5 posts tagged “music”

I propose the incorporation of a new audio broadcast network dedicated to the transmission of ambience; live and in real time. It's what happens when experimental music takes on reality TV/webcam culture. It's like an audio companion to Google earth.

Sheep Channel is first on the list, bringing you woolly sounds from herds across the globe and around the clock with wireless microphone arrays worn by herd animals in barn and pasture.

Keep in touch with the polar ice caps listening to arctic glaciers fissure, crackle, and crash into the sea as broadcast by an array of geophones and hydrophones monitoring Greenland.

Get into the mix and start your own free and voluntary eaves drop channel where people share the sounds of their everyday. Insomniacs everywhere may find comfort in the snores on Sleep-Now Radio... when they're not counting sheep.

There should be a blog site entirely devoted concert reviews of music performances that entirely sold out ... meaning that every seat in the house was taken. I've been to two recently. Robert Ashley's Opera "Concrete" and a young jazz pianist Gerald Clayton. Both shows were phenomenal. Best Opera and straight-ahead Jazz I've ever seen. Here are some links below.

NYTimes reviews of Ashley's "Concrete"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E7DF1E30F93AA25752C0A9619C8B63
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F10FE39540C778DDDA80894DF404482

NYTimes review of Gerald Clayton
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E4DD1030F936A25752C0A9619C8B63

If you haven't yet experienced my homepage, I just put up some new audio excerpts of my new solo piano repertoire. Very cool!
Special thanks to Izumi for her fabulous web design!

www.Onsgard.net

I still remember this brief moment of hope back in 2001 after the attacks when it seemed that our unpopularly selected president might actually pursue justice as our nation's response to terror. Finding the criminals responsible and trying them for their crimes. Would this not still be the rational response?

Instead we voluntarily gag ouselves on the emotionally satisfying "war" metaphor. When will more pacifist metaphors focus our work to change things we abhor? Unless we invest ourselves in justice, there will be no victory, no peace.

I composed this Bush remix to focus my anger about our nations foreign policy. It is composed exclusively from his post 9/11 state of the union address, and includes

the applause Bush received making his speach to emphasize our complicity in violence and the decline of civil liberties.

(shameless plug: This track is available for sale from my website www.Onsgard.net on the Dado Blade disc in a longer piece titled "Burning & Looting" where Bush's psychiatrist gives a rebuttle, and a heavy metal band plays his fanfare)