Comments for Karl Cronin http://karlcronin.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:08:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on opera by Queers Generate Value by… – THEOFFCENTER http://karlcronin.com/opera/#comment-210 Queers Generate Value by… – THEOFFCENTER Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:08:22 +0000 http://karlcronin.com/?page_id=191#comment-210 [...] Program), and the Emerging Arts Professionals Fellowship Program.   Current Projects Cabin Fever one act opera by Karl Cronin Workshop reading @ The OFF Center (San Francisco, CA) April 20-21, [...] [...] Program), and the Emerging Arts Professionals Fellowship Program.   Current Projects Cabin Fever one act opera by Karl Cronin Workshop reading @ The OFF Center (San Francisco, CA) April 20-21, [...]

]]> Comment on Connected by Michael http://karlcronin.com/2012/01/04/connected/#comment-66 Michael Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:25:00 +0000 http://karlcronin.com/?p=308#comment-66 lovely, there is nothing small about your ideas. it takes big ideas to think at a local, cellular, personal level. the small ideas are the ones that make sweeping passes over the world, eliminating complexity and difference, presuming to be large and universal and important. I wasn't there at this table. I don't know about your little half words. but to suggest that we might blur the lines between "I" and "you" is to suggest a collapse of the discursive apparatuses that produce such tiny humans. with such "big" ideas. I'm glad you spoke up. -m lovely,

there is nothing small about your ideas. it takes big ideas to think at a local, cellular, personal level. the small ideas are the ones that make sweeping passes over the world, eliminating complexity and difference, presuming to be large and universal and important.
I wasn’t there at this table. I don’t know about your little half words. but to suggest that we might blur the lines between “I” and “you” is to suggest a collapse of the discursive apparatuses that produce such tiny humans. with such “big” ideas.
I’m glad you spoke up.

-m

]]> Comment on You’ve totally got this by HBoots http://karlcronin.com/2011/05/19/231/#comment-64 HBoots Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:06:00 +0000 http://karlcronin.com/?p=231#comment-64 I love everything about this- particularly these little guys and their homemade chairs! I love everything about this- particularly these little guys and their homemade chairs!

]]> Comment on Tell-Tale: Queer Mythologies by HBoots http://karlcronin.com/2011/06/06/tell-tale-queer-mythologies/#comment-63 HBoots Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:01:00 +0000 http://karlcronin.com/?p=249#comment-63 LOVE the design from the ceiling to the floor!!!  Hope you are having a great with this! LOVE the design from the ceiling to the floor!!!  Hope you are having a great with this!

]]> Comment on Ateliers by Edward Frank http://karlcronin.com/2011/06/08/ateliers/#comment-62 Edward Frank Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:33:00 +0000 http://karlcronin.com/?p=252#comment-62 Here is a word cloud of your post - one I found interesting looking. Here is a word cloud of your post – one I found interesting looking.

]]> Comment on Tell-Tale: Queer Mythologies by Karl http://karlcronin.com/2011/06/06/tell-tale-queer-mythologies/#comment-61 Karl Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:39:00 +0000 http://karlcronin.com/?p=249#comment-61 I felt you with us in spirit. Can't wait to share stories with you soon (still processing). I felt you with us in spirit. Can’t wait to share stories with you soon (still processing).

]]> Comment on Tell-Tale: Queer Mythologies by Michael http://karlcronin.com/2011/06/06/tell-tale-queer-mythologies/#comment-60 Michael Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:49:00 +0000 http://karlcronin.com/?p=249#comment-60 beautiful. wish I could be there. if there's a video, I would love to see it (in both an unofficial supportive friend and colleague way, and also in a more official dramaturgical way, if you like). the set is stunning. -M beautiful.
wish I could be there.
if there’s a video, I would love to see it (in both an unofficial supportive friend and colleague way, and also in a more official dramaturgical way, if you like).
the set is stunning.
-M

