Tag Archives: Claude Debussey

a rite of spring: the modern mindset of primitive hysteria

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dave

Pagan rites. It demanded music that would be melodic but simple, spontaneous and immodest. More tribal rite that bourgeois concert. Stravinsky was completing his Firebird ballet in 1910 when he allegedly experienced a vision; a girl chosen to dance herself … Continue reading →

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repercussions: the esoterics of bronze

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Dave

The art world divided into warring and acrimonious factions over Auguste Rodin’s “Balzac” was first exhibited as a full size plaster version of the statue shown to the public at he Salon of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1898.Because … Continue reading →

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balzac in tormented bronze: oveheated with emotional excess

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Dave

When is a sculpture not just a sculpture? That it is so intertwined with politics that its initial artistic impulse becomes lost in the quagmire of the partisan. That is what transpired with the sculpture of Honore de Balzac executed … Continue reading →

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SYMPHONIC BIOGRAPHY & ALGORITHMS OF DISTRESS

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Dave

Call it the revolution of the cyborg symphonies. Its algorithmic composition. As Duke Ellington said, ”It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing”, but the digital world is getting very close.  ”Cope has been writing software to … Continue reading →

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ABSURD ENIGMAS & STIGMAS:SPILLING THE GUTS WITH THE BEANS

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Dave

It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn’t enough to change my heart Now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact … Continue reading →

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