Errors-To: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Reply-To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Sender: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk From: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Subject: tmbg-list Digest #60-2 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 60, Number 2 Monday, 2 December 2002 Today's Topics: TMBG: Re: FYI TMBG: tmbg-list FAQ TMBG: NYC experimental performance+talk Administrivia: If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing send mail to tmbg-digest-request@tmbg.org for instructions on how to be automatically removed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- tmbg-list is digested with Digest 3.5b (John Relph ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <000d01c29952$3799f5c0$44018c41@0021434253> From: "Miranda Phifer" Subject: TMBG: Re: FYI Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 10:56:27 -0500 that is the coolest thing i've ever heard! yay miranda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quinn Collard" To: Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 9:53 PM Subject: TMBG: FYI > John "Mundanes" Andrews tells me that his company, Klasky Csupo > (responsible for Rugrats, among other things), is doing an "animated > project" with a new TMBG song. It'll probably be on in the spring and I'll > have more details from him when that gets closer. > > Quinn {http://home.houston.rr.com/johnlinnell/main.html} > > "I wish that everything went just as I wish everything would go." > ~John Linnell > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 03:15:00 -0500 (EST) From: Majordomo Message-Id: <200212010815.gB18F0549473@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Subject: TMBG: tmbg-list FAQ *** ADMINISTRIVIA *** This notice is posted twice a month to tmbg-list and tmbg-digest, as well as sent to all new users. Please read it if you have questions about the list. The TMBG mailing list is administered by Leo Bicknell . It provides a forum for discussing They Might Be Giants and Their music. 1) Unsubscribing from the list It is easy to unsubscribe from this mailing list. If you are subscribed to the regular, or "bounce" list, send the command unsubscribe tmbg-list e-mail@address in the body of a message to . 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Also try out the Official TMBG Website at: http://www.tmbg.com/ As always, thank you for your mind. *** ADMINISTRIVIA *** ------------------------------ Message-Id: <1212148.QJOYFKYQ@echo.net> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 21:48:13 -0500 From: Joshua Fried Subject: TMBG: NYC experimental performance+talk Dear People I will give a FREE performance and talk December 12th in NYC. Joining me for the discussion portion will be artist/writer/thinker Thalia Field, and YOU, from the audience, if you want. WHEN: Thursday afternoon, December 12th, 2002, 3pm. WHERE: The New School, Tishman Auditorium 66 W. 12th Street, Main Floor New York, NY WHAT: RADIO WONDERLAND: I will walk out with my FM boom box, grab some audio bits on the spot, and fire up the PowerBook and Musical Shoes to slice, dice and rhythmatize the media as it flies through the air. (In other words, the usual, and still in-progress!) DISCUSSION: Thalia Field will engage me on the use of sounds taken by chance, the meaning of funky beats, the cultural context of it all and probably many more items which will surprise all of us. She has a forceful, funny mind and knows all the stuff I just pretend to know. We will encourage those present to join in the conversation. ADMISSION: FREE I'd like to mention also that I realize that many of you are far away. I don't expect anyone to fly out to see me, but I wanted you to know what I'm up to. A press release follows below. Peace, Joshua Fried http://composer.home.acedsl.com/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Somehow, you're on Joshua Fried's mailing list. Don't want to be? Just reply with a blank message and it will be taken care of, with sincere apologies. Want to know more? See http://composer.home.acedsl.com/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The Vera List Center for Art and Politics and The Institute for Retired Professionals present a performance and conversation with experimental composer Joshua Fried. Fried will perform RADIO WONDERLAND (for FM Radio, computer and shoes!) and award-winning writer Thalia Field (Brown University) will join him for a lively discussion on music, art and culture. December 12, 2002 at 3:00 p.m. in Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th Street, NYC. John Cage, who taught at The New School, made music history with his notion of "chance" in composition. Two generations have followed, and many composers have created their own brands of new music inspired by Cage's idea of indeterminacy. Joshua Fried offers his unique take on aleatory methods. Currently a work in progress, RADIO WONDERLAND uses a laptop computer, a boom box, plus electrified shoes--four ordinary shoes which act as a surreal drum kit. Together these elements transform fragments of commercial FM radio, grabbed live on the spot, into organized structures and patterns, sometimes funny, even funky, explicitly musical and implicitly political. Fried says, "Machines allow the exaltation of unrepeatable moments--taken by intention or by chance. For chance methods, I am entirely indebted to John Cage who challenged us to open our ears so wide that the wild universe of all sound is heard as music. I try for something far less adventurous perhaps: to take any sound and tame it, narrowing it down to match the width of our ears as they are right now." Joining Fried to discuss his work, its context and other issues, will be award-winning writer Thalia Field, a specialist in interdisciplinary art, chance methods, and performance. They will take questions from the audience. This event, co-sponsored by the Institute for Retired Professionals and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, is part of the 40th anniversary celebration of the IRP. JOSHUA FRIED is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards. His work has been presented at Lincoln Center, The Guggenheim Museum, Juilliard, Bang On a Can Festival, The Kitchen and other venues in NYC, also in Los Angeles, Chicago, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Prague, and Copenhagen. Fried's recording "Jimmy Because" (with guest guitarist Fred Frith) was released by Atlantic Records; he has been re-mix producer for They Might Be Giants, Chaka Khan, and Ofra Haza. THALIA FIELD is on the faculty of Brown University's Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Her collection, Point and Line, is available from New Directions. Field's writing has appeared in Chain, Avec, Central Park, Chicago Review, FC2's New Women's Fiction Anthology, Salt Hill, Facture, and Conjunctions, where she was a Senior Editor from 1996-99. She guest-edited a special issue of Conjunctions (#26) on experimental music-theater (including Monk, Ashley and Partch). ADMISSION IS FREE. FOR RESERVATIONS CALL: (202) 229-5682 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been sent with an unregistered version of MaxBulk Mailer MaxBulk Mailer is a new easy-to-use mail merge software for Macintosh ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #60-2 *****************************