Archive for July, 2007

On the streets

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

HGP + Du Yun performing at ArtSkate presented by Pramus

This past Sunday was the last day of Artscape, the largest free art and music festival in the United States, and the Pramus skate shop decided go guerilla and have an unsanctioned, impromptu concert on the sidewalk in front of the shop at the corner of […]

Feeling squirrelly

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

You know how in the fall, a squirrel gathers all the nuts and food he can so he can get fat and survive the winter because he knows that there’ll be slim pickings for several months? Well, the summer is usually my time to do that—musically. The concert season is long and when I’m playing […]

Mechanical

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

So, you ride a great race. You stay out of trouble and tucked in the bunch. You cover a couple attacks to show that you’re willing to work and to avoid the post-finish line snide remarks (”Dude, that guy just sat in the entire time and didn’t work at all. What an…). You hammer to […]

Monkey Town rewind

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Hybrid Groove Project gets down at Monkey Town

Hybrid Groove Project provided the soundtrack in the excellent back room performance space/restaurant/lounge at Monkey Town in Billyburg on Monday evening. A huge thank you to everyone who came out, to Montgomery behind the board, who made us sound pretty and encased us in a four-wall video cage, […]

Won’t you take me to…

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Monkey Town? This Monday at 8:30 p.m. Hybrid Groove Project plays in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The set will feature music by Jacob TV, Eve Beglarian, Philip Glass, and Erik Spangler, plus improv along with some Dubble8 originals. We’ll also be joined by ICE-cicle, trip-hop vocalist, and gu zheng master Du Yun. Bets are currently being placed […]

Rite riot explained

Friday, July 6th, 2007

This is from an older Radio Lab broadcast, but I just heard it for the first time today. Jonah Lehrer examines why the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring incited a riot through the lens of neurology. Our neurons apparently have the ability to adapt to strange and new sounds. Now to just get […]

Communication breakdown

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Back from the ether to post one link. At least there’s evidence that I was writing during my unintentional month-long hiatus from SLN.
Honey, We Need to Talk…
NewMusicBox, July 5, 2007
I’ve already received several comments from NMBx readers and will do my best to address them all here at SLN.