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Max De Wardener Where I Am Today

Media artist Toshio Iwai and YAMAHA have collaborated to develop a new musical instrument for the 21st century...

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Psychedelic desert instrumentals from the "golden age" of Ethiopian pop music, dating from 1969-74. Most are performed by jazz legend Mulatu Astatque, a unique and innovative bandleader, composer, arranger, and melder of international influences including Arabic, Caribbean, jazz, and Spanish music with Ethiopia's own rich musical traditions.

Robert Sandall and Mark Russell present a unique semi-acoustic gig by P J Harvey. This concert was recorded exclusively for Mixing It at the Royal Court Theatre in London in December 2004.

Dumb Type's work is as formally complex as it is socially involved. Their most well-known works fall somewhere within the bounds of performance, often accompanied by installations. In many ways, such work fulfills their original declared intent to "develop an art/performance form to fill the gap between static visualart and performance dependent on dialogue." The 'dumb' in Dumb Type thus does not denote a level of intelligence, but rather describes a desire to create without words. "When we first came together," explained Furuhashi in High Performance (Summer 1990), "we just had too many things we wanted to say. We decided not to shout. We try to keep it simple." Although Dumb Type's work spans a much greater range than performance, they are generally perceived as a performance group because touring outside Kyoto forces them to modify works to fit more conventional settings and traditional schemes of venue scheduling. When they work in Kyoto, they are known for spending weeks or, given the opportunity, months just preparing a space for one of their events, often completely restructuring an interior to meet their demands.