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This week's episode is inspired by the recent release of The Beatles: Get Back, Peter Jackson's eight-hour docuseries about the making of the band's 1970 album, Let It Be. The flurry of conversation provoked by the series—about its length, its restored archival footage, and the ways in which it captures the process of music-making and rehearsal—got Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute thinking about music documentaries more generally. What makes them good, beyond the music itself? How do concert documentaries differ from artists' portraits? And which documentaries truly capture—and maybe even re-envision—the craft of their subjects? To dig into these questions, they invited Geeta Dayal, a noted music, art, and film critic, and Ashley Clark, the curatorial director at the Criterion Collection. Their conversation covers a number of documentaries: The Velvet Underground, Milford Graves Full Mantis; Ornette: Made in America, Sisters with Transistors, and of course, Get Back. For links to the film and show notes, go to filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-comment-podcast-music-documentaries/
Kate Molleson is joined by the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja as she releases two new albums of works by Schoenberg and Francisco Coll. She explains why the music education system should encourage young minds, and tells us why vulnerability is vital on the concert stage. As the trustees of Mills College announce their decision to close admissions to the college’s courses, Kate learns about the school’s legacy of training musically free thinkers with the flautist, composer, and a former co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, Maggi Payne, as well as the cultural journalist Geeta Dayal. We hear from the Grammy-nominated musician and scholar Benjamin Lapidus about the recent launch of his new book New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990. The ethnomusicologist Lucy Duran and the band leader, composer and pianist Gilberto ‘Pulpo’ Colón describe the unique sound world of the Big Apple. And, Kate talks to lecturer Helen Reddington, author of a new book She's at the Controls: Sound Engineering, Production and Gender Ventriloquism in the 21st Century, and is joined by sound engineers Jo Langton and Úna Monaghan to discuss the role of female studio professionals in the UK music industry.
On this edition of All Songs Considered, we take a musical journey honoring the genius of Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider, who died May 6, just a few days after turning 73.The German electronic band was like no other in the 1970s, with their pulsing electronic music and songs about the intersection of man and machines. Music writer Geeta Dayal and I play the band's career-defining songs from this group, a foursome that influenced everyone from David Bowie to Prince and '80s new wave while laying the groundwork for electronica and EDM.1. "Autobahn" from Autobahn (1974)2. "Radioactivity" from Radio-Activity (1975)3. "Trans-Europe Express" from Trans-Europe Express (1977)4. "Neon Lights" from The Man-Machine (1978)5. "Computer World" from Computer World (1981)6. "Tour de France" single (1983)
Not long ago I taught a class at a local college that was about the history and practice of electronic music. As part of that, I wanted to find good articles about various artists that could inspire as well as inform. I was surprised how often I ran across a single name - Geeta Dayal - behind the best articles. When I asked some friends for names of people to interview, Geeta's name came up, and I leaped on the opportunity to talk with her; I was fascinated to learn how she did such consistently great writing on subjects I care so much about. Turns out, she's a worker. Deep research, digging out the details and not settling for simple Google searches. A love of both the people and the engineering. And a desire to reveal something different from what had been written before - that's a pretty good cocktail. The result is the articles I've grown to love. If you want to go into a deep dive, you can check out her writing at http://theoriginalsoundtrack.com/, which is a compendium of some of her recent work. She also has started a Patreon site (https://www.patreon.com/geetadayal) where you can help support her work. As she states in the interview - Patreon has a powerful position in helping journalists like her pursue the best possible stories. Enjoy the podcast - and the reading! For this podcast, I want to express my appreciation to 1010music (https://1010music.com/) and the Deft Esoterica zine (https://deftesoterica.bandcamp.com/) for creating products that I enjoy, and that keep me engaged with the art and music world. Cheers!
Critic and journalist Geeta Dayal chats about history, electronic music and freelancing on "No Stars," a music journalism podcast.
Electronic music journalist and critic Geeta Dayal explores Kubrick's visionary use of sound and Wendy Carlos' pioneering synthesizer music for The Shining and A Clockwork Orange. Geeta Dayal is a prolific arts journalist and critic, specializing in writing on music, culture, and technology. She has contributed hundreds of articles and reviews to major publications, including Slate, Wired, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Frieze, and many more. Her first book, Another Green World, on the musician Brian Eno, was published in 2009. Dayal is a recipient of a major grant from Creative Capital/The Andy Warhol Foundation in the Arts Writers Program.
Days after Mr. Vega’s death, the journalist Geeta Dayal discusses Suicide’s early days.
