Avant-garde

Otto Luening was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Otto spent most of his early childhood on a farm outside of Milwaukee. He started to take piano lessons at the age of four with his father and just two years later at the age of six he began to compose his very own music. When Otto was around 12 years old, he and his family moved to Munich, Germany. Here he studied about orchestration, harmony, flute, and piano at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik. Four years later when Otto was 16, he made his…

post-tonal harmonic structure, the majority of quotations are of a more moderate nature, such as Stravinsky, Ravel and Debussy rather than the full-blown atonality of Schoenberg, Webern and Boulez. To a certain point, it seems contradictory that an avant-garde composer such as Berio has emphasized most pre-serial works. However, in defense of the composer, it is possible to argue that these materials might…

heritage into the game, and both Continuum (Pi Recordings, 2012) and Mboko (ECM, 2015) received accolades from the specialized media for his inventive avant-Afro-Cuban-jazz venture. Last year, the multifaceted pianist left everyone mouth-watering with the Vinyl/EP Antenna, a fully experimental mix of Latin rhythms, electronic vibes, and avant-garde jazz. His roots and devouring appetence for experimentation becomes decisive again in Gnosis, meaning an intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths,…

Whether digging into glam pop songs, avant-jazz routines with punk attitude, or sophisticated garage-rock episodes, impetuous guitarist Nels Cline, a creative powerhouse in small group settings, always sounds unique and fetching. Blue Note’s Currents, Constellations marks the debut of The Nels Cline 4, a quick-witted group featuring Julian Lage on guitar, Scott Colley on bass, and Tom Rainey on drums. Both guitarist and drummer had recorded with Cline before, whereas Colley is the novelty here,…

Gloria Fiero wrote chapter 32 as “The Modernist Assault” because there was a rise in women expressionism in painting specifically. For example, on page 359 in Humanistic Tradition by Gloria Fiero, there’s painting of unclothed women in a variety of landscape; other paintings are more expressive than others and etc. Specifically, Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon by Pablo Picasso. Furthermore, Pablo Picasso has a variety of expressive women paintings. In contrast, women expressionism was prominent and…

What a great show from the veteran super group The Cookers. They presented their magnificent repertoire in two sets at the Nublu Jazz Festival. The band comprises an inflammatory frontline composed of Billy Harper on tenor saxophone, Donald Harrison on alto saxophone, and trumpeters Eddie Henderson and David Weiss. The respectful rhythm section brings us George Cables on piano, Cecil McBee on bass, and Billy Hart on drums. For tonight’s concert, pianist David Bryant, 33, replaced the…

Laura Mulvey, in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975), reveals how traditional cinema is imbued with an active male gaze that communicates dominant and sexist ideologies. She argues that classical Hollywood movies reflect the patriarchal system in which they are produced, with women being “looked at and displayed” for the (assumed) male spectator’s pleasure. While the success of several recent female-led blockbusters seem to indicate a shift toward greater female representation, I…

Ray continued to be part of the artistic avant garde which was a large influential group of artist that were featuring experimental, new and advanced concepts but still had respect towards art, culture and politics but had a different way of expressing that. While Ray was part of artistic avant garde he was able to meet famous people such as Ernest Hemingway and Gertude Stein. Ray later became famous for his portraits…

there contained two articles called the Long Live the Vortex and Blast 6. The publishers of the Blast were trying to bring forth a new artistic movement called the Vorticism. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature, the Vorticism was "an avant-garde movement in the literacy and visual arts centered in London" (Norton 2070). The term "blast," founded by Wyndham Lewis, "mean the blowing away of dead ideas and worn-out notions" (Norton 2070). When reading the Long Live the Vortex, the part…

considered important, majority has to agree on that claim, no longer making it avant-garde. Hence, while analyzing the “big” works of the modernity, they become controversial only by definition, while in reality they are actually the most mainstream representatives of their genre. Furthermore, as students are presented only with these essential yet moderate elements of art, they never actually come across the true avant-garde, what directly questions their ability to think creatively, since…