MuziekAtelier
The members of the “MuziekAtelier”-project did an excellent job in performing in a big show on the 28th of June. This community art/TOTO-project was concluded for this season with a show with professional sound and light in a big venue. Continue reading
Takamine
I finally had the chance to buy a guitar, something I have wanted to do for years. The Takamine G-series are good guitars, but not too expensive: I bought mine for €550,= with a hard case, strap, tools and maintenance kit, cables, extra strings, polish and batteries. My fingers are raw already! Continue reading
Senioren! Poster
Today was the première of the musical play Senioren! which was, according to audience reactions, a success. We could also announce that, apart from the five performances that are planned for June and July, six more performances will be played after summer, starting in September. All in all, a good day for Kunst in de Wijken en community art in Delft.
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I have added a music store to my professional site, inargenti.nl. I don’t expect it to create much revenue, but it is a service to my visitors: with the cooperation of Amazon, I am able to link to reference recordings, similar items and original recordings of transcriptions and such things. There is no surcharge over the normal prices offered by Amazon, so check it out and see what favourite recordings I have mentioned might be of interest to you: http://musicstore.inargenti.nl.
At the moment I am directing a play for which I also composed and arranged music. Senioren!, (“Elderly!”) is a community art performance with methodology and thematic material that border on Theatre of the Oppressed material, in cooperation with community workers and Kunst in de Wijken (a district-based art program for citizens) of the Dutch town of Delft.
Recently I have come across several animated pictures in gif-format that really caught my eye. You know, from way back when, those annoying flashing signs on internet pages? “New!” “Buy now!”, “Under construction…” – those used to be done with a gif, in stead of in flash or whatever is used nowadays. Now, some people have started to use the format as an art form. I don’t know who started it, but check this out. Continue reading
Grupo do Teatro Oprimado Maputo, a Theatre of the Oppressed group from Mozambique, were in the Netherlands due to an exchange program with “TotO”-group Stichting Formaat, a group that is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I went to their two plays, “Malhumolo Ya Wansati” and “Mulher.” Continue reading
