Sounds Like Now is the official website of Brian Sacawa. Saxophonist with The US Army Field Band from Washington, DC, Curator of Baltimore's award-winning Mobtown Modern Music Series, elite cyclist for Integrated Sports Medicine p/b Pyramid Training Systems, and founder of Big Ring Creative.

Art

Pairings

Good Vibrato, the occasional blog of Ronen Givony’s forward-thinking Wordless Music Series, pairs paintings with all manner of music, including my recording of Piece in the Shape of a Square by Philip Glass. Check it out here.  Continue reading »

Short list

All dressed up and no place to go? Allow me to suggest the following activities taking place this week in and around Baltimore: + Meet the Artist: Matthew Barney: The acclaimed artist and filmmaker best known for The Cremaster Cycle, and more recently for his collaboration with Björk in Drawing Restraint 9, will be at the Hirshhorn this Wednesday at 7pm with Guggenheim Museum curator Nancy Spector discussing the influence of Joseph Beuys‘ art on the evolution of his work. If you really can’t make...  Continue reading »

No love for the MoMA

I’m temporarily blacklisting the MoMA (no link = no love). I deliberately made a late train reservation back to Mobtown so that I might be able to catch a glimpse of Doug Aitken’s sleepwalkers, which was going to be showing on (yes, on) the MoMA beginning at 5pm. A little before 4pm, I decided that rather than wait around in the cold, that I would be somewhat ridiculous and buy a ticket for the museum, so I could wander around and see something for an...  Continue reading »