Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel hosts a fascinating and outspoken conversation with Robert Motherwell. From the Video Archive in the Duke University Libraries.
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GABBY PAHINUI WAIMANALO KANIKAPILA: Cyril Pahinui sings Hi’ilawe, 8/2013
Cyril Pahinui performing “Hi’ilawe” at the 6th Annual Gabby Pahinui Waimanalo Kanikapila held in honor of his father- Gabby “Pops” Pahinui.
Held at Waimanalo Beach Park the annual event was held under the pavilion because of the heavy rain in the morning.
Kanikapila is a style of Hawaiian music produced in an impromptu jam session, most commonly taking place at a beach, or family gathering. The term comes from kani which means sound. and pila which means any string instrument in the Hawaiian language.
WILLIAM TYLER :: COUNTRY OF ILLUSION, live at Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, Iowa, 4.24.13
A tough and beautiful live performance of William Tyler’s Country Of Illusion from 2013, at the Trumpet Blossom Cafe in Iowa City, Iowa. Many of Tyler’s pieces seem as much a meditation on the dissipation of the american mythos as a celebration of it. Bright, open american vistas replace each other on the horizon line, leaving room for the periodic emergence of a restrained raga/drone. In this performance, Tyler culminates his piece into a wall of reverberant rumblings and shimmering layers. The myth folds back in on itself and quakes in it’s own reflection. A wonderful, powerful ending. Continue reading WILLIAM TYLER :: COUNTRY OF ILLUSION, live at Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, Iowa, 4.24.13
BIG STAR :: THANK YOU FRIENDS, 1972
Big Star’s Thank You Friends is from their first album, the 1972 release, #1 Record. Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel formed the band in 1971.
“Alex Chilton was the lead singer for the blue-eyed soul group the Box Tops from 1967 to 1970, who scored a No. 1 hit with the song “The Letter” when he was sixteen. Following his stint with the Box Tops, he recorded a solo studio album. He was offered the role of lead vocalist for Blood, Sweat & Tears, but turned the offer down as “too commercial”. Chilton had known Chris Bell for some time: both lived in Memphis, each had spent time recording music at Ardent Studios, and each, when aged 13, had been struck by the music of the Beatles during the band’s 1964 debut US tour. A song Chilton wrote nearly six years after he first witnessed a Beatles performance, “Thirteen”, referred to the event with the line “Rock ‘n’ roll is here to stay”. Chilton asked Bell to work with him as a duo modeled on Simon & Garfunkel; Bell declined, but invited Chilton to a performance by his own band, Icewater, comprising Bell, drummer Jody Stephens, and bassist Andy Hummel. Attracted by Icewater’s music, Chilton showed the three his new song “Watch the Sunrise”, and was asked to join the band. Both “Watch the Sunrise” and “Thirteen” were subsequently included on Big Star’s first album, #1 Record. The now four-piece band adopted the name Big Star when one member was given the idea from a grocery store often visited for snacks during recording sessions. One of many Big Star Markets outlets in the Memphis region at the time, it had a logo consisting of a five-pointed star enclosing the words “Big Star”; as well as the store’s name, the band used its logo but without the word “Star” to avoid infringing copyright.”-wikipedia, Big Star Continue reading BIG STAR :: THANK YOU FRIENDS, 1972
HARRY PARTCH:: DELUSION OF THE FURY, original filmed performance, 1969, 72 min.
Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion, A Film by MadelineTourtelot, Recorded at UCLA Playhouse 1969. Conducted by Danlee Mitchell, musician assembly Emil Richards.
Delusion of the Fury is a stage play by the American composer Harry Partch. The first draft for a new theater work for singers, mimes, dancers, and musicians, Cry from Another Darkness, was completed by Partch on December 30, 1964, and the second draft, dated January 17, 1965, was a fuller, longer, re-titled Delusion of the Fury. The work was originally conceived as a play in two acts, with a dramatic first act and a comedic second. Partch completed writing of the music on March 17, 1966. The piece employs Partch’s original system of micro-tonality, and was written for the largest assembly of his custom-made instruments used in any of his works. The instruments were an important part of the stage set.[2] Delusion of the Fury was premiered at the UCLA Playhouse on January 9, 1969, where it was recorded for Columbia Records. This remained the only performance of the piece until it was re-staged in 2007 by the Japan Society in New York. In 2013 the piece was staged for the first time in Europe at Ruhrtriennale by Ensemble MusikFabrik under the direction of Heiner Goebbels.This production toured to the Edinburgh International Festival in 2014. It received another performance in Paris as part of IRCAM’s ManiFeste festival in the Grande Salle of La Villette on June 18, 2016. -wikipedia
Continue reading HARRY PARTCH:: DELUSION OF THE FURY, original filmed performance, 1969, 72 min.
THE NELS CLINE SINGERS :: CANALES CABEZA
Nels Cline and his band was filmed at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia by Out Of Town Films in 2014.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE : in conversation with Charlie Rose 3/1997
DFW makes a return visit to Charlie Rose’s show and has a characteristically far-ranging conversation, while on the tour circuit for the release of his book of essays: “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”.
RICHARD DIEBENKORN:profile/interview, CBS Sunday Morning, December 27, 1988,
In this report for “Sunday Morning,” which originally aired on December 27, 1988, correspondent David Browning visited Diebenkorn’s studio in California’s Sonoma County, to discuss the artist’s “trial and error” approach; and New York’s Museum of Modern Art, where Diebenkorn was being celebrated by a one-man show of his drawings.
ASHA BHOSLE :: Aaiye Meherbaan, from the film Howrah Bridge, हावड़ा ब्रिज (1958)
Lyrics : Qamar Jalalabadi,(Q J)
Music Director : O P Nayyar,
Cast : Madhubala, Ashok Kumar K.N. Singh,Helen,Dhumal
Director: Shakti Samanta.
Since she began her career as a ‘playback singer’ for films in 1943, Asha Bhosle has sung for over a thousand Bollywood movies. Her career has spanned over six decades. In addition, she has recorded several private albums and participated in numerous solo concerts in India and abroad.Bhosle is the sister of playback singer Lata Mangeshkar.
Bhosle’s work includes film music, pop, ghazals, bhajans, traditional Indian classical music, folk songs, qawwalis, and Rabindra Sangeets. Apart from Hindi, she has sung in over 20 Indian and foreign languages. In 2006, Asha Bhosle stated that she had sung over 12,000 songs, a figure repeated by several other sources. In 2011, she was officially acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most recorded artist in music history.
CARL STONE :: SHING KEE, 1986
CarlStone (born Carl Joseph Stone, February 10, 1953) is an American composer, primarily working in the field of live electronic music. His works have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and the Near East.
Stone studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. As an undergrad at CalArts, he had a work-study job in the Music Library, which had many thousands of LP records in the circulating collection (this was 1973). The collection included a lot of western classical music of course but also a really comprehensive world music collection, avant-garde, electronic music, jazz and more. Because the librarians were concerned that the LPs, many of which were rare, would soon become unlistenable at the hands of the students and faculty, his job was to take every disc and record it onto cassette, a kind of back-up operation. He soon discovered that he could monitor the output of any of the recordings he was making and even mix them together without disturbing the recordings. So, he began to experiment, making musical collages, and started to develop habits of combining disparate musical materials. In addition to his composition and performance schedule, he is a faculty member in the Department of Information Media, School of Information Science and Technology at Chukyo University in Japan. – wikipedia Continue reading CARL STONE :: SHING KEE, 1986
The Incubator 