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Saturday's Resonating Bodies pollinator lecture by Dr. Stephen Buchmann was really really good (if you are into nerdy data about bees, which apparently a lot of people are into because it was standing room only by the time we arrived, and it was interesting enough that we kept standing for the whole darn thing). This Thursday's dorkbot features the Resonating Bodies artists: Sarah Peebles with Rob King, Rob Cruickshank and Anne Barros, as well as pollinator expert Laurence Packer and a screening of "Bee Man," a short film by Robert Lendrum, Drew Ferguson, and Morris Lum. There's a real buzz about this project. Early bee get's a chair.
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The Harbour Symphony has been happening annually in St. John's since 1983. Artists participating in the Sound Symposium compose pieces that are played by the boats in the harbour. When I asked Von Bark if he would write a post about the piece he composed with Marlene Creates he told me he didn't want to blow to his own horn. Then he sent me his notes:
The artists are: Marlene Creates & Von BarkWe were there to hear it last Saturday, and it sounded great. The harbour is really beautiful and the sounds of the horns swell into it. There were about 4 boats participating, and one that VB believes was improvising along for the heck of it.
The title is: Variations on Two Themes by Arvo Pärt
The total running time is two minutes, approximately.
Notes on Variations on Two Themes by Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian Composer known for his austere choral and instrumental works often presented in a Renaissance style. Current audiences might best know his music used in movie soundtracks, such as in the recent film: ‘There will be Blood’.
This composition for The Harbour Symphony is a crude interpretation of two pieces from the ‘Arbos’ album released in 1986 on the ECM record label, dedicated to the memory of film director Andrej Tarkowskij.
The first variation is loosely based upon the piece ‘Arbos’, for brass octet and percussion. The uncharictaristic blaring trombones in the original might suit the foghorns of The Harbour Symphony somewhat. The time-frame from the original is modified somewhat. This piece was later arranged for 8 recorders and 3 triangles.
The second variation is loosely based upon ‘Pari Intervallo’, a contemplative solo piece for pipe organ.
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What kinds of things might a neuroscientist want to tell us, after she has recovered from a massive stroke?
"We are energy beings, connected to one another through the consciousness of our right hemispheres, as one human family. And right here, right now, we are brothers and sisters on this planet, here to make the world a better place, and in this moment we are perfect, we are whole and we are beautiful."
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"My left brain is that little voice that says to me, 'hey, you gotta remember to pick up bananas on the way home, I need them in the morning.' It's that calculating intelligence that reminds me when I have to do my laundry. But most important its that little voice that says to me 'I am, I am.' And as soon as my left hemisphere says to me 'I am' I become separate. I become a single, solid individual, separate from the energy flow around me, and separate from you. And this is the portion of my brain that I lost on the morning of my stroke."
Gareth Lichty: Thrum at Peak Gallery, 23 Morrow Avenue, Toronto. Until August 2, 2008
Opening: July 10th, 2 to 8 pm
