Sjoe. So here I am on Staten Island. Man, I’m tired. Nicky and I arrived safely after our terrible flight, and had fantastic bagels, a nap, dinner with my ‘rents, sleep. I got my new video iPod, which is dreamy, and a few t-shirts from thinkgeek, plus my new jitter serial number and shirt (cycling74) [...]
Tags: kaganof, uncategorical
Tags: kaganof
I am never flying SAA again. Jeez, that was the worst experience EVER. 3 hours waiting to get on, we had specifically requested medical seats for my wife’s back and they gave us two of the only three seats on the plane that DIDN’T recline (the worst), it now has a stop-over both ways, so [...]
Site stuff happening: moving servers. I’ve asked the guests not to blog in the interim, and the site might lose some posts over the next couple of days, as well as some comments; I’ll try my best to import them all again once things are resolved….. Hopefully things will work out ok in the end. [...]
Just looking over the vast amounts of photos over the last few days, but have chosen to reminisce in text (remember: we’re in Africa; I like to keep file sizes down!)….
Wednesday morning began with a whole lot of gushing over Colleen Alborough’s amazing work. The production of Night Journey was a journey itself - [...]
Tags: kaganof, south african art
Now if notation cannot even handle one of the most popular present day western instruments, imagine how bad it gets with other cultures. Bach tried to emulate tribal music - he was even further off than he thought since their entire scale system was different, he could get a near fake but the notation he [...]
Music is quite possibly the most culturally universal thing on the planet. Every known culture has music. A lot of people have this idea that western music is “modern” and other cultures’ music is “primitive”, this is of course horse-figs. Music made in China or Tobega today is as contemporary as music made in the [...]
