Bits and pieces pertaining to mash-ups, both audio and local/literary:
- During a weekend trip to Richmond, I spotted two Charlottesville celebs sharing the cover of our capital city’s Boomer Life Magazine. Larry Sabato gives a history/appreciation of the politics of boomers, then guesses why their generation never entirely warmed to Bill Clinton. And John Grisham—recent recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Library of Virginia—defends genre fiction and talks about writing his ideal baseball novel.
- On a related note: There are lots of copies of Grisham’s football novel, Playing for Pizza, at Gordon Avenue Library’s book sale, which ends today at 6pm.
- A colleague passed along this profile of Gregg "Girl Talk" Gillis from the October issue of GQ. A good read, with an intro similar to the prelude in C-VILLE’s review of the Girl Talk gig at Satellite Ballroom. I listened to Feed the Animals again last week; similar to Philip K. Dick’s question about whether androids dream of electric sheep, I wonder what it means to experience real human emotions in response to entirely synthetic music?
What can I say? The UGK/Journey section of this song makes me tear up!
- Last, Peter Traub—a composer who studied electro-acoustic music at Dartmouth and finished his doctoral studies at UVA—unveils a sound installation at Ruffin Gallery today that will record the ambient sounds of the gallery and layer them into a sort of audio collage. The sort of mash-up a man like Gregg Gillis could admire. More details here; Feedback will check it out and report back.
