Sunday Ramblings and Considerations

Oh, it’s Sunday, and we’re already an hour behind. This edition features: Information about ECU’s Festival of New Music, Blogophilia 26.5, considerations, and videos for the week.

This Week We Celebrate!
East Carolina University’s
11^th Annual Festival of New Music

We are lucky to live in a community that has a university with a fantastic College of Fine Arts & Communication. The schools of Art & Design, Music, and Theatre & Dance enrich our community so much. This week is a prime example, as we celebrate the Eleventh Annual Festival of New Music. The festival hosts a series of nine performances by local, national and international artists. The schedule also includes master classes with visiting composers, performers, reading sessions of student composers’ works, open rehearsals, and discussion forums with composers. Most of the events are free, and all are open to the public.

We are especially excited for Sunday’s performance, marc faris’ An Alternative Community. This is a large-scale composition by ECU Professor of Music, marc faris. Drawing influence from classical, rock, and improvisational music, the performance brings together music, dance, and the visual arts to celebrate “the spirit of collective effort.” This will be a true community event, so bring a blanket, a picnic basket, and your families to enjoy a wonderful day at Greenville’s Town Common on the Tar River.

For additional information about the festival, click here.

We hope to see you out there!
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Blogophilia 26.5

Yes, you read this correctly. Sometimes, we are faced with more songs than we can fit in one volume. When that occurs, we have .5 mix. We’ve had two other half mixes, 8.5 and 12.5. Yeah, it’s been awhile.

Blogophilia 26.5
Songs from Blogs
01.31.11- 02.28.11
Ripped @ 320kbps VBR
An indexed gapless mix
Download the All-in-one Zip File

Tracklist:

1.Dum Dum Girls – He Gets Me High
2.Mr. Dream – Knuckle Sandwich
3.Wavves – TV Luv Song
4.Year of Tiger - War
5.The Skull Defekts – Fragrant Nimbus
6.Hotels – The Bat Watusi
7.Hooded Fang – Laughing
8.Ivan & Alyosha – Glorify
9.The Decemberists – Cuyahoga
10.Mister Heavenly – Pineapple Girl
11.PT Walkley – Love You Dearly
12.Campfire OK – Strange Like We Are
13.The Outdoors – I’m Just Drifting
14.Howth – Hecksher Field #3
15.The Dears – Blood
16.overlord – Oh, My Mechanical Heart!
17.The Barettas – Black Sheep
18. Shugo Takumaru – Lahaha
19. Okkervil River – Mermaid
20. Free Swim – Quality Time with The Wife and Kids
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Consider these…

Did you see our feature on the Paper Crane Collective @tsururadio yesterday? We’re doing a column called Station-to-Station that explores the music scene of cities in the U.S. and around the world.
Fans of Neutral Milk Hotel will love this feature in the Guardian. It discusses the influence of the band and the Elephant Six on modern US music.

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