Check out this article/broadcast by Canal Académie about Dai-Linh-Linh. See Vietnam Sounds for a my post when meeting them in 2007. Pretty sweet.

Also, Barley Norton of Goldsmith's in London just finished a film about them that is being screened this Tuesday. Wish I could be there.

spring and summer and winter and fall - through such weather and wear and all the cold hot steam rain mud of this warm warm earth filled with sound - take it, swallow everything until you breathe all of it out in one breath, until your sweat pours from your pores with the sticky salt of strain, until your heart explodes with its beating from the beat of this whirlwind affair that has just begun. take it, take it, it is yours. and give yourself... you will - it will be taken from you because of your core. you are here and always will be in this world alone and a part of the whole. swallow deep, wear down your want, taper the dull fear with the knife of your soul. take it, dear friend.

I recorded my roommate Becky's friend, Mai, singing part of a M'Nong song yesterday. Becky is a linguist - she is asking Mai for some books in the M'Nong language, which are quite rare. here's an excerpt:

Mai singing about Byon Byan going fishing

check out Nutida Musik being reccomended by influential pop critic, Mr pop music of Swedish teve HERE

Nutida Musik

The Nutida Musik special issue on Southeast Asia is out! my article on Vietnam/Identity is included. if only i understood Swedish...
Here's the press release and cover design:
Det nya numret av Nutida Musik riktar blicken mot Sydöstasien och den spirande experimentella musiken. Vi berättar om ett Vietnam statt i snabb förändring där den experimentella musiken lever vid sidan av det etablerade musiklivet men med starka internationella kopplingar. I Singapore är den fantastiska boomen för digital konst däremot resultatet av en aktiv och målmedveten kulturpolitik. Vi skildrar hur den kinesiska undergroundmusiken utvecklats ur 90-talets punkexperiment och hur den lyckats stå emot censuren och den statliga kontrollapparaten i samband med OS i Beijing. Vi intervjuar undergroundlegenden Dickson Dee i Hong Kong och den vietnamesiske experimentmusikern Vu Nhat Tan i Saigon. Vi besöker en ambulerande slagverksfestival i Hanoi och berättar om en misslyckad Stockhausenföreläsning i Phnom Penh.
Dessutom recenserar vi en ny John Cage-biografi, ser tre Cage-filmer samt ger den ultimata guiden till Cage-litteraturen. Vi har sett en fantastisk Fluxus-utställning i Roskilde, och en minst lika intressant i Tallinn. Vi har varit på opera i Oslo och Malmö, på World Music Days i Vilnius, Biennalen i Venedig och Nordiska musikdagar i Helsingfors. Och så har vi varit på konstmusikens motsvarighet till Körslaget i Donaueschingen.
Vi recenserar skivor med Helena Tulve, Stefano Gervasoni, Toshio Hosokawa, Jóhann Jóhansson, Keith Rowe, Bruno Mantovani, Skull Defekts, Christine Ödlund, Karin Rehnqvist, Anders Hultqvist, Per Nørgård, Ton That Tiet, Håkan Lidbo, Mattias Petersson, Dans Les Arbes, Anders Dahl, med flera.

I've posted a paper written last quarter analyzing gender relations at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music based on 2 concerts attended in the Fall and other media materials provided publicly by the school. I was glad that my professor for the class and also the school's director, Tim Rice, very much took it seriously.

HERE it is.

Dartmouth's new President is AMAZING~!!!


he starts speaking at 22 minutes.

here is his wiki page
he is one of the founders of Partners in Health (along with Paul Farmer)
and he just had a baby on Friday!