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Diego Stocco - Experibass

The instrument from hell.

Saturday, November 28th 2009 8:24am
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Undercover x Terry Richardson
I really, really, really dislike Terry Richardson.

Undercover x Terry Richardson

I really, really, really dislike Terry Richardson.

Saturday, November 28th 2009 2:07am

If you go, I will surely die.

Tags: Music Pixies

Saturday, November 28th 2009 1:51am
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Wimminz,
get yo Ervell on.

Wimminz,

get yo Ervell on.

Friday, November 27th 2009 3:11pm

If Schoenberg had freed the composer from the tradition, John Cage (USA, 1912) freed the composition from the composer. Cage blurred the distinction between what is music and what is not music.

First, he promoted silence, altered instruments (1940), sounds of nature (1941), found sounds (1951), the very movements of the performer (1952), the collage of random noises (1952), and even the background noise of the auditorium (1952) to the status of music, preferring the narrow range of percussion instruments while pioneering electronic music in Imaginary Landscape no.1 (1939), and composing Sonatas and Interludes (1948) for “prepared piano”, a technique that paradoxically scaled down the piano’s expressive power and basically turned it into a polyrhythmic percussion instrument (the equivalent of a percussion ensemble), an expedient later transposed to the String Quartet (1950).

Not content, in 1951 Cage also introduced indeterminacy and randomness in the process of making music, as demonstrated in the Piano Concerto (1958). Thus Cage’s music could be the random (“aleatoric”) outcome of “events” that were foreign to traditional music making (in which the only events are the musicians playing their instruments based on the composer’s score).

Like in Zen meditation, Cage’s pieces highlighted a higher dimension, which was not to be found in the minute details of the piece but in the experience of it. While Cage did not attempt to bridge the gap between performer and listener, he downplayed the composer (who specifies only the actions, not the music itself), increased the degrees of freedom of the performer (who produce the music), and, indirectly, demanded that the listener began to “listen” in a different way, more integrated with the act of making music.

Cage extended the scope of dadaism beyond mere provocation and turned it into a new perception of the artistic event; which is, after all, just that: an event. He removed both form and content from art, and left only the process. But, more than an artist, Cage was a creator of genres. He wrote the history of avantgarde genres for the following 50 years (and counting), even though he didn’t give it any masterpiece.

-Pierro Scaruffi, The History of Avantgarde Music

Friday, November 27th 2009 4:29am

Fennesz - Shisheido

“If the previous albums were philosophical treatises, Endless Summer (Mego, 2001) is a poetic work, one that rediscovers the power of melody in a world that is largely dissonant. Thus the futuristic muzak of Made in Hong Kong, in which melodic themes recur cyclically albeit transformed into descrete sequences of digital events, the sweet waves of distortions lulled by folkish guitar in Endless Summer, Shisheido (a brief piano-based lullaby), Caecilia (a nostalgic proto-tune emerging from the shapeless breathing of the electronics, perhaps the most poignant track), “songs” that point towards a parallel universe of purely melodic sounds, but visible to us only through the fuzzy prism of quantum spacetime.”

-Pierro Scaruffi

Tags: Music Fennesz

Friday, November 27th 2009 3:13am
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Thursday, November 26th 2009 10:36pm

Exhibiting its flair for the dramatic while pushing the boundaries between architecture and fashion, Prada unveiled its tetrahedron-shaped Transformer on Wednesday on the grounds of an ancient Korean palace in central Seoul. Prada is spending $10 million on the much-hyped project, a collaborative venture with Rem Koolhaas’ firm, Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Miuccia Prada and Koolhaas hosted a cocktail party Thursday night to fete the 160-ton steel structure, which can be lifted and rotated in an hour to create a different shape and interior. The Transformer is currently in the form of a hexagon to stage a reprise of the exhibition “Waist Down—Skirts by Miuccia Prada.” It will go on to host an art exhibition, film festival and fashion show, morphing its appearance along the way.
(Via Portfolio)

Exhibiting its flair for the dramatic while pushing the boundaries between architecture and fashion, Prada unveiled its tetrahedron-shaped Transformer on Wednesday on the grounds of an ancient Korean palace in central Seoul. Prada is spending $10 million on the much-hyped project, a collaborative venture with Rem Koolhaas’ firm, Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

Miuccia Prada and Koolhaas hosted a cocktail party Thursday night to fete the 160-ton steel structure, which can be lifted and rotated in an hour to create a different shape and interior. The Transformer is currently in the form of a hexagon to stage a reprise of the exhibition “Waist Down—Skirts by Miuccia Prada.” It will go on to host an art exhibition, film festival and fashion show, morphing its appearance along the way.

(Via Portfolio)

Thursday, November 26th 2009 10:26pm

Daul Kim in Alexander McQueen

Daul Kim in Alexander McQueen

Thursday, November 26th 2009 10:14pm

Fennesz - Circassian

Ethereal and uplifting.

Probably the best MBV-‘clone’ since MBV.

Tuesday, November 24th 2009 2:18am
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Courtesy of Baguette via superfuture.

Courtesy of Baguette via superfuture.

Monday, November 23rd 2009 8:33pm

Everything I know, I learnt from The Wonder Years.

And if you don’t think this is the greatest show ever, I will fight you.

Sunday, November 22nd 2009 1:50pm
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Head-to-toe Ann D and Ricky O, but she still looks like she’s heading for gym class.
Proof that money won’t get you everywhere.

Head-to-toe Ann D and Ricky O, but she still looks like she’s heading for gym class.

Proof that money won’t get you everywhere.

Saturday, November 21st 2009 4:04am

Christian Fennesz - master of the ambient-shoegaze-electronic-drone - worth checking out if you’re into MBV or glitchy stuff.
Way-too-many-hypens.

Christian Fennesz - master of the ambient-shoegaze-electronic-drone - worth checking out if you’re into MBV or glitchy stuff.

Way-too-many-hypens.

Tags: Music Fennesz

Saturday, November 21st 2009 1:19am

"Last year, I was so lost, but that night was beautiful"

I liked Daul Kim because she was different.

She was raised in Singapore (national pride concept).

And she listened to some cool tunes.

She didn’t wear Balmain or Gucci, nor did she dress “ferosh”.

In fact, she dressed quite weird (for a model).

But she was smart, and sharp of tongue - and also - quite funny.

She didn’t take no shit from the industry, the Korean people, or anyone.

When I used to read her blog (it’s called ILIKETOFORKMYSELF), I thought we would’ve gotten along so swell.

She also seemed so sad.

RIP Daul Kim.

Friday, November 20th 2009 11:25pm