The talented Cyril Effala dies in Yaoundé at the age of 35 from typhoid fever. More songs (Le laboureur, Nuits Perdues, Ashuka Ngongoli, Saint Pierre) are available on this MySpace page. May someone produce a compilation CD! Thanks to my friend Jay Lou, I have one cassette somewhere… Monsieur l’Abbé (some mistakes in the transcription –...
Read MoreA World Treasure Is No More (In Pain) – Bob Brozman: 1954-2013
The multi-talented world hero, musician & ethnomusicologist. If you are not living on the edge, you’re taking too much room. B.B. He used to quote Sun Ra: The planet is asleep, and it’s the fault of musicians who are not true to themselves. [Ed.: I would add that it is NOT just musicians] Bob is survived by his wife and partner of 15 years,...
Read MoreTHE ACT OF KILLING: Indonesia’s Dark Past & Present
in 1976 I traveled throughout Indonesia and today still love its Sundanese music – the closest thing to “music from paradise.” I also got to appreciate the slowness and peacefulness of Jogja’s dance and music. I was even somewhat ecstatic playing in UCLA’s gamelan… BUT I was also always aware of its 1965-1966 large scale...
Read MoreHours & Hours of Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell Face To Face (a Russell interview at age 90) His Decalogue (1951) and another earlier post (with other interviews, etc…). More interviews with Bertrand Russell (but NOT Alan Watts) And his Reith...
Read MoreAsking More (questions) From Zionism
from Haaretz published 10.12.12 Jewish anti-Zionist academic insists Israeli occupation is un-Jewish by Carlo Strenger Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism, by Judith Butler. Columbia University Press, 256 pages, $28 Judith Butler has rightly been described as an academic superstar. She is one of the most quoted scholars in the humanities,...
Read MoreOpen SESAME!
Source: (check out) BBC 4′s Open Sesame – Science in the Desert with David Shukman – Available for the next year. Peace through Science! SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) is a “third-generation” synchrotron light source under construction in Allan (Jordan). It will be the Middle...
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Pier Marton
___________________Screens Reveal AND Conceal
Born and raised in Paris, Pier Marton moved to the U.S. in the early seventies to live in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco and, more recently, St. Louis; in parallel to teaching media at major universities, his many video-art activities have included video installations, performances and documentaries (with works in prominent museums like MoMA and Beaubourg).
As new media offers more and more a form of pseudo-challenge to the status quo, for Pier Marton it is “no-media” that now represents the next frontier: to look beyond media and most concepts, however "practical" those may appear to be.
He is available for presentations and workshops on:
Non-Images & No-Media - Slow Cinema - Shoah and Film- Experimental Cinema and Video Art - Film Painting in Sound/Movement - Non-Violent Media - Imperfection in Film - Unclassifiable Music/Arts - Blinded by Sight - The Shoah in 1,000 Years - A Porous Reality - Secular Jews - Taking it the Hard Way - Exhilarating Creativity - and anything else that may be ignored by society at large.
Remnants from recent presentations: Images of the Other (at the School of Visual Arts Alguonquin Annual Conference), Resistance (at a St. Louis Yom HaShoah Commemoration).
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Laure Adler
Conversations-surprises: si vous avez besoin de continuer à rester éveillé, et n’avez pas peur.
François Busnel
D’autres conversations…
Raphaêl Enthoven
Et philosopher à haute voix.
