Tuesday, April 24
“Troubled Waters” - Sucré
- I’m one of those old, old, back in the day Eisley fans (my copy of their first album came from a demo bin in Nashville, you couldn’t find it up in the Northeast… this was back in that dark period called Just Before iTunes) and it’s been breaking my heart to see the band push and pull in different directions over the years. The later Eisley albums are hit-and-misses for me, some good tracks, but rocky at best. The good news is the Dupree girls still have talent and famously have dated and married and divorced and re-married into different bands, splintering off into side projects and featured tracks that are all quite remarkable.
- Enter Sucré, Stacy King neé Dupree, her beau Darren King (of Mutemath) and Jeremy Larson (a studio musician and engineer) have produced a pretty impressive album in A Minor Bird. Despite the album’s twee title (and the band’s literally saccharine name), there’s something serious and lush and masterfully orchestrated about these arrangements. Fresh, but with that traditional Eisley-arrangement twist.
- Here’s my favorite track from A Minor Bird, it’s Tenori-on meets strings meets Dupree. Quite enjoyable for a sunny Saturday.
Mmm, yes.
Thursday, April 19
![fotojournalismus:
Vedran Smajlović performs in Sarajevo’s partially destroyed National Library in 1992. Smailović became famous by taking his cello into the streets of Sarajevo during the siege. Regularly playing his cello in ruined buildings during the siege of Sarajevo, most notably performing Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor. He protested against violence and murder by playing during bombings and funerals. He left the city in 1993 and never played again in his hometown. Till the 5th of April 2012.
[Credit : Mikhail Evstafiev]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22lhaOvjm1r44q44o1_400.jpg)
Vedran Smajlović performs in Sarajevo’s partially destroyed National Library in 1992. Smailović became famous by taking his cello into the streets of Sarajevo during the siege. Regularly playing his cello in ruined buildings during the siege of Sarajevo, most notably performing Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor. He protested against violence and murder by playing during bombings and funerals. He left the city in 1993 and never played again in his hometown. Till the 5th of April 2012.
[Credit : Mikhail Evstafiev]
(via npr)
Monday, March 12
This is a wee little promotional video I shot (with Will Van Beckum), edited and scored for the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. Special thanks to photographer Carlan Tapp for agreeing to appear in the video and marketing director Carrie McCarthy for producing.
I am always floored by how talented my friends are.
These macros of the insides of musical instruments look so much like cathedrals!
Macros of the Insides of Musical Instruments
via Petapixel
Okay, I promise this is the last one.
Instrumental Architecture by Bjoern Ewers
Created for the chamber orchestra of the Berliner Philharmoniker, this advertisment series depicts various instruments from the inside, viewing the interior as if from the perspective of someone living inside them, with natural light filtering in through the airholes. Seriously, find me a shrink ray, I’ll live inside a cello. I wont even complain about the neighbor’s music keeping me up all night.
No, but really. I just can’t get enough of these images.
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![thedailywhat:
Marketing Campaign of the Day: This brilliant promotion for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra by photographer Bjoern Ewers shines a perspective-reexamining light on the interiors of musical instruments, which, incidentally, look like they would make rather amazing concert halls.
See the rest here.
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Absolutely brilliant.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0r50d0pND1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
Marketing Campaign of the Day: This brilliant promotion for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra by photographer Bjoern Ewers shines a perspective-reexamining light on the interiors of musical instruments, which, incidentally, look like they would make rather amazing concert halls.
See the rest here.
[colossal.]
Absolutely brilliant.
Saturday, March 10
New York Neo-Futurists to Premiere YOU ARE IN AN OPEN FIELD, 4/26
It’s coming!
I hope you’re all excited. I am. Obviously.
Ummm, THE MOST excited.
Friday, March 9
Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye feat. Kimbra
I think I’m on the late freight with this song, but for the past few days I’ve been blasting it and dancing around my room like nobody’s business.
Sunday, March 4
Sam Cooke — I’ll Come Running Back to You - 1957
Phantogram - When I’m Small
Lucy’s underground, she’s never coming back…
Phantogram WHY you so good?
This is another song that may or may not have started a dance jam in my room and ended on contact improv with my furniture.
