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Road Trip from CA to VT…

Posted on July 4, 2011 by admin

On June 19th 2011, I left Oakland, CA heading for Johnson, VT by my car to come to Vermont Studio Center. It was quite a trip, an enduring driving through heat and cold weathers, flooded lands, etc. etc. Here was … Continue reading →

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Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

Posted on June 3, 2011 by admin

Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue and Riffs served like a music lecture for me. Its climax sounds “like” his West Side Story but this composition is a masterpiece of counter point, utilizing Baroque vocabularies, he created a great “written-out” jazz composition. The … Continue reading →

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Recycling With a Vengeance

Posted on June 2, 2011 by admin

I think it is an interesting idea to connect recycling with our visceral feelings, and performative aspects of the event must be enjoyable. But, why do they need to throw bottles aiming at other people? Of course it has the … Continue reading →

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Several days of a bit of both excitement and disappointment

Posted on April 23, 2011 by admin

Several days of a bit of both excitement and disappointment, and new days start and continue… I may not need to know what these things I am dragging behind me, and keep walking toward somewhere over a dense fog into … Continue reading →

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Being guilty of same.

Posted on April 6, 2011 by admin

What is the good word/term for the method of criticism by acting or practicing the position of which I criticize? Basically it becomes critical because my activity itself throws something I want to criticize in the face of people. Activity … Continue reading →

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how we experience music when we listen to music from iPod

Posted on March 30, 2011 by admin

I am sure that many people have been talking about this. Music listening experience through iPod seems to be totally different from that through other media. Okay, first of all, I should think about the live performance setting. Then, recorded … Continue reading →

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Janos Starker – Kodály Cello Solo Sonata

Posted on February 21, 2011 by admin

Amazing….

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Very cute…

Posted on December 31, 2010 by admin

Here are two new comers. Toro and Toro-Toro. I am not sure which is which yet. I just started a week ago or so, but I have spent so much money and my energy to keep these cute gems alive… … Continue reading →

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Passage to Squeeze

Posted on September 20, 2010 by admin

Shirin Neshat, William Kentridge and Mika Rottenberg Disappointingly finding out the tickets for Edward Yang’s A Bright Summer Day at YBCA, I went across the street to SFMOMA. It was on the last day of Calder to Warhol, so there … Continue reading →

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River

Posted on August 25, 2010 by admin

I grew up with rivers flowing through my city. Some were huge ones, and some others were almost like gutters. I realized somehow, I need water running very close to me. As ancient Japanese poets saw a river represent transiency … Continue reading →

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