dadaville Vox 2009-01-17T18:18:19Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c22524972e8e1d/ there is no is there Memory pictures tag:vox.com,2009-01-09:asset-6a00c22524972e8e1d0109815cdb14000d 2009-01-09T22:09:27Z 2009-01-17T18:18:19Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Self-portrait in a bathroom mirror

I’ve always loved the many aspects of photography but I am especially interested in its relation to memory. A photograph remains as is. Or, does it? We do know now that memories degrade, that when we remember something repeatedly, the most recen...

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]]> Taking pictures tag:vox.com,2009-01-04:asset-6a00c22524972e8e1d0109815b07e2000d 2009-01-04T02:59:36Z 2009-01-09T15:17:07Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I've always loved taking pictures, I've always loved photography. I love light. I love the tangible world. I love the relationship of photography to memory. I bought my Cannon Power Shot SD750 because I had always wanted to own a camera. Also, I t...

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]]> The Morriston Orpheus Choir tag:vox.com,2007-09-05:asset-6a00c22524972e8e1d00e398a510210001 2007-09-05T12:28:23Z 2007-09-05T12:42:03Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Cardiff Myfanwy

The Morriston Orpheus Choir The Sounds of Cardiff Arms Park 1999 If you had told me, say, forty years ago, that I would not only own this recording, but would listen to it and be moved by it, I would have reacted with derision and/or hostility, ...

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]]> Night Music of West Sumatra tag:vox.com,2007-09-05:asset-6a00c22524972e8e1d00e398a5045f0004 2007-09-05T01:31:16Z 2007-09-05T01:38:46Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Night Music

Night Music of West Sumatra (Music of Indonesia Vol. 6) Smithsonian Folkways 1994 Terry Winch gave me this great CD. I'd listened to music from Bali and Java, but I was unfamiliar with the music of West Sumatra. I still have not learned that...

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]]> Sal Mosca tag:vox.com,2007-08-20:asset-6a00c22524972e8e1d00e3989f86100003 2007-08-20T12:15:46Z 2007-08-20T12:30:33Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Sal Mosca

I just found out that Sal Mosca died. He was a singular modern jazz pianist, even though he was obviously a disciple of the legendary Lennie Tristano. If you don't know his work, listen to the 1971 Lee Konitz recording, Spirits, with Ron Carter...

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]]> Rembetica tag:vox.com,2007-08-18:asset-6a00c22524972e8e1d00e3989eebf00003 2007-08-18T13:37:04Z 2007-08-18T13:52:17Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Rembetica Rosa Eskenazi Rita Abatzi Paros1 Paros2 Paros3

Rembetica: Historic Urban Folk Songs From Greece Rounder Select 1992 Certain kinds of Greek folk music remind me very much of traditional Irish music, that driving, lilting, tilting, intoxicating thing, that groove, that brings out my deranged i...

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]]> Sirena Recorder Quartet tag:vox.com,2007-08-14:asset-6a00c22524972e8e1d00e3989dc0ab0001 2007-08-14T23:03:51Z 2007-08-14T23:09:26Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Sitting Ducks Sirena

Sirena Recorder Quartet Sitting Ducks BIS 2000 How many recordings of serial music by recorder quartets do you own? Exactly. It's either none, or this one. This one consists of: Karina Helene Jensen, soprano, alto, tenor and bass recorders ...

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]]> Antigoni Goni tag:vox.com,2007-08-09:asset-6a00c22524972e8e1d00e3989bd7c00001 2007-08-09T01:41:43Z 2007-08-09T10:04:38Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Antigoni Goni Barrios

Antigoni Goni Laureate Series, Guitar Naxos 1997 For those who like to listen to classical guitar music, this is a first rate recording. Goni manages the vital issue of repertoire well. She has work by five modern composers. And her playing is da...

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]]> Wolfgang Tillmans tag:vox.com,2007-08-04:asset-6a00c22524972e8e1d00e3989a86e20003 2007-08-04T21:07:21Z 2007-08-04T21:10:46Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW (Metro: L'Enfant Plaza) Through August 12 Open daily 10 to 5:30. Wolfgang Tillmans achieves two things with this exhibition. He subverts t...

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]]> Latido Negro tag:vox.com,2007-07-22:asset-6a00c22524972e8e1d00d4144a756a685e 2007-07-22T17:16:32Z 2007-07-28T14:14:37Z Doug Lang http://douglang.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Latido Negro: Perú’s African Beat Directed by Rafael Santa Cruz Gala Teatro Hispano June 7 – July 1, 2007 July 1st, Sandra and I went to the Gala Theatre on 14th Street to see the last performance of this show, which was kind of a capsule history...

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