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"Wire contributor, semi-mythical pop svengali, erstwhile thespian, sampler troubadour and untidy kitchen user" - Owen Hatherley of Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy

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Gaspar Noé read through Fredric Jameson: Enter the Void as Magic Realist Cinema

Since 2002’s gruesome rape-and-revenge tragedy, Irreversible, the films of Gaspar Noé have often been grouped together with what James Quandt baptised the ‘New French Extremity’. This…
8 years ago
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"Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robes in my face!"

Is there any more disgusting spectacle from last week’s news than the sight of former Bullingdon vandals queuing up to denounce the looting of their London club house?

“Thuggish”

8 years ago
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Impossible Music

We may be grateful that an intrepid team of Oxford musicologists have established once and for all that the above depicted sonata for flute - as played by the derrière - is, indeed,…
8 years ago
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CuiZine: Burgers - An Odyssey

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A lot of people seem to be getting excited about this post about the best burger in London.. But, now call me old fashioned, but I’ve always thought of a burger as something you could actually fit in your mouth and bite into. This lot are massive and excluding Byron and the inimitable…

8 years ago
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Composition (2010) No. 4

For any ensemble (and a conductor)


The group must be assembled in a circle or semi-circle with the conductor in the middle.

Everybody plays from the same score (above) with…
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An Audience with Terry Riley at Cafe Oto, November 1st 2010

“I only have a favourite colour when it’s next to another colour that I like - I’m contrapuntal.”
“You have in the past been called a ‘visionary’ composer,” I began, not without…
8 years ago
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Opera Houses

Driving out of Oslo, from its shiny glass and steel centre towards a country that still doesn’t really have anything you could call a motorway and only 60 km of high speed rail…
8 years ago
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Kastrup

“Excuse me, sir. Can I help you?”
“No. I’m fine, thanks.” I was sat, reading a pulp science fiction novel in paperback, waiting for a plane that I had just found out had…
8 years ago
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The Merce Cunningham Dance Company - Roaratorio, at the Theatre de la Ville, Paris; November 13th, 2010

If dance is the pre-eminent art of the body, the body unalloyed in its beauty, and unadorned by technology; in the choreography of Merce Cunningham, we find the body transfigured and…
8 years ago
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Street Sounds in the City of Music: HK Gruber

The latest work from HK Gruber, the Austrian composer from whom the word “enthusiastic” is never far away, received its French premiere under the composer’s baton at the Cité de la…
8 years ago
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wildcat2030:
“ What will this next decade look like? The future is a high-resolution game. Never before has humanity been able to explore the emerging landscape in such detail, to measure the forces of change at such vast scales, and to fill in the...

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What will this next decade look like?

The future is a high-resolution game. Never before has humanity been able to explore the emerging landscape in such detail, to measure the forces of change at such vast scales, and to fill in the details with such fine grain. But this high-resolution grid is not complete. It challenges us to envision and build the future we want. As both gamers and creators of the game, we will fill in the grid over the coming decade. The 2010 Ten-Year Forecast Map of the Decade is a map of this emergent game space. It starts by benchmarking the big forces that will shape the decade: * The Carbon Economy * The Water Ecology * Adaptive Power * Cities in Transition * Molecular Identity Then it invites us to engage in a strategic contest with the future, using the grid as a gameboard. Each cell is a scenario where we could win or lose. Taken together, the cells add up to four over-arching alternative scenarios: * Growth: One Step Ahead of Disaster * Constraint: Sustainable Paths in a Low-Capital World * Collapse: Local Disaster, Regional Conflicts * Transformation: Superstructed Systems (via What will this next decade look like? | Institute For The Future

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A Little Orchestra Christmas Shows

A Little Orchestra are very excited to be playing two Christmas shows next month - do come along and helps us get in the festive mood!

Saturday December 4 - The School’s Christmas…
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Remnants and Revenants of Prague

When we stumbled across it, quite by accident, it could hardly have looked more different than than the merrily populated exhibition concourse captured in the above postcard. The whole…
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Humans Imitating Robots Imitating Humans: Consequences of the Late Arrival of The Future

Capital has a problem (one of many, you might add). The Future was supposed to have arrived by now. For a hundred years we’ve been promised a fully automated robot slave force by the…
8 years ago
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Tivoli and Environs


“Non-place,” says Augé, “is the opposite of utopia.” Yet sometimes the two are not so far away. Just over half an hour before checking in at Kastrup Airport, I was standing at the gates…
8 years ago
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