Notes and notes

I have various blog article ideas gestating at the moment, but as is the way with these things, they keep getting put back.

One of them was/is about Trilogy, Nic Green's theatre/performance art piece for The Arches at St Stephen's as part of the Edinburgh Fringe. Whilst technically brilliant and invigorating, the ideas and more political points came across as muddled and a little out of date. Excluding men from a feminism that responds to "what it's like to be a woman in 2009" seems rather paradoxical to me. I hope I'll be able to write about this in more depth when I get the time, because it chimes with a lot of the stuff I'm starting to read for the MLitt, and what our friend Derek is reading with regards to his PhD on Virginia Woolf, Gilles Deleuze and posthumanism.

The other one, ever-so-slightly related, was a collection of thoughts about this excellent Simon Jenkins comment piece in the Guardian on Friday. Eminently sensible, lucid and right on the money, I'm in whole-hearted agreement with everything he says.

I have been listening on my walks into work to the same three artists over and over again:

Panda Bear.
I love how it all sounds like a party your cool downstairs neighbours are having that wakes you up in the middle of the night and when you wake up in the morning you're not sure if you dreamed it or not.



Asa Chang and Junray
I love this for its choppy/serene dynamics, how it layers up amazing sounds and creates whole new worlds out of them. Whenever I listen to Hana I remember this great video:



Steve Reich
I love how his music lulls you into a rythmn, and then you start to think he's changing the note order but then think it's just you putting different emphases on different notes but then you realise that he has changed it! Just ever-so-slightly. I love how it's perfect walking music.