Verso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative – traduzione dall’inglese.

Why to care means to disobey private property

One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]

The essay discusses Maya Rao’s Walk and The Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the…[Read more]

I discuss the walking practice of Delhi-based artist Mallika Taneja in the context of its engagement with, and intervention in, the contemporary conversations on sexualised violence, gender, space and mobility in India. Taneja’s work is part of a variety of feminist activism to take place in India since the horrific gang rape of Jyoti Singh in D…[Read more]

A look at the brief history of this band from central Wisconsin in the 1880’s

En este artículo presentamos una primera aproximación a un conjunto de textos hasta ahora desconocidos del músico y musicólogo catalán exiliado Baltasar Samper, responsable, desde 1947 y hasta su muerte, de dirigir los trabajos etnomusicológicos de la Sección de Investigaciones Musicales del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes mexicano. Con esto q…[Read more]

BB 41 – Es funkeln tausend Perlen in demGlas in meiner Hand – Thousand perls – piano solo –
paraphrase of Rebrov-version “Poj Zigan” from N.Nekrasov`s 1861 Коробейники peddler / Коробушка, box (of peddlers) – audio

BB 41 – Es funkeln tausend Perlen in dem Glas in meiner Hand – Thousand perls – piano solo –
paraphrase of Rebrov-version “Poj Zigan” from the poem Korobeiniki Коробейники peddler / Коробушка, box (of peddlers) by N.Nekrasov`s 1861 – sheetmusic

BB 38 – O sanctissima – O du froehliche – Weihnachtliche Spielmusik – Christmas Merry Go Round
– great organ – audio

BB 38 – O sanctissima – O du froehliche – Weihnachtliche Spielmusik – – Christmas Merry Go Round – great organ – sheetmusic – 2010, 2nd ed.
– said from Sicilian origin, not confirmed nor verified

BB 37 – Prelude Daughter Zion – great organ – 2010, 2nd. ed. – audio

BB 37 – Präludium Tochter Zion – Prelude Daughter Zion – great organ – – sheetmusic – 2010, 2nd ed.

Pirate radio still flourishes in dense, multiethnic cities such as Brooklyn, New York, despite the rise of Web radio. For immigrants in particular, radio sounds mark identity and community and (re)claim social spaces of work, commutes, and the home. It is not only lack of access to digital technologies or broadband that shapes radio’s relevance, b…[Read more]

This study explores Jamaican popular music’s changing engagement with globally networked media technologies. It combines ethnographic analysis of the street dance as a site of urban poor and Black resistance to colonial institutions with an analysis of song lyrics about video cameras at street dances. Newly networked technologies for circulating…[Read more]

BB 9-2 – Kolokoltshik – Колоколъчик (odnozutshno gremit kolokoltshik – Однозвучно
гремит колокольчик ) – Eintönig klingt das Glöckchen – lonely bell – T.: I. Makarov – И.Макаров
M.: first Alexander Lvovich Gurilev (1853?) – А. Гурилев – here: melody of K. Sidorowicz / K.
Сидорович – piano – audio

BB 9-2 – Kolokoltshik – Колоколъчик (odnozutshno gremit kolokoltshik – Однозвучно
гремит колокольчик ) – Eintönig klingt das Glöckchen – lonely bell – T.: I. Makarov – И.Макаров – M.: first Alexander – Lvovich Gurilev (1853?) – А. – Гурилев – here: melody of K. Sidorowicz / K.
Сидорович – piano- sheetmusic

BB 9-1 – Kolokoltshik – Колоколъчик (odnozutshno gremit kolokoltshik)
Eintönig klingt das Glöckchen – lonely bell T.: I. Makarov – И.Макаров – M.: first Alexander Lvovich Gurilev (1853?) – А. Гурилев – here: melody of K. Sidorowicz / K. Сидорович – 2 vibraphones solo – sheetmusic