A segment on Sita Sings the Blues on NPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, starting around 13:30.
To the Best of Our Knowledge
Category: audio
The King and I and Fagottron
The King and I has some great musical numbers, but overall it’s a pretty dang offensive and stupid movie. Luckily, it’s given a new life by Fagottron:
Fagottron is the same remix artist who gave us the stunning “Alice”:
Copying Isn’t Theft
UPDATE: can anyone arrange this as a show tune? I originally heard it in my head as a show tune, but I’m musically illiterate. See the growing links list of awesome covers here.
Feel free to remix, re-record, or otherwise re-make this song so I can animate to it.Full interview on Thirteen.org.
thru-you.com
This is inspired, and makes me love everyone. (Thank you for the tip, Eric!)
Watch me go on and on (and on) about copyright!
See me babble away on my current favorite subject, copyright and what’s wrong with it, over at questioncopyright.org. Here’s a sample:
Yes, the video is squished horizontally, because it was in DV format but uploaded on square pixels (I can’t wait until everyone just uses solid-state progressive-scan cameras). Also the audio is way compressed – it thoundth like I’m lithping. But the ideas come through.
This interview was conducted by Karl Fogel on November 6, 2008, at the Software Freedom Law Center in New York.
Rudresh Mahanthappa releases new albums, performs TONIGHT
Sita collaborator and jazzman Rudresh Mahanthappa has just released some new albums! He writes,
The debut CD “Apti” of the Indo-Pak Coalition, my trio with Rez Abbasi on guitar and Dan Weiss on tabla, was released just a few weeks ago on the innova record label (http://www.innova.mu). We’re celebrating with shows tonight and tomorrow night. I haven’t performed as leader in New York since March so I hope that you can come.
Lots of show information after the fold:
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