Music the artform and artists
Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel.
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
“Composers have always wanted to fondle the pieces that they love,” John Adams, of “Nixon in China” fame, said in a recent interview.
Algérie: Création d'un comité de recueil de la poésie "Melhoun" et de chants sur la Révolution algérienne
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Dans une allocution à la clôture du colloque national sur la poésie (qacida) révolutionnaire, le ministre a fait savoir qu'à ce jour, plus de 15.000 heures de témoignages ont été enregistrées.
Why Beijing Is (Still) A Great City For Jazz Music
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- Tuesday, 26 July 2016
Beijing’s underground music scene has been heralded as an epicenter of creativity in China: you can find everything, from dark noise, to grunge, rock, hip hop and avant garde jazz.
Where have the great composers gone?
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- Tuesday, 26 July 2016
Back in the day, nothing would have conferred “greatness” on a composer like the Berlin Philharmonic performing your music at the Proms.
E.A.T. - Engineers, the Avant-Garde and a Tennis Court
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- Tuesday, 26 July 2016
Art and engineering converged in mid-’60s New York City under the banner E.A.T. - a watershed meeting of the exploratory minds of Bell Labs researchers and avant-garde artists like Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage that forever altered our perception of technology’s relationship to art and music.
These two girls will save the future of Sound Art
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- Tuesday, 26 July 2016
Created 10 years ago by the brainchild of Carola Haupt and Ilaria Gadenz, Radio Papesse is a platform devoted to sound art, which worked with artists, musicians, producers and Djs in order to create one of the most interesting and open online audio archives dedicated to contemporary arts.
Cameroun: Yaoundé chante « Liberté » avec Anne Marie Nzié
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- Tuesday, 26 July 2016
Personne n'a échappé à cette violente émotion qui s'est emparée de tout une ville qui a coulé des larmes en reprenant en chœur « Liberté », ce single génialissime qui à jamais, marquera au burin le nom d' Anne Marie Nzié dans la légende des siècles.
Who's more passionate about the sound of music: Audiophiles or musicians?
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- Tuesday, 12 July 2016
It's not just finicky audiophiles who obsess about sound. I know a lot of musicians who crave great-sounding instruments.
Pop Music and the Demise of Genre
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- Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Musical genre is an elusive concept. Pop, punk, rock, hip-hop, grime, ska, R&B, garage, dance, new-wave, metal, funk, disco, reggae—if such a list isn’t exhaustive enough, precede any one of these epithets with ‘post’, ‘alternative’, or ‘neo’ and the very concept of genre begins to resemble something more akin to Borges’s “The Library of Babel” than it does a necessary means of classification.
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