I have been so fortunate to hear so many beautiful pieces of music in the past couple of weeks. I am still reeling from my “Necks Exposure” and there have been many beautiful soundtracks I have added to my collection. One that I have had for a few weeks now, is the beautiful Bestiaries by Patrick farmer and Dominique […]
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The Necks at the Sydney Opera House – I was there!
posted by lisathatcher
Last night Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton lulled me into a trance, teased me into a kind of delirium and stole a cherry I didn’t know I had. They took me into a room – it was a spectacular room. High ceilings, bulging walls that swelled at the peak of the throb of […]
FFF: And if we all lived together – A very enjoyable senior moment.
posted by lisathatcher
According to the ‘Innovative housing solutions for older Australians” paper brought out by the Australian Government recently, the baby boomers can be expected to transform aging in exactly the same way they have changed every other aspect of life they lived through. Among other things, the paper had the following quote: People are living longer and with […]
Heart of Glass – Herzog hypnotizes everyone.
posted by lisathatcher
I’ve just watched Heart of Glass. You know the one – the Herzog film where he hypnotizes his entire cast. Everyone, except for the mystic who plays the central role and (thankfully) the professional glass blowers in the film, are hypnotized before their scene. This gives the film a totally bizarre feel, as if the […]
Vijay Iyer Trio – Accelerando
posted by lisathatcher
I don’t usually buy ‘hot new albums’ – it’s not that I’m against anything new, and I am most certainly not against anything ‘hot’ – it’s just that there is so much music available that can’t fall into the category of ‘hot and new’ that I get distracted by the beauty that is easily available. […]
French Film Festival
posted by lisathatcher
Well, the French Film Festival started for me today and it looks like I have a series of joyful happy days ahead of me. This is my second favorite event on the Sydney calendar – my first being our world class writers festival. The mood is jumping here tonight … ripe with cliche(d) striped shirts and berets! […]
Bear Ground – The sound of objects / the object of sound.
posted by lisathatcher
I’ve had the most glorious day today with this CD caressing my ears. My assumption on this blog is that I speak mostly to those who don’t know much about this sort of music, but a fast analysis of my stats on the weekend revealed that (sigh) my experimental music posts are not very popular […]
The Lighthouse – Maria Saakyan shows us Armenia as a dream
posted by lisathatcher
At the start of Maria Saakyan’s The Lighthouse (Mayak) our heroine, Lena (Anna Kapaleva) puts on an old records of the soundtrack to Efrem Pruxhanski’s animated adaptation of Alive in Wonderland. Like Alive, Lena has crossed a border into a place she doesn’t recognise. She is not even sure what she is doing there. And […]
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