Christmas in Queens
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
A walk through Ridgewood, Queens. It’s all fun and games until the lights go out.
Green Salon
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009The 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 performed a Mozart sonata and excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite.
Michael Bobker emphasized the efficiency of co-generation and double pane windows over more glamourous technologies to meet our energy goals.
Taikoza at the Howl Festival
Monday, September 7th, 2009
Japanese drumming troupe, Taikoza, at the Howl Festival in Tompkins Square Park on Sunday.
The Golden Spiral
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
I made some of the props and brought my Gametone instruments to clang for this extravaganza at
Theater for the New City. I make a brief appearance behind an array of gongs in the second video.
I am especially proud of the ship’s steering-wheel / joystick, padded with bubble-wrap so the cast
could fling it around without injury.
This was downtown Manhattan in May following that famous September in 2001. We made giant paper-mache
spheres in a dim basement apartment in Brooklyn directly under the ash plume from the Towers. Is it any
wonder we were mad?
from LOVESPHERE 7: THE GOLDEN SPIRAL Haideen Anderson, Chris Baxter, James Byrd Jr., Ernie Fahl,
Gary Heidt, GirlGeo, Terry Lee King, Frank Marino, Tom Maucher,Nathan Metz, Toshie Nagatsuka,
Hiromi Nakamura, Michael Natale, Doug “Grand Pepper of Reality” Principato, Carry Sky Sipple, Albert Solomon.
Costume and sets by Nathalie Vogel. Directed by Yuji Takematsu. Executive producer Crystal Field,
artistic director, Theater for the New City. Barbara Vann, producer of Lovesphere 7.
Film by Chris Baxter. Sound recording by Dan Gaydos, Museum of Sound Recording, mixed by Jason Candler.
Punjabi Wedding on the Lower East Side
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Punjabi Wedding on the Lower East Side from GammaBlog on Vimeo.
I heard the music when I was on Delancey heading towards the Essex Street Market to buy some arugula. I’m glad I always have my camera with me.
It’s a New Day – will.i.am
Sunday, November 9th, 2008I WENT TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT
TIRED FROM THE FIGHT
IVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR TOMORROW ALL MY LIFE
YEAH I WOKE UP THIS MORNING FEELING BRAND NEW
CAUSE THE DREAMS THAT IVE BEEN DREAMING HAS FINALLY CAME TRUE
ITS A NEW DAY (5X)
VERSE 1
ITS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING
UP THE MOUNTAIN KEPT RUNING
SONGS OF FREEDOM KEPT HUMMING
CHANNELING HARRIET TUBMAN
KENNEDY LINCOLN AND KING
WE GOTTA MANIFEST THAT DREAM
IT FEELS LIKE IM SWIMMING UPSTREAM
IT FEELS LIKE IM STUCK IN BETWEEN
A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE WEVE BEEN THROUGH THE HEARTACHES
AND LIVED THROUGH THE DARKEST DAYS
IF YOU AND I MADE IT THIS FAR WELL THEN HEY WE CAN MAKE IT ALL THE WAY
AND THEY SAID NO WE CANT
AND WE SAID YES WE CAN
REMEMBER ITS YOU AND ME TOGETHER
CHORUS
I WOKE UP THIS MORNING FEELING ALRIGHT
IVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR TOMORROW ALL MY LIFE
YEAH I WOKE UP THIS MORNING FEELING BRAND NEW
CAUSE THE DREAMS THAT IVE BEEN DREAMING HAS FINALLY COME TRUE
ITS A NEW DAY (5X)
VERSE 2
ITS BEEN A LONG TIME WAITING
WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT
ITS BEEN A LONG TIME PRAYING
PRAYING FOR THIS MOMENT
AND HOPE FOR THIS MOMENT
AND NOW THAT WE OWN IT
CLOSER IMA HOLD IT
AND I WONT LET IT GO
THIS IS FOR OUR FATHERS, OUR BROTHERS, OUR FRIENDS WHO FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM, OUR SISTERS OUR MOTHERS, WHO DIED FOR US TO BE IN THIS MOMENT
STOP AND CHERISH THIS MOMENT
STOP AND CHERISH THIS TIME
ITS BEAUTIFUL AINT IT
WE DID IT FOR HER AND HIM AND HE AND SHE AND YOU AND ME TOGETHER
CHORUS
YEAH I WOKE UP THIS MORNING FEELING BRAND NEW
CAUSE THE DREAMS THAT IVE BEEN DREAMING FINALLY COME TRUE
YEAH I WOKE UP THIS MORNING FEELING ALRIGHT
CAUSE WE WASNT FIGHTING FOR NOTHING
AND MALCOLM WASNT FIGHTING FOR NOTHING
AND MARTIN WASNT DREAMING FOR NOTHING
AND LINCOLN WASNT TRYING FOR NOTHING
AND CHILDREN WASNT CRYING FOR NOTHING
Song Credits:
“It’s A New Day”
Produced by will.i.am
Written by: William Adams
Lipbone Redding’s Most Famous Sayings
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
“Belief is the absence of fact.”
“Politics are for the rich, revolution is for the poor, and most revolutionaries are closet aristocrats.”
“Are your feet tired, because you’ve been running through my mind all day long.”
“I think I might be tapped out.”
Sarah Palin, Admitted Flautist
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Talent competition from the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant. The steady smile and crossed eyes gave me a chuckle.
