February 2012
12 posts
January 2012
47 posts
Philip Guston short documentary
simonredekop:
On Yayoi Kusama's autobiography
lareviewofbooks:
SHARON MIZOTA on Yayoi Kusama’s autobiography. Stars Infinity (A.B.C), 2003 © Yayoi Kusama Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama Translated by Ralph McCarty University of Chicago Press, January 2012. 256 pp. Discussions of Yayoi Kusama must inevitably reckon with the state of the artist’s mental health. The 82-year-old...
Letter From Detroit
lareviewofbooks:
INGRID NORTON writes us from the Motor City. I was sitting in the Telway diner around the edge of midnight. The Telway is a story in itself: a chrome island built during the 1940s, floating on a blighted stretch of Michigan Avenue. Telway is staffed by the Appalachian whites who long ago moved to Detroit for work and, more recently, to the suburbs to live. It’s open 24 hours...
Low Brow Eye: Electronic music pioneer Suzanne... →
Another pioneer of synth sound, Suzanne Ciani. 2012 will be the biggest year yet for women + synths, I predict.
shakermakerpr:
LOS ANGELES, CA, January 6, 2012 - An intriguing and historically significant retrospective of unreleased material from electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani, Lixiviation, due February 28 on B-Music/ Finders Keepers Records, is a fascinating compilation of…
“New music is experimental until it is proven.” - Stan Kenton, Downbeat, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1965 “At my best, I’d like to consider myself a free player… I just want to be able to recreate my moods or at least have my mind open enough so that I can do what I want, so that I can hear or conceive of what I want, even if I can’t reproduce it. This is my freedom.” - Herbie Hancock, Downbeat,...
Daphne Oram →
Another pioneer in visual and electronic sound making.
Folk For All: Alfred Deller →
Finally found a good Alfred Deller collection. Traditional lute songs, this guy is the epitome of countertenor.