Luigi Russolo was the first noise composer and an artist in the musical branch of the Italian futurist movement in the 1910s. He created noise instruments called intonarumori and is one of the artists featured in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new exhibit: Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture. The album Die Kunst der Geräusche features 13 of his recordings of the intonarumori: bit.ly/1KY6F8t
Action and Anarchy: The Films of Seijun Suzuki trailer. Retrospective of Suzuki’s work begins this weekend at Pacific Cinémathèque: bit.ly/21bapro
Seijun Suzuki interview March, 1997: bit.ly/1ou6DeP
The Shilohs “English Roads”: bit.ly/1Lvxqfw.
The Vancouver band has a new track “Do the Modern,” ‘recorded in a shed behind the Lido,’ on CITR’s Pop Alliance 4 compilation out now on Mint Records (bit.ly/1QLTbct). The record is released as part of the UBC station’s annual Fundrive, which runs from Feb. 25 to March 4 (citr.ca).
Neva Özgen demonstrates the kemençe: bit.ly/1WtXaP5 The Turkish musician performs with Hossein Behroozinia and Gevorg Dabaghyan at North Vancouver’s Gordon Smith Gallery on Feb. 23 at 9:30 a.m. as part of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra’s Global Soundscapes Festival: Notes From the Araxes Basin, a festival of Middle Eastern music taking place over the next 10 days. For more information visit vi-co.org
The Witch official movie trailer: bit.ly/1Nv7l3T
Parquet Courts perform at the Rickshaw Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 20. Coverage of full performance from the band live on KEXP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLCl9erldNM
