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Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at MOCA
Los Angeles, California November 2010 – January 2011 From November 2010 through January 2011, Los Angeles’ body became the recipient of a great, big, fat, donor belly full of events based around the…
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Henry Gwiazda – Claudia and Paul
If John Cage designed Grand Theft Auto, the results would be a lot like Claudia and Paul, a trio of ultra low-key, animated videos that examine the decaying velvet ropes between art and…
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Phil Kline – Around the World In a Daze
Not only was John Cage the first to use the turntable as a musical instrument, with his piece “Imaginary Landscape No. 1” way back in 1939, he also used 12 radios in “Imaginary…
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Arcane Candy’s 2010 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Dara Puspita – 1966-1968 CD (Sublime Frequencies) • Group Doueh – Beatte Harab LP (Sublime Frequencies) • Omar Khorshid – Guitar El Chark LP…
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Various Artists – Fire in My Bones
Complied by Chemical Imbalance and Yeti publisher Mike McGonigal, Fire in My Bones is a thoroughly combustible set of Raw and Rare and Otherworldly African-American Gospel. We’re talking no less than 88 tracks…
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David Lee Myers + Marco Oppedisano – Tesla at Coney Island
On his third outing, New York City-based guitarist Marco Oppedisano teams up with David Lee Myers to produce 13 tracks of “eclectic music for electric guitar, feedback circuitry and computer distortions.” Like his…
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Marco Oppedisano – The Ominous Corner
On his second CD, New York City-based guitarist Marco Oppedisano offers up quite an odd, off-the-menu combo in the form of some sweet, shredding rock guitar that could fit right in on Pink…
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Marco Oppedisano – Electroacoustic Compositions For Electric Guitar
Composed by New York City guitarist Marco Oppedisano between 1999-2005 and released on CD in 2007, these 12 tracks of rich guitar drones and feedback mine sonic minerals similar to those stored on…
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Erling Wold + Douglas Kearney – Mordake
This disc of the compact variety showed up at random in my post office box containing, of all the unexpected things, a chamber opera! I’ve never been a huge fan of opera in…
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Isabelle O’Connell – Reservoir
Reservoir is a container of nine fluid piano pieces (penned by nine different Irish composers) that the highly talented Dublin-born New York City-based ivory tickler Isabelle O’Connell has enjoyed playing over the past…
