In the small German town of Halberstadt, a piece of music history unfolds: John Cage’s organ work “Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible)” is being performed – with a planned duration of 639 years.
Will Self’s novel “Great Apes” is both deeply unsettling and darkly hilarious – an uncomfortably precise satire on the nature of civilisation.
Night after night, a man stands by his elevator with a suitcase, waiting for the secret police to take him away and punish him for his crimes.The man is the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, the setting is Stalin’s Soviet Union, and the crime is his music.
Michael Rother, Hans Lampe and Franz Bargmann took over Copenhagen’s Jazzhouse with “Krautrock” of the timeless and immediately captivating kind.
Today, most people think of the music video as appearing in the 1980s, gaining momentum with the rise of MTV, and at the very least being closely linked to the invention of videotape. However, the music video actually had a quirky predecessor named Scopitone—and it is quite a charming acquaintance.
I suddenly noticed that Konzerthaus Berlin hosted a work I never heard by a composer I admire: Steve Reich’s “video opera” Three Tales – the video part created by his wife Beryl Korot. The work interprets the development and failures …
Interview by Jacob Pertou. State of Mind is currently Kim Bonfils’ musical alter ego. As the first participant in a series of interviews with Danish musicians about their relationships with Tangerine Dream, I ask State of Mind aka Bonfils to tell us a little about how he relates to the band.
Finally managed to get in to the very popular Gerhard Richter exhibit at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Strangely, I did not come away as impressed as I expected I would. I do admire Richters technique – and especially his insistence on …
Gerhard Richter retrospective, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Læs mere »
While not a definitive biography, Sylvie Simmons’ book works as a short and entertaining introduction to the life and work of a truly unique artist.
Zen teacher and writer Brad Warner tells a story about the origins of this book. When Warner was visiting Montreal to deliver a talk on Zen, a rather eccentric member of the audience asked him: “Are Buddhists allowed to jack …
“Sex, Sin and Zen,” by Brad Warner (book review – in English) Læs mere »