Space (she 3 August)

2011 April: Minimoog

MoMA's 'Dial-A-Poem' Brings You Ecstatic Language On The Go

"A new installation at the Museum of Art in New York, titled, "Dial-a-Poem" brings ecstatic poetry to you online or over the phone at any time of the day or night. Siri just can't compete with the voice of Kathy Acker or Vito Acconci, can she? John Giorno started 'Dial-a-Poem' in 1969, when poetry was concerned with expressing the mundane in modern life. ... 'Dial-a-Poem' brings you a random poem read aloud by its poet; the list of possibles includes Frank O'Hara, William Burroughs, John Ashbery, Deborah Harry, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, David Byrne and many more."
MoMA's 'Dial-A-Poem' Brings You Ecstatic Language On The Go
Poetry Foundation: “Become Your Own Yawn”
MoMA: "Ecstatic Alphabet / Heaps of Language" (Video)

2009 May: Giorno Poetry Systems

Diamonds in the Rough - John Prine

Wikipedia - "Diamonds in the Rough is the second studio album by American country/folk singer-songwriter John Prine, released in 1972."
Wikipedia
amazon
YouTube: Everybody, Clocks and Spoons, Sour Grapes, The Frying Pan, The Great Compromise, Rocky Mountain Time

2010 February: John Prine
2011 October: John Prine

Ellen Phelan

Michael's Birthday Party, 2005
"Encyclopedia of Drawing, 1964 - 2012. Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert are pleased to present the first major survey of Ellen Phelan’s works on paper from 1964 to the present. As Phelan says, 'Shifts in my work always take shape on paper first,' and this 'encyclopedia' exhibition features more than 130 works in a variety of media including oil, watercolor, pastel and gouache, as well as encaustic, stencil rubbings, sumi ink, cut and folded pieces, and collage."
Ellen Phelan
The Brooklyn Rail - ELLEN PHELAN Landscapes and Still Lifes: A Selection
Susanne Hilberry Gallery

Gerhard Merz

"Since the late sixties of the last century Gerhard Merz has been developing a concept of painting in his art which is strongly influenced by architecturally oriented thought and the concept of the refinement of the developed work rather than merely a new arrangement. His work is infused with the conviction that it is modernism, which uses architectonic means and follows the conventions inherent in art, e.g. dimension, color, light, area, and space, that makes possible the form of abstraction in which no myths or surrogate realities are capable of making the sought-after void ineffectual."
Kunsthaus Bregenz: Gerhard Merz
Schellmann Art
YouTube: Measure Color Light

Pina Bausch - Walzer (1982)

"Pina Bausch rehearses the choreography for WALZER. Witness the development of a piece of dance theatre and feel the pulse of the town of Wuppertal in the early 1980s."
Goethe Institut
Tanztheater Wuppertal: Walzer (1982)
YouTube: Walzer, 1
Sohu: Walzer

2008 May: Pina Bausch
2009 June: Pina Bausch, 1940-2009

Friends of The Rub – Waajeed

"Waajeed needs little introduction to music fans, as his work over the years as a producer has spawned absolute classics such as The Platinum Pied Pipers first album, Triple P, as well as Dwele’s first release, Rize. The man has had his footprint in such an incredible era of music, working with the likes of J-Dilla, Roy Ayers, Slum Village, and countless others. He has relaunched his website Bling47.com and since he has, it has become mandatory for any music lover to bookmark this site."
The Rub (YouTube)
W - Waajeed
Bling47
YouTube: Beat Digging w/ Waajeed, At Guitar Center with Waajeed

Cassiber

Wikipedia - "Cassiber were a German avant-rock group founded in 1982 by German composer and saxophonist Alfred Harth, German composer, music-theatre director and keyboardist Heiner Goebbels, English drummer Chris Cutler from Henry Cow and German guitarist Christoph Anders. They recorded five albums, toured extensively across Europe, Asia and North America, and disbanded in 1992. Cassiber's music was a blend of speed-punk, free jazz and sampling which incorporated found sounds and news broadcasts. They were best known for the 'frantic intensity' of their live performances."
Wikipedia
last.fm
Cassiber
The Modern Word
ReR - CASSIBER: The CASSIBER box
YouTube: Brasil, Not me, At Last I Am Free, Copy Machine, Cielo Inquieto

(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais / The Prisoner - The Clash

Wikipedia - "'(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais' is a song by the English punk rock band The Clash. It was originally released as a 7-inch single, with the b-side 'The Prisoner', on 17 June 1978 through CBS Records. ... The song showed considerable musical and lyrical maturity for the band at the time and is stylistically more in line with their version of Junior Murvin's 'Police and Thieves' as the powerful guitar intro of '(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais' descends into a slower ska rhythm, and was disorienting to a lot of the fans who had grown used to their earlier work."
Wikipedia
YouTube: White Man in Hammersmith Palais, The Prisoner

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936

"Following the chaos of World War I, a move toward figuration, clean lines, and modeled form emerged, as many artists chose to represent the body whole and intact. For the next decade-and-a-half, classicism, a “return to order,” and enduring values would dominate the discourse of contemporary art. Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936 traces this interwar aesthetic."
Guggenheim (Video)
amazon
The Brooklyn Rail
NYT: When the Artists Voted for the Politics of Order

Tom Johnson - Rational Melodies

"Using a variety of compositional techniques based on mathematical and algorithmic manipulations, the American composer Tom Johnson has devoted his career to exploring musical analogs to fractal self-similarity, first described in the mid-1970s in the groundbreaking work of Benoit Mandelbrot. One simple example of this kind of technique is to define a set of rules for replacing individual elements with sets of other elements, and then applying these rules repeatedly to create nested self-similar structures."
Acousmata - Tom Johnson: VI3, From the album Rational Melodies (Video)
Tom Johnson, Rational Melodies
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CD: Rational Melodies [Dedalus]
YouTube: Rational Melodie, 3, 1, Andrew McIntosh and the Rational Melodies Micro Concerts

2011 February: Tom Johnson

Clark Remix

"Clark Remix immerses you in a gallery filled with more than 80 paintings, nearly 20 sculptures, and more than 300 decorative arts objects from the Clark's permanent collection. The exhibition is both a physical reality and a virtual space, featuring a dynamic salon-style installation and two new digital applications that offer exciting ways to engage with the collection."
Sterling and Francine, Clark Art Institute
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