Songs in Four Dimensions
Personal musings and thoughtful teachings from My Brightest Diamond's Shara Nova.
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Walker Art Museum + Ypsi Train Station (opens the original)
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Half Winged + MBD (opens the original)
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It’s the last week of Half Winged, the choral installation in surround sound at Wasserman Projects in Eastern Market in Detroit. It’s free to attend. Pop into the gallery between the hours of 12-5pm. The work is on a continuous loop so whenever you get there, it’s the right time. The cantata features singers Mikaela Bennett, Sam Amidon, Daniel Bubeck, Robert Wesley Mason, Hanna Benn and yours truly along with choral performances by The University of North Texas. <a class="image-link image2 is-vi
A Fire in Yer Skull (opens the original)
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Today I watched parts of the funeral for Glen Hansard. Bono said that everyone remembers the day they met Glen and then he played a voice memo on his phone from Patti Smith who wrote a little tune recalling the day she met that songbird. Bono said that Glen had 187,321 best friends, and 2,500,000 second best friends - of which I count myself in that latter number. The legacy of Glen might not be exactly what he hoped. He wanted to write ten good songs, and surely he did, but his greater legacy e
Two People and a Piano (opens the original)
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