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Matt Robidoux – Music For Aluminum Corn
#Experimental #MillsCollege #SanFrancisco #ambient #corn #improvisation #jazz #westvirginia #Morgantown
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial)
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Matt Robidoux – Music For Aluminum Corn
#Experimental #MillsCollege #SanFrancisco #ambient #corn #improvisation #jazz #westvirginia #Morgantown
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial)
https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-aluminum-corn -
Matt Robidoux – Music For Aluminum Corn
#Experimental #MillsCollege #SanFrancisco #ambient #corn #improvisation #jazz #westvirginia #Morgantown
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial)
https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-aluminum-corn -
Matt Robidoux – Music For Aluminum Corn
#Experimental #MillsCollege #SanFrancisco #ambient #corn #improvisation #jazz #westvirginia #Morgantown
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial)
https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-aluminum-corn -
Matt Robidoux – Music For Aluminum Corn
#Experimental #MillsCollege #SanFrancisco #ambient #corn #improvisation #jazz #westvirginia #Morgantown
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial)
https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-aluminum-corn -
started a #wikipedia article on US scholar, poet, translator, and librarian, Helen Burwell Chapin (1892-1950), expert on East Asian art history and Buddhist iconography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burwell_Chapin @wikiwomeninred @wikiasianmonth @brynmawrcollege #MillsCollege @ucberkeley @wikimediadc
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started a #wikipedia article on US scholar, poet, translator, and librarian, Helen Burwell Chapin (1892-1950), expert on East Asian art history and Buddhist iconography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burwell_Chapin @wikiwomeninred @wikiasianmonth @brynmawrcollege #MillsCollege @ucberkeley @wikimediadc
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started a #wikipedia article on US scholar, poet, translator, and librarian, Helen Burwell Chapin (1892-1950), expert on East Asian art history and Buddhist iconography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burwell_Chapin @wikiwomeninred @wikiasianmonth @brynmawrcollege #MillsCollege @ucberkeley @wikimediadc
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started a #wikipedia article on US scholar, poet, translator, and librarian, Helen Burwell Chapin (1892-1950), expert on East Asian art history and Buddhist iconography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burwell_Chapin @wikiwomeninred @wikiasianmonth @brynmawrcollege #MillsCollege @ucberkeley @wikimediadc
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started a #wikipedia article on US scholar, poet, translator, and librarian, Helen Burwell Chapin (1892-1950), expert on East Asian art history and Buddhist iconography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burwell_Chapin @wikiwomeninred @wikiasianmonth @brynmawrcollege #MillsCollege @ucberkeley @wikimediadc
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And the Show Goes On…
Graduates of the Mills dance program continue creating unique companies and work that celebrates social justice.
https://quarterly.mills.edu/and-the-show-goes-on/
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And the Show Goes On…
Graduates of the Mills dance program continue creating unique companies and work that celebrates social justice.
https://quarterly.mills.edu/and-the-show-goes-on/
#Dance #SocialJustice #MillsCollege #Oakland -
And the Show Goes On…
Graduates of the Mills dance program continue creating unique companies and work that celebrates social justice.
https://quarterly.mills.edu/and-the-show-goes-on/
#Dance #SocialJustice #MillsCollege #Oakland -
And the Show Goes On…
Graduates of the Mills dance program continue creating unique companies and work that celebrates social justice.
