Part of the Beehive “Ear to the Ground” series featuring sessions and interviews exploring the artists and places that make up Roots Music Culture. In this episode, Rushad Eggleston bursts with enthusiasm, passion and humour to show how to make music, and the cello, fun again.
How Canadians are responding to Americans wanting to live here
Many Americans have been googling “How to move to Canada,” and Canadians have plenty to say aboot it.
Cello band performs a mind-blowing Tool cover
While Tool fans wait, and wait, and wait for their new album, Break of Reality performs its cello cover of “Lateralus”.
Toronto’s music community from 1987-1992 gets its own book
The music scene in the mid-eighties was in transition, just as the entire music business was, unaware that it was all about to change in 1991 when Nirvana’s watershed release, Nevermind would unexpectedly hit number one on the Billboard chart. But that explosion didn’t happen overnight. It was the product of many things: Toronto’s developing music scene, club owners seeking original music, and the communities of musicians, artists, and fans supporting these new bands. No Flash, Please! documents an important period in Toronto’s music community.
As seen and heard by two journalists covering it for a number of monthly independent magazines, not only did they experience the local bands they knew and loved becoming famous, they also witnessed soon-to-be legends come through those same clubs and concert halls. Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Henry Rollins, all played Toronto during this period to crowds that varied in size from twenty to five hundred. No Flash, Please! doesn’t just focus on the music, it also captures the crowds and the community that spawned one of the richest periods in Toronto’s music history.
Derek von Essen has created an extensive body of work while merging his own graphic art, photography, painting and mixed-media assemblage for visual communications specializing in fine arts, dance, theatre, music, film and publishing projects. He has facilitated artist workshops and has served on various panels and juries. His work has been widely exhibited and is held in several international collections.
Phil Saunders wrote for the music magazines Nerve, Rear Garde, Exclaim, Graffiti, ID and HMV until the mid-nineties. He also promoted concerts, was a talent buyer, booking agent, and an independent record producer. After completing a Master’s in Journalism in 1998 he worked for CBC News and produced the documentary film What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band.
You can pre-order at Amazon now.
Justin Trudeau on feminism, fatherhood, and Ryan Gosling memes
On feminism:
“Quite frankly I talk about the fact that I’m a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do it gets huge reaction and media reacts and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that because here I am saying I’m a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction to that when I say it because that’s where we want to get to. If you’re a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it’s about equality, it’s about respect, it’s about making the best of the world that we have.
We [Sophie and I] were having a conversation at one point and I said, “I talk to our daughter, Ella. I talk to Ella all the time about how she can do anything she wants and she’s just as good as any man, and she’s better than any man because she’s brilliant and and everything.” Sophie is like, “Good. That’s great, but how are you saying that to our sons as well?” How are you training your sons to be focused on women’s rights and women’s opportunities the way you’re focused on telling your daughter that she can be anything. That for me was a really important wake-up, and that’s great for me.
On fatherhood:
“I just sort of remember, look, I’m in politics not in spite of the fact that I have kids, but because of the fact that I have kids, and they keep me really grounded in, “Well, am I doing things that are meaningful, or am I just sort of playing the game?” I never know whether I could have the perfect solution on that or the perfect answer, but just asking the question is the time I am away from them compensated by the fact that I’m busy making a better world for them, and am I getting that balance right, and then am I remembering to turn off my Blackberry.”
On turning off his Blackberry:
“I’m not supposed to anymore because I need to be accessible in case something happens, but do I put my work aside and do I focus on them when I’m with them, so I’m not sort of half, “Oh, yeah. That’s nice,” or working or reading. I take time to work and I take time to play with them. Similar with Sophie have time where I’m working and time where I’m just the goofy husband.”
DJ Plays Records Featuring Food That Is Laser-Etched Into Edible Audio Records
Through a series of experiments, musician and artist Matthew Herbert of Accidental Records created audio recordings of ingredients widely-used in processed food, etching them, via laser-cutting technology, onto various consumable items. The outcome is an assortment of edible records that took place at the Science Gallery London on March 16th. The audience was be invited to reflect on the foods that informed their creation and the soundscapes they produce and had the opportunity to consume the records.
next edible sound for tonight's show, a record made of brown sugar pic.twitter.com/UmSE6MrwVG
— matthew herbert (@matthewherbert) March 16, 2016
first in a series of edible sounds. this one a tortilla record. playable on normal hifi. unlikely to be delicious. pic.twitter.com/0O1tnhTEiz
— matthew herbert (@matthewherbert) February 26, 2016
Why ‘Over the Rainbow’ takes us to a magical, musical place
What makes the song “Over the Rainbow” an indelible classic? Jeffrey Brown talks to composer and musician Rob Kapilow, who helps explain why we love the story of a girl caught yearning for both home and adventure.
Jeffrey Brown: “‘Over the Rainbow,’ right, one of the most — everybody knows this song, but why? What makes us know this song?” Rob Kapilow, composer: “You know, amazingly, the answer to that starts with the very first two notes. In this famous opening idea, there’s really only two ideas. One of them, I call ‘leap.’ The other one, I call ‘circle and yearn.’ And it’s important.
“So, you start on a note, you circle back to it, and then you yearn. That’s it, circle and yearn. She’s yearning for high C. She’s yearning for high C.
“Now, it’s really the harmony that makes it so exquisite. You know, Yip Harburg called this a song of yearning. So, here’s what she’s yearning about. He could easily have written kind of a cheery accompaniment to ‘way up high,’ like this.
“She would have been home, but she would never have gone to Oz. In a beautiful moment — and this is a fantastic moment — Arlen decides to bring back the middle of the song, but in the orchestra. There’s a beautiful quote from Yip Harburg, who wrote the words. He said, ‘Words make you think thoughts, music makes you feel a feeling, but a song makes you feel a thought.’ And you can feel her thinking. Just the orchestra. Then she comes back, just like in the B section, ‘If happy little blue birds fly.’ One last rise. ‘Why, oh, why,’ and where does she finally get to? Oz. From low C to high C, from Kansas to Oz, from reality to fantasy, and her transformation is complete.”
How To Survive A Free-Falling Elevator
It’s normal to feel uneasy about riding in an elevator. But considering how prevalent elevators are, it’s an inconvenient phobia to have. Thankfully, deaths due to elevator accidents are extremely rare. Just in case, researchers at the MIT Center for Biomedical Engineering have figured out the best way to survive if you ever find yourself stuck in a falling elevator.
NPR’s “The Impact Of CDs On The Music Industry” From 1983 Is A Fascinating Listen
Take a list to what seems to be NPR’s first reference to the CD in a story by Ira Flatow from March 18, 1983 entitled, “Digital Compact Audio Disc System.” NPR’s science correspondent Ira Flatow was explaining a soon-to-be released audio technology.
Is your social life in trouble because you panic when someone picks up one of your precious recordings, or are you just the opposite – one who couldn’t care less about the quality of the music but wants total convenience? Well, folks, for both of you, relief is in sight. It’s called the compact audio disc – the CD.
That Time In 1969 Mr. Rogers Went To Congress To Save PBS
In 1969, Fred Rogers appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts by President Nixon.
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