|
Frédéric Acquaviva
Frédéric Acquaviva (born 20 January 1967) is a French autodidact experimental composer and avant-garde sound artist living between Paris, Berlin and London who works with voices, instruments, electronics, film and body sounds. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious Karl Sczuka Prize for his music "ANTIPODES". Acquaviva has been prolific on the underground/experimental music scene since 1990, working with major figures of the historical avant-garde including Isidore Isou, Marcel Hanoun, Pierre Guyotat, Bernard Heidsieck, Maurice Lemaître and Henri Chopin. as well as people from a more recent experimental scene like poets-artists Jean-Luc Parant, Joël Hubaut, lettrist Broutin, poet-film maker , choreograph Maria Faustino, Maîtresse Cindy, cello Anton Lukoszewieze, violin Chihiro Ono, trombone player Thierry Madiot, pianist Mark Knoop, harpist Helen Sharp, flutist Carin Levine, Bartosz Glowacki (accordion) and mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg. As the creator of "chronopolyph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autodidact
Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning and self-teaching) is education without the guidance of masters (such as teachers and professors) or institutions (such as schools). Generally, autodidacts are individuals who choose the subject they will study, their studying material, and the studying rhythm and time. Autodidacts may or may not have formal education, and their study may be either a complement or an alternative to formal education. Many notable contributions have been made by autodidacts. Etymology The term has its roots in the Ancient Greek words (, ) and (, ). The related term ''didacticism'' defines an artistic philosophy of education. Terminology Various terms are used to describe self-education. One such is heutagogy, coined in 2000 by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon of Southern Cross University in Australia; others are ''self-directed learning'' and ''self-determined learning''. In the heutagogy paradigm, a learner should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carin Levine
Carin Levine is an American classical flautist. Life Levine studied at the University of Cincinnati with Jack Wellbaum (flute) and Peter Kamnitzer (chamber music), then from 1974 at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Aurèle Nicolet (flute), Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough (Neue Musik). As an interpreter and lecturer (e.g. since 1996 at the Darmstadt Summer Courses), she is particularly committed to the flute literature of the present. In Bärenreiter-Verlag she publishes the series ''Contemporary Music for Flute''. 1980-2000, Levine was a flutist in the ''Ensemble Köln''. She plays in a duo with the violinist David Alberman (since 1995) and the percussionists Christian Dierstein. (b. 1965) and Marta Klimasara (b. 1975). Together with the oboist Peter Veale (b. 1959) and the bassoonist Pascal Gallois she founded the Aeolian Trio. In 2008, she founded the Landesjugendensemble Neue Musik Niedersachsen, of which she is artistic director. Further reading * Carin Levi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WhiteBox (arts Centre)
WhiteBox is a non-profit art space located in New York City. It hosts contemporary exhibitions, performance, video and special events including readings, lectures and panel discussions. History The organization was founded by Juan Puntes as an alternative art space for innovative, experimental and thought-provoking contemporary art. It was founded in Philadelphia in 1997, before relocating to Chelsea, New York City in 1998. In the years 1998 and 1999, Whitebox was nominated for “Best Group Show” by the International Art Critics Association for "Plural Speech" and for a survey of Viennese Actionists, Hermann Nitsch and Günter Brus. Later exhibitions included artists Carolee Schneemann, Michael Snow, Dennins Oppenheim, Braco Dimitrijevic, Naoto Nagakawa, Alison Knowles, John Cage and Aldo Tambellini. In 2008 WhiteBox decided to leave Chelsea to move to the Lower East Side, where a few galleries were just starting to settle following the opening of the New Museum i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phill Niblock
Phill Niblock (born October 2, 1933 in Anderson, Indiana) is an American composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia,Alan Licht, ''Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020'', Blank Forms Edition, ''Interview with Phill Niblock'', pp.453-478 a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a parallel branch in Ghent, Belgium. Early life and education After an early period studying economics (BA, Indiana University, 1956) Niblock came to New York in 1958. Initially he worked as a photographer and filmmaker. Much of this activity centered around photographing and filming jazz musicians and modern dancers. An epiphany occurred while riding a motorcycle in the Carolina mountains. Niblock was climbing a grade behind a slow-moving diesel truck when the revolutions of both vehicles' engines nearly synchronized. "The strong physical presence of the beats resulting from the two engines running at slightly different frequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Listening Institute
The Deep Listening Band (DLB) was founded in 1988 by Pauline Oliveros (accordion, "expanded instrument system", composition), Stuart Dempster ( trombone, didjeridu, composition) and Panaiotis ( vocals, electronics, composer). David Gamper (keyboards, electronics) replaced Panaiotis in 1990. The band is named after Oliveros' term, concept, program and registered servicemark of the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., ''Deep Listening'', and specializes in performing and recording in resonant or reverberant spaces such as cathedrals and huge underground cisterns including the Fort Worden Cistern which has a 45-second reverberation time. Milestones and collaborations Deep Listening Band recorded its first, self titled album at Fort Worden Cistern in Port Townsend, WA on October 8, 1988. Al Swanson is credited with the on location recording, while Swanson and Dempster collaborated in editing the recording in December 1988. The initial name ''"The Deep Listening Band"'' and the corr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros authored books, formulated new music theories, and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of "deep listening" and "sonic awareness", drawing on metaphors from cybernetics. She was an Eyebeam resident. Early life and career Oliveros was born in Houston, Texas. She started to play music as early as kindergarten, and at nine years of age she began to play the accordion, received from her mother, a pianist, because of its popularity in the 1940s.Baker, Alan"An interview with Pauline Oliveros" January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fylkingen
