“New discoveries in the young field of acoustic archaeology hint that just as we create elaborate sonic environments with our electronics, the ancients may have sculpted their soundscapes as well. Like many artistic endeavors, their efforts may have been rooted in an attempt to reach the divine.”
Tag: 11.07.12
Why Can’t Horror Deliver?
Sci-fi and crime (oh yes, we used to call them “mystery”) novels have busted out of their imposed genre confines, onto the literary landscape. Why hasn’t horror?
Producer Of Anti-Muhammad Video Sentenced To Prison
“The convicted California scam artist behind a crude anti-Islam film that stoked protests against the United States across the Muslim world was sent back to jail for a year on Wednesday over probation violations stemming from his role in the video.”
London’s Bush Theatre’s New Literary Policy: No Need To Submit A Script
“Artistic director Madani Younis hopes to widen the scope of new writing. ‘We’re introducing a strand where artists and writer-performers can engage with us without just submitting a script,’ he explains. ‘Speaking to artists, they’ve said, ‘Don’t expect to read our stuff on a page.’ You need to meet them. You need to give them a different kind of space.'”
Spokane Symphony Cancels November Concerts Due To Strike
Orchestra management has cancelled the four remaining concerts scheduled this month following the strike called by musicians last weekend.
Trevor Nunn Stages Beckett Radio Play On West End – As Radio Play
“The actors carry scripts; props and gestures are kept to a minimum; and there are microphones hanging from the ceiling to simulate a 1950s studio. Nunn calls it a ‘visualised radio play’, and the conceit is that the audience are eavesdroppers at a studio recording.” (Why not just act it out on stage? The Beckett estate, of course.)
Turmoil And Huge Deficits At Calgary’s Largest Museum
“Glenbow Museum president and CEO Kirstin Evenden resigned Tuesday after 19 years with the organization.” (Two other senior staffers resigned in September.) “Although attendance is up, the museum has run deficits at more than $1 million for the last three years. A well-known historian describes the Calgary institution as operating in survival mode.”
A Winnipeg Bridge Transformed Into Public Art
“From Here Until Now, by Winnipeg-based architect-artists Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski, makes the massive Osborne Street bridge into a surprisingly delicate concrete-and-aluminium poem. … The end result isn’t an immense, attention-grabbing monument but a slow, quiet, interactive experience, something that will sneak up on you gradually as you bike, walk or drive by.”
How Conservative Media Failed Its Audience
“Conservatives were at an information disadvantage because so many right-leaning outlets wasted time on stories the rest of America dismissed as nonsense.”
Five Things The Fall Season Is Teaching Execs About The TV Business
“The DVR is allowing shows to grow year-to-year. People like finding shows that are still on so they can catch up and watch live.”