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Need endorphins? I make use of Handel. Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno

Interesting. They do the same strange things I do when listening to Handel. Run. Move your arms. Smile. Pure joy, pure endorphins.

Have a good sunday.

video: Natalie Dessay, Emmanuelle Haim – Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (Handel)
Natalie Dessay, Ann Hallenberg, Sonia Prina, Pavol Breslik / Le Concert dAstrée, Emmanuelle Haim

txt: Wikipedia – Endorphin

Endorphins (“endogenous morphine”) are endogenous opioid peptides that function as neurotransmitters. They are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during exercise, excitement, pain, consumption of spicy food, love and orgasm, and they resemble the opiates in their abilities to produce analgesia and a feeling of well-being.

txt: GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL – IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO E DEL DISINGANNO

Bellezza: Dicesti il vero, e benché tardi intesi. Ma pur, nel mio cordoglio, con riflesso di duol, voglio e non voglio. Voglio Tempo per risolvere…
Tempo: Teco è il Tempo…
Disinganno: ed il Consiglio…
Piacere: ma il Consiglio è il tuo dolor.
Tempo: Pria ch’io ti converto in polvere, segui il ben…
Disinganno: fuggi il periglio…
Piacere: tempo avrà per cangiar cor.

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55th Contemporary Music International Festival of Venice

24 September > 1 October 2011
link: Program – 55th International Festival of Contemporary Music of the Biennale di Venezia

txt: MUTANTI is the title of the 55th International Festival of Contemporary Music

We live in a world that makes not only thought, exploration and effort, but pencil and paper, practice and crafting as well, seem anachronistic. Now that everything is available at the click of a mouse, the temptation of erasing our memory is becoming increasingly evident, as we dream of becoming lighter. The 2011 Music Biennale talks about mutants, about something that is ending, at least in the form familiar to us now, to become something else.

video: Music Biennale 2010 – Susanna Mälkki on Berio

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Welcome back, Sir Oliver Skardy: take care of you

video: Sò ancora vivo, grassie a tutti (SOS#1)

It’s just a memory: it was the nineties, we were at the imbarcadero of Venice Lido. Then the vaporetto arrived in piazza Roma. Wherever you heard this song. I remember a spritz. Then the train left. Really happy hours.

Stàme bèn, Skardi. Grassie dea musica.

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Venice is a place of wonders, and sounds. Sometimes.

You walk out from the babel of the station, fast. Go beyond the Calatrava bridge, it’s half past eight, it’s August. There is still light. Even the noises of buses and the street talks of piazza Roma are behind. You walk slower inside the Dorsoduro, the voices dispersed. It’s a beautiful evening, a warm evening. Fondamenta delle Terese, then the bridge and Campo San Nicolò. And you hear this music, coming out from a window. Sit on a bench to listen it all. What else can you do? Venice is a city of wonders. And sounds. Sometimes.
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Esci dalla babele della stazione, veloce. Oltrepassi a passi lunghi il ponte di Calatrava, sono le otto e mezza di sera, è agosto. C’è ancora luce. Anche il rumore di autobus e le ciacole di piazza Roma sono alle spalle. Cammini più lento dentro a Dorsoduro, le voci si disperdono. E’ una bella serata, tiepida. Fondamenta delle Terese, superi il ponte e sei in campo San Nicolò. E senti questa musica, uscire da una finestra. Ti siedi su una panchina, per ascoltarla tutto. Cosa altro puoi fare? Venezia è una città di meraviglie. E di suoni. A volte.

video: Cecilia Bartoli – Ombra Mai Fu – opening aria from the opera “Serse” by George Frideric Handel.

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Oddtag remix: Björk – Crystalline + Omar Souleyman remix

howto:

- set video 1 audio level on 30%
- click “play” on video 1 and video 2 together.
- Replay video 2 until video 1 lasts (video 2 is 56secs, video 1 is 4min)
- Enjoy the remix!

video 1: björk: crystalline – bjorkdotcom on youtube.com

video 2: björk: crystalline (omar souleyman remix)

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