Sex Mob: Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti: Sex Mob Plays Fellini: The Music of Nino Rota (Royal Potato Family)
Call me crazy, but I feel a connection between Rota's themes for Fellini's films and the melodic styles of Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman. Granted, what each did once past their respective themes became wildly different, with Rota never abandoning harmony, Ornette twisting it in new directions, and Ayler abandoning it altogether, but before that happens, their themes share an effulgent earthiness and overflowing humanity. And who better to bring out the jazz side of that earthy humanity than the great recontextualizer Steve Bernstein and his longstanding quartet with Briggan Krauss (alto and baritone saxes), Tony Scherr (electric bass), and Kenny Wollesen (drums, gongs, log drum, waterphone, vibraphone).
Bernstein's slide trumpet in particular has the microtonal relationship with pitch that Ayler and Coleman each cherished to varying degrees, including a wide...
Call me crazy, but I feel a connection between Rota's themes for Fellini's films and the melodic styles of Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman. Granted, what each did once past their respective themes became wildly different, with Rota never abandoning harmony, Ornette twisting it in new directions, and Ayler abandoning it altogether, but before that happens, their themes share an effulgent earthiness and overflowing humanity. And who better to bring out the jazz side of that earthy humanity than the great recontextualizer Steve Bernstein and his longstanding quartet with Briggan Krauss (alto and baritone saxes), Tony Scherr (electric bass), and Kenny Wollesen (drums, gongs, log drum, waterphone, vibraphone).
Bernstein's slide trumpet in particular has the microtonal relationship with pitch that Ayler and Coleman each cherished to varying degrees, including a wide...
- 7/2/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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"Inside the Obamacare Ruling: How Roberts Got A Majority," by Daniel Fisher, Forbes
"The cobbled-together nature of the decision doesn’t diminish its sheer legal cleverness, bordering on brilliance. By upholding the law, Roberts sheltered the court from liberal criticism. At the same time he asserted at least two powerful holdings that pushed the authority of the court further than it had ever gone before. That makes Roberts the heir to the one of the first Chief Justices, John Marshall, who protected the infant court from being strangled in its crib in the early years of this country while also establishing its power to invalidate acts of Congress."
"Don't Cheer John Roberts," by Paul Campos, Salon
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"Inside the Obamacare Ruling: How Roberts Got A Majority," by Daniel Fisher, Forbes
"The cobbled-together nature of the decision doesn’t diminish its sheer legal cleverness, bordering on brilliance. By upholding the law, Roberts sheltered the court from liberal criticism. At the same time he asserted at least two powerful holdings that pushed the authority of the court further than it had ever gone before. That makes Roberts the heir to the one of the first Chief Justices, John Marshall, who protected the infant court from being strangled in its crib in the early years of this country while also establishing its power to invalidate acts of Congress."
"Don't Cheer John Roberts," by Paul Campos, Salon
"Roberts has this extraordinary degree of power because our political process remains committed...
- 6/28/2012
- by Evan McMurry
- Celebsology
The 8th annual Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, or Flex Fest, is one of their curated editions, featuring the work of three major avant-garde and experimental filmmakers and their influences over the course of three nights on Feb. 18-20 in Gainesville, Fl. Flex’s honorees this year are: Su Friedrich, Steve Reinke and Sam Green.
The work and influences of Su Friedrich will take to the screen on the first night at the Top Secret Space at 24 N. Main St. The event will begin with two films and one video that cover the span of Friedrich’s career, from 1981 to 2005. Over the past nearly35 years, Friedrich has been one of the leading figures in the feminist avant-garde, combining elements of documentary, narrative and experimental filmmaking in her work.
One of the films that Friedrich will screen is her seminal, autobiographical Sink or Swim, a compilation of 26 short films that chronicle...
The work and influences of Su Friedrich will take to the screen on the first night at the Top Secret Space at 24 N. Main St. The event will begin with two films and one video that cover the span of Friedrich’s career, from 1981 to 2005. Over the past nearly35 years, Friedrich has been one of the leading figures in the feminist avant-garde, combining elements of documentary, narrative and experimental filmmaking in her work.
One of the films that Friedrich will screen is her seminal, autobiographical Sink or Swim, a compilation of 26 short films that chronicle...
- 2/13/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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