Excited about this one!!!!!
“Saint Mary of the Angels presents a very special concert of exploratory and contemporary music inspired by radical traditions in music and spirituality, featuring a diverse programme of music from traditional (Gregorian chant, medieval polyphony, taonga puoro, throat singing) to contemporary (noise, drone, contemporary composition, improvisation and video art).
A wide ranging group of musicians will present their musical visions in the beautiful setting of Saint Mary of the Angels Church. The church has a long tradition of fine classical and sacred music, including gorgeous sung masses with Renaissance polyphony and Gregorian chant, but this is the first time that exploratory or experimental music has been presented in the church. It will be a further stage in a long history of excellent music presented by the church that has included in recent times the New Zealand String Quartet, Stroma, and Indian classical concerts, but dates back to 1843.”
This will be a good one! :
NATALIA MANN (harp)
PETER DALY (viola)
DANIEL BEBAN (guitar)
THURSDAY 30TH MAY
at THE GARAGE (44 Frederick Street, entrance around the back of the garage)
7:30 PM
KOHA
Natalia Mann – internationally renowned performer, composer, collaborator and recording artist in a diversity of genres. Since 2005 she has lived in Istanbul, Turkey. Known for her contemporary approach to the harp, she performs in a variety of groups including as principal harpist for the Macedonia Philharmonic Orchestra and Kosovo Symphony Orchestra!
Peter Daly – viola maestro with many, varied notches in his belt, including work with improvising groups, Douglas Wright’s dance productions, Phoenix Foundation and others.
Daniel Beban – guitarist and assorted other occupations.
Wellington’s own turntablist-extraordinaire, Alphabethead, has some brand new goods for your listening pleasure!
“This is the third song in my series of bleak and foreboding tone poems. Escalation III takes place in deep space. No encounters with alien life; just the cold temperatures, bombardment by ultraviolet light and radiation-related anomalies causing malfunctions; both human and technical. Sci Fi cinema has taught us there is nothing quite as ominous as a spacecraft breaking down outside our solar system!
It should come as no surprise that my drones and synthetic sounds are inspired by John Carpenter’s film scores. I’d kill to have a copy of The Thing with only the dialog and foley sounds; that way I could re-imagine the entire soundtrack! The source material for this video is from the 1974 John Carpenter film “Dark Star”.”
More Escalations and an abundance of Alphabethead tunes here > alphabethead.blog.com
Barack Obama campaigned for the US presidency on a pledge to fight a smarter war. This means covert operations, drone strikes and assassinations.
For example, in 2009 US Commandos stormed a compound in Afghanistan that they believed was housing a Taliban cell. They killed 5 people, 3 of them were women, 2 of them pregnant. One was a senior police commander trained by the Americans to fight the Taliban. None were Taliban.
Instead of realising they had been fed bad intelligence and owning the fact that they had killed these people, the Americans dug the bullets out of the bodies of the people they had killed and then tried to blame it, alternately on the Taliban and also on an honour killing, implying that the women had been killed by their own murderous families.
America only admitted this cover-up after evidence was exposed in the form of a video taken weeks after the raid showing the leader of the raid, William McRaven – at the time the head of the most secretive and elite force available to the President of the United States (JSOC) – offering to sacrifice some sheep to the family in apology.
This is just one of many examples investigated by war correspondent, Jeremy Scahill in his book and documentary, ‘Dirty Wars’, detailing America’s failing ‘War on Terror’ and how their actions around the world are only serving to further radicalise people against them.
Dirty Wars will be shown at the New Zealand International Film Festival 2013.
www.dirtywars.org/jeremy-scahill
FURTHER DISCUSSION:
A Radio New Zealand (Kim Hill) interview with Scahill:
An RT interview with Scahill:
In The Future from Sam Webber on Vimeo.
The City in the Sea – Animated Poem from Sam Webber on Vimeo.
Animation by Sam Webber with music by Zach Webber, aka Paperghost.
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