Betsey Biggs: Noise to the Process

Steve Reich @ 70: Image and Sound

On Tuesday night I went to the Steve Reich@70 celebration at BAM. Two dance pieces were performed to his music -- Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's Fase and Akram Khan's Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings, with an intermission in between. The two halves were quite different from one another -- both music and dance.

I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

Wow, Yo La Tengo's new album rocks. And it has a great title too! YLT gleefully deconstructs krautrock on the blissfully noisy opening track, Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind, and the great Charlie-Brown style R&B track, Hey Mr. Tough, has been stuck on repeat on my CD player all week.

Thanks to my old pal David for the heads up! I wish I could have caught their show last week.

Where is the Mirror and Where is the Dust?

I've taken my copy of John Cage's Silence down off the shelves, prompted by an awfully good class I'm sitting in on taught by Amy Beal at Princeton.

Pardon my Absence

It's rather embarrassing to begin a blog and then not post to it. Apologies. I have been caught up with the beginning of the school term and assorted deadlines. I have taken a lot of notes, though, and a flurry of posts should ensue in the next couple of days.