http://www.AcousticLevitation.org

Dear Friends,

It's over a year since we began Acoustic Levitation and although we're still
getting our sealegs, we're proud of the poetry, photography, music reviews and
FREE music downloads courtesy of some of our favorite musicians in our
Musicians' Gifts Section.

Much more is on the way, but so far our listings include:

ART
George Condo: La Civilisation Perdu - by Diego Costa
Arbol de San Pascuál Bailón y La Cocina - by Bernardo González
Virgen de la Soledad - by Bernardo González
Untitled I, II (Olive and Black Series) - by David Schestenger
Elvis Puccini - by Les Zakarin
MetBaby - by Les Zakarin
"Prenez Soin de Vous" Installation by Sophie Calle - Review by Diego Costa

CONCERTS
Jazkamer, Sunn O))) @ RADAR Festival - Review by Carlos Gómez
Kenny Drew, Jr.: "From Chopin To Ellington" - Review by Steve Koenig
American Opera Projects: Composers & The Voice: Six Scenes - Review by Steve
Koenig

FEATURES
Ben u Sen: A Photographic Essay In Diyarbakir, Turkey - by Savas Boyraz
Brainwave Festival: Out of Body, Out of Mind - by Chris Chalfant
Auschwitz Is A Drag: Bowie, Mussorgsky and Heroes and Villains - by Steve Koenig
Irving Stone Memorial Concert 2003 - by Steve Smith

INTERVIEWS
Yoko Ono: Not Getting Enough: #1 Dance Hit, Two Virgins & Plastic Ono Band -
A Second Conversation With Steve Koenig
Gunter Hampel: On Monk, Henze, & The Universe - A Conversation with Steve Koenig
Yoko Ono: Action, Peace, Dance Peace: A Conversation With Steve Koenig
Noam Chomsky on Terrorism - Interview by John Bolender

MUSIC
Musicians' Gifts: Free Downloads
David Grollman, Brad Henkel and Valerie Kuehne Live at DTMG 2009 - percussion,
trumpet, cello
Tony Malaby and Ben Gerstein Live at DTMG 2009 - tenor and trombone duo
Gato Loco de Bajo: Live at Downtown Music Gallery
Bassentric and Steve Dalachinsky Live at Local 269
Steve Swell's Nation of We with Steve Dalachinsky: What Matters Most
Marc Thorman: On The Road: A Kerouac Musicircus (ElectroAcoustic)
Chris Kelsey and François Grillot: Smells Like Free Jazz - courtesy of Chris
Kelsey

Articles
Outtakes- Take 4: Walter Thompson with Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor's 80th,
BOAC,
RUCMA and more - Column by Steve Dalachinsky
Outtakes - Take 3: QBICO vinyl, new CDs, recent gigs, Ashley's operas,
Blitzstein, and more:
Column by Steve Dalachinsky
Elliott Carter and The New Merkin Concert Hall - by Steve Dalachinsky
Acoustic Levitation's Best of 2008
Under the Radar - Reviews by Robert Reigle and Steve Koenig

Record Reviews
Najma Akhtar and Gary Lucas: Rishte - by Steve Koenig
John Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony - by Steve Koenig
Alarm Will Sound: a/rhythmia - by Steve Koenig
Label Report: nonClassical Records - by Steve Koenig
Michael Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony - by Steve Koenig
Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothing But The Blues - by Steve
Koenig
Freddy Cole: The Dreamer In Me - by Steve Koenig
Mementos: Modern Orchestral Works - by Steve Koenig
Radulescu String Quartet Nr. 4 - by Robert Reigle
Machaut Motets: Hilliard Ensemble - by Robert Reigle
Textile Orchestra: For the Boss - by Steve Koenig
Reimann's opera Lear- by Steve Koenig
Reimann: Works for Clarinet - by Steve Koenig
Quatuor Molinari: Concours Molinari 2005-2006 - by Steve Koenig
Antón García Abril: Madre Asturias: A Collection of Asturian Songs - by Steve
Koenig
Bright Sheng's The Phoenix - by Steve Koenig
Modern Jazz Quartet DVDs: 35th and 40th Anniversary Tours - by Steve Koenig
Wagner's Das Rheingold: Weimar, St. Clair, DVD - review by Steve Koenig
Mark O'Connor: Double Violin Concerto - by Steve Koenig
Mesut Cemil: Turkish Instrumental Improvisations, Vocal and Instrumental
Compositions
& Cairo Eastern Congress Recordings, 1932 - Yoram Arnon
Igor Stravinsky: The Robert Craft Edition: The Ballets - by Steve Koenig
Martyn Bates/Troum: To A Child Dancing In The Wind - by Steve Koenig
Viktoria Tolstoy: My Russian Soul - by Steve Koenig
Marcus Roberts Trio: New Orleans Meets Harlem vol. I - by Craig Nixon
Bipolar: Euphrates, Me Jane - by Steve Koenig
Dave Brubeck Quartet Featuring Paul Desmond, On The Radio: Live 1956-57
- Review by Stefan Pohlit
Sonny G. (Salvatore Guagliardo): I'll Be Laughing Tonight - by Steve Koenig
DRG Records: A Label Report - by Steve Koenig
Drone Records: A Label Report - by Steve Koenig
Savina Yannatou. Primavera en Salonico: Songs of An Other - Review by Steve
Koenig
Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Anja Lechner, U.T. Gandhi: Melos - Review by Steve Koenig
The Barry Sisters: Our Way (Tahka-Tahka) - Review by Steve Koenig
Fujiya & Miyagi: Lightbulbs - Review by Steve Koenig

STAGE | DANCE
Stage
Outtakes - Take 3: Ashley's operas, Zorn/Foreman, The Living Theater/Jack
Gelber, Blitzstein:
Column by Steve Dalachinsky
The Living Theater vs. HAIR - by Steve Dalachinsky

Dance
Paris Butoh Festival: Unwounded by Gravity - by Diego Costