November 2010
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“Especially people who sell mp3s, I’m like, ‘Man, what are you doing?’ That’d be...”
– Mat Cothran, aka Coma Cinema, interviewed in Paste Magazine [via Head Underwater] I could not agree more, particularly with this sentiment: ‘If you feel the need to compensate us, we only ask that you share the music with others.’ As I have noted in this space over and over and over...
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“What we do here is try to surprise people and present them with things they may...”
– Not the typical approach at symphony orchestras these days, but it’s how we roll at the WCFSO. [From a recent interview with bmontsbabbles for her journalism seminar project]
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Three Thirty Threes
Everyone’s favorite record cover archive, Project Thirty Three, has been on fire lately.
So this time instead of just one epic jacket design you get three.
Click through the images for the original posts.
[Shostakovich cover by William Shepard, others uncredited]
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“JW: Funny thing about me posting this is that I haven’t worn a bow tie onstage...”
– Ha – makes me feel better! Being referred to as Mr. Weinberger, on the other hand …
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WatchAndrew Zuckerman, the photographer and filmmaker behind the minimalist portraiture series Wisdom, Creature and Bird, has a new project:
Music features dynamic portraits of over fifty musicians of all ages, from across genres, who provide their perspectives on one of the most universal and yet unexplainable art forms. Music is available as a book, which includes portraits and interviews as well...
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A guide to Madlib's Yesterdays New Quintet and... →
Learn about the avant jazz catalogue of Stones Throw Records’ one-man music machine [and my absolute favorite recording musician], Otis Jackson Jr.
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Locavorchestra
Thank you Alex Ross for 111 words all conductors [and their agents and orchestra boards/staffs and anyone else involved with symphonic music in this country] should heed:
With the complicated cultural and financial pressures now circling orchestras, the modern music director needs more than ever to be on the scene. This means showing up for more than the standard twelve weeks; leading school...
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Instagram, Flickr’s Likely Successor →
Here are a few shots of me at work, manipulated and posted using the fabulous new iPhone-based image service Instagram.
I’ve been addicted since the moment I installed the free app, and agree with designer Cameron Moll about its merits:
Instagram has captured the same attention Flickr once captured, precisely because it addresses the now, the today, the relevant. And it does so in ways...