The Oboenator

Hi there, thanks for visiting my page and I hope you enjoy! I'm a proud Newfoundlander, first year university student, head of the Grenfell Christian Fellowship, and going for a career in Social Work. I love music and all...

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Kinshasa the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo is no ordinary city and at first seems an unlikely place to have an orchestra of two hundred musicians playing to Beethoven Ninth –Freude schöner Götterfunken. “Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste” isthe only symphony orchestra in the Congo has been in existence for 15 yrs. Riddled often with power strikes, even on performance nights, seems the least of the worries of this symphony. Kinshasa Symphony directed by Martin Baer, Claus Wischmann is a study of people in one of the world’s most chaotic cities doing their best to maintain one of the most complex systems of joint human endeavour: a symphony. The film is about the Congo, the people in Kinshasa and the power of music.

The film closely follows a few of the band members and gives a view of their personal lives, how they make a living and struggle to make it to almost daily practices. We get to see the symphony overcome odds as they prepare for an open concert with thousands attending.

The DRC does not stop with these classical musicians all self taught amateurs or trained by other musicians unfamiliar in classical training with instruments like the cello, cello bass or violin. Kinshasa continues to stand out with its remarkable musicians forming this indie breed of rudimentary collectives that play with scrap yard instruments yet seem to stand on stages from Brooklyn to Paris. Other bands I should make note of are : Konono Nº1 who collaborated with Bjork on the song earth intruders and more recently with Herbie Hancock and Baloji. Also take note of Kasai All Stars.

Kinshasa Symphony has made its rounds in the theatre circuit and is available on DVD. Its playing as part of the featured screenings  next week, in New York’s College music festival CMJ.

Here is the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_vTk0XsgZV4

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Finishing Prokofiev’s 3rd piano concerto

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Do you know the horrors that happened where you’re standing?

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Life goes on, strange isn’t it?

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This is so chilling but fascinating

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These were just too intriguing to not reblog

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LAST MEDITATION BEFORE SHOW TIME…

Louis Armstrong waiting to roll

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Just to let y’all know that the center snare is only a junior…..

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THAT KID IS A JUNIOR??!?!?!?!?!

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And is marching crown

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The last picture is the face of fear.

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no that last picture is him wondering if he had a kid without knowing it

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Physical Music - Hypothetical resonance piano. What if a piano keyboard were to be constructed out of materials with relative resonances, could we use it to compose everyday products that were acoustically rewarding rather than just noisy ?

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For the past six months since our house flooded, my friends have been taking care of my gecko. They just texted this to me.

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