Island song

 

In 1976, Charlemagne Palestine is biking around the french isle "Saint Pierre et Miquelon".
One of my favorite astounding trip...  with the voice of Charlemagne Palestine.

   ***  Gotta get outta here...gotta get outta here... ***  

OKAY! 

         Castelli-Sonnabend, New York, black & white, sound

 

this post was first published in february 2013

 

 

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Les femmes et la composition musicale

 

El medio francés Radio Classique se hace eco del Mapa de Creadoras de la Historia de la Música.

Une formidable carte interactive qui recense les femmes compositrices et musiciennes dans le monde.

An amazing interactive world's map of the women involved in music composition.

 

A work created by Sakira Ventura

Sakira Ventura, qui enseigne à Valence en Espagne, explique qu’elle voulait mettre en lumière toutes ces compositrices, pour la plupart ignorées parce qu’on a longtemps considéré que la musique ne pouvait-être qu’un passe-temps pour les femmes, pas une vocation et encore moins une profession. 

Cette carte interactive recense et localise dans le monde entier déjà plus de 500 compositrices. Son objectif: faire découvrir des musiciennes souvent méconnues, peu jouées et parfois même totalement oubliées.

Sakira Ventura explains that she wanted to shed light on all these female composers, most of whom were ignored because, for a long time, it was considered that music could only be a hobby for women, not a vocation and even less a profession.  

This interactive map lists and locates more than 500 female composers worldwide. Its objective: to introduce musicians who are often unrecognized, little played and sometimes even totally forgotten. 

 

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Maison radieuse

 

La Maison radieuse, également appelée Cité radieuse de Rezé ou La Maison familiale, est une résidence sur pilotis de presque 300 logements conçue par Le Corbusier et située dans la commune de Rezé, au sud de Nantes construite entre 1953 et 1955. L'architecte a tenté d'appliquer ses principes d'architecture pour une nouvelle forme de cité, un village vertical, appelé "unité d'habitation". Achevée en 1955, elle est la deuxième des cinq unités d'habitation construites, après celle de Marseille (1952), et avant celles de Berlin, Briey en Forêt, et Firminy. 

 

 

"City Radieuse" est une musique composée par Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto pour l'essai cinématographique de 2012 intitulé "Cité Radieuse" et fait partie de la série "Future Past Perfect" de Carsten Nicolai. La vidéo nous montre  le système modulaire et la conception appliqués aux bâtiments résidentiels. Le récit du film retrace l'espace intérieur et les détails des appartements, et souligne les différents repères de production standardisés en corrélation avec leur environnement et ses habitants.

 

  

 

 

 

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from Mambo to Hip-Hop

 

"Mambo to Hip Hop" is a 2006 Henry Chalfant 's documentary around the South Bronx area and its musical activity between the 40s and the 80s. It features well known figures in salsa — Ray Barretto, Willie Colon, Eddie Palmieri,  footage of Tito Puente and Machito, as well as key figures in hip hop including Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Caz, and DJ Charlie Chase.  Yet this is not a film about the stars but about a neighborhood.

"Mambo to Hip Hop" est un documentaire de 2006 réalisé par Henry Chalfant autour du quartier South Bronx à New-York et de son activité musicale entre les années 40 et 80. Y figurent des personnalités et artistes bien connus de la salsa - Ray Barretto, Willie Colon, Eddie Palmieri, des images de Tito Puente et Machito, ainsi que des personnalités clés du hip hop, notamment Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Caz et DJ Charlie Chase. Ce film est principalement l'histoire de ce quartier au travers de son activité musicale.

 

From the late 1940s through the 1960s the Melrose, Mott Haven, Longwood and Hunts Point areas of the South Bronx were “a hotbed of Latin music.” Hundreds of Latino musicians grew up in or moved to this area from East Harlem or directly from Puerto Rico and Cuba.  From the late 1950s to the early ‘70s, a deadly combination of factors – public and private disinvestment; official “urban renewal” and “planned shrinkage” policies; loss of small manufacturing to cheaper labor states; loss of live audiences to television; drugs and street gangs – had eroded the infrastructure and begun the decline of the South Bronx community.  Ultimately, the result was what came to be known as “the burning of the Bronx”.  But what stands out in this story is the resilience of this community and how music and dance , particuliary the Hip-Hop wave, supported that resilience and helped the community rebuild.

