In 1970, Armenian filmmaker Artavazd Peleshyan directed Inhabitants, an ode to wildlife. Fascinated by this poetic work, Patti Smith composed a tribute to the filmmaker.
Live at Foundation Cartier, Paris, July 2014
Category Archives: Video
Fred Frith with John Giorno and Pauline Oliver’s: Concert At The Foundation Cartier
Concert a la Fondation Cartier, Paris 2008
MILES DAVIS :: IFE, Vienna, 11.03.73
November 3, 1973
Stadthalle, Vienna (Austria)
Miles Davis (tpt, org); Dave Liebman (ss, ts, fl); Pete Cosey (g, perc); Reggie Lucas (g); Michael Henderson (el-b); Al Foster (d); James Mtume Forman (cga, perc)
Flaco Jimenez ::El Mojado Sin Licencia (1975)
from Les Blank’s 1976 documentary, Chulas Fronteras about norteño conjunto music, played along both sides of the Mexico-Texas border.
Carolee Schneemann :: Fuses (1967) film/video, 22 min.
Artist Carolee Schneeman began work on her film Fuses in 1964, eventually finishing it 1967. Her performance piece, Meat Joy had been performed in Paris and NYC at the Judson Church the same year, along with her constructions Native Beauties (1962–64), Music Box Music (1964), Pharaoh’s Daughter (1966) and Her Letter to Lou Andreas Salome (1965). Continue reading Carolee Schneemann :: Fuses (1967) film/video, 22 min.
Kathy Acker :: I Was Walking Down The Street
from the album: Sugar, Alcohol & Meat, The Dial-A-Poem Poets, 1980
Laure Briard :: Sur La Piste De Danse
Here’s some very fine pop, of the euro persuasion. And I can’t help but notice the parallels between her plaintive voix and that of Laetitia Sadier/Stereolab. France’s Laure Briard released this song this past July.
And fyi- a new single and video, “Dreams” dropped today.
Documentary: The Tibetan Book Of The Dead (narrated by Leonard Cohen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOs8s5zTGnA
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead is a documentary, produced by The National Film Board of Canada in 1994. It explains The Bardo Thodol, Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State, referred to in the west as The Tibetan Book Of The Dead. The close to 700 year-old text, composed in the 8th century is a text from a larger corpus of teachings, the Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones. The text is intended to guide a deceased person through the experiences that his or her consciousness faces in the bardo, the interval between their death and their next rebirth. Continue reading Documentary: The Tibetan Book Of The Dead (narrated by Leonard Cohen)
In Search Of Wabi Sabi : BBC doc with Marcel Theroux
In Search of Wabi Sabi is a BBC Documentary in which novelist & broadcaster Marcel Theroux travels across Japan, attempting to understand the japanese aesthetic theory, Wabi Sabi.
Wabi-sabi (侘寂?) represents Japanese aesthetics and a Japanese world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”.[2] It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印 sanbōin?), specifically impermanence (無常 mujō?), suffering (苦 ku?) and emptiness or absence of self-nature (空 kū?).Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes. – wikipedia
Julia Wolfe :: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Composer Julia Wolfe’s Big Beautiful Dark and Scary was written in response to her experience witnessing the 9-11 tragedy, standing two blocks away from the Twin Towers as the planes hit them along with her two young children. The piece was written in 2002 for amplified sextet: clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion, piano, electric guitar, cello and double bass. Gargantuan slabs of tone clusters hover and fuss, then begin their brutal climb, ascending in pitch, intensity and volume. Continue reading Julia Wolfe :: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
The Incubator 