International affairs
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The New York Times’s journalist Nicholas Kristof tells stories from his visits to Darfur, as part of STARS’s “Dream for Darfur” program, yesterday.
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Music Profile: The Hood Internet
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M.I.A. and New Order. White Rabbits and El-P. Timbaland and Hot Chip. She & Him and Ludacris. Names that one wouldn’t typically hear in the same thought, find on the same iTunes player or hear at the same concert. Yet through combinations such as these, the Hood Internet (www.thehoodinternet.com) challenges our preconceived notions on genres as they’re currently defined. In a world of perpetual remixes, reworkings and revampings, the Hood Internet manages to stand apart from the rest. Their work is usually a mash-up of an obscure indie rock track and an overplayed hip-hop/rap song, brought together through a creative balance of rhythms, beats and lyrics.
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Test Spin: She and Him
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True to the laid-back, long summer day style that made him famous, alt-indie-country maestro M. Ward’s most recent release alludes to a simpler, slow-paced way of life. Add in actress and closet singer-songwriter Zooey Deschanel’s love life woes and you get She & Him, a collaboration between the two. M. Ward’s remarkably wide range of instrumental mastery is central to the album, from acoustic guitar to drums, the electric noodle and the kazoo.
When one thinks of the vocals that typically accompany his old-fashioned harmonious music, notions of slow soft crooning come to mind. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case with Deschanel’s singing. Her voice seems to change character from one track to the next, has a thin range and is overall whiny, starkly forced and staccato.
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A New Breed of Transformers
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In architectural discourse, the notion of separation — such as distinguishing function from form, exterior from interior, surface from frame — is a routinely accepted practice. Yet this differing treatment of ideas often leads to a disconnect with the concepts around which a project is initially centered. “Transformers,” a current exhibition in Hartell Gallery in Sibley Hall, seeks to reinterpret, rethink and recreate such traditionally accepted divisions.