Allen, Tony - Archie Shepp - Baaba Maal & other: June 2008

Friday 27 June 2008

Mini Me Sues Gossip Site Over Sex Tape

Verne Troyer, most noted for his role as Mini Me in the Austin Power’s movies, has filed a US$20 million lawsuit against gossip website TMZ.com, after they posted a video of a sex tape featuring the actor that he claims was stolen.The lawsuit, which was filed on Thursday (June 26) in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, says, “The videotape was never intended by either plaintiff or his girlfriend to be shown to the public, and was always intended exclusively for plaintiff’s own personal, private use.”
Producer Kevin Blatt, allegedly responsible for the distribution of Paris Hilton’s sex tape, is also named in the suit as is distributors SugarDVD.
Troyer claims that the tape was stolen and is seeking to have the tape removed from the web and prevented from distribution.
Photo courtesy of New Line Cinema. Taken by Melinda Sue Gordon.

Monday 23 June 2008

Mauricio Kagel

Artist: Mauricio Kagel

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Zwei Akte

Year: 1991
Tracks: 7

6

Year: 1985
Tracks: 6

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Kagel proven to be one of the most versatile, originative and witty composers to come of age in the instant half of the 20th 100. He studied piano, theory, violoncello, organ, telling, and conducting, and was self-taught as a composer. Kagel too studied philosophy and lit extensively during his college long time, and his career finally included photographic film and dramatic event.

His early career found Kagel filling positions that drew upon all of these interests. He took a position in ColÃ³n as conductor of the Chamber Opera and Theater, too conducting new-music concerts in the previous '50s. The sixties found Kagel in the United States, where he undertook a lecture tour and taught shortly at the University of Buffalo. He then returned to Europe, where he filled Stockhausen's shoes as the music director of the Institute of New Music at the Rheinsiche Musikschule. He was besides a presence at the West German Radio electronic music studio, and produced several of his have films and plays.

One tail find in Kagel's output elements ranging from serialism to expressionism to musique concrete to Dada to aleatoria. Many of his deeds likewise engage musical montage techniques, such as his "Euphony for Renaissance Instruments" and the music for the film Ludwig Van. The influence of Satie and Cage can be seen in "Der Schall" and "Unter Strom," deuce chamber pieces which call for a multifariousness of antiquated, invented, or "nonmusical" instruments. Again, however, these sounds are not thrown together with reckless give up; as Kagel himself stated, "An substantive aspect of my work is strict composition with elements which ar non themselves pure."