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music | Hovern' engan, Songs From a World Apart, 2006 composers | Armand Amar, Lévon Minassian
The entrancing solo instrument you hear is called the duduk, a traditional woodwind instrument of Armenian origins that is popular in the Caucasus, the Middle East and Central Asia. More.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
TED NOTES. Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found — as a non-Muslim, a self-identified “tourist” in the Islamic holy book — wasn’t what she expected. With serious scholarship and warm humor, Hazleton shares the grace, flexibility and mystery she found in this myth-debunking talk from TEDxRainier.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
TED NOTES. As the president of Syyn Labs, Adam Sadowsky merges art and technology to create interactive projects big and small. The band “OK Go” dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for their next music video — and Adam Sadowsky’s team was charged with building it. He tells the story of the effort and engineering behind their labyrinthine creation that quickly became a YouTube sensation.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
TED NOTES. As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation. David Byrne builds an idiosyncratic world of music, art, writing and film.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
Starsuckers is a feature documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it. Made by the same team behind BAFTA nominated Taking Liberties, it will be released in cinemas on the 30th October - unless Rupert Murdoch shuts us down first. Or Max Clifford. And perhaps Bob Geldof.
Made completely independently over 2 years in secret, the film journeys through the dark underbelly of the modern media. Using a combination of never before seen footage, undercover reporting, stunts and animation, the film reveals the toxic effect the media is having on us all and especially our children. It shows how truth has become a distant memory in the modern news and climaxes with a shocking and startling revelation of just how bad things can get when we let entertainment reach out into politics and charity.
The first rule of working in the media is - do not critisise the media. Well, we've decided to break this golden rule, and if we ever work in this town again we won't have done our jobs properly. A film so controversial it will never be shown uncut on TV, and will pull the rug underneath a string of untouchables.
the rest of the parts (full film) is on youtube
By 1964 there were 1.5 million mobile phone users in the US
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, Canada | September 30, 2009
[TRANSCRIBED FROM THE VIDEO.] “Everything in human culture has flown from this ability [to conceive through the power of imagination]; the ability to conceive of alternatives; to conceive of new possibilities; to conceive of a past and of a future. Not just one past or one future, but multiple pasts and multiple futures. … This to me is a fundamental power. … And my great concern is that in education, which should be the process by which we cultivate in, we almost systematically stifle it.” ~ Sir Ken Robinson
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
Posting this video here because: my daughter is currently learning this song on her guitar (it only requires an easy 4 chords and she loves playing back-up to it), and; its message is pertinent to particularly trying times:
"Once you label me, you negate me." — Soren Kierkegaard
mandatory viewing 
