Here’s just a handful of what currently plays on the music section of the in-flight entertainment system of the relatively new airline Virgin America: an excerpt from Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung, John Adams’s Shaker Loops, a half dozen Sun Ra tracks, …
The freely downloadable music (and occasional video) at the netlabel Noisejihad (noisejihad.dk/netlabel) always sounded like a soundtrack for endtimes. So, it was no shocker that Noisejihad eventually faded away. Let’s face facts …
With its pulsating beats and wispy bits of melodic phrasing, the eight tracks on the free album 7 Days Microsleep, available at the website of musician Norman Fairbanks, normanfairbanks.com, are the sort of pulse-settling, introspective music that could give …
Outside the gallery White Box (whiteboxny.org) on 26th Street off 10th Avenue in Manhattan is a little installation that brings new meaning to the phrase “street art.” It’s called “Video Box” and from a distance it looks vaguely like …
Went to see a friend, Jason, DJ on Manhattan’s Lower East Side last night. Jason can seamlessly work David Axelrod, Scritti Politti and the Grateful Dead into one set. He was doing so at …
The pews were close to full at St. John’s Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, California, on Friday, November 2. The evening’s text was no liturgical standard. We’d gathered to view a performance — strike that, a thorough extrapolation (a “realization,” the …
From the text accompanying the exhibit Min Tanaka: Photos by Masato Okada 1975-2005 at the museum P.S.1 MoMA in Queens, New York:
For three decades, Butoh master Min Tanaka and photographer Masato Okada have been active collaborators, with the Japanese …
Two weeks ago in Berkeley, the Italian vocalist Amelia Cuni performed John Cage’s 18 Microtonal Ragas with support of two percussionists, Raymond Kaczynski and Federico Sansei, and Werner Durand on, as he was credited in the night’s program, “drones and …
P.S.1 MoMA is to museums what The Shining is to winter getaways. The Queens, New York, structure is a massive, three-story building of exhibit spaces, not counting a spooky basement area and a sizable rooftop. The grounds are encompassed by …
It seems like forever since the excellent record label Kranky has updated its free MP3 page. But a Kranky artist, Chris Herbert, whom many heard for the first time courtesy of a Kranky MP3 posting back around August 2005 (…