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June 4, 2011

Shameless plug: visit my Music Store

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.

May 30, 2011

Senioren! play: performance dates announced

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.

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May 26, 2011

The animated gif finally stops being a flashing “new!”-sign

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 →

May 22, 2011

Two performances by GTO Maputo

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 →

May 17, 2011

Gretchen Parlato with Esperanza Spalding

I really, really like Gretchen Parlato. Here she is with Grammy award-winning Esperanza Spalding, who can drag the vocal line while keeping a steady groove on bass.