Word: avant
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...Plenty of people point out that she's no singer - and she's not - but quality of voice has never really mattered in popular music. Really, her great gift is that she has a terrific set of ears. She listens to what's going on at the avant-garde edge and has an uncanny ability to recognize bits that, in a different context, could have mainstream appeal. Think about "Hung Up"; it's a 5:37 marathon of a song, the kind of thing that shouldn't work outside of a dance club. But keeping in mind that pop listeners...
...world." Eros proved plenty expensive for Ginzburg: he lost not only Eros, when the Post Office declared it unfit, but his career, when he was sentenced to five years in a federal prison. (He served eight months.) After Eros he put out other magazines, such as Fact, Avant Garde and Moneysworth, but never regained his footing or his brio. In his last years he was a news photographer, mainly for the New York Post...
Jazz clarinetist Don Byron’s latest album, “A Ballad for Many,” certainly deals in disorder. The first half hour of his collaboration with the Bang on a Can All-Stars—an instrumental group whose core of material comes from avant-garde composers like Brian Eno and Steve Reich—is dissonant enough to make acid jazz sound like Muzak...
DIED. Gyorgy Ligeti, 83, Hungarian avant-garde composer whoin spite of his staunch refusal to seek popular acceptancegained global fame when, unknown to him, Stanley Kubrick used his music in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, giving him a new fan base of trippy, psychedelic teens; in Vienna. As a young composer, he was afraid to write down the modern pieces he heard in his head for fear of government retaliation ("totalitarian regimes do not like dissonances," he wrote). After escaping communist Hungary, he wrote polyphonous, unpredictably paced concertos, chamber pieces and other works, including one opera, Le Grand...
...innkeeping. The lawyer-turned-hotelier's first property, Hotel 1929, saw a colonial-era terrace on the fringes of Chinatown transformed into a modish haven of 32 small but eccentrically styled rooms. The latest venture, a couple of streets away, is a grander vehicle for his bohemianism. There are avant-garde murals and installations by nine up-and-coming local artists, and eminent creative talents were involved in the design of some of the accommodation. Graphic designer Theseus Chan covered one room with marine plywood, while director Glen Goei appointed another in red silk in homage to Chinese filmmaker Zhang...