]]> Comment on Visions by Marianthe Loucataris http://karlcronin.com/2011/04/26/visions/#comment-59 Marianthe Loucataris Thu, 19 May 2011 04:33:00 +0000 http://karlcronin.com/?p=195#comment-59  I see it too : ) I recently wrote on my blog ...."Creating aesthetic worlds- places within which our sensory capacities can be harnessed to the full- places with a sensory softness which allow us to open our eyes, ears, hearts and minds to their full extent. This is my passion. A society which has as a norm - social spaces where music gradually gets louder and more dangerous to the ears as the kegs of beer are drained and the punters get gradually deafer to reality in the short and long term must surely be questioned? "..... Every time I look at your blog I find another thing we agree on : ) http://artistinresidencashfield.blogspot.com  I see it too : ) I recently wrote on my blog ….”Creating aesthetic worlds- places within which our sensory capacities can be harnessed to the full- places with a sensory softness which allow us to open our eyes, ears, hearts and minds to their full extent. This is my passion. A society which has as a norm – social spaces where music gradually gets louder and more dangerous to the ears as the kegs of beer are drained and the punters get gradually deafer to reality in the short and long term must surely be questioned? ”….. Every time I look at your blog I find another thing we agree on : ) http://artistinresidencashfield.blogspot.com

]]> Comment on Self Diagnosis by Marianthe Loucataris http://karlcronin.com/2011/04/13/self-diagnosis/#comment-30 Marianthe Loucataris Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:28:00 +0000 http://karlcronin.com/?p=175#comment-30 Hey- I have always composed music with the image of dancers in my imagination -usually the dancers I am working with at the time. I love improvising with dancers as musician or dancer and composing music in collaboration with dancers- as it makes the underlying patterns we are all working with more apparent. I recently got really excited when I came across the work of Susan Sgorbati who articulates this idea of underlying patterns and self organising systems so beautifully. Ideas I have had rumbling around in me for ages- so affirming to see others coming up with the same ideas- feeling the same realities: I imagine you know her work but here is a link for others http://www.emergentimprovisation.org/home.html Hey- I have always composed music with the image of dancers in my imagination -usually the dancers I am working with at the time. I love improvising with dancers as musician or dancer and composing music in collaboration with dancers- as it makes the underlying patterns we are all working with more apparent. I recently got really excited when I came across the work of Susan Sgorbati who articulates this idea of underlying patterns and self organising systems so beautifully. Ideas I have had rumbling around in me for ages- so affirming to see others coming up with the same ideas- feeling the same realities: I imagine you know her work but here is a link for others http://www.emergentimprovisation.org/home.html

]]> Comment on Song of Myself (excerpt) by Walt Whitman by Ed Frank http://karlcronin.com/2011/04/07/listening/#comment-29 Ed Frank Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:56:00 +0000 http://karlcronin.com/?p=173#comment-29 Really you are not setting a poem to music so much as reinterpreting the poem as a song. Many famous songs have been covered or reinterpreted by others after they were first recorded by their authors. Some of these reinterpretations seem better than the originals. One that comes to mind in this respect is the Nine Inch nails song "Hurt" which was covered and reinterpreted by Johnny Cash. The Cash version is more moving. I like Sweet Jane by the Cowboy Junkies better than Lour Reed and the Velvet Undergrounds original version, Other covers are almost sacrilegious when compared to the original. So what you should be striving for is an interpretation of the poem as a song from your own perspective that gives homage to the original poem but is not bound by it. Considering pace. Look at pace is some Dylan songs. Subterranean Homesick Blues is a staccato series of images, while Its Not Dark Yet is one of the slowest paced songs I can think of.. Really you are not setting a poem to music so much as reinterpreting the poem as a song. Many famous songs have been covered or reinterpreted by others after they were first recorded by their authors. Some of these reinterpretations seem better than the originals. One that comes to mind in this respect is the Nine Inch nails song “Hurt” which was covered and reinterpreted by Johnny Cash. The Cash version is more moving. I like Sweet Jane by the Cowboy Junkies better than Lour Reed and the Velvet Undergrounds original version, Other covers are almost sacrilegious when compared to the original. So what you should be striving for is an interpretation of the poem as a song from your own perspective that gives homage to the original poem but is not bound by it.

Considering pace. Look at pace is some Dylan songs. Subterranean Homesick Blues is a staccato series of images, while Its Not Dark Yet is one of the slowest paced songs I can think of..

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