Archive for July, 2015
Winlaw Watersheds
It’s World Listening Day! This year’s theme is “H2O” so I’ve decided to release my 2009 soundscape composition “Winlaw Watersheds” into the wilds of the Internet as a small contribution to the project of collective meditation on our most precious resource and the increasing challenges we face around its regulation and distribution. “Winlaw Watersheds” is […]
In: Acoustic Ecology, Soundscape Composition, Soundwalking
Have You Ever Heard a Rainbow? }{ Trey Comes Out in Santa Clara
The band was unquestionably tentative while performing the first weekend of the “Fare Thee Well” celebrations at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. The “core four” hadn’t played together much over the last decade and there’s only so much that limited rehearsals can accomplish. This was particularly true for Trey Anastasio, charged with learning around […]
In: Concerts, Dead50, Grateful Dead
Fare Thee Well, Grateful Dead }{ Part 1: There is No Band
What shall we say, shall we call it by a name? The Grateful Dead? No. But then they never claimed to be, contrary to popular misconception surrounding the 50th anniversary “Fare Thee Well” shows going down this week. They’re everywhere, headlines like: “Grateful Dead’s Long, Strange Trip to End in Chicago”; or “Warren Haynes Talks […]
In: Concerts, Grateful Dead, Music · Tagged with: Grateful Dead