Kevin Press
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The Music Gallery and Arraymusic are hosting a “music-focused memorial” for multimedia artist Michael Snow. The event is scheduled for Jan. 26 in Toronto. Snow’s collective CCMC will perform. This note accompanied the announcement: “From his iconic 1967 experimental film Wavelength and other groundbreaking films, which include La Région Centrale (1971), to his public art…
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Italy’s Lo.Sai has posted a live performance video of “Secreto,” from the pianist’s Mompou: an Intimate Impression LP. Giacomo Favilla shot the clip at Pasquini Castle in Livorno, built in 1889. The Mompou referenced in the album’s title is Fredric Mompou, a Spanish painter, photographer, composer and pianist.
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Contemporary music from everywhere.
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Richard Evans is author of Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978—1983, a wonderfully detailed account of the impact that affordable synthesizer technology had on pop music some 40 years ago. Richard and I talked about what has been described as the definitive account of the period.
