schoenberg.at Workshop for teachers Arnold Schönberg – Educational Visions (27 – 29 August 2014) A Workshop by the Arnold Schönberg for teachers both at work and prospective. Read more... New Recording of Arnold Schönberg’s Voice A previously unknown voice recording of Arnold Schönberg providing commentary on his symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande Op. 5 has just been digitized and thus made audible for the first time.
Nine Months In Nigeria, One Brilliant, Difficult Funk Musician hide captionSince recording in the 1970s and '80s, Nigerian William Onyeabor has dropped off the music map. Courtesy of the artist Yale Evelev, head of world music label Luaka Bop, digs up information about great-but-forgotten musicians for a living. His quest to compile and release the work of Nigerian funk legend William Onyeabor, though, was a unique challenge. "I was going to call the record This Is William Onyeabor, up until the point we realized we didn't know anything about him," Evelev tells NPR's Arun Rath. In the 1970s and '80s, Onyeabor put out eight albums of layered, wildly imaginative synth-funk. Naturally, rumors rushed in to fill the vacuum: Onyeabor had gone on to run a flour mill; he went to film school in Soviet Russia; he went to study law in London. "And he said to me, 'Why would I want to talk about that? Most artists are thrilled when Luaka Bop comes calling. The Plan Was Simple "And somehow, I ended up staying there for over nine months," Ikonne says.
Sound About UbuWeb Sound Originally focusing on Sound Poetry proper, UbuWeb's Sound section has grown to encompass all types of sound art, historical and contemporary. Beginning with pioneers such as Guillaume Apollinaire reading his "Calligrammes" in 1913, and proceeding to current practitioners such as Vito Acconci or Kristin Oppenheim, UbuWeb Sound surveys the entire 20th century and beyond. Categories include Dadaism, Futurism, early 20th century literary experiments, musique concrete, electronic music, Fluxus, Beat sound works, minimalist and process works, performance art, plunderphonics and sampling, and digital glitch works, to name just a few. As the practices of sound art continue to evolve, categories become increasingly irrelevant, a fact UbuWeb embraces. Hence, our artists are listed alphabetically instead of categorically. UbuWeb embraces non-proprietary, open source media. UbuWeb