https://quarterly.mills.edu/and-the-show-goes-on/
#Dance #SocialJustice #MillsCollege #Oakland -
#JonLeidecker (aka #Wobbly) is a human in the loop, making music with people and machines that listen. He will give a lecture (perhaps on the secret histories of electronic music?) Thursday, September 21st in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall at #MillsCollege (5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jon-leidecker-lecture-tickets-696314935717
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#JonLeidecker (aka #Wobbly) is a human in the loop, making music with people and machines that listen. He will give a lecture (perhaps on the secret histories of electronic music?) Thursday, September 21st in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall at #MillsCollege (5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jon-leidecker-lecture-tickets-696314935717
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#JonLeidecker (aka #Wobbly) is a human in the loop, making music with people and machines that listen. He will give a lecture (perhaps on the secret histories of electronic music?) Thursday, September 21st in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall at #MillsCollege (5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jon-leidecker-lecture-tickets-696314935717
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#JonLeidecker (aka #Wobbly) is a human in the loop, making music with people and machines that listen. He will give a lecture (perhaps on the secret histories of electronic music?) Thursday, September 21st in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall at #MillsCollege (5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jon-leidecker-lecture-tickets-696314935717
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#JonLeidecker (aka #Wobbly) is a human in the loop, making music with people and machines that listen. He will give a lecture (perhaps on the secret histories of electronic music?) Thursday, September 21st in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall at #MillsCollege (5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jon-leidecker-lecture-tickets-696314935717
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started a #wikipedia article on #MillsCollege #UCLA #physed professor, Rosalind Cassidy (1895-1980): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Cassidy #Dance #Health
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started a #wikipedia article on #MillsCollege #UCLA #physed professor, Rosalind Cassidy (1895-1980): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Cassidy #Dance #Health
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started a #wikipedia article on #MillsCollege #UCLA #physed professor, Rosalind Cassidy (1895-1980): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Cassidy #Dance #Health
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started a #wikipedia article on #MillsCollege #UCLA #physed professor, Rosalind Cassidy (1895-1980): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Cassidy #Dance #Health
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The Coalition to Save #MillsCollege put out a little video where an alum asked a question of the chair of the board of trustees and she just logged off rather than answer it. It's hard to capture this kind of moment in a video of a zoom session, but the whole incident is shocking and outrageous. https://vimeo.com/536391210
I'm starting to get a feel for why the college is in trouble as apparently, they've been treating faculty this way for years. By becoming an institute, they can finally be rid of annoying students, teachers and alums and focus of having a managerial class and nothing else.
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The Coalition to Save #MillsCollege put out a little video where an alum asked a question of the chair of the board of trustees and she just logged off rather than answer it. It's hard to capture this kind of moment in a video of a zoom session, but the whole incident is shocking and outrageous. https://vimeo.com/536391210
I'm starting to get a feel for why the college is in trouble as apparently, they've been treating faculty this way for years. By becoming an institute, they can finally be rid of annoying students, teachers and alums and focus of having a managerial class and nothing else.
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BandCamp today is covering the music department of #MillsCollege, which is threatened with closure: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/mills-college-list
If you care about experimental music and have an account on birdsite, if you could spare a tweet or two with the hashtag #SaveMills, there's a twitter campaign set for today.
You might say why the music department in particular or the college in general should carry on.
This is a cause that is personally very important to me. I want others to have the opportunities that I had and I also want to be able to keep hearing new music coming out of this milieu.
The graduate programme is all genders, but the undergrad programme is for women and trans people. (Mills was the first HWC to admit trans women without regard to their legal gender status.) There aren't many places that have helped so many musicians find such distinct voices and fewer still that had such a high degree of access for women and enbies.
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BandCamp today is covering the music department of #MillsCollege, which is threatened with closure: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/mills-college-list
If you care about experimental music and have an account on birdsite, if you could spare a tweet or two with the hashtag #SaveMills, there's a twitter campaign set for today.
You might say why the music department in particular or the college in general should carry on.
This is a cause that is personally very important to me. I want others to have the opportunities that I had and I also want to be able to keep hearing new music coming out of this milieu.
The graduate programme is all genders, but the undergrad programme is for women and trans people. (Mills was the first HWC to admit trans women without regard to their legal gender status.) There aren't many places that have helped so many musicians find such distinct voices and fewer still that had such a high degree of access for women and enbies.
