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World renowned as the city of the Terra Cotta Warriors, Xi’an is one of the Four Great Ancient capital of China having hosted 13 dynasties in China’s history. Formerly named Chang’an, the current Shaanxi Province capital was the origin of the ancient Silk Road.(PDF link)
The Silk Road came into being in Han dynasty, prospered during Tang dynasty. Crossing through Middle-East and anchoring Europe to Asia, it played an important role in redefining political relations, economic trades, as well as cultural exchanges between the East and the West.
The New Silk road Cultural Park is located in New Qu jiang District, near the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in the South East of part of Xi’an. Established around the Nanhu (South Lake) , it covers over 100 hectares and its construction will start in mid 2006. Echoing the Silk Road historical impact on cultural exchange between Asia and Europe, the New Silk Road cultural park will host innovative cultural venues that will celebrate each culture of the Silk road and explore the impact of the intensifying global communication and traveling upon the merging of cultures.
The New Silkroad cultural park will be the central public space of the New Qu Jiang district, providing a high quality of urban living to its residents. As a unique cultural and research ensemble, it will consolidate Xi’an as the historical cultural capital of China and invite visitors of the world to explore the redefining of the cultures of Asia, Middle East and Europe in our communication era.
sharpeworld via record brother
(word of the day: eephing)
self released cd (with almost no distribution and not alot of information) featuring [walter] de marias tribal drumming mixed with field recordings (as the title implies). the two pieces, 'cricket music' and 'ocean music', were originally recorded in 1964 and 1968.
Samuel Beckett, whose centenary is celebrated April 13, pictured his project before he understood it: that exhausted journey toward an impossible goal replicated in miniature by so many of his characters. It happens in Murphy (1938), his first published novel, which can be found, along with the rest of his official oeuvre, in the four-volume Grove Centenary Edition. Murphy, a youngish layabout with a yen for oblivion, finally finds a job that suits him, as much as anything could be said to suit him. (That immediate downward qualification is the Beckett tic afflicting everyone who ingests his work at an impressionable age.) He signs on as a nurse in a mental institution.
The story of Paik's life follows a global trajectory. Born into a prominent family in Seoul, Korea, in 1932, he studied musical composition and art at the University of Tokyo. At age twenty-four, after completing a thesis on Arnold Schönberg and graduating with a degree in aesthetics, Paik traveled to Germany to pursue his interest in twentieth-century music—first attending the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, where he met composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, and then returning two years later to settle in Cologne, where he worked at the Westdeutsche Rundfunk's Studio for Electronic Music. (Stockhausen was based in the city, and it was there that Paik would meet John Cage.) Paik's studies led him to focus on musical composition as sequences of events unfolding over time: His notations mapped actions in addition to tones. One consequence of this technique was that Paik's individual pieces could not be duplicated—leading Stockhausen and György Ligeti to suggest that films be made of Paik's concerts as a means to establish scores. That never happened, but their suggestion is an indication of Paik's improvisational approach and commitment to the idea of musical composition as performance.
ALLAN KAPROW, 1927-2006
Allan Kaprow, 78, painter and assemblage artist who invented the Happening, died peacefully at his home in Encinitas, Ca., on Apr. 5. A student of Hans Hofmann, Kaprow co-founded the co-op Hansa Gallery on East 10th Street in Manhattan in 1952, where he showed his early "action-collage" paintings including all kinds of raw materials as well as flashing lights. By 1957-58 he had begun making total environments that "pointed the way to a new form of art in which action would predominate over painting." The first Happening, titled 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, took place in October 1959 at the Reuben Gallery on Fourth Avenue. He filled the courtyard of the Martha Jackson Gallery with used tires for Yard in 1961, and for the 1963 exhibition "Hans Hofmann and His Students" at the Museum of Modern Art, he installed two furnished rooms that could be rearranged by visitors. He had major survey exhibitions at the Pasadena Art Museum (1967), the Bremen Kunst Museum (1976), Fondazione Mudima in Milan (1991), Galerie Donguy in Paris (1992) and the John Gibson Gallery in New York (1995). He was professor emeritus at the University of California San Diego.
its this music listener's opinion that sonic youth always got more than they gave. again.
Source: Library of Congress
dtour boxwine
vinalhaven planning map
my life in the bush of ghosts
This is the first time complete and total access to original tracks with remix and sampling possibilities have been officially offered on line. In keeping with the spirit of the original album, Brian and David are offering for download all the multitracks on two of the songs. Through signing up to the user license, and in line with Creative Commons licenses, you are free to edit, remix, sample and mutilate these tracks however you like. Add them to your own song or create a new one. Visitors are welcome to post their mixes or songs that incorporate these audio files on the site for others to hear and rate. Stay tuned, the remix site is coming soon!
a one a two a sister ray
from here (some one sell those commenters a sense of humor)
apple cube
five examples of contemporary architecture that have been influenced by science.
i just recd a 32 page j and r music/computer world catalog in the mail thats devoted completely to ipod accessories
whassup
(best milhouse voice)
back in the day me and Rerun used to wear colored (red, orange, blue, green) "chuck's" converse all stars. then i discovered powder blue pro-keds. the nyc kids we saw on the subway in the bronx wore pro-keds. some times i would wear different colored sneeks. one red, one orange, like that. we also ran two different colored laces through the eyelets (four laces per pair) with only the horizontal lacing visible. check out these links sent in from zars : fieggen shoe lace site and lukes shoe lace site.
cargo culture
podcast an hour of slack / must be sub-genius
from this discussion
clinton st newspaper thief: wanted die or alive
Can you Imagine a two-ton "Square Dancer"? Dancing farm tractors are the answer? The men and "gals" who manuever these tractors are to be admired as they do-si-doe and promenade following the cues of the caller. As the name suggests, the eight men can make their tractors "dance" the intricate patterns of the the traditional square dances we all know.via zars
nyt format change