Pt 1 of 2, Nick and Blixa interview, rare pre-show footage shot during the first Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds American tour, June 27, 1984.
Videos
STORIES FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION, documentary, US National Archives
The National Archives Southeast Region presents stories from survivors of the Great Depression overlaid with powerful pictures from era.
ELLSWORTH KELLY, hard edge art legend
Red White 1966 Ellsworth Kelly born 1923 Presented by the Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of Douglas S Cramer 2013 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T14156
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Ellsworth Kelly’s earliest works of art were created in service to the United States, as part of a special camouflage unit in France during World War II. Kelly and his fellow artist-soldiers were tasked with fooling the Germans—using rubber and wood to construct fake tanks and trucks—into thinking the multitudes of Allied troops on the battlefield were much larger than reality. While this seems an unconventional early training for an artist, it proved a fitting one for Kelly.
“He was able to understand that there were these realities that for most of us are camouflaged,” says Virginia Mecklenburg, chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “He would evoke those realities—a distinct feel of gravity, or the physics of weight and momentum that we rarely think about in tangible terms. He was able to get that across.” Continue reading ELLSWORTH KELLY, hard edge art legend
WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP, docu-drama by James Marsh, 1999, based upon the famous 1973 book by Michael Lesy
Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1999 American black-and-white and color docudrama film written and directed by James Marsh, based on the 1973 book of the same name by Michael Lesy. Original music for the film was composed by DJ Shadow, with original piano music for the closing credits by John Cale.
The film dramatizes the photographs by Charles Van Schaick found by in the early 1970s by Lesy, connected to a series of macabre incidents that took place in Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the late 19th century, and, in part, the film was shot on location there. Marsh makes use of silent black-and-white recreations with voice-over narration by Ian Holm contrasted with contemporary color footage of the area.
Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1973 non-fiction book by Michael Lesy, based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick – mostly taken in the city of Black River Falls – and local news reports from the same period. It emphasizes the harsh aspects of Midwestern rural life under the pressures of crime, disease, mental illness, and urbanization.
AB EX NY, The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman: Vir Heroics Sublimis, via MoMA, 4 min.
Another short piece from the MoMA AB EX NY series, discussing Barnett Newman’s techniques in creating his Zip Paintings.
The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman: Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Abstract Expressionist New York
The Museum of Modern Art, October 3, 2010–April 11, 2011
MoMA.org/abexny
Filmed by Plowshares Media
Images courtesy of Barnett Newman Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Music by Chris Parrello
Chris Parrello, Ian Young, Kevin Thomas, Ziv Ravitz
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art
JOHN OSWALD/PLUNDERPHONICS, SPRING, from the album Plunderphonics, 1989
John Oswald/Plunderphonic’s Spring is a recomposition of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rites Of Spring. The piece was part of Oswalds legendary album, Plunderphonics, released in 1988 and re-released in 1989 in a 25-track expanded version. Continue reading JOHN OSWALD/PLUNDERPHONICS, SPRING, from the album Plunderphonics, 1989
JOHN OSWALD/PLUNDERPHONICS :: DAB, from the album, Plunderphonics, 1989
DAB is recomposed from BAD, a song by Michael Jackson remixed, re-edited and reproduced by John Oswald in 1988-9, in a film by Martin Scorsese re-directed and re-edited by John Oswald in 2014-16. Continue reading JOHN OSWALD/PLUNDERPHONICS :: DAB, from the album, Plunderphonics, 1989
FRED FRITH & EVELYN GLENNIE :: A LITTLE PRAYER, from Touch The Sound: A Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie
An excerpt from Touch The Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie.
Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about profoundly deaf Scottish classical percussionist Evelyn Glennie. In the film Glennie, who won a Grammy Award in 1989, collaborates with English experimental musician Fred Frith and others, and explains how she perceives sound. The film appeared at over 20 film festivals across the world, and won several awards, including “Best Documentary” at the 2004 BAFTA Awards, Scotland.
A soundtrack of Touch the Sound featuring Glennie and Frith, plus additional music and sounds from the film, was released in 2004. An album based on Glennie and Frith’s performances in the film entitled The Sugar Factory was released in 2007.
EVELYN GLENNIE :: HOW TO TRULY LISTEN, TEDTalk, 2007, 34 min.
The profoundly deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.
JOHN GIORNO, in conversation with George Stroumboulopoulos, CBC, Feb, 2012
A seven and a half minute interview of John Giorno, by Geore Stroumboulopoulos on his CBC show, Strombo. February, 2012
The Incubator 