De la fin des années 1940 aux années 1960, les quartiers de Melrose, Mott Haven, Longwood et Hunts Point du South Bronx étaient un haut lieu de musique latine. Des centaines de musiciens latinos avaient grandi ou déménagé dans ces qaurtiers depuis East Harlem ou directement depuis Porto Rico et Cuba. De la fin des années 1950 au début des années 1970, différents facteurs nocifs - désinvestissement public et privé, politiques officielles de "renouvellement urbain", perte des petites activités industrielles au profit d'États où la main-d'œuvre était moins chère, perte d'audiences en direct à la télévision, drogue et gangs  - ont érodé l'infrastructure et commencé le déclin de la communauté du sud du Bronx. pour finir avec ce qu'on a appelé "l'incendie du Bronx". Mais ce qui ressort de cette histoire, c'est comment la musique et la danse, en particulier la vague Hip-Hop, ont soutenu la résilience de cette communauté en l'aidant à se reconstruire.

 

You can see this movie in a better quality directly on the Folkstreams website

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Henry Chalfant is also best known for his photography and film documentation of the urban youth culture. His photographs of New York’s subway paintings record hundreds of ephemeral artworks that have long since vanished.

Henry Chalfant est également très connu pour ses photographies et ses films documentaires sur la culture urbaine des jeunes. Ses remarquables photographies des graffitis et peintures du métro de New York recensent des centaines d'œuvres d'art éphémères qui ont disparues depuis longtemps.

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Bayou-borne

 

Annea Lockwood composed in 2016 the piece "Bayou-borne" - for improvisation guided by graphic imagery - as a tribute to Pauline Oliveros who was born in Houston Texas. 

         "I created a graphic score from a map of the six bayous which flow through the city to Galveston Bay, thinking that she would have known one or all of those rivers intimately as a child – swimming, wading, river mud between her toes.  She was a superb improviser, so it is scored for six improvising musicians with each player reading one of the rivers as a guide.  Their lines move independently at first, coming closer together at the confluences to form duets and trios, before converging at the red star, the whole sound darkening as they approach Houston in memory of the devastation and deaths caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017."  Annea Lockwood

"Bayou-borne" is performed by Maze:  Anne La Berg (flutes, electronics), Dario Calderone (double bass), Gareth Davis (bass clarinet), Yannis Kyriakides (electronics),  Wiek Hijmans (electric guitar), Reinier van Houdt (piano, eletronics). Now published on a limited edition's CD (300 copies) .

bonus links

An interview with Annea

"Piano burning" 1968

The glass world of Annea Lockwood 

 

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Great flood

 

"The Great Flood"  is a film by Bill Morrison with music by the guitarist Bill Frisell.

The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in American history. In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its earthen embankments in 145 places and inundated 27,000 square miles and provoked an exodus of displaced sharecroppers, who left plantation life and migrated to Northern cities. 

For the 78 minutes film, Morrison used film archives, including the Fox Movietone Newsfilm Library and the National archives, for footage of the Mississippi River Flood. 

 

For the score, Bill Frisell is joined by Tony Scherr on bass, Kenny Wollesen on drums and Ron Miles on trumpet.

 

an excerpt of the movie

other excerpts here & here

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A musical Underground

in London,

just find your right line!

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Stéréophony

Ce qu'il faut savoir sur la stéréophonie - in "La Maison Moderne" - circa 1960

et "Back to mono" des années 2017 by Damon Krukowski

Walk through Jaruco

Ivan Martinez, american conceptual artist, describes the walks his father did virtualy in Jaruco, Cuba, for each of his birthdays. Following and drawing maps of his ancient walks in his city.
That sole conversation was then etched into a one-off vinyl record.

He describes the homes, the lots, the schools, the businesses, the people, the food, the coffee, the parks, the prison, the cemetery, the rumors, the entertainment, the politics, the divisions of such a small town and what resides just outside of its boundaries.

Cubism in Tavira

Looking forward to the "7 SCORIES" new CD of Paul Collins and Palix (previewed for early 2013) ,
you can hush up your impatience listening for  this pataphysical "Cubism in Tavira",
excerpt of the famous "Wipe out" release (2005).

                                    >>>here<<< 

                                        aerial Tavira's view