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Now listening: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/first-things-first
Irreverent, fun, weird sound art from former #MillsCollege faculty Anthony Gnazzo
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Now listening: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/first-things-first
Irreverent, fun, weird sound art from former #MillsCollege faculty Anthony Gnazzo
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Lou Harrison's Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Javanese Gamelan (1981/1982) was also completed when he was working at #MillsCollege #SaveMills
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Lou Harrison's Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Javanese Gamelan (1981/1982) was also completed when he was working at #MillsCollege #SaveMills
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Harrison's music is beloved in California, but doesn't get the recognition it deserves east of there. This is partly because he rejected the New York scene, which is unforgivable. But it's also because Harrison's music is unapologetically beautiful. His music has strong Pacific Rim influences, but also holds on to the 1930s vibe of when he started writing. It's pretty. It's meant to be pretty. His music is a great example of how one can be challenging and thought provoking while maintaining an intentionally lovely and accessible aesthetic.
Here are some pieces he completed during his times at Mills:
Mass to St Anthony (1939)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQd_La1ujDA
(The still photo shows him with the #MillsCollege Gamelan which he and his partner Bill Colvig built)
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Harrison's music is beloved in California, but doesn't get the recognition it deserves east of there. This is partly because he rejected the New York scene, which is unforgivable. But it's also because Harrison's music is unapologetically beautiful. His music has strong Pacific Rim influences, but also holds on to the 1930s vibe of when he started writing. It's pretty. It's meant to be pretty. His music is a great example of how one can be challenging and thought provoking while maintaining an intentionally lovely and accessible aesthetic.
Here are some pieces he completed during his times at Mills:
Mass to St Anthony (1939)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQd_La1ujDA
(The still photo shows him with the #MillsCollege Gamelan which he and his partner Bill Colvig built)
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Anyway, in 1938 John Cage "scored a gig teaching at #MillsCollege in Oakland. During that summer, Cage met the school's dance instructor, Portland-born Bonnie Bird, and presumably, her teenaged assistant from Centralia, Washington, Merce Cunningham". Cage did not stay at Mills long, but moved up to Oregon shortly after. https://www.historylink.org/File/9423
In gay culture at that time, age taboos are not what they are now partly because everything was illegal anyway and it was understood by gay people of the time that young people might seek out and consent to sexual encounters. However, Henry Cowell served time in San Quentin over this.
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Anyway, in 1938 John Cage "scored a gig teaching at #MillsCollege in Oakland. During that summer, Cage met the school's dance instructor, Portland-born Bonnie Bird, and presumably, her teenaged assistant from Centralia, Washington, Merce Cunningham". Cage did not stay at Mills long, but moved up to Oregon shortly after. https://www.historylink.org/File/9423
In gay culture at that time, age taboos are not what they are now partly because everything was illegal anyway and it was understood by gay people of the time that young people might seek out and consent to sexual encounters. However, Henry Cowell served time in San Quentin over this.
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Now listening: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gallivants-and-garnishes
Ramón Sender was a co-founder of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, which later became The Center for Contemporary Music at #MillsCollege. Sender was instrumental in the invention of the voltage controlled synthesiser and I think I hear a Buchla on this delightfully weird, multilayered album.
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Now listening: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gallivants-and-garnishes
Ramón Sender was a co-founder of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, which later became The Center for Contemporary Music at #MillsCollege. Sender was instrumental in the invention of the voltage controlled synthesiser and I think I hear a Buchla on this delightfully weird, multilayered album.
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Now Listening:
https://millscollegemusic.bandcamp.com/album/mills-spring-2020-compilationMusic from #MillsCollege CCM, spring 2020. This is a selection of what recent students have been doing.
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Now Listening:
https://millscollegemusic.bandcamp.com/album/mills-spring-2020-compilationMusic from #MillsCollege CCM, spring 2020. This is a selection of what recent students have been doing.
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Now listening: https://maryclarebrzytwa.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-electronic
Experimental Electronic by #MillsCollege alum Mary Clare Brzytwa
The extremely cool album photo shows a clarinet with a proximity detector on it. Listening so far, it sounds like left coast dreamy electronics.
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Now listening: https://maryclarebrzytwa.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-electronic
Experimental Electronic by #MillsCollege alum Mary Clare Brzytwa
The extremely cool album photo shows a clarinet with a proximity detector on it. Listening so far, it sounds like left coast dreamy electronics.
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The New York times reporting on the #MillsCollege music department: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/arts/music/mills-college-music.html
I feel like this is a cultural emergency. We've lost ~so much~ in terms of musical centres and spaces over the last decade.
There is ~not~ a money shortage. There is an inequality problem. Rich people have too much fucking money and the idea that the rest of us should make sacrifices to support that is a fucking outrage.
Jeff Bezos could lose half his money and he'd still be way too fucking rich, but how much food, housing and art could that cover? Why are people going without these things while he plays with rocket ships? Guillotine that asshole and all the fucking billionaires.
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The New York times reporting on the #MillsCollege music department: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/arts/music/mills-college-music.html
I feel like this is a cultural emergency. We've lost ~so much~ in terms of musical centres and spaces over the last decade.
There is ~not~ a money shortage. There is an inequality problem. Rich people have too much fucking money and the idea that the rest of us should make sacrifices to support that is a fucking outrage.
Jeff Bezos could lose half his money and he'd still be way too fucking rich, but how much food, housing and art could that cover? Why are people going without these things while he plays with rocket ships? Guillotine that asshole and all the fucking billionaires.
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CW: racism
Now listening:
https://newbraxtonhouse.bandcamp.com/album/composition-no-19-for-100-tubas
Composition 19 for 100 Tubas by former #MillsCollege professor Anthony Braxton.
When I asked Braxton why he left Mills, he dodged the question, but there are rumours that some of the high ranking deans of decades past were racist towards him. Mills was in danger of losing its accreditation for how white it was 20+ years ago, but they've made major gains on this front and how have a diverse faculty and a majority non-white student body.
The artist Sharmi Basu (Beast Nest) told Bandcamp that as recently as 2013, she faced racism in the music department at Mills. She says things began to shift in the whole Bay Area scene around 2014, thanks to activism on the part of artists of colour.
Braxton was not on tenure track at Mills but went on to teach at Wesleyan university where he became a senior member of faculty. He decided a few years ago that he wanted to shift his focus away from teaching and concentrate on making music.
I feel like Mills has done work on it's flaws, pushed along by student and community activism.
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CW: racism
Now listening:
https://newbraxtonhouse.bandcamp.com/album/composition-no-19-for-100-tubas
Composition 19 for 100 Tubas by former #MillsCollege professor Anthony Braxton.
When I asked Braxton why he left Mills, he dodged the question, but there are rumours that some of the high ranking deans of decades past were racist towards him. Mills was in danger of losing its accreditation for how white it was 20+ years ago, but they've made major gains on this front and how have a diverse faculty and a majority non-white student body.
The artist Sharmi Basu (Beast Nest) told Bandcamp that as recently as 2013, she faced racism in the music department at Mills. She says things began to shift in the whole Bay Area scene around 2014, thanks to activism on the part of artists of colour.
Braxton was not on tenure track at Mills but went on to teach at Wesleyan university where he became a senior member of faculty. He decided a few years ago that he wanted to shift his focus away from teaching and concentrate on making music.
I feel like Mills has done work on it's flaws, pushed along by student and community activism.
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Now listening:
https://djll.bandcamp.com/album/skin-tightener
Noisy free improv. Recorded at #MillsCollege by people involved with the music department in various capacities.
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Now listening:
https://djll.bandcamp.com/album/skin-tightener
Noisy free improv. Recorded at #MillsCollege by people involved with the music department in various capacities.
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Now listening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3W-3HPMWg
A Rainbow in Curved Air by former #MillsCollege faculty Terry Riley.
His second most influential piece has a droney undercurrent, but is a steady forward momentum. Loopy but linear. Busy but still. The Guardian describes this piece as "feel good".
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Now listening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3W-3HPMWg
A Rainbow in Curved Air by former #MillsCollege faculty Terry Riley.
His second most influential piece has a droney undercurrent, but is a steady forward momentum. Loopy but linear. Busy but still. The Guardian describes this piece as "feel good".
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Now Listening:
https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/om-live-hommage
Cello and electronics from #MillsCollege teacher Joan Jeanrenaud
Very complicated droney new music vibe.