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Peter Gabriel, Zoe Keating & Lera Auerbach, Spontaneous Improvisation at Piano Bar #davos14

Bleepmachine reissues Readymade FC's folktronica classic album "Babilonia" in an updated version including a bonus track and a digital booklet. Originally released in 2005 the Bleepmachine label under exclusive licence to Peacefrog.
(P) & (C) 2014 Bleepmachine

A Fire in the Forest (feat. David Sylvian)

Ever since her early works, such as Eat 22 (for which she photographed everything she ate for a year), there has been a blurring between Ellie Harrison’s life and work, and an ongoing struggle to balance the two. Over the last six years, as her work has become more politicised, she has developed ever more extreme systems and rules to enable her to live her values (minimise her impact on the world) and be as efficient as possible (maximise her work time) – pushing out all unnecessary objects and relationships as a result. In this talk, as part of Artquest’s Practice 360° programme, she will discuss how this rational path of continual ‘progress’ became ultimately, ironically, ‘unsustainable’, and how at a certain point she had to try to learn to compromise in order to survive.

Practice 360 with Ellie Harrison - Ethics: Extremism and Compromise

From Avenue B to Bushwick: Kathy Kirkpatrick tells us about the final days of her Life Cafe in the East Village and essayist Tim Kreider tells us about his exile in Bushwick. Plus your host tries to make sense of the first time he got a glimpse of the new New York at a party in late September 2008.

New York After Rent (part 2 of 3)

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Texitorial - Nick Wales & Sarah Blasko

Modul 26 /// Nik Bärtsch

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/28/orson-welles-reads-walt-whitman-song-of-myself/

CONTEXT / POEM TEXT

Orson Welles reads Walt Whitman

I'll remember Jóhann Jóhannsson for saving my life a lot.

01. Odi Et Amo (»Englabörn«, Touch 2002)
02. I Am Here (Salve Regina) (»I Am Here« with BJ Nilsen, Ash International 2014)
03. Virðulegu Forsetar II (»Virðulegu Forsetar«, Touch 2004)
04. Fordlandia (»Fordlandia«, 4AD 2008)
05. The Cause of Labour Is the Hope of the World (»The Miners’ Hymns«, 130701 2011)
06. The Sun’s Gone Dim and the Sky’s Turned Black (Live) (»IBM 1401, A User’s Manual«, 4AD 2017 [Extended Reissue])
07. A Song for Europa (»Orphée«, Deutsche Grammophon 2016)
08. The Stairs (»The Theory of Everything«, Music On Vinyl 2015)
09. End (Snowing) (»...And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees«, Type 2009)
10. Bað (»Englabörn«, Touch 2002) 
11. Maria Driving (»I Am Here« with BJ Nilsen, Ash International 2014)
12. Flight From the City (»Orphée«, Deutsche Grammophon 2016)
13. The Great God Pan Is Dead (»Fordlandia«, 4AD 2008) 
14. Melodia (Guidelines For a Propulsion Device Based on Heim’s Quantum Theory) (»Fordlandia«, 4AD 2008)
15. The Border (»Sicario«, Varèse Sarabande 2015)
16. The Tall Man (»Prisoners«, NTOV 2013)
17. End Of Summer II (»End of Summer« with Hildur Guðnadóttir and Robert A. A. Lowe, Sonic Pieces 2015)
18. Odi Et Amo - Bis (»Englabörn«, Touch 2002)

A few words. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bqdf55EB9jWovtIJN6ayxCCI1imoGvXPosiRAUZBgDg/edit?usp=sharing

How We Left Fordlandia. A Tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson

konkrit - How We Left Fordlandia. A Tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson

Improv

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Steve Reich : Different Trains : 1 America, Before The War

For today’s exclusive track premiere, we are honoured to share with you James Murray‘s slow-burner, titled “In Your Head” which is literally a half of his brand new album, titled "Embrace Storms" [the other half, being another long-player, “In Your Heart”], released as a multi-format split between his very own Slowcraft and KrysaliSound labels. The two pieces sonically capture the weather patterns which are rising and subsiding, rising and subsiding, all on their own, in the caverns of your mind, body and soul, where, instead of fighting, or even worse, identifying with this uncontrollable climate, you can notice, use soft focus, and then let it pass. Let it all pass… The music serves as a perfect meditative accompaniment to your daily routine, in order drown out all of that hum, and accept things as they are…

"James Murray’s new solo work takes the form of two carefully constructed long-form sound collages; twin formations gradually unfolding in continuous, ever-evolving streams of delicately controlled chaos."

The release is out in just a few days, on November 9th, 2019, and is available as a CD from Slowcraft and a beautifully pressed limited edition vinyl from Milan-based KrysaliSound imprint. Highly recommended for the seekers of their inner peace…

Embrace Storms

TRACK PREMIERE : James Murray - In Your Head

Today is a troubling day for many in the UK. After the results of an election that was plagued and stained with lies and deception, we are now left in a very precarious position. Many friends are feeling very dispirited and lost today, as am I. So, I sat in the studio this morning and improvised live to the celebratory speech of the winning party. In response to the situation I then reversed parts of it, as well as using a recording of this very speech and buried it deep within the music, again playing backwards. It's clear to many that this political situation is not taking us forwards, but rather back to a nostalgic and challenging past. So, for this moment, use this music to relax and switch off the news.

Backwards to go Forwards

Tania Bruguera, artist; Tom Finkelpearl, executive director, Queens Museum of Art; and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist. Socially cooperative art is a field not well understood by many, indeed even in the art world. Why is it art? Where does art end and social action begin? Who is the author of a cooperative project? In this lecture recorded on February 3, 2013, at the National Gallery of Art, Tom Finkelpearl celebrates his latest publication, What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation, by providing an overview of socially cooperative art—where it comes from, what its artistic roots are, and why it can be considered valuable. Tania Bruguera and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, two of the most important artists working in America today in this field, then describe their work, focusing on a single project. Bruguera, Finkelpearl, and Ukeles take a careful look at how art can intersect with life and how artists are reimagining this intersection in the new avant-garde of participatory, activist, community-inclusive art.

Social Art, Social Cooperation: A Conversation with Tania Bruguera, Tom Finkelpearl, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles

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