BALSE NEWSLETTER 014

 
 




Two weeks, at Balse.

 
 

Sheila Chandra with kompakt,

a proper mix.




you never used listen, now you do. confident.

i like

holiday?

more sora, clap.

and is 6am, we ain’t leavin’.




French French French French pop.




techno, with Maceo Plex with Kompakt.

Words of Wisdom

  • We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest, is memory - Louise Glück, Poet, Nobel Prize winner 2020, Zettel 146

  • The forest is the root of all life, it is the womb that revives our biological instincts, that deepens our intelligence and increases our sensitivity as human beings - Dr. Akira Miyawaki, New York Times, Sunday 8/27/2023, Planting Tiny Forests and Yielding Big Benefits, by Cara Buckley, Zettel 145

  • Madonna is a cultural wrecking ball who has dared to be everything - performer, songwriter, producer, actor, director, children’s book author, muse - at a time when women were encouraged to stick to one lane. She has broken through social barriers, too, using her words and her work to confront the music industry, Hollywood, the Taliban, the Putin regime and the Vatican, to name just a few of her adversaries, over sexisum, misogyny, racism, homophobia, and hypocrisy. Because she is a woman and a popstar, critics generally dismiss her political statements as opportunistic grandstanding. But young people looking toward a future that seems closed to them see past that criticism. The novelist Sonich Kamal was introduced to Madonna’s music as a child while living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She said Madonna represented “pure, unadulterated, raw, sextual liberation” and hope: “hope that sexy girls did not necessarily die bad deaths, hope that sexy girls could rule the world. And do.” - The New York Times Opinion Essay, Take a Bow. Madonna - by Mary Gabriel 8/15/2023, Zettel 141

  • The art historian Jack Flam (2014) refers to this aspect of abstraction as “a new claim on truth”, By dismantling perspective; abstract art requires our brains to come up with a new logic of bottom-up processing. - Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Erick Kandel page 179, Zettel 140

  • Thus the reason art pases such an enormous challenge to the beholder is that it teaches us to look at art - and, in a sense, at the world - in a new way. Abstract art dares our visual system to interpret an image that is fundamentally different from the kind of images our brain has evolved to reconstruct. - Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Erick Kandel page 179, Zettel 139

  • Katz introduced a new reductionist concept into figurative art: his paintings have a flat background and lack of conventional perspective. In addition, he stressed pictorial values over narrative. He explained that “style and appearance are the thing that I’m more concerned about than about what something means. I’d like to have the style be the content, meaning, emptied of content.” (Strand 1984) - Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Erick Kandel page 165, Zettel 137

  • Turell describes his work in the following terms: “My work has no object, no image and no focus. With no object, no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking. What is important to me is to create an experience of wordless thought” - Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Erick Kandel page 161, Zettel 135

Keith Haring - Art is for Everybody

August 6, 2023

The Broad, Los Angeles

SPECIAL EXHIBITION

Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody

May 27 - Oct 08, 2023



ClassicAsobi recommends

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953): Cello Sonata in C-Major, op. 119 (1949) Sol Gabetta, Cello / Polina Leschenko, Piano

Prom 52: The Boston Symphony Orchestra play Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony

BBC Proms2023

Live at the BBC Proms: Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in music by Julia Adolphe, Richard Strauss and Prokofiev.