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Tropical Punch Tour: Bali Part 2
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Ubud, Bali, Indonesia A small island measuring just 69 x 95 miles nestled between Java and Lombok in the vast archipelago of Indonesia, Bali is covered with lush jungles,…
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Tropical Punch Tour: Bali Part 1
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Ubud, Bali, Indonesia What’s the best thing to do when you get laid off from your job? Get another one? Hell no! You should go see the world, of…
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Tropical Punch Tour
Welcome to the Tropical Punch Tour, my little three-and-a-half month jaunt through Southeast Asia. From May 25 to September 10, 2010, I backpacked through Bali, Java, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar to experience…
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Julius Eastman – Unjust Malaise
In a myriad of ways, Julius Eastman’s whole life was more unusual than a Kodak moment. For starters, he was a black, gay, avant-garde classical composer and performer. Can you say highly unlikely?…
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Harry Partch – The Harry Partch Collection Volume 4
The Harry Partch Collection is a set of four individual CDs that were originally released by CRI in 1997 and reissued by New World Records in 2004. The dinner offered up on Volume…
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Harry Partch – The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
The Harry Partch Collection is a set of four individual CDs that were originally released by CRI in 1997 and reissued by New World Records in 2004. Volume 3 presents four corporeal works…
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Harry Partch – The Harry Partch Collection Volume 2
The Harry Partch Collection is a set of four individual CDs that were originally released by CRI in 1997 and reissued by New World Records in 2004. Volume 2 features two works, the…
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Harry Partch – The Harry Partch Collection Volume 1
Harry Partch (1901-1974) merely succeeded in realizing the most perfectly constructed, personal musical universe of the 20th Century. Shunning twelve-tone equal temperament—which has dominated Western music for well over a hundred years—he formed…
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Gordon Mumma – Electronic Music of Theatre and Public Activity
Not to be confused with a British mother or a corpse wrapped up in gauze, each otherwise known as Mummy, Gordon Mumma is a composer–mostly of electronic music–who got his start in back…
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Alvin Lucier – Wind Shadows
Alvin Lucier is a composer of experimental music who has been working since the 1960s in a solo setting, and with such cutting edge groups as the Sonic Arts Union, which also claimed…
