… say the Earth is humming. Not just noise but a deep…
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- … say the Earth is humming. Not just noise but a deep…
- Hot Docs festival
- Darcy Clay ten years on
… say the Earth is humming. Not just noise but a deep…
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 23, 2008
Not just noise but a deep astonishing music. html generated by stdarticlecss on Wed Dec 10 12:19:33 2008 –>… It’s nothing new really: Mystics and poets and theorists have pondered the “music of the spheres” (or musica universalis) for eons; it is the stuff of cosmic philosophy linking sacred geometry mathematics cosmology harmonics astrology and music into one big cosmological poetry slam. Translation: You don’t have to look very far to understand that human beings — hell all animals really — adore song and music and tone and rhythm and then link this everyday source of life straight to the roar of the planet itself and then back out to the cosmos. In other words you love loud punk? Metal? Jazz? Deep house? Saint-Saens with a glass of Pinot in the tub? Sure you do. That’s because somewhere somehow deep in your very cells and bones and DNA it links you back to source to the Earth’s own vibration the pulse of the cosmos. To tap your foot and sway your body to that weird new Portishead tune is in effect to sway it to the roar of the universe.
Hot Docs festival
Toronto Star – Apr 23, 2008
It refers to the ongoing organ performance scheduled to last 639 years of a musical score by John Cage in an ancient church in Germany. It may also refer to the attitude of Ryan Knighton who has a tiny bit of sight left and who doubtless hopes that total blindness will arrive as slow as possible while he journeys to the church to hear a note change in the performance. PMAnvil! The Story of Anvil Canada’s own This Is Spinal Tap!: Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner Toronto hosers are the core of Anvil a metal band the pair founded in 1973 while both were still teenagers. Sacha Gervasi’s bittersweet doc charts how these likeable metalheads inspired others to achieve fame and riches ? Guns N’ Roses and Motorhead among them ? yet were unable to taste rock superstardom themselves. Now in their 50s they still tour relentlessly forever hopeful that the golden ring is just an album or gig away. PHBigger Stronger Faster: The directorial debut of bodybuilder-turned-filmmaker Christopher Bell begins as a standard exposé of the evils of steroid use in sports told from the inside vantage point of a former user. But the film goes on to look unflinchingly at every side of the issue advancing a compelling argument that there’s little scientific basis to condemn steroids outright.
Darcy Clay ten years on
Sunday Star Times – Apr 23, 2008
People tried to cope by holding tribute concerts lamenting on student radio spray-painting commemorative graffiti ("DARCY CLAY LIVES" read one wall in Hopetoun St). An anti-suicide festival at which Clay had been scheduled to play observed a minute's silence. The month following his death – 10 years ago exactly – Darcy Clay was named Most Promising Male Vocalist at the New Zealand Music Awards. When Darcy Clay walked into bFM and handed over his demo tape he was presenting a ready-made package: a signature look sound and persona born of a singular creative vision. "He certainly drew a crowd" says Tobeck. He recalls their first encounter at a bFM drinks. "He was dressed in this very strange grand prix outfit and had these big Elvis shades on.