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Guitar masters like Jimi Hendrix are capable of bending the physics of waves to their wills, plucking melody from inspiration and vibration. But how do wood, metal, and plastic translate into rhythm, melody, and music? Oscar Fernando Perez details the physics of playing the guitar, from first pluck to that final shredding chord.
Maria Callas: The Exhibition in Verona, runs throughout the summer opera season until 18 September 2016. It is the largest such exhibition dedicated to La Divina and contains artefacts from her personal as well as professional life.
Photography by Morgan Lefay Art.
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In their video/installation Eskasizer, The choreographers and video artists Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner (partnered as chameckilerner) have created an onscreen vision of female flesh that makes you think of desert sands rippled by wind. The tension between the material and how it has been made to appear is almost shocking, yet curiously calming.
The bodies of four women dancers between neck and knee are projected on four large screens that occupy the walls of the dark, bare, high-ceilinged Brooklyn gallery called The Boiler.
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1. What’s your character’s origin story?
Most comic book movies begin with scenes that hint or explain where the superhero finds herself as a character at that point. Past events shape our future actions.
2. What cause is your character fighting for?
By knowing a character’s cause, you also create strong actions that are the propellers of the story.
3. What are your character’s super powers?
Your character might not have superhuman strength like the Hulk, but your character certainly does have a trait that makes her unique.
4. What are your character’s weaknesses?
All life-forms have a Kryptonite. Life is a system of checks and balances. We keep our vulnerabilities a secret so we may live to see another day.
5. What are your character’s enemies?
A good enemy is like a ruler to measure character. We have a better way to gauge a character’s capabilities thanks to her enemies.
Photograph by Noel Cruz.
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Miranda Wilson, an international performing cellist, explains how training wheels only teach you how to imitate a skill, but don’t teach you how to perform it self-sufficiently.
Here’s how to practise solfege wrong. You prop your textbook on the piano and play the assignment before you sing it. Perhaps you sing along with it. You do this a few times, nail it once or twice without the piano, and scoot off to your sight-singing lesson with that tyrant Dr. Wilson.
And you totally bomb it, because it turns out that you can’t replicate your practice-room success under the pressure of performance.
Why?
Because you trained yourself to imitate a skill without truly understanding how to do it self-sufficiently. And then you couldn’t perform that skill, because what happens in performance is a direct reflection of what happens in practice.
You thought you were riding a bicycle, when all you were really doing was pedaling. But when you ride a grown-up bike, you have to be able to balance before you can pedal.
The whole point of learning to sight-sing is that generating your own pitch. Of course you can use the piano to play a tonic triad; of course you can hit your starting pitch. But then you have to step away from the piano, otherwise those training wheels never let you sing self-sufficiently.
Photograph by Richard Holzer.
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Published in 2015, The Ballet Lover’s Companion by Zoë Anderson is a brief dance primer on ballet, with each of its eight chapters dedicated to distinct periods throughout ballet’s long history. In fewer than 350 pages, Anderson sifts through 140 ballets, analyzing their context by examining the social and political eras in which they were created. It’s an exciting (context: exciting for dance nerds like me) update to the slew of western dance history books available in that Anderson actually digs into the late 20th and early 21st century, perhaps replacing Susan Au’s 1988 stalwart on many dance majors’ bookshelves.
This is a fragment of The Ballet Lover’s Companion book review written by Lauren Warnecke, a freelance dance writer based in Chicago. Read the complete review here.
What is music publishing? How can I collect all the worldwide music royalties that are owed to me and what exactly is CD Baby Pro? In short, music publishing is the act of promoting, protecting and accounting for music compositions.