links for 2008-05-30

• Hot. (I mean…getting hotter) « countercritic
  "My only hope is that it ends with the chorus getting submerged by rising sea levels and having to sing underwater!" Also good to know Coit Tower will be one of the last to go.
• Internet Archive: Details: Interview with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela
  "Russ Jennings interviews La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela about their new collaborative work, The Well Tuned Piano."
• Ojai Music Festival will showcase Steve Reich's groundbreaking music : Cover Story : Ventura County Star
  '"Four Organs" puts one chord under a microscope and invites the audience to hear it evolve at a glacial pace. Some blissfully lose themselves in the layers of sound. Others liken it to watching grass grow.' Blissful for me.
• Lala | New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs by Steve Reich
  I'm experimenting with how to link to next.lala.com tracks. If you click on this link, it may start playing.
• HurdAudio: Around the Blogs: Afro-Futurism and the State of Race in Creative Improvised Music
  "As one who loves the musical traditions of Charles Ives and Thelonious Monk with equal affection this conversation raises multiple points about how the complex history of immigrants and emancipated slaves is reflected in the development of the arts."