Photoshoot - Frances
by Adam James NallTaken: 16/04/08
Model: Frances
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Date taken: 16th April 2008
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People
RAG Charity Auction 2008
by Adam James NallSidney Sussex College RAG Charity auction 2008.
Custard wrestling, pole dancing, personalised sonnets, fresher strip, personal trainers and auctioneering galore! Generated over £1000 for several good causes.
PHOTO SALE PROFITS TO RAG CHARITY
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Cambridge Colleges
Cambridge Life
Cambridge Views
Dance
People
Performance
Sport
Vexations (mono)
by Adam James Nall19:00 24th Nov - 14:30 25th Nov
Sidney Sussex College Music Society presents:
Vexations - Erik Satie
1 piano
10 pianists
20 hours of continuous music
performed by:
Paul Kilbey, Jamal Sutton, Jesper Carlson, Kim Ashton, James Freeman, Tom Athorne, Sarah Latto, Lydia Slobodian, MatthewTait, Will Buchanan, Joe Scott, and Emily Smith.
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Although Erik Satie wrote Vexations in 1893 its premiere had to wait until 1963, when the experimental composer John Cage organised a performance in New York. Quite why the piece had to wait seventy years for its first performance is, one is forced to admit, not really a mystery. Logistically it is a nightmare, commercially it is ridiculous, and musically it is a trail of endurance for performers and audience alike. However, since its premiere, a considerable number of performances have taken place, some of them lasting as long as 28 hours. Work has even been done studying its effect on the brain. Was all this what Satie actually intended, when he flippantly wrote:
"To play this motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, in the deepest silence, by grave immobilities."
at the top of his score? We will never know, and therein lies the vexation.
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These are the mono series taken during (some) of the 20 hour performance. The music was un-nerving and bloody weird, I thought the photos should be too!
SSCMS website:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/sscms
Date taken: 19:00 24th Nov - 14:30 25th Nov
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Cambridge Life
People
Performance
Black Shabbat - 'Outklezzed'
by Andy DarntonTaken from Black Shabbat's debut performance at Girton College on Sunday 26th February. The band plays a style of music called 'klezmer-fusion' - which is traditional Jewish music with a funky/latiny/jazzy edge!
Date added: 2nd Mar 2006Categories:
Performance
