CHUCK JOHNSON Wednesday, September 6, 7:30 p.m., $12 Nightlight, Chapel Hill www.nightlightclub.com Chuck Johnson’s work as a composer and musicianwhether scoring a film, playing in a post-rock band, or carefully crafting an experimental recordhas been marked by the desire to explore a host of instruments and genres and an eagerness to investigate new musical possibilities. […]
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Moogfest, Night One: Virtual vs. Actual Realities
Moogfest Downtown Durham Thursday, May 18, 2017 A mélange of ambient sounds is flowing from a hut made of corrugated plastic, blending with the noise of nearby construction in a downtown Durham in flux. In the geodesic dome-like space, an ensemble is seated around a circular table, making sounds with such devices as a microphone […]
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Didn’t Want to Drop $250 on a Moogfest Pass? Here’s Some Free Stuff You Can Catch Anyway.
JEREMY DANCE All weekend, various times, American Underground Storefront Michael Stipe was never just the singer and songwriter for R.E.M. The man has made films, voice-acted, photographed, and painted. He’s combining visual and aural sensibilities for an installation featuring video footage of Jeremy Ayers, an artist, writer, and friend of Stipe’s, with a soundtrack by […]
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Record Review: OG Senpaiii’s First Full-Length, [Headspace], Leaves Room to Grow
The opening three tracks on OG Senpaiii’s debut LP, [Headspace], are built by taking an ethereal melodic sample, reversing it, and overlaying it with a simple 4/4 drum loop. The approach works to pretty average ends: the songs establish a mellow foundation, but they aren’t aren’t particularly captivating. Opening track “PEMDAS” would function as a […]
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Through Journals and Kaleidoscopes, Catherine Edgerton Shines Healing Light on Mental Health and Addiction Challenges
CATHERINE EDGERTON: BOTTLED LIGHT Friday, April 14, 6–9 p.m., free The Carrack Modern Art, Durham www.thecarrack.org Can you imagine sharing your diary with the public, unveiling your emotional tumults and deepest anxieties to strangers? For many of us, the answer would be a resounding no. But for Catherine Edgerton, a Durham-based visual artist and musician, […]
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With Theft!, Two Duke Law Professors Examine The History of “Borrowing” in Music
“Even if you think you know the story, it turns out there’s probably a lot you don’t,” Duke Law professor James Boyle says. He’s referring to an emotional and complicated subject, the history of “theft” in music, which he and his Duke Law colleague Jennifer Jenkins felt moved to research and share with the world […]
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L.O.G., One of Local Art’s Best-Kept Secrets, Steals Out of the Woods for a Sojourn in the City
L.O.G.: DEADPAN Through Saturday, April 1 Lump, Raleigh www.teamlump.org You don’t expect your foot to sink through the floor when you walk into an art gallery. Yet this is exactly what happened when Maria Britton surveyed the space where she and April Childers would mount their fledgling gallery’s first exhibit in 2015. The old shack, […]
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Polyphonic Spree: Cappella Pratensis Turns to the Music and Art of Two Fifteenth-Century Dutchmen to Celebrate Chaos
CAPPELLA PRATENSIS Friday, March 10, 8 p.m., $10–$32 Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium, Durham www.dukeperformances.duke.edu If you’ve ever seen “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” the famed three-panel painting by Hieronymus Bosch, you’ve probably thought to yourself, “What the hell?” Because there, occupying the rightmost panel, is an extravagant, absurd, and shocking depiction of hell. Amid the fire […]
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Landscaping? Sculpture? Architecture? Patrick Dougherty’s Latest Stickwork Paints Them All in Natural Light.
An inviting light bathes the space I’m inthat peculiar kind of gentle light produced when sunshine filters through tree branches. But the branches that surround me are not attached to a trunk; they are woven tightly together, bending fluidly to form slanting walls, windows, doorways, and a roof. It feels like being in a hut. […]