the continuing conversation between art and life
Basically, you need never be bored again. An immense archive of the great audio interviewer and social historian and researcher, Studs Turkel, speaking over 40 years with great thinkers, movers and shakers as well as people less famous - has been properly curated and placed online. This is America, talking to itself, about its hopes and …
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A delight. W H Auden writes - and reads - his response to Breughel's picture about the fall of Icarus, in the Musee des Beaux Arts. 1 and a half minutes. He manages to draw out a life observation as well as describe the painting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEJyZepZIr8
Intriguing - you can now listen to the "Sound of Music" without the music - simply the audio of what happens with the characters - storms, birdsong, phone ring..... It looks like - and sounds like - this: So, if you are an extreme fan of the film - or you just love living life …
Just watched a BBC documentary on the making of the album "No Secrets" - which includes the song "You're so vain". Absorbing. We get to hear from the producer, bassist, sound engineer, drummer, lead guitarist, her manager and most of all Carly herself. What were her inspirations for her songs? What was it like …
Or both? In the 1980s film "Electric Dreams" you get both. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVE8taDWmMc
In this video, poet Ken Cockburn and artist Juliana Capes describe the great hall in the Scottish Portrait Gallery to a group of people with sight difficulties. They use poetic descriptions as well as poetry in what seems to be a very successful fusion. This and other similar events are organized by Artlink. https://vimeo.com/155393786 This …
The human voice in its immense variation carries words to us in a bandwidth broader than black lines of words on a white page or screen. It's one of the oldest media in the world - predating writing - each person's voice so unique that when we hear a familiar voice it brings all the emotional …
I have had this difference in audio file types explained to me. I understood. I forgot. I have just had to check it out again - and found this brief video which explains without any interesting visuals at all. However, it is presented by a guy who looks and sounds like he knows what he's …
https://vimeo.com/74476899 What is sound? And why do we turn it into music? What does music do? (National Geographic short film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESeRaLKE7YU Interviewer is Jad Abumrad, radio host, composer and producer. Film by Mac Premo
