“There are fruitful overlaps with contemporary classical composition, experimental rock music and improvisation. Sound artists use everything from sine wave generators to lectures, wildlife recordings, public space, bell ringing, electromagnetic fields – even the odd folk song.”
Tag: 05.07.10
Gustavo Dudamel On Leadership
“When you are a leader, you have to learn how to work because you have to convince the people in front of you of your ideas. When I started to conduct in professional orchestras when I was 22 or 23, [I had to] convince people with a lot of experience, with the tradition of sound or the idea of specific piece. What I want from the musicians is to enjoy what they are doing.”
Iraqi Cinema Comes Back To Life In Baghdad
“[F]or the first time in a long time, in a once-grand theater almost filled to its capacity of 1,800 seats, Iraqis watched themselves and their postwar experiences portrayed in film by another Iraqi.”
LA Mayor Abandons Scheme To Cut Arts Grants
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had intended to shift $415,000 to four organizations he’d chosen. “Restoring the money to the $2.76-million arts grants program would be good news for 35 organizations that would have lost their grants even though they had been approved through the standard application process in which panels of experts review and score each proposal.”