Playing for Change, The Real Way to Do World Music?

Roger Ridley's base track for Ben E. King's Stand By Me was played over by musicians all over the world

I’ve come across Playing for Change’s videos a few times in different sessions of stream-of-consciousness-type web-browsing. Aside from admiring the rawness and talent of the musicians who played and the wonderful recording done by […]

Green Visual Art, Green Music?

I recently went to Audrey Tran’s senior Art Thesis named Periphery and I talked to her about her piece which were essentially rows of saw grass arranged to be aesthetically pleasing and interesting to the eyes. She mentioned that the idea behind it is the grass growing in the cracks of the pavement. Now there […]

Consumption and Moving Beyond Post-Modernism

I wrote yesterday about how Lady GaGa’s persona is essentially an imitation, philosophically and stylistically of Andy Warhol, even though the artists expressed themselves through different medium. At the end I made a broad conclusion that, as a culture, we are failing to move beyond Post-Modernism. I thought that I should explain more about why […]