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		<title>&#8220;The Artist&#8221; &#8211; Silent Film Resurgent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2011 draws to a close, holiday greetings and a wish for happy 2012.  The time since my last post has been long, in part because of software issues, and bots which keep infiltrating the blog posts&#8230;those creatures with names such as &#8220;AOIHET(@*$%&#38;SDOIYUVSBDV  has a comment on your post&#8230;&#8221;  We&#8217;ll see whether or not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science, Music and Motion: French Science Films at the National Gallery of Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ae simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, I&#8217;m participating in a particularly interesting film program at the National Gallery.  Part of its ongoing screenings of newly-preserved films, &#8220;From Vault to Screen,&#8221; this year displays French restorations.  The particular program here, &#8220;Poetry in Motion: The Scientific Short,&#8221; lives up to its billing.   Admittedly, at first glance, it doesn&#8217;t seem to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bjork and &#8220;Biophilia&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ae simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s New York Times had a story about Icelandic artist Bjork&#8216;s new performance event/album, &#8220;biophilia,&#8221; which is premiering at the Manchester International Festival (UK) this month:  (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/arts/music/bjorks-biophilia-at-the-manchester-international-festival.html?_r=1&#38;scp=2&#38;sq=bjork&#38;st=cse As with the earlier &#8220;Gurs Zyklus&#8221; by the artist Trimpin, who I  mentioned in a previous post, Bjork&#8217;s piece contains newly-built instruments such as the Gameleste (a combination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trimpin and the MAP fund: Humanistic Music and History</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ae simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the lookout for evidences of humanistic music projects, the recently-announced premiere of the &#8220;Gurs Zyklus&#8221; by composer-sculptor-artist Trimpin at Stanford University seems right in line with the ideals of cross-disciplinary ventures which serve a greater purpose and reflect on a larger external narrative (events taking place during WW II in the village of Gurs).  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art in Motion! at the National Gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ae simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, an incredible program of film animation took place at the National Gallery in Washington, DC.  Called &#8220;Art in Motion!&#8221;, this 90-minute event screened abstract animation in film from the 1920&#8242;s to the present, putting on screen a wide variety of approaches and artists.  From Viking Eggeling to Norman McLaren to Len Lye to Larry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humanistic Music: A Description</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewesimpson.com/blog/?p=150</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ae simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humanistic Music My work seeks to explore and demonstrate music’s organic, inextricable connections with other arts and with the external world.  I want to discover music’s place in the world by putting it in as many places as possible.  All of the arts are particularized manifestations of the same primal creative impulse; connected like neurons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cymbeline at Catholic University</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ae simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, Shakespeare&#8217;s late play Cymbeline is playing at Catholic University&#8217;s Hartke Theater (in Hartke Studio, with the entire set on the Hartke stage itself, an intimate setting which I like very much).  This curious play pits Romans against Britons, with the victorious Britons nevertheless agreeing to pay tribute to the defeated Romans (which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off to Cinefest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ae simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I&#8217;m off for Cinefest in Syracuse in a couple of hours, one of the great film festivals in the USA.  I&#8217;ll be one of the musical accompanists this year (the 31st), and will be playing many films.  More to come&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Carnival, Love, and Text-Mobiles: A Crown of Stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ae simpson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanistic Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next month (Sunday, March 6), my wedding oratorio, A Crown of Stars, will be performed by Cantate Chamber Singers, the ensemble which originally commissioned it in 2006.   Following the afternoon performance, the work will be recorded for Albany Records on March 6-8 for a fall 2011 release. Watch the new VIDEO on youtube about the March [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Review Ever&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewesimpson.com/blog/?p=124</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ae simpson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the new president of Catholic University, John Garvey, was inaugurated in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.   For the occasion &#8211; which was a Mass &#8211; I was asked to create a setting of the hymn &#8220;Holy God, We Praise Thy Name&#8221; (Grosser Gott) to accompany the sacerdotal procession [...]]]></description>
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