Archive for the ‘music’ Category
I went to see several NISEUO concerts before I left Japan. Not only are the members of NISEUO some of the first people I became friends with who were involved with the Osaka underground music scene, but their shows are always incredible events, a quick drop into a densely offbeat avant-punk jazz surreality. The latest […]
Filed under: Japan, Kansai, music, Osaka, performance | Leave a Comment
Tags: avant-garde music, experimental music, live, music, Niseuo, NISEUO cosmic-chang mothership progress, Osaka underground, performance, punk jazz, 大阪
song for my father
Back in the 1970s my father — who was known as “the flute man” — used to make flutes (and other instruments) out of bamboo and sell them in San Francisco, where we lived at the time. Recently, I was given an amazing cache of old photographs, including this series of my father — most […]
Filed under: music, personal, poetry, sweet story of Trout Monroe | 2 Comments
Tags: bamboo flutes, Darrell DeVore, instrument maker, Maureen Hurley, poem, the flute man
Distance traveled: 671 miles (1,080 kilometers) Route: From Bradford, north on Highway 219, then east on Interstate 86 until Binghamton, then switch to I-88 and transfer to 90, eastbound, at Schenectady. Over on Interstate 90 until it crosses I-495, then north on I-495 until I-95, then north on I-95 until Portland, Maine. At Portland, take […]
Filed under: culture, drinking, eating, history, music, personal, restaurant, society, sweet story of Trout Monroe, travel, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: bad drivers, Bogulta, cross-country drive, cross-country trip, Maine, Masshole, Moody's Diner, Moxie
ett (and the three nostalgias)
In his book Cognitive Variations, G.E.R. Lloyd discusses the Russian word toska, a word that denotes the feeling that one gets when “one wants some things to happen and knows they can’t happen.” It’s like a kind of nostalgia for a future that one already knows will never come to pass. This strikes me as […]
Filed under: animation, culture, Japan, music | 2 Comments
Tags: エット, 無茶の茶, Ett, 西本 さゆり, forms of nostalgia, Kei, music, natsukashi, Nishimoto Sayuri, nostalgia, Sayuri Nishimoto, TEA/NO TEA, toska, Zen, Zen pop, 懐かし, 渓
Since the experimental dance group KIKIKIKIKIKI recently held a collaborative performance with Golden Finance, I’ll use that connection to revisit an amazing performance I saw at Kyoto’s Urban Guild about a year ago when KIKIKIKIKIKI teamed up with Pao. Pao is a group that specializes in modal improvisation based around simple melodic riffs and drifting […]
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Tags: "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses", Althusser, きたまり, contemporary dance, dance, Discipline and Punish, experimental dance, Foucault, ideology and the body, improvisation, improvisational music, Kameda Shinji, KIKIKIKIKIKI, Kitamari, Pao, performance, subjectivity, Urban Guild, 亀田 真司
In most of the classical psychoanalytical models of consciousness, dreams — whether functioning as wish fulfillment or as the working out of childhood trauma that is lodged deep within the unconscious mind — are riddles that, if properly deciphered, can reveal information about the structure of our psyches that has been so well hidden that […]
Filed under: culture, music, performance, personal, television, video | 2 Comments
Tags: aleatory music, avant-garde music, consciousness, dream, dreaming, Erik Satie, experimental music, Freud, game show, I've Got a Secret, interpretation of dreams, John Cage, John Cale, television, the psyche, the unconscious mind, Vexations
