Daily Painting

Jenny Saville
HYPHEN (1998-99)

Playing

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ARIAS FOR ALOYSIA WEBER

Cyndia Sieden

Frans Brüggen
Orchestra of the 18th Century

Watching

NANG NAK
Nonzee Nimibutr
Thailand, 1999

Playing

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
I SEE A DARKNESS

Playing

Duke Ellington
THE REPRISE STUDIO RECORDINGS (1962-65)

Playing

Jan Dismas Zelenka
TRIO SONATAS

Heinz Holliger

Thomas Zehetmair, Maurice Bourgue, Klaus Thunemann, Klaus Stoll, Jonathan Rubin, Christiane Jaccottet

Watching

TUVALU
Veit Helmer
Germany, 1999

Playing

Various Artists
THE DISCO BOX

Daily Painting

Guwa Shete
PANDIT WITH MOBILE [HOLYMEN SERIES] (1999)

Playing

Nino Rota
SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN C MAJOR

Ole Kristian Ruud
Hannu Koivula
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

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- Symphony No. 3 in C Major (1957)
- Concerto Festivo in F Major (1958-61)
- Le Molière Imaginaire - Ballet Suite (1976/78)

Playing

Jason Webley
AGAINST THE NIGHT

Playing

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
I SEE A DARKNESS

GEORGE MONBIOT
"We're Not Materialistic Enough"

Ask anyone what’s wrong with consumer society and they’ll almost certainly tell you that it has made people “too materialistic”. We are obsessed, we’re always told, with things, and our material engrossment is killing the environment, our relationships and our spiritual lives. It strikes me that precisely the opposite is true: we are not materialistic enough.

Consumerism demands the fast and careless use of materials. It relies on our detachment from and incomprehension of the material world. Do you know where the components of your TV or your computer come from? Do you even know what they’re made of? Have you ever considered how these materials were extracted, which peoples needed be displaced so that their lands could be mined or logged? Can you sharpen a knife? Or are you forced to buy knives with serrated edges, or buy a new one every time yours gets blunt? If the answers to these questions embarrass you, then you are, like most of us, a non-materialist.

If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to.

But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.

Daily Painting

George Condo
NUDE FORMS (1999)

Currently Playing

Ana Azéma
PROVENCE MYSTIQUE
Sacred Songs of the Middle Ages

Currently Playing

Prince
1999

Currently Playing

Anonymous 4
LEGENDS OF ST. NICHOLAS
Medieval Polyphony and Chant

Daily Painting

Bernard Buffet
LA MORT 21 (1999)

Currently Playing

Philip Glass
DRACULA

Kronos Quartet

Currently Playing

Franz Schubert
PIANO SONATAS

Mitsuko Uchida

Piano Sonata in A minor, D 845
Piano Sonata in B major, D 575