ANGELICA VERGEL & AMANDA MCCLEOD of EMPTY ORCHESTRA https://twitter.com/OrchestraEmpty http://radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/empty-orchestra/ Music: "This Must Be the Place" by Talking Heads, "New Tribes" by Nitin Sawhney, and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler The Books: Frank O'Hara (poetry), "Brian Eno" by Geeta Dayal (33 1/3 series) "David Bowie's Low" by Hugo Wilcken (33 1/3 series) "Big Star's Radio City" by Bruce Eaton (33 1/3 series) "Turn Around Bright Eyes: A Karaoke Love Story" by Rob Sheffield "Let's Talk About Love: Journey to the Edge of Taste" by Carl Wilson "The Clouds" by Juan Jose Saer "Fear Street" R.L. Stine "The Chronicles of Narnia" C.S. Lewis Lewis Carroll "The Golden Compass" by Phillip Pullman "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Juno Diaz "No Logo," "Shock Doctrine" and "This Changes Everything"by Naomi Klein "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari "Wolf in the White Van" by John Darnielle "Wildwood" by Collin Melloy "The History of Sexuality" by Michel Foucault "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" by Mary Roach "City Poet" by Brad Gooch "Lucky Peach" Magazine "Visual Music" edited by Kerry Brougher and Judith K. Zilczer "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler Brownsville is the neighborhood of Brooklyn we were talking about, which I learned after reading "Brooklyn Secrets" by Triss Stein. Notable boxers from Brownsville include: Mike Tyson, Riddick Bowe, Shannon Briggs, Bummy Davis, Daniel Jacobs, Zab Judah, and Eddie Mustafa Muhammad. The book that inspired ?= Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me by Patricia Volk: " Years later, when I ask friends, “How old were you when you read your transformative book?” they say the same thing. They are prepubescent, ten or eleven. Twelve, the most. The magic age for the book that changes everything." "The Great Divorce" is the book I was thinking about by C.S. Lewis with the lizard on the shoulder. RIVER WRITING: "humanity I love you" by e.e. cummings https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/06/28/amanda-palmer-reads-humanity-i-love-you-e-e-cummings/ #karoke #rfbcommunity #songsaboutbooks #singing #singwithfriends #brooklyn #humanity #inkandworm #rfb
Geeta Dayal (writer, San Francisco); Thomas Demand (artist, Berlin); Kazys Varnelis (Director, Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University, New York); Chaired by Sam Thorne (Associate Editor, frieze, London) at Frieze London in 2009
Geeta Dayal (writer, San Francisco); Thomas Demand (artist, Berlin); Kazys Varnelis (Director, Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University, New York); Chaired by Sam Thorne (Associate Editor, frieze, London) at Frieze London 2009
The Guests: Geeta Dayal http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com/ Twitter:@geetadayal PATREON: www.patreon.com/geetadayal The Books: “Another Green World” by Geeta Dayal, Cabinet Magazine, “Designing Sound” by Andy Farnell, “Spaces Speak, are you listening?” by Barry Blesser, Melody Maker Magazine, David Toop, Mark Finker (spelling?), Michelangelo Matos The Music: “Sky Saw” and “Zawinul/Lava” by Brian Eno Writing: Timed writing about the music that has shaped you. #inkandworm #rfb #taodeching #geetadayal #freewriting #electronicmusic #anothergreenworld #brianeno #writing #creativity #patreon #relationships #payingartists #secretsocieties #electronicmusicians #scienceficitonwriters #aldoushuxley #raybradbury #sanfrancisco #brooklyn #india #musicalmysteries #research #editing #informedwriting #addingnewinformation #newyork #losangeles #cityenergy #makingmusic #obliquestrategiesdeck #creatives #thecreativeprocess #playfulcreativity #firstdraftsarecrap #throwsomethingatthewall #somethingwillstick #controledartdoesntwork #organicart #connectingideas #davidbowie #princetonrecordexchange #writinglonghand #neilgaiman #writingprocess #socialmedia
Rod and Karen are joined by Nicole and Reggie from The What's The Tea Podcast to discuss company holiday parties, actor's bodies, Fantasy football, Cowboys in December, Facebook ads, Drake disses Kendrick, Target not selling Beyonce, Geeta Dayal, student suspended for a hug, Zimmerman's painting over 100K, trading a gator for beer, booby trapping ex-boyfriend, librarian secretly records dudes in the bathroom and sword ratchetness. Twitter: @rodimusprime @SayDatAgain @TBGWT @GoodDaySaints @R2thaEdgy Email: theblackguywhotips@gmail.com Blog: www.theblackguywhotips.com Voice Mail: 704-557-0186 Guest Website: www.Facebook.com/WhatsTheTeaPod Sponsors: www.tweakedaudio.com Code: TBGWT