03.30.10
Alex Itin Draws Zipperhead (Video)
Heart Beatles from Alex Itin on Vimeo.
First performance of Zipperhead at 17 Frost Williamsburg Brooklyn is on Saturday eve April 10th.
03.29.10
Fee Fi Fo Fum Perform “The Mustard Seed” in Los Angeles 1989
Live at Sun Jump Day 1989 (Backdrop by Keith Greco)
This song was written by Donald Johnson, and arranged by JHM and Donald. Donald dedicated the song to Matilda Hernandez-Miyares.
John Millspaugh: Drums
Alberto Hernandez-Miyares: Bass
Donald Johnson: Vox and Keys
Javier Hernandez-Miyares: Guitar and Vox
03.28.10
Unfortunate Alice (Diana Vargas Trent Dead Pic)
Diana Vargas Trent is a photographer and a photostream of her pics is here.
03.23.10
A New Version Of Our Standard “Where The Pieces Fall” Is Becoming (Donald Johnson / Javier Hernandez-Miyares)
Sweet piano and some forlorn strings. Next week the vox will be recorded, and after that the sundries.
Where The Pieces Fall was written by Javier Hernandez-Miyares, and this arrangement in progress is by JHM, and Donald Johnson.
This is a sacred song about dialectical materialism. I invite you to follow it’s progress.
Olivier Messiaen Organ Improvisation (Music In The Uterus)
This Is Beauty
Read about his life ark: Olivier Messiaen.
03.20.10
Zipperhead And Sundries…
A Show Grows in Brooklyn- Live Multimedia Event, Zipperhead, Opens at the 17 Frost Art and Performance Space on April 10, 2010.
Following a successful one night preview of Zipperhead in September 2009 at Monkeytown, the show will open for a six consecutive weekend run at the 17 Frost Art and Performance Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In the words of Michael Cesarczyk, writer for the Greenpoint Gazzette, “Zipperhead is a spellbinding musical and visual exploration of post-9/11 America by progressive rockers Sineparade and artist Alex Itin. Wonderfully provocative and original.”
The story begins on 9/11 when Andrew Sarchus, a prominent Wall Street Trader, escapes death in the World Trade Center by stealing away to a hotel room with his secretary. His wife Marla’s anger quickly turns to concern as his behavior becomes progressively more erratic, the result of a growing brain tumor. The show explores the fine line between behavior and disordered behavior resulting from brain disease, as well as contemporary greed, forgiveness and love in the first decade of our new century in New York City. Surrounded by three massive screens, the performers and audience are enveloped in the video and animations of Mr. Itin. The narrations are backed by the original soundscapes of Sineparade and in return, the band’s songs are supported by Itin’s iconic videos and animations.
Show opens April 10th and plays each Saturday evening at 8PM until May 15th (running time 75 minutes).
03.15.10
Alice In Wonderland And In Pieces (Mad Hatter Sineparde Blog)
Alice Liddell By Lewis Carroll
A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July–
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear–
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die.
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream–
Lingering in the golden gleam–
Life, what is it but a dream?
Acrostic poem for Alice Pleasance Liddell by Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)
Lewis Carroll adopted his pen name a year after he met
Alice Liddell.
We believe that a mathematician can find a symmetrical rational for anything, and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson found a way to link himself closer to the Liddells this way:
Lewis Carroll is derived from the reversed and transmogrified Christian names.
Lutwidge Ludovicus Lewis
Charles Carolus Carroll
As Saint Peter denied Christ 3 times, Lewis Carroll denied his muse as well. Curioser and curioser…
The song that we have included in this blog is by Steven Pacia and Javier Hernandez-Miyares, and evokes the seizures and creativity of our dear charles:
Lewis Carroll, in his famous stories Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, was probably writing about his own temporal lobe seizures. The very sensation initiating Alice’ adventures- that of falling down a hole- is a familiar one to many people with seizures. Alice often feels that her own body (or the objects around her) is shrinking or growing before her eyes, another seizure symptom. Carroll recorded his seizures, which were followed by prolonged headaches and feeling not his usual self, in his journal.
The following music was recorded and written by Steven Pacia and Javier Hernandez-Miyares at Sinlab Studio in Sunnyside 2002.
03.14.10
Furtive Painting In 17 Frost With Alex Itin, Javier Hernandez-Miyares And Friends (For Zipperhead)
Poster Boy And Alex Itin
Painting by JHM
Alex Itin Painting The Palimpsest During Revolution #9
Alex Itin’s Riffs On My Painting (Zipperhead Palimpsest)
Calling All Artists To Paint On The Cardboard!!!
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