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Author Archives: Sam L. Richards
Organic Gestures
I’ve added some electro-acoustic music to my music page, which was previously absent for no good reason. No good reason at all: Organic Gestures: Out of An Echo, Humming, and From the Porch. In fact, although I wrote and recorded these three pieces 5-6 years ago (2005-2006), I’m quite fond of them listening again some [...]
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MiND Ensemble, April 15th and 16th @ 8pm
I have recently become a participating member of a research and performance group called the MiND Ensemble. Free performances are tonight and tomorrow! See below: The MiND Ensemble (Music In Neural Dimensions) is a new-media performance group that seeks to change the way we think about the creative process. Advanced neurofeedback technology is only now [...]
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Winter Follies Performance in Brooklyn. TONIGHT!
Immersed in these maddening winter months, I’ve completely forgotten to announce a performance of After Hours in the Parlour Room by (Alex)andra Taylor Dance Company this weekend in Brooklyn, New York. The performance is tonight (already finished?!)and the Winter Follies event continues tomorrow night @ 7:30. Tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets. Spoke the Hub’s [...]
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Our Winter’s Hero
Under the weathered awning, the vagrant’s joints began To ache, hiding from the rain, he scratched his Roughened, feeble knees and cast his sunken eyes Up and down the thoroughfare. Storm subsiding, and Then a biting wind. He had sat there long enough To know a cold snap when he felt it, twitched his Hirsute [...]
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No Extra Notes – Composer Takeover Feature
In order to kick off the new year, and to bring in a whole slew of pent-up posts, I wanted to be sure to mention the podcast over at No Extra Notes posted earlier this week. I happen to be one of the invited guests, along with Ryan Brown and Andrea La Rose in “Composer Takeover [...]
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The desert island
I’m beginning to acquire a practical understanding of just how futile artwork is in a vacuum. I believed it before. I knew it in my mind. But I now feel it sinking into my gut. Actually experiencing it is something else entirely. Although I would likely dance on a desert island, and probably clang coconuts [...]
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My favorite anti-organicism-musical-anecdote of the day
“Debussy once left a concert hall in the middle of a Beethoven symphony, complaining ‘Oh no, now he starts to develop.’” — As reported in Eero Tarasti’s Signs of Music: A Guide to Musical Semiotics
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Mahogany Gallant
Mahogany gallant Kinkade treasures giddy frappes and cappuccino cluttered corners contribute to it. That’s what I say Am I in this triptych? Take me outside, tuckered up and running night’s pitch and stoking stars brighten shades. Witness this, the best of all.
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Cotton Wood Lining video now available
A video of Cotton Wood Lining, a new work commissioned by somebodies dance theater and performed on September 11th, 2010, at the around/about Contemporary Dance Festival, is now available. Check it out on it’s own page, or view below. Cotton Wood Lining from Sam L. Richards on Vimeo.
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Do all trees weep?