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New Song on Universal Health Care
Listen: My Pre-Existing Condition was No Health Care Access ( source | lyrics ) Jacob – “MC Utterbot” and udderbot Andrew – “Professor Heathwaite” and 23-tone electric guitar Rob – “Hello” and drums source| lyrics
Posted in Composition
Trash Balls
For six months, the school’s office has not sent any garbage to landfills. Organic waste is composted, glass/paper/plastic are recycled, but everything else is now turned into “trash balls”. Trash is shredded, wrapped in plastic bags, then encapsulated in cloth,…
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Posted in Composition
Playing (with) Policy
by AnAndR At the House Concerturtle in March, AnAndR presented their first draft of a toy piano and banjo piece entitled, “Playing (with) Policy”. The piece explores a city ordinance on Loud and Raucous Noise. Video -WMV | Video -QT
“As If” Ensemble of Urbana
By Anna Hochhalter The As If Ensemble of Urbana (AIEoU) was started by School for Designing a Society students and teachers in Fall 2007. In the AIEOU we play Klezmer/Balkan/a Capella/circular/undescribed works. You might find us playing several of the…
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Posted in Composition, Performance
Ecological Action
By Kyra Shaughnessy Sprouting from a shared desire to increase our freedom from the behemoth of industrial agriculture, a group of recent SDaS students and other members of the Urbana-Champaign community have been meeting weekly to share seeds and knowledge…
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Posted in Activism, Composition
Leap Day House Concert
Composing Utopia with Words: Articipatory Music and other weird things
Here‘s a story about “articipatory music” at the World Beyond Capitalism conference that was conceptualized at the 2006 Summer School by Michael Gaiuranos. Hat tip to T for sending us the story, published in the Puget Sound’s Weekly Volcano. An…
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Posted in Composition, Language
Graphics by Herbert Brün on exhibit at the University of Illinois
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