It’s up for dispute whether Mother Goose was really a woman in Boston or just a legend that wouldn’t die — Father Goose, however, is a much more tangible person and he grooves a lot harder than his famous ancestor. Also known as Rankin Don, Father Goose is a Jamaican dancehall rapper and dj whose [...]
Vaughn Bell has taken the entire idea of the man-made biosphere — that is, a closed ecological system — and brought it into the realm of the art gallery. Rather than making larger structures that humans must get inside, Bell fashions smaller versions that people can take around with them, little tiny balls of self-contained [...]
For the third in my series on New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, I’m posting a conversation I had with John Schimmel, an adjunct professor there. What brought him to my attention was that John had networked three Mason jars to communicate with each other — taps outside one jar trigger blinking of one [...]
Jay Farrar has made a career out of embracing the sounds of the past — particularly those of country music — and ushering them gently into the present, with the hope that he’s still honoring a musical form that Nashville may have long dispensed of.
Farrar has been a mainstay in the realm of alt country [...]
I spoke to Rick Piltz in regard to his appearance in the film “Everything’s Cool,” which chronicled the efforts to get information on global warming out to the public and past the Republican propaganda machine. Piltz was a senior associate in the Climate Change Science Program Office under Bush — he started under Clinton — [...]
I was intrigued by Keir Moreano’s documentary film “Unspooled” when I first read about it. It’s the tale of an ill-fated student film shoot — it follows a crew of NYU film students trying to work on one guy’s senior project.
I’m a former NYU film student — some might say “failed,” but I would counter [...]
Head Like A Kite has a new CD coming out, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to post the interview I did with Dave Einmo — one half of the band and a former one-man band. Head Like A Kite mixes up found and sampled sound into an electronica genre rounded out [...]
Susan McKeown is best known for her Celtic sounds, but she also delves into other areas as well, with some releases that fall far more on the Indie rock side, as well as some recent work she did with the Klezmatics. I had the chance to talk with her a while ago and we covered [...]
I had the opportunity to talk to violinist Jenny Scheinman. She’s known as an instrumentalist with an experimental side, but she’s going to show a different part of herself with a vocal CD coming out on May 27 (and an instrumental album on the same date, as a vinyl release and download at first, then [...]
Of all the things I have encountered in my newspaper work covering the arts, my absolute favorite is the New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program — or ITP. This is a graduate program that, as their Web site puts it , offers students a chance to “explore the imaginative use of communications technologies — how [...]
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