‘This is an experiment in crowd-sourced songwriting. A melody is currently being generated, note by note, in real-time, using the popular vote of the crowd,’ says crowdsound.net.
Category: AUDIENCE
Ten London Museums Do A Virtual Collection Swap Via Instagram
“Using the hashtag #museuminstaswap, each participating institution will share photos of its partner museum throughout the week, highlighting works that resonate with their own collections.”
The Cat Video And The Essence Of Art
“Cats have purposiveness without a knowable purpose (Immanuel Kant’s much-cited criterion for true art). Cats are mysteries; their agendas, beyond food and sleep and sunlight, may constitute a kind of knowledge endlessly deferred. (They are born aesthetes, but also born deconstructionists.)”
How New Orleans Culture Asserted Itself After Katrina
“When I first got to New Orleans after the flood I was stunned first by just how much had been destroyed, and then later by just how little I knew. I’d been writing about jazz for 20 years. Yet I was profoundly ignorant about what it means to have a living music, one that flows from and embeds everyday life — a functional jazz culture of the sort that once existed in cities throughout the United States but now is exclusive to New Orleans.”
Can You Crowdsource Choreography?
Giving up some artistic control to an audience untrained in choreography does pose unique problems, but “some of the challenges are the same that we face as dancers working with professional choreographers.”
Dance Is A Visual Art, Right? (So Maybe That’s Where It Should Be)
Dance is finding an audience among visual artists, who are completely comfortable with abstraction and don’t need to annoy choreographers with the dreaded, “What was that about? question.
The Revolution In Photography Right Now Will Change How We Think About Pictures
“Failure to recognize the huge changes underway is to risk isolating ourselves in an historical backwater of communication, using an interesting but quaint visual language removed from the cultural mainstream.”
It’s Past Time To Get Beyond Theatre’s ‘Black Slot’
Lynn Nottage: “I’ve always been told that there’s only room for one black play. If the black slot’s full, they won’t put in another.”
Ten Lessons From The Theatre World On How To Start A Diversity And Inclusion Program Without Screwing It Up
“4. Walk through the entire program through the lens of those you are inviting into your theatre or organization. What would you see? What would you experience? What does it feel like to be as a person of color and walk into your institution? An easy way to feel tokenized is when you are the only one at an institution.”
How A Podcast About “Gilmore Girls” Made Two Nobodies Famous
“Nearly a year after they began “Gilmore Guys,” these two 20-something dudes are getting famous for chatting about a show that was semi-famous to teenage girls and their moms a decade ago. It’s a lesson, they say, in what it means to try and make it in 2015.”