Dr. Yovanna Pineda spent three weeks in Argentina directing her documentary The Harvester. Joining her was Professor Scott Launier, UCF Department of Writing and Rhetoric, who assisted with filming, lighting, and driving through towns and cities in Santa Fé province to record interviews, nature, and farm machinery.
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I think it’s time for our social change strategies to become holistic and integrate an understanding of the body. He Puts A Ring From A Tree Trunk On A Record Player. When It Starts To Play, I Got Chills All Over!!7/17/2017 via The Daily Link Music is indeed all around us, but I never thought a gorgeous piece of music could be found in a cross-section of a tree trunk. Artist Bartholomaus Traubeck designed and built a record player that “reads” the texture and color variations of tree rings and interprets them as music. Because every tree has its own configuration of rings, every tree has its own song. By doing this, Traubeck has essentially created the infinite library of records. You must love the time we live in. If you think Nature would sound like crackling and random noises, think again. This is actually beautiful.
[via Some Small Magic] Onye Ozuzu - creator of Technology of the Circle, founder of Project Tool, and Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Columbia College - explains a circle's organizing principle, culture as a way, embodied discourse, and preparing to leave. Music by SJ Roberts.
Some Small Magic is an interview series with artists about their methods, their lives, and their philosophies, archiving the stories and practices that create the contemporary stage. Practice: shifting weight. Completely from one foot to the other. Without lifting either foot off the ground line up whole side light up the electricity all the way up into the face ears fingers skull... and then ... shift.
I like how this feels like an unearthed work song....like if we could go back on the plantation and lift the veil from the lyrics in those old coded songs of protest....this would be the straight forward version. Blunt. I wield a Tool in hand.
It has a handle. It has a blade. It has a length. It has a weight. As do I. To apply my tool with impact, impact produces desired result I must commit be responsible for awareness primary, physical relationship to tool movement. But no, Or rather, the primary relationship is to self: bodymindsoul then self to tool then tool to impact. trinity. "My body is the extension of my body". I read that today A review of a book by Barbara Browning, "THE GIFT or techniques of the body". This project is an expedition into the body and through its extensions to its capacity To beyond my self I time travel these movements gleaned dances From when they procreated Selves Into us. To speak to my ancestor. The epic languages of actualities If only to affirm my suspicions. And carry on. Therefore Uninhibited And Armed. |
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