Life exists tenuously. E.O Wilson writes in The Diversity of Life, “The biosphere, all organisms combined, makes up only about one part in ten billion of the earth’s mass……Michael Yun, landscape architect and guitarist in WL, talks the ecology of design.
It’s been essential for me to remember my core beliefs and questions, using those to feel confident challenging the established community when the status quo no longer feels valid.
Change is constant. Nature has no goal, no apex, it is iterative and open-ended. Ecologies are susceptible to flows and are integrated into nature’s processes.
Read the full interview with Michael Yun (@lighght79 ) at the link in bio.
The debut Alivenique album "Year of the Statement" is out today on Lightning Studios. Alivenique is the new pop art music project of visual artist and producer/singer @alibeletic . The music has been featured on NPR Music, TalkHouse, Stereogum, and Flood Music.
From the outset of her career as an artist and musician, Ali has rebelled against convention, juxtaposing editorial, personal narrative and vanguardism. For her, "Year of the Statement" is the blowing of the conch shell on this new project Alivenique, where she plays with a more sophisticated, developed, self-aware artistry, laying the foundation for femininity going forward, telling a global story, and bringing punk into pop-art.
Featured today on @nprmusic new music Friday playlist today alongside new M.I.A, Bjork, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs tracks - a perfect fit for this badass female artistic statement.
Give it a listen at the link in bio.
@alivenique #alivenique #yearofthestatement
Visionary American improviser #BillFrisell removes his reverb pedal from his pedalboard but finds it's Visionary American improviser Bill Frisell talks speed of culture, loving hot rods, wanting to be a race car driver but ending up on the road of the unlimited potential of guitar.
“When I really think about it, it’s my whole life. Some of my earliest memories… I was really fired up about it.”
Read the full interview with @bill.frisell at the link in bio.
"Masculin Féminin", the latest installment from Alivenique's 'Year of the Statement', is out today. Of the track, Ali notes:
"This is a reflection, a memoir, a look back on the impact that Chantal Goya, Godard, Pennebaker, Dylan, New York, Warhol and Pop Art had on me and my generation, personally writing my own story and also my own artistic narrative. So I play with Godard’s description of the youth generation in Masculin Féminin, “Les Enfants de Marx and Coca-Cola” and extending the metaphor to my generation dubbing the continuation as “Les Enfants de Pop and Andy Warhol”. Musically it features a fun mashup of vintage french pop, urban-indie post-dylan vocals, cinematic golden era background vocals, with the percussive perspective of the record worked in, climaxing into a soloist orchestral performance with soaring strings. It features vocals in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. It's the perfect surreal pop collage."
Available now on Bandcamp and any streaming platform of your liking. Head to the link in bio to listen now.
New @Alivenique song out today!!! Reflecting on Pop Art, Chantal Goya, Godard, Dylan, writing her own artistic narrative on the streets of NY, and that reflection in her generation. LINK IN BIO FOR STREAMING. Super excited for this one!!! Check it out and Stay tuned. :)))
Thanks for the amazing team @tigerbombpromo , @tsmsayswhat
We asked some of our resident shredders to talk Future of Shred with us, here's what #VanCarney of @brotherspontiak had to say…
"All that mattered was that feeling. That soaring feeling, rising above the cigarette smoke, through the ceiling and roof and into the sky, like a wild bat woken by dusk."
"I stared in amazement at how the strings could work like they did, producing all these incredible, vibrating sounds and feelings. Two hands working in unison, working on this weird piece of wood, this strange unwieldy box could have such an intoxicating effect."
Read the full article at the link in bio.
