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• Random Act of Culture™ at SphinxCon

  Last week I was fortunate to be invited to speak at the Knight-sponsored SphinxCon event. A gathering of national leaders in Detroit to discuss the issue of diversity in the arts. Speakers ranged from Delroy Lindo to Maria López De León, the director of NALAC.

  Knight Foundation National Arts Advisory [...]

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• Video game composing conference planned for April in St. Paul

  By Bonnie Marshall, American Composers Forum

  Video game scoring has grown in breadth and complexity in the last decade. Long gone are the chompy synthesizers of Pac Man. Today’s gaming music involves highly creative composers, full orchestral pieces and sophisticated compositions that interact with the player’s actions and situation.

  Jump Dewds! [...]

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• Roofless Records 2013: Occult Circuits, Holly Hunt on the road, the latest innovations in Sonic Farce and more

  By Roofless Records

  2013 is shaping up to be even busier than 2012.

  Nequam Sonitus (St. Petersburg) performs at I.N.C. 2013 in an amplified metal suit.

  International Noise Conference 2013 (10 Year Anniversary)

  We’re only just now recovering from the 4 day marathon of madness that was the 10 year anniversary [...]

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• “A Proper Marriage” between two or three stars

  Co-dependence is like a binary star-system where two stars orbit one another around their center of gravity. They can’t escape, and they’re stuck in an almost eternal dance until they exhaust their nuclear reactors. However, if the two stars are close enough, they can exchange mass and even tear one [...]

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• Head to Minneapolis this week for “The St. Paul Show” by Salon Saloon

  Andy Sturdevant, writer, arts administrator and artist, and host of Works Progress’ monthly Salon Saloon. Photo courtesy of Works Progress

  Salon Saloon is a monthly “live action arts magazine” put on by the interdisciplinary collaborative team at Works Progress and hosted by Springboard for the Arts staffer, artist and [...]

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• Macon’s First Friday offers gallery openings and Broadway musical numbers

  First Friday Macon logo.

  February is the shortest month of the year. The 28 days seem to fly by, and before one even realizes four weeks have passed, March arrives. In Macon, the beginning of the month brings one of the community’s most treasured events—First Friday. The event, held on [...]

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