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...materials led to a greater numbers of ribs in the body, and new treatments of gut led to a greater range of strings. So the middle Renaissance lute had six courses whereas later instruments had up to 13 or 14. The shape of the body also changed from being almost round in the Renaissance to having a more elongated from during the Baroque period. In order to accommodate more strings, one type of bass lute had two pegboxes, and from this variation developed in turn the orbo and the chitarrone, instruments used well into the eighteenth century...
...comical to watch him curl his long body in its grey suit and blue tie around the ancient frame of the lute. His sits with one leg over the other, cradling his lute close to him and dipping his head to the notes so that at times his nose almost touches the strings. Despite his height, he seems to bring every part of himself in as close as possible to the instrument, playing with an intensity that draws in the attention of his audience as well...
...Wave. Minekawa refines her music along minimalist lines, creating a childlike interplay between melody and rhythm which makes tracks like "Phonobaloon Song" immediately enchanting. But Minekawa's music traces its tendency for reduction to even deeper motivations: employing the otherworldly blips of her analog synthesizers, at times almost piercing or unsettling, to allow us to hear them as music for the first time. Occasionally, however, one is left wondering whether Minekawa's devotion to the Kraftwerkian program of detachment comes at too great a cost--much of the spontaneity and intimacy which made her first release Roomic Cube so endearing...
...years went by, I wanted to be more feminine. I don't know what you can make of that. I've been doing this thing called the Alexander technique. Have you ever heard of that? It's an alignment of the spine, and I've been doing it for almost three years. So since I started doing stand-up, I've literally learned how to stand up. I think the audience is more responsive when I'm standing like that. It's a very old technique. John Dewey, the educator, was a prophetizer of it. It's getting a little...
...soaked on a dog day. By the time she closed her set with a cover of Eddy Arnold's "You Don't Know Me," the place was utterly drenched in her voice. From the first moment you hear her, you know that Tardy is something very special. I am almost embarrassed that she is still in school, subject to mundane concerns like response papers, when she is so evidently ready to wood the world...