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BYTE HISTORY: Louis Grenier’s 32 Videos

Courtesy of Zora Art Space

Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010
Time: 7pm
Venue: Zora Art Space (315 4th Avenue between 3rd and 2nd Streets in Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Ticket: t.b.a.

Louis Grenier, filmmaker, and Emmy® Award winner, has created a striking series of videos. Comical, bold, profoundly peculiar, and rigorously powerful. They consist of visual chronicles and psychiatric explorations with wide-ranging philosophical investigations. His work has been shown extensively in the US, Canada, and Europe, at venues including museums, galleries, universities, festivals, night clubs, and television. Exhibitions include: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash. DC; New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center; Anthology Film Archives; The New Museum; The Knitting Factory; The Mudd Club; Dixon Place; CBS Cable TV; The Kitchen; P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY; Manhattan Neighborhood Network; World’s Fair 1984, New Orleans (traveled). For ABC, INC. he wrote, produced, and directed Meredith Vieira of “The Today Show” in “The Scholastic Video.” Awards include: Newsweek-Bolex FILM CONTEST, recognition of cinema skills in National Affairs category, judge Albert Maysles; New York State Council on the Arts CAPS grant in video; Emmy® Award for Editing, ABC 2000 “Millennium Special.”

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Music listings – 11/15 through 11/21

1. Adam Rudolphs Go Organic Orchestra

Date: Monday, November 15, 2010
Time:  8:30pm
Venue: The Roulette (20 Greene St., NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Jazz/contemporary

Composer Adam Rudolph returns with another series of Go: Organic Orchestra at Roulette. In concert he will conduct between 20 – 35 musicians in a spontaneous way, using a newly created score of music/letter grids, language themes, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervalic harmonies, The compositions will also utilize Rudolph’s rhythm concept of “Cyclic Verticalism” to generate form and weave what he calls an “audio syncretic music fabric”. The music is “organic” in the sense that the compositions and conducting exist as an inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice. 

2. Poetic Heritage Festival presents M. Nahadr aka M & Ntozake Shange 

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Please vote for DooBeeDooBeeDoo in the Village Voice’s 1st annual Web Awards 2010!

The Village Voice Web Awards 2010 gives you the opportunity to nominate your favorite websites, blogs, tweets and more! Fill in your name, your email address and www.DooBeeDooBeeDoo.com in catagory #6 (Best Music Blog) and let’s hope DooBeDooBeeDoo wins in December 7. Inshallah, right?

World Music Institute features: dazzling Zakir Hussain on tabla and virtuoso sitarist Niladri Kumar!!!

Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Venue: Town Hall
Text and photos by: Veronique Lerebours (HarmoNYom)

“DazzlingZakir Hussain on tabla and virtuoso Niladri Kumar on sitar delivered to the New Yorkers an incredible and astonishing performance. That was nothing short of majestic to mesmerize the bursting audience! The charisma of both artists, the geniality and creativity of their agile fingers flirting with their respective instruments and the brilliant combination of two gifted maestros where all there!

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Rage Against the Machine or Anarchy in the PRC….. But Remember a Quiet Revolution Is the Best!

 

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers – “Chinese Rocks” ?????????

Text by Sean Hockings

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