Green Salon

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

The Green Salon is an event organized by Peter Fusaro and Carmen Cook that combines talks about environmental themes with music at the Klavierhaus.
Dimitri Sogoloff
Dimitri Sogoloff performed a Mozart sonata and excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite.

Michael Bobker
Michael Bobker emphasized the efficiency of co-generation and double pane windows over more glamourous technologies to meet our energy goals.

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8 Responses to “Green Salon”

  1. Flickr: madmaxnyc, on September 28th, 2009 at 6:28 am Said:

    In an era of great technological development, many musicians were fascinated by machines and industry (like Mosolov in his "Iron foundry") and some futurists used modern machine sounds in their music (either exclusively like some futurists or in complement to ‘regular’ music instruments like Antheil with his airplane propelers in "Ballet mechanique"). Antheil also wrote piano pieces in that vein, including the "airplane sonata" and "death of machines" and "mechanisms".
    So what I meant is for talks like this at the Green Salon with the environment in mind, playing music that glorifies the high ‘carbon footprint’ of the industry of that era may not be a good idea ;p

  2. Flickr: GammaBlog, on September 28th, 2009 at 6:43 am Said:

    The Plasmatics with a carbon belching chainsaw would be another.

  3. Flickr: madmaxnyc, on September 28th, 2009 at 4:47 am Said:

    I assume playing Antheil’s "Airplane sonata" wouldn’t be a good choice for such talks…

  4. Flickr: madmaxnyc, on September 27th, 2009 at 9:47 am Said:

    I assume playing Antheil’s "Airplane sonata" wouldn’t be a good choice for such talks…

  5. Flickr: GammaBlog, on September 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am Said:

    That’s over my head, max.

  6. Flickr: GammaBlog, on September 28th, 2009 at 4:19 am Said:

    That’s over my head, max.

  7. Flickr: madmaxnyc, on September 28th, 2009 at 1:28 pm Said:

    In an era of great technological development, many musicians were fascinated by machines and industry (like Mosolov in his "Iron foundry") and some futurists used modern machine sounds in their music (either exclusively like some futurists or in complement to ‘regular’ music instruments like Antheil with his airplane propelers in "Ballet mechanique"). Antheil also wrote piano pieces in that vein, including the "airplane sonata" and "death of machines" and "mechanisms".
    So what I meant is for talks like this at the Green Salon with the environment in mind, playing music that glorifies the high ‘carbon footprint’ of the industry of that era may not be a good idea ;p

  8. Flickr: GammaBlog, on September 28th, 2009 at 1:43 pm Said:

    The Plasmatics with a carbon belching chainsaw would be another.

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