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 MoreTip: Machine Speak Up!
This is not about Siri nor about HAL, etc… Do you want to have your computer read you a text or a webpage? Not completely automated but getting closer: In OS X, open a text item (Safari & Chrome work, not Firefox) and select/highlight it. Then “Control Click” that selection and choose Speech/Start Speaking. To tweak this to your...
Read MoreNational Geographic’s + Sony’s (Vulture) Killer Story
After Osama bin Laden’s death comes a big bang revenge spectacle in our theaters and our homes, one more glorious solidification of enmity. Evil incarnate, bring it on? Maybe it is high time to revisit Sam Keen’s Faces of the Enemy (the book and the film)? November 4… With a review in the NYTimes: Obama Is Prominent in ‘SEAL Team...
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Spoonbill’s Site “Spoonbill began, as is often the case with birds of play, in the bush. What started as a love of the drums progressed to percussion, and finally settled into a love of electronic production. Spoonbill’s iconic mix of improvised electronica, sound art aesthetics and heavily edited live instrumental recordings became an instant...
Read MoreDon van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart 1941-2010
A few quotes: I don’t think there’s any way you can *know* music. The minute you *know* it, you stop playing, and the minute a person stops playing, the music isn’t playing anymore. I don’t want to sell my music. I’d like to give it away because where I got it, you didn’t have to pay for it. There’s no...
Read MoreLe Rire Médecin – The Healing Laughter (& Clown Care)
Le Site Rire Médecin + Expo 20ème Anniversaire/20th Anniversary Exhibit à l’/at the Hotel de Ville de Paris 18 janvier – 18 février Tous les jours (sauf Dimanche)/Every day (except Sunday) 10h – 19h (7 p.m.) & entrée libre Caroline Simonds, la fondatrice du Rire Médecin (the founder of Rire Médecin) Recent Interview...
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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.
