Ronald M. Hawkins
cambridge, ma
- Gender: Male
- Interested In: Neither
- Member since: 2007-03-21 00:00:00
- Last log-in: 2007-06-15 00:00:00
- Events: 16
Events:
Stereo Total, The Octopus Project
Where: The Middle East Downstairs
Date: 2007-08-25 20:00:00
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18+ $15 – Tickets on Sale 5/3
Ryan Elliot (Spectral Sound, Ghostly)
Where: the phoenix landing
Date: 2007-07-08 20:00:00
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Sunday July 9 - Marz Entertainment presents Bump @ The Phoenix Landing RYAN ELLIOT (spectral sound, ghostly) Detroit
ALASH - Tuvan Throat Singing
Where: Lily Pad
Date: 2007-06-25 19:00:00
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Alash brings the sounds of Central Asia to America with a unique blend of traditional Tuvan music and western influences. The musicians are award-winning throat singers from Tuva, a republic of the Russian Federation tucked between Siberia and Mongolia. In throat singing, one singer produces two or more distinct tones simultaneously. Audiences are mesmerized by their vocal feats and the sheer beauty of their music. Master throat singer Kongar-ool Ondar, who was featured in the movie Genghis Blues, taught two members of Alash since they were children, and he is the artistic director of the ensemble. All members were trained in traditional Tuvan throat singing and instruments since childhood, but as part of the first generation to reach university age after the fall of the Soviet Union, they were also free to study, enjoy, and experiment with western music. Alash first toured the U.S. in 2006 through the Open World Leader program of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts. Now on their second U.S. tour, they have played for enthusiastic crowds in the Northeast, Midwest, and Southwest. American Sean Quirk provides entertaining and informative commentary, bridging the musical and cultural gap for the American audience. Quirk is a native of Wisconsin who studied music in Tuva on a Fulbright Fellowship and now makes Tuva his home. Hearing the uncanny sounds of Tuvan throat singing in live performance is an opportunity not to be missed. Donation appreciated, no tickets necessary. Fine for all ages.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Where: Regattabar
Date: 2007-08-15 19:30:00
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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band combines R&B rhythms with a traditional New Orleans brass section for a rich, infectious sound.
Okay Thursday
Where: TT the Bear's Place
Date: 2007-10-20 22:15:00
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Okay Thursday is the latest pop sensation to emerge from Boston.
Tim Barry
Where: Middle East
Date: 2007-10-10 21:00:00
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Tim Barry is the lead singer of Avail - a hardcore/rock/punk band.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones 10th Annual Hometown Throwdown
Where: Middle East
Date: 2007-12-29 19:30:00
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White Williams, Ecstatic Sunshine
Where: Middle East
Date: 2008-01-12 21:00:00
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18+ $10 Upstairs Tickets on Sale 11/23
Lenny and the Piss Poor Boys
Where: Middle East
Date: 2008-03-14 21:00:00
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The Stumbleweeds play country and rockabilly music with a vengence.
Tony Conrad - Straight and Narrow / The Flicker / Live Perfo...
Where: Harvard Film Archive
Date: 2008-04-05 19:00:00
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Straight and Narrow Directed by Tony Conrad, Appearing in Person US 1970, 16mm, b/w, 10 min. Featuring music by Terry Riley and John Cale, Conrad's black and white flicker film is designed to make the viewer experience a range of color and motion effects through its carefully modulated rhythm structure. The Flicker Directed by Tony Conrad, Appearing in Person US 1966, 16mm, b/w, 30 min. One of the essential American avant-garde films, The Flicker transforms Plato's cave into a hallucinatory dream machine. Must be experienced to be believed. Followed by a live musical performance by Tony Conrad (electric violin) and MV Carbon (electric cello). Filmmaker, composer, musician, conceptual artist, Tony Conrad (b. 1940) is a multi-faceted and polymath artist who has exerted an immeasurable influence over the American avant-garde film and music scenes. Conrad's first experience in film came from his creative partnership with Jack Smith as the sound designer for Smith's best known works, Scotch Tape (1959-62), Flaming Creatures (1963), and Normal Love (1963-64). An accomplished violinist, Conrad began a fruitful partnership with minimalist music pioneers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and John Cale, as a key member of their multi-media performance group, and as one of the inventors of "dream music," a mode of improvisation that explored the musical possibilities of drone harmonies. Conrad's musical work informed his breakthrough film debut, The Flicker (1966), a radical reduction of the cinema to its most essential properties – light and darkness, black and white, sound and silence – that brought film fully into the emergent minimalist art movement. With subsequent works such as Straight and Narrow (1970), Coming Attractions (1970) and Four Square (1971), Conrad created some of the purest and, to this day, among the most arresting examples of structural film. An important complement to Conrad's films is found in his path-breaking work as a performance artist who has explored a wide range of unusual materials and methods in order to challenge traditional notions of film events. Conrad has not only experimented with various ways of cooking film – treating raw film stock as an ingredient to be stir-fried or pickled, and then projected – but has also played film as a musical instrument (stretched taut and played upon with a bow) and, most recently, has used a Tesla coil to electrocute film stock. The theatricality, mystery and off-beat humor of Conrad's performances have made them among the most rewarding and thought provoking forms of expanded cinema. The HFA is pleased to welcome Tony Conrad for two evenings of films and unique, live performances and to welcome French filmmaker Marie Losier, who will also present her wonderful portrait of Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist, together with a program of Conrad's little-seen and wickedly funny recent video work.