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Sarah Cowan writes about gentrification, urban change in the Bronx, and the art of Gordon Matta-Clark.
2013-12-28 03:56:04
Lisa Dowling ~ Crowdsourcing Kills to Kisses
[…] been doing all of this other stuff for a while now, but I felt like it’s been so busy for me that it really needed a base of its own for it to come to life, and that’s the story of Kills 2 Kisses, the character, the woman, the musician, the collaborator. Cloven Tongues is the actual title of the album, and it features Owen Weaver on percussion, Domenica Fossati on flutes, beatboxer Adam Matta will be on it, as well as my husband Equiano Mosieri , himself a classically-trained actor, musician and poet, is going to be performing a spoken word portion on a piece that I made. I have the fortunate task of working with these really amazing people, and not every song involves them–there are a few pieces where it’s just me solo. My wonderful exposure to contemporary music though Robert Black and Bang On a […]
2013-11-18 13:03:44
The 100 Works of Art series of blog posts is a primarily positive slew of posts blethering in a hopefully intelligent manner about works of art which have some sort of personal resonance for me; 25 posts about visual art begin with Black Virtue by Matta , and the ongoing section on audio art opens with The Cure’s Let’s Go To Bed . 32. 1812, Tchaikovsky Unlike most of the music included on this list, I have no memory of the first time I was introduced to this. It would be impossible to separate out a moment when I first became aware because Western culture is fairly heavily steeped in this piece of music. It has soundtracked endless films and adverts for Iceland, accompanied a thousand fireworks displays, and probably nauseates real connoisseurs of various periods of classical music with its inappropriate ubiquity. Certainly the relentless inevitability with which […]
2013-11-18 06:00:00
[…] Jean XXIII, 21 novembre, 10 h 30 / Maison de la culture Frontenac, 25 novembre, 20 h. www.accesculture.com Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur – dans la foulée des réjouissances Pour son 2e concert dans le cadre de sa résidence à la Chapelle, Transmission propose un voyage sur les routes américaines. Oeuvres de Reich, Ives, Adams, Lang, Carter et Feldman. 22 novembre, 20 h. www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/chapellebonpasteur La Messe en si mineur de Bach Fondé en 1992 par Rafik Matta, l’Ensemble Telemann est formé de choristes et de musiciens jouant sur des instruments d’époque et se spécialisant dans la musique baroque et classique. L’Ensemble présente l’œuvre célèbre de J.S. Bach avec les solistes Pascale Beaudin, soprano, Claudine Ledoux, mezzo-soprano, Philippe Gagné, ténor et Pierre-Étienne Bergeron, baryton/basse. Cathédrale Christ Church, 23 novembre, 20 h. www.ensembletelemann.ca Festival Bach Montréal - 23 novembre au 7 décembre En concert d’ouverture, le Festival présente le Concerto Köln, l’un […]
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