#sleepingrough #£££ etc
Sky Arts is making a reality programme featuring four chosen artists travelling Europe using just the power of their art to survive.
Barlines has been assured that although there might be an element of sleeping in dirty hostels and travelling rough, the musos will always be accompanied by a member of production who will make sure their safety is a priority.
There is a fee of £5,000 per artist.
Here's the press release in full:
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Opera Singers, Classical Musicians, Visual Artists needed for new Sky Arts series.
Could you journey from Athens to the Edinburgh Festival surviving solely on your artistic talent? Could you trade your skills in return for food, accommodation and travel? Could you make the 4000 kilometer journey in just five weeks... and then put on a show / exhibition at the end?
If you are a chutzpah-fueled cultural adventurer who believes in the power of art, we'd love to hear from you.
Illuminations Television is looking for four contributors for a forthcoming Sky Arts series, The Art of Survival.
Two pairs of Artistes and Artists and Musicians will compete against each other - and the winners will be the couple who make the most money from touting their work and skills.
You’ll need available from 30th July to 5th September 2010, over 18 and from the United Kingdom. Males and females wanted. Auditions will take place in London, the week beginning 19th July. Contributors will audition separately, not as teams.
We’ll even pay you for this. In return for going hungry and probably sleeping all over Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France, we're delighted to offer a fee of £5000 to each of the four contributors. The winners will claim the equivalent value of the fee again.
To apply, please email: artsurvival@illuminationsmedia.co.uk
with the following before Monday 19th July:
• A CV, detailing performance / exhibition history and qualifications
• A link / profile video, demonstrating their work / performance skills
• A photo
• A phone number
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Monday, 22 March 2010
Global auto-tune mashup
OK, that's a bit harsh, Barlines loves this stuff, but how on earth did all those people get it together when the chiselled Mr Whitacre has no discernible third beat?
Even harsher, and actually we cried a bit, just like with the Youtube Symphony Orchestra Global Mashup. Here's the thing in real-life YouTube:
Even harsher, and actually we cried a bit, just like with the Youtube Symphony Orchestra Global Mashup. Here's the thing in real-life YouTube:
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Opera loses world-class tenor
All members of the Rhinegold Towers were saddened by the news of Philip Langridge’s death from cancer earlier this month at the age of 70. Making appearances on opera stages across Europe and America, he was closely associated with the works of Birtwistle and Janáček. However, it is perhaps his leading roles in the operas by Benjamin Britten which gained him the highest level of recognition.
There are many fantastic performances of Philip available on YouTube and the many CDs released during his career. We have selected a few of our favourites for the Barlines Blog.
There are many fantastic performances of Philip available on YouTube and the many CDs released during his career. We have selected a few of our favourites for the Barlines Blog.
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Long live the loop
Barlines' favourite cello hellraiser Samara Ginsberg took her instrument to the ENO loop factory on Sunday, to take part in Anna Meredith's session on Philip Glass' Satyagraha.
There are lessons to be learned here; surely if they could set up some loops in the pit at the Coli for performances of Glass' work it would save much tears and RSI on the part of ENO's valiant woodwind...
There are lessons to be learned here; surely if they could set up some loops in the pit at the Coli for performances of Glass' work it would save much tears and RSI on the part of ENO's valiant woodwind...
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Rhinegold Singers taste victory
The Rhinegold Singers have emerged victorious, with all limbs intact, from the first round of the Office Choir Competition. This is despite the fact that, due to the creepily similar 'red and black' dress codes of all the choirs involved, the Apothecaries' Hall looked more like the set of The Cook, the thief, his wife & her lover, than a civilised vocal contest. And when I say vocal contest, of course, I mean BRUTAL MEAT RIPPING SMACKDOWN.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
John's college
To play this composer's oboe concerto, you will require, among more regular items of percussionry (such as the waterphone and lion's roar): 10 'or so' tin cans, 5 scaffolding bars, 4 car wheels, 2 spring coils and and oxygen cylinder. And they're letting him loose on Dartington?!
Actually, the appointment, from 2011, of John Woolrich as artistic director for the next three years of the 60+ years old summer school and festival could be a stroke of genius. Dartington is nothing if not eclectic. So who better to take over the reins than the classical music's foremost Selecta. Over the years, his concert programmes (he has been closely involved with Britten Sinfonia and is associate artistic director at the Aldeburgh Festival) have become renowned for their intelligent mixing of old and new, familiar and unfamiliar. Always he puts the focus on the qualities of individual pieces, which the audience can inspect as if they were curious samples picked out from a larger, less defined musical landscape.
It's the same in his own music, which might draw inspiration from Monteverdi (eg the short piece for viola and strings, Ulysses Awakes) or surrealist art (The Elephant from Celebes) - as well as the local builders' merchant.
Actually, the appointment, from 2011, of John Woolrich as artistic director for the next three years of the 60+ years old summer school and festival could be a stroke of genius. Dartington is nothing if not eclectic. So who better to take over the reins than the classical music's foremost Selecta. Over the years, his concert programmes (he has been closely involved with Britten Sinfonia and is associate artistic director at the Aldeburgh Festival) have become renowned for their intelligent mixing of old and new, familiar and unfamiliar. Always he puts the focus on the qualities of individual pieces, which the audience can inspect as if they were curious samples picked out from a larger, less defined musical landscape.
It's the same in his own music, which might draw inspiration from Monteverdi (eg the short piece for viola and strings, Ulysses Awakes) or surrealist art (The Elephant from Celebes) - as well as the local builders' merchant.
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
The music of everyday life
You all know what I mean. That jingle preceding the railway station announcement which, though a simple arpeggio, reminds you unfailingly of the last movement of Telemann's viola concerto. The signal indicating that the doors of the tube train are about to close - it's the theme from the Alpine Symphony, right? Or is it Dvorak 7? Or is it just a random falling minor third?
Then there were the automatic hand driers in the toilets of my university library which, when starting, sounded exactly like the very opening of Walton's viola concerto. Or the Samsung ML-2010 mono laser printer which produces a tritone when in action. What the devil...?
Yes, as Martha and the Vandellas foresaw, there is music, sweet music everywhere (if not swinging, swaying and records playing). And, for sure, you'll have your own examples of musical themes that are insinuated in the fabric of your day-to-day life.
Take car horns - they always seem to parp out a major second, or a minor third. How brusque, when all the driver wants to do is toot a cheery greeting or gently alert a dozy pedestrian to his presence! And so intrusive for the poor bystander who happens to be nearby. So why not provide motorists with a choice of horn: what about a nice major third when politeness is required, and leave the surlier intervals for, ahem, emergencies only.
Then there were the automatic hand driers in the toilets of my university library which, when starting, sounded exactly like the very opening of Walton's viola concerto. Or the Samsung ML-2010 mono laser printer which produces a tritone when in action. What the devil...?
Yes, as Martha and the Vandellas foresaw, there is music, sweet music everywhere (if not swinging, swaying and records playing). And, for sure, you'll have your own examples of musical themes that are insinuated in the fabric of your day-to-day life.
Take car horns - they always seem to parp out a major second, or a minor third. How brusque, when all the driver wants to do is toot a cheery greeting or gently alert a dozy pedestrian to his presence! And so intrusive for the poor bystander who happens to be nearby. So why not provide motorists with a choice of horn: what about a nice major third when politeness is required, and leave the surlier intervals for, ahem, emergencies only.
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