Fylkingen - New Music and Intermedia Art is an artist-run venue and member based organisation committed to contemporary experimental performing arts. Over 300 artists from various disciplines use the space to develop and present new work. Today Fylkingen represents a wide field of artistic practices, including EAM (electro acoustic music), dance, performance art, video art, improvisation music, sound art, etc. It also produces and distributes recorded material through its own label Fylkingen Records since 1966. It is also from the same year that Fylkingen started to publish its own periodicals intermittently. History Fylkingen was established in 1933 in Stockholm, Sweden, then focusing on contemporary composers and a traditional repertoire. Over the years, the organization branched out into new art forms. Fylkingen was founded in 1933 as a Chamber Music Society of musicians and composers in order to highlight the new music of contemporary composers in combination with a traditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice (, "The Phoenix") is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of "the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre" and in the history of opera as a whole. Especially in the 19th century, La Fenice became the site of many famous operatic premieres at which the works of several of the four major bel canto era composers – Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi – were performed. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of three theatres to fire, the first in 1774 after the city's leading house was destroyed and rebuilt but not opened until 1792; the second fire came in 1836, but rebuilding was completed within a year. However, the third fire was the result of arson. It destroyed the house in 1996 leaving only the exterior walls, but it was rebuilt and re-opened in November 2004. In order to celebrate this event the tradition of the Venice New Year's Concert started. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is located in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark. Tate Modern is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world. As with the UK's other national galleries and museums, there is no admission charge for access to the collection displays, which take up the majority of the gallery space, whereas tickets must be purchased for the major temporary exhibitions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the museum was closed for 173 days in 2020, and attendance plunged by 77 per cent to 1,432,991 in 2020. Nonetheless, the Tate was third in the list of most-visited art museums in the world in 2020, and the most visited in Britain. The nearest railway and London Underground stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weserburg
The Weserburg is a modern art museum in Bremen, Germany. Opened in 1991, it is located on the Teerhof The Teerhof is a peninsula between the River Weser and the Kleine Weser, opposite the city centre of Bremen, Germany. It was first mentioned in 1624 as "Theerhof" when it was the northernmost part of an island. Today it consists mainly of residen ... peninsula next to the River Weser in an old factory building which was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War. Originally known as "New Museum Weserburg Bremen" (''Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen''), it was Europe's first "collectors' museum", in that it conserves no permanent collection but mounts changing exhibition of private collections. It is one of the largest modern art museum spaces in Germany. History In 1893, a cigarette factory was opened by Ad. Hagens & Co. on the Teerburg Peninsula in the middle of the Weser. Known as Hagensburg, the building's two Neogothic gate towers contrasted with the surrounding war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet ("the Museum of Modern Art"), Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009, the museum opened a new branch in Malmö in the south of Sweden, Moderna Museet Malmö. History The museum was opened in 9May 1958. In 2009, the museum opened a new branch in the building previously known as Rooseum in Malmö. Directors * 1958–1973: Pontus Hultén * 1973–1977: Philip von Schantz * 1977–1979: Karin Lindegren * 1980–1989: Olle Granath * 1989–1995: Björn Springfeldt * 1996–2001: David Elliott * 2001–2010: Lars Nittve * 2010–2018: Daniel Birnbaum * 2018–2019: Ann-Sofi Noring (acting) * 2019–present: Gitte Ørskou Collection The museum houses Swedish and international modern and contemporary art, including pieces by Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí and a model of the Tatlin's Tower. The museum's collection includes also key works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini. It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Public Information Library), a vast public library; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe; and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. Because of its location, the centre is known locally as Beaubourg (). It is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who commissioned the building, and was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by President Valéry Giscard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
_-_Facade.jpg "Click for more on -> La Fenice")
.jpg "Click for more on -> Moderna Museet")
