THE PROJECT

In 2011, Mitch Epstein was awarded the Prix Pictet Photography Prize, and was asked to create a presentation to celebrate the award in Arles, France, in early July. In a Roman amphitheater in the center of Arles, Friedlander and Epstein collaborated on a presentation of music, narration, and photography. The success of the evening led to the creation of this beautiful LP, a special chronicle of their performance in Arles.

Mitch Epstein began work on American Power in 2003. The project was a five-year long, twenty-five state investigation of energy production and consumption in the United States, and how they had become manifest in the country’s landscape and culture. The book was published in 2009 (Steidl).

THE ARTISTS

Cellist Erik Friedlander is a composer, an improviser, and a veteran of NYC’s downtown scene. His 15 CDs as a leader include his rustically soulful, BoneBridge; The Broken Arm Trio, a trio tribute to jazz bassist Oscar Pettiford, and Block Ice & Propane, his solo cello reinterpretation of American roots music. Friedlander composes music for commercials and movie scores and has appeared on 100s of cds, including work with John Zorns Masada, The Mountain Goats, and Courtney Love.

Mitch Epstein’s photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Modern in London. Recent solo exhibitions of Epstein’s work were at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris (2011), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2011), the Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne (2011) and Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool (2011).

The American Power LP
Suggested Retail: $45.00 USD
Wholesale: $27.00 USD + shipping
http://www.americanpowermusic.com
January 22, 2012 – Black River Press/Skipstone Records

For wholesale orders, please contact: Ryan Spencer at ryan(at)mitchepstein(dot)net 212.529.6982

THE AMERICAN POWER SUITE

I. with speed [electricity]3:48
II. flowing, grand [water] 4:01
III. freely, with forward motion [solar] 3:57
IV. steady, solemn [crude]5:27
V. lurching, unstable [fission]2:16
VI. elegy [decision]4:00

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After the Cello tweetup with Zoe Keating & Peter Gregson in Union Square


Image by Steve Rhodes
The first cellotweetup was organized by

www.zoekeating.com

twitter.com/zoecello

and

www.petergregson.co.uk (visiting from England)

twitter.com/petergregson

who wrote audio will be posted (there was also someone making a video – you might be able to find more info at twitter.com/#search?q=#cellotweetup though at some point twitter search may not find the hashtag)

Five other cellists joined them including

Thea Lawson – twitter.com/thealawson
Rod Williams – twitter.com/rjwill6

Mark Growden went home to get his cello markgrowden.org

twitter.com/markgrowden

markgrowden.posterous.com/cello-tweetup-union-square-san-…

More photos by twitter.com/caseoftornados

www.flickr.com/photos/only_taciturn/sets/72157622392681056/

A few more photos

www.flickr.com/photos/eddhannay/tags/cellotweetup/

and my photos of cellist Bonfire Madigan

www.flickr.com/photos/ari/sets/72157600231845205/

who plays Sept 27th, 2009 at Cafe du Nord

bonfiremadigan.com/news/news_item/16

Reading the Kite Runner in Union Square


Image by Steve Rhodes
The first cellotweetup was organized by

www.zoekeating.com

twitter.com/zoecello

and

www.petergregson.co.uk (visiting from England)

twitter.com/petergregson

who wrote audio will be posted (there was also someone making a video – you might be able to find more info at twitter.com/#search?q=#cellotweetup though at some point twitter search may not find the hashtag)

Five other cellists joined them including

Thea Lawson – twitter.com/thealawson
Rod Williams – twitter.com/rjwill6

Mark Growden went home to get his cello markgrowden.org

twitter.com/markgrowden

markgrowden.posterous.com/cello-tweetup-union-square-san-…

More photos by twitter.com/caseoftornados

www.flickr.com/photos/only_taciturn/sets/72157622392681056/

A few more photos

www.flickr.com/photos/eddhannay/tags/cellotweetup/

and my photos of cellist Bonfire Madigan

www.flickr.com/photos/ari/sets/72157600231845205/

who plays Sept 27th, 2009 at Cafe du Nord

bonfiremadigan.com/news/news_item/16

Getting ready for Salsa in the Square


Image by Steve Rhodes
The first cellotweetup was organized by

www.zoekeating.com

twitter.com/zoecello

and

www.petergregson.co.uk (visiting from England)

twitter.com/petergregson

who wrote audio will be posted (there was also someone making a video – you might be able to find more info at twitter.com/#search?q=#cellotweetup though at some point twitter search may not find the hashtag)

Five other cellists joined them including

Thea Lawson – twitter.com/thealawson
Rod Williams – twitter.com/rjwill6

Mark Growden went home to get his cello markgrowden.org

twitter.com/markgrowden

markgrowden.posterous.com/cello-tweetup-union-square-san-…

More photos by twitter.com/caseoftornados

www.flickr.com/photos/only_taciturn/sets/72157622392681056/

A few more photos

www.flickr.com/photos/eddhannay/tags/cellotweetup/

and my photos of cellist Bonfire Madigan

www.flickr.com/photos/ari/sets/72157600231845205/

who plays Sept 27th, 2009 at Cafe du Nord

bonfiremadigan.com/news/news_item/16

Christie's is honored to announce that guitars from the collection of the late Merle Travis will be auctioned in the Fine Musical Instruments sale on April 2 in New York. Influential to many musicians, Travis was recognized for his unique finger-picking guitar style, called “Travis Picking.” Because of his prolific writing and performing he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as well as the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Martin and Gibson
Both the Gibson electric arch-top guitar, Style Super 400 (estimate: $15,000-20,000) and the C.F. Martin D-28 (estimate: $100,000-150,000) represent a unique partnership between the artist, Merle Travis and artisan Paul A Bigsby, which culminated in some of the most important design innovations in American guitar making in the years following World War II.

In 1946, Merle Travis commissioned an electric guitar to be made by the machinist and inventor Paul A. Bigsby and the result is often referred by some as the first solid-body electric guitar. Today the guitar resides in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Enamored by the feel and playability of the neck, Travis returned to Bigsby requesting that a custom neck be fitted on his Martin D-28. This resulted in the first re-necking done by Bigsby on another manufacturer's guitar. It would be followed by countless other requests from performers including Lefty Frizell, Zeke Clements and Hank Thompson. This guitar, which accompanied Travis through the majority of his career, was used to compose such hits as Sixteen Tons and Dark as a Dungeon.

The Gibson Style Super 400 offered in for auction is an original production example made by Bigsby and was personally given to Travis by Bigsby. The original Gibson tailpiece was removed by Travis and replaced with the “Patent Pending” Bigsby tailpiece that it now carries. Also noteworthy is that this example from 1962 is custom fitted with two single coil P-90 pickups, rather then the Humbucking pickups, standard for many Gibson electrics by 1962.

Merle Travis
Born in 1917 in Rosewood, Kentucky, Merle Robert Travis was immersed in the rural music of western Kentucky and the finger-picking styles of Muhlenberg County guitarists including Kennedy Jones, Mose Rager and Ike Everly. Rather then using a flat-pick, these players would pick the melody with the index finger of the right hand while the thumb supplied the rhythm on the bass strings. In the tradition of American colloquial music Merle Travis would mold and stylize this technique of playing. By adding a syncopated rhythm along with Blues and Jazz over-tones he made the style uniquely his own.

His first public performance would be on a local radio amateur hour in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1936. It lead to multiple job offers and then a permanent position on Cincinnati's WLW, which was then the Mid-West's foremost radio station for Country Music programming. A move to Hollywood, California, in 1944 began his national exposure with work in film, live performance and a recording contract with Capital Records. In 1947, he wrote his first hit made by popular Tex Williams, Smoke Smoke Smoke (that Cigarette). In 1953, his next break came when he won the role of the guitar picking GI in the film From Here to Eternity where he performed the movie's signature song Re-Enlistment Blues. In 1955, Tennessee Ernie Ford covered an earlier Travis composition, Sixteen Tons which quickly became a national cross-over hit furthering his recognition.

From 1944 to 1982, Travis appeared in 16 films and made countless recordings as both a solo musician and a session player. His unique style of finger-picking guitar would come to be known as Travis Picking and influence the likes of Hank Thompson, Scotty Moore, Doc Watson and the great Chet Atkins, all of whom acknowledged his contribution.

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Guitar Lesson #4 in the Folk Fingerstyle Module for intermediate players is a lesson on how to make up your own fingerstyle (finger picking) patterns in the folk tradition. It’s well useful and you will find the concept is useful in other areas too. Some important and very helpful updates on the web page too so make sure you check that out… my dream diagram Whole series will be on the web site and a DVD is available with some bonus material! See the web site for more details!Taught by Justin Sandercoe. Full support at the justinguitar web site where you will find hundreds of lessons on a wide range of subjects, and all the scales and chords that you will ever need! There is a great forum too to get help, no matter what the problem. And it is all totally free, no bull. No sample lessons, no memberships, no free ebook. Just tons of great lessons To get help with this lesson (and for further info and tabs), find the Lesson ID in the video title (like ST-667 or whatever) and then look it up on the Lesson Index page of justinguitar.com www.justinguitar.com Have fun .

Software artisan company A Tasty Pixels live-looping app Loopy HD has been awarded second place in the 2011 Best App Ever Awards for Best Musicians App, and received an honorable mention for Best Visual Design. Loopy HD and first-place winner NanoStudio by Blip Interactive, both developed by indie one-developer companies, received more votes than Apples GarageBand app. The competition, which attracted over 1.5 million votes this year, is run by leading iOS app review and news group 148Apps and seeks to recognize those apps most loved by the community.

Its fantastic to see indie apps getting this kind of positive attention, said A Tasty Pixel founder and solo developer Michael Tyson. iOS truly is a platform where little companies can come along, create great products, and compete successfully against the software giants. Its a great, exciting industry to be a part of.

Loopy HD allows anyone to create music by layering looped recordings of singing, beatboxing, or playing an instrument on a tactile interface that combines power with simplicity. A wealth of expressive features lets more advanced users take their creativity even further.

.What sets Loopy HD apart from the pack is both the depth and breadth of its feature set as well as its sleek, easy-to-learn interface, wrote mobile review site Fierce Mobile Content recently, It’s also the rare app that’s recommended for both aspiring music makers and accomplished soundscape programmers alike.

A Tasty Pixels other travel and mapping app, The Cartographer which was awarded third place for Best Travel App in the 2010 Best App Ever Awards, has been given an honorable mention in Best Travel App and Best Navigation App this year.

Device Requirements: Loopy HD requires an iPad, iPhone 3Gs or newer, or 3rd-generation iPod Touch or newer (microphone accessory recommended) running iOS 4.0 or later.

Loopy runs on the iPod Touch, but iPod Touch users must use Loopy with a headset or external microphone, as the iPod Touch does not have an inbuilt microphone.

Pricing and Availability: Loopy, the iPhone-only version of the live looper app, is available for $2.99 exclusively through the App Store in the Music category. Loopy HD, the iPad (Universal) version of the app, is available for $7.99 through the App Store.

About A Tasty Pixel
A Tasty Pixel specializes in apps with beautiful and functional user interfaces software that works like an extension of oneself, with the charm and elegance that make it a pleasure to use. A Tasty Pixel currently has two iOS apps available on the App Store — The Cartographer and Loopy. A Tasty Pixel products have been extensively featured by Apple and have been awarded on several occasions by the prominent iOS industry awards, Best App Ever Awards, hosted by 148 Apps.

A Tasty Pixel can be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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We will first take a look at a D-major scale in one octave:

0/4 2/4 4/4 0/3 2/3 0/2 3/2

How do you read this guitar tablature?

The first digit indicates which fret to play. The digit after the slash gives you the string to play.

2/3 means that you are to play the second fret on the third string.

We will now try to figure out a way to play the previous scale with some ringing open strings. Let’s try this one:

0/4 7/5 4/4 0/3 7/4 0/2 6/3 3/2

A little bit confusing at first of course. If you are used to the ordinary way of playing scales you have get used to finding higher notes on lower strings.

I suggest that you learn the scales and licks by heart by learning just a few notes at a time until you get a little bit more used to this new way of finding notes.

You can probably figure out a left hand fingering that works for you. The principle is to hold the notes as long as possible to let them blend together.

But, what about the right hand?

You can pick the notes with a pick of course. It’s a little bit awkward, though trying to play notes on different strings in succession. Many country pickers use one of the following approaches:

1. Hybrid picking. This means that you hold the pick as usual but also use the middle finger and ring finger along with the pick. This opens for an easier way to play notes in rapid succession even if the are on different strings.

2. Finger picking. You can play the notes with your bare fingers using your thumb, index, middle finger and ring finger. You will miss the crisp sound from the pick but can compensate this with the freedom of having four finger to use and growing calluses on your finger tips

3. Using a thumb pick. A little bit like hybrid picking but with the advantage of having four fingers at your disposal and a crisp sound from the thumb. Not bad Not all guitarist like this approach though. But it has to be tested I have bought a couple of these thumb picks but they have a tendency to dissappear I guess it’s because I can’t keep them in my hip pocket because of the pain sitting down

Let’s test a few country guitar licks in the key of D:

I will put the suggested chord in front of the lick:

(A7) 9/6 0/4 7/4 0/3 7/4 0/2 7/3 0/1 6/3 0/2 7/4 0/3 (D) 4/4

Yes, you have to learn it by heart, a couple of notes at a time

The last lick will use both hammer-ons and pull-offs.

I will put h and p between the actual notes.

(A7) 3/5 h 4/5 0/4 0/3 2/3 p 0/3 4/4 0/3 2/4 p 0/4 3/5 h 4/5 4/0

Don’t play faster than your present technical skills allow you to but of course you have already figured out that the last lick is supposed to be played fast, maybe lightning fast

Peter Edvinsson invites you to download your free sheet music, guitar tabs, ebooks, guitar lessons and read his music blog at Capotasto Music.

Learn how to play this great song by Radiohead. This video includes all chords in animated tab. Again I apologise for any mistakes. Im also in the process of making more of these lessons, so if anyone has a request or comments please feel free to E-mail me: masterfezz@hotmail.com www.tjanimation.co.uk Hope you enjoy it and Take care everyone. Theo PS Sorry about the sound of my guitar, i’ve only got a very small old amp
Video Rating: 4 / 5

How to play the Intro of Pinball Wizard by Pete Townshend Video by Peter Autschbach www.autschbach.com

cellist (rockwell station)


Image by jlodder
A cellist busks in the cold and rain near Rockwell Station on the CTA brown line.

#ds546: "Make a photograph with a strong line that leads the eye through the image." www.dailyshoot.com/assignments/546

Overcast afternoon sun.

Deep In Thought


Image by ElvinWong
CYS recording session @San Mateo PAC, March 13, 2011

A cellist seems to be really into his music.

these concepts are at www.guitarjamz.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5