NORA SEZ, IM ON UR PEEYANO KEYZ, PREMIERING UR KITTEH CONCERTO. I CAN HAZ PERFORMANCE AT OJAI?
(Here's the BBC report, in English.)
I'm driving 360 miles down the coast to the Ojai Music Festival today, which this year is under the artistic direction of eighth blackbird. Appropriately, there's already plenty of Tweeting going on there, where last night's concertgoers heard Thierry de Mey's awesome Musique de Tables and George Crumb's Music for a Summer Evening. A nameless entity known only as @OjaiFestivals seems to be particularly excited about tonight's premiere of a music/theater work called Slide by Steve Mackey, performed by the 'birds, Mackey and Rinde Eckert. Click here for the full weekend-long festival program.
And if Ojai doesn't hold interest for you, check out #newmusicanagrams, a charge led by @HurdAudio (Devin Hurd -> V.D.?!? Run! Hide!) and @briansacawa (Brian Sacawa -> Cabana Is Raw).
Time to get on the road. You can expect occasional communiqués @thestandingroom KTHXBAI!!!
What a trouper! Highway 101, Ventura party girls, Ojai doing its Modern Music Thing...sounds like quite a trip. That usher, by the way, may have just been ageist rather than racist when she assumed you were cheap lawn trash. I'm assuming that you were one of the younger patrons at the festival which may have set off her nasty hall monitor antenna, though I'd hate to think how you would have been treated if you'd been black or Mexican.
Did you happen to visit the tree where Krishnamurti used to give his talks back when he was a ward of the Theosophists?
Posted by: sfmike | Jun 23, 2009 at 05:14 PM