December 2011
2 posts
Dec 23rd
2011 Albums
The best: Bill Callahan - Apocalypse the rest: Blues Control and Laraaji - FRKWYS Vol. 8 (RVNG Intl.) Nathan Salsburg - Affirmed (No Quarter) Spectre Folk-The Blackest Medicine, Vol. II (Woodsist) Woods - Sun and Shade (Woodsist) Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador) Wooden Shjips - West (Thrill Jockey) Sun Araw - Ancient Romans (Drag City) WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain...
Dec 22nd
October 2011
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Oct 15th
August 2011
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SUN ARAW interview
New interview back-and-forth over at the Agit Reader page.
Aug 16th
July 2011
2 posts
Artistic Practice: Bebe Miller
My artist of inquiry will be Bebe Miller, and specifically looking at her next project, HISTORY. I’m interested in the ways that Bebe, through her choreography, attempts to unveil or excavate the process of dance making, translating her experience and the experiences of the company into a physical language, as well as a record of thought. HISTORY reveals the interpersonal subtext over the last...
Jul 20th
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7.20.11 - ICPP/Social and Cultural Context: Drone...
Musical movement: DRONE Drone music finds its roots in ethnic or spiritual music which can be found in many parts of the world, including Scottish bagpipe traditions, didgeridoo music in Australia, South Indian classical and Hindustani classical, Indonesian gamelan, Gregorian chant, and the sustained tones found in the Japanese classical tradition; Repetition of tones, supposed to be in imitation...
Jul 20th
May 2011
3 posts
AgitReview: D. Charles Speer and the Helix
Reviewed the new album by Brooklyn’s D. Charles Speer and the Helix, Leaving the Commonwealth, for Brooklyn-via-Columbus music site, The Agit Reader. Good tunes, and good to flex that part of the brain after considerable time off. More to follow.   
May 27th
ICPP
Good news. Found out I was accepted into a small cohort of the first-ever Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University in Connecticut starting this summer. The intent is to study the field of Performing Arts presenting through the wider lens and/or practices of visual arts curating (i.e., installations, catalogues, assemblage of content and context, multimedia,...
May 12th
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SHUTTLE
SHUTTLE is Nate from Passion Pit, I recently booked him to headline the OFF THE GRID party at the Wexner Center. 800+ people showed. Nate killed it. House, Sissy Bounce, Trance, and some hints of tasteful dubstep. Good evening all around.
May 12th
April 2011
1 post
WatchWatch
New Moviola track: “Disaster” featuring the many talents of Greg Bonnell on this one. April showering. Everything in its time. We hope you enjoyy.
Apr 17th
March 2011
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WatchWatch
MOVIOLA: TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT. MARCH 2011. in like a lion. with help from the multi-talented Eve Searls on vocal. Download away, friends.
Mar 6th
February 2011
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WatchWatch
One mic, sometime last Spring. Fast and loose = more fun per square inch.
Feb 2nd
December 2010
3 posts
Dec 27th
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2010 favorite albums (and live shows)
Tip of the iceberg here, folks. I reversed the recent micro-trend of declining music consumption in the past year, hoorah for me, and I won’t bore you with the details. That’s said, I can’t say it was the most compelling musical year I can remember of late, but there were certainly some records (see below) that moved me to stop, look, and listen (again and again) anew. Live, The...
Dec 21st
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APAP ELI
What’s with the acronyms? Why of course it’s the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Emerging Leader Institute. APAP is the annual swarm of presenters, artists, booking agents, and arts leaders in NYC, all talking about the state of the presenting business, as well as the bizarre ritual of watching hundreds of musical acts in sterile hotel conference rooms shop their wares—truly...
Dec 13th
October 2010
2 posts
WatchWatch
Spiderman mustard mouth.
Oct 23rd
ROAD TRIP
This project, funded by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), and involving vanguard NYC theater company, the Builders Association, will be consuming a good amount of time over the course of the next year. Cross-campus collaboration between the Wexner Center and many departments (Business, Architecture, Ag, Comp Studies, History) involved in the creation of an original piece of...
Oct 7th
September 2010
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Back and Forth
I seriously wrenched my back today trying to do an awkward half-lunge/half-tar-caked-pirouette while holding a 50lb., 5-gallon tub of driveway sealant. Graceful, you should have seen it. The knife entered just below my liver, and, lo, these eight hours later is still twisting the night away. I finished sealing the driveway, though, such are the minuscule joys of home ownership. It was beginning...
Sep 12th
June 2010
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Sun Araw - ON PATROL
NotNotFun Not unlike (but not to be confused with) the interstellar sounds of a certain similar-named jazz traveler, Long Beach-based Sun Araw is one-man, cosmic-jam brainchild of Cameron Stallones, who has been foraging in the deep and murky seas of afrobeat, dub, and free-range psychedelics for several years on his own with steadily increasing returns. If you’re curious, yes, they both do...
Jun 15th
May 2010
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May 30th
December 2009
1 post
Listen“St. James the Less” (demo-ation)...
Dec 4th
November 2009
7 posts
Nov 26th
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Nov 1st
Nov 1st
Nov 1st
Listen“Au Revoir Blues” home demo (another...
Nov 1st
Blues Control, on repeats →
I’ve fallen back 44 times
Nov 1st
Nov 1st
October 2009
4 posts
Oct 24th