Luis Soares's Blog, page 73
March 19, 2020
Mark Strand - From The Long Sad Party
Someone was saying
something about shadows covering the field, about
how things pass, how one sleeps towards morning
and the morning goes.
Someone was saying
how the wind dies down but comes back,
how shells are the coffins of wind
but the weather continues.
It was a long night
and someone said something about the moon shedding its white
on the cold field, that there was nothing ahead
but more of the same.
Someone mentioned
a city she had been in before the war, a room with two candles
against a wall,...
March 18, 2020
Dancing Dream
Dancing Dream (Director's Cut) from Beryl Chen on Vimeo.
It's a short film about two musicians narrate the story of their own concert-hall dreams.
Story was created first, then the music.
I wrote down emotions of each paragraph on the side
trying to convey ideas and help people imagine what music can possibly be.
After few times of back and forth with Andy Lin, we had a version of the story that we both agreed with. He found the composer to compose the music.
Thanks so much to the whole...
Des Gens et des Musées
Nicolas Krief has lived in Paris his whole life. He works for several French newspapers and magazines (Le Monde, Paris Match, Le Figaro Magazine, Ideat, The Good Life, Télérama) and collaborates with art institutions.
At the age of 20, he read a book that deeply influenced him: Roland Barthess Mythologies. He discovered that another intelligence of the signs of our times, the strength of the language against the formula or the evidences. Photography as he tries to practice it...
March 17, 2020
I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger
The folk song "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger" was performed by Jos Slovick in the film 1917, directed by Sam Mendes. The a cappella version of the song was recorded by Jos and filmed at Abbey Road Studios in London.
"I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger" arrives in the wake of Thomas Newmans critically acclaimed score for 1917. Towards the end of the film, actor Jos Slovick appears as a British soldier singing the song to his fellow troops prior to battle. Of the release, Slovick says, 1917 is an...
March 16, 2020
Sing It Back
Pioneering, genre-bending German producer DJ Koze debuted his game-changing mix of house, soul, hip hop and R&B at the Sydney Opera House in December 2019, with an epic night of euphoric sounds and exceptional visuals. In this performance, Koze's "Knock Knock" album collaborator, Róisín Murphy makes a surprise guest appearance to perform a unique version of her Moloko anthem, "Sing It Back".
Shōji Ueda
Shōji Ueda (植田 正治, Ueda Shōji, 19132000) was a photographer of Tottori, Japan, who combined surrealist compositional elements with realistic depiction. Most of the work for which Ueda is widely known was photographed within a strip of about 350 km running from Igumi (on the border of Tottori and Hyōgo) to Hagi (Yamaguchi).
March 13, 2020
Gerard Manley Hopkins - The Sea and the Skylark
On ear and ear two noises too old to end
Trenchright, the tide that ramps against the shore;
With a flood or a fall, low lull-off or all roar,
Frequenting there while moon shall wear and wend.
Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend,
His rash-fresh re-winded new-skeinèd score
In crisps of curl off wild winch whirl, and pour
And pelt music, till nones to spill nor spend.
How these two shame this shallow and frail town!
How ring right out our sordid turbid time,
Being pure!...
Teatro Para Isolamento
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian...
Il Trillo del Diavolo
Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he had dreamed that the devil had appeared to him and had asked to be Tartini's servant and teacher. At the end of the music lesson, Tartini handed the devil his violin to test his skill, which the devil began to play with virtuosity, delivering an intense and magnificent performance. So singularly beautiful and executed with such superior taste and precision was the Devil's performance, that the composer felt his breath taken...
March 12, 2020
House Music All Night Long
From the new JARV IS... album 'Beyond the Pale' out on Rough Trade Records on May 1, 2020. Stream new music and order the album here: https://jarvis.ffm.to/beyondthepale
"We first performed this at the All Points East festival in Victoria Park in May 2019. The crowd reaction was so positive that I was inspired to do my first-ever bit of crowd-surfing (which I enjoyed so much that I have repeated it a couple of times since). We played the song throughout the summer & eventually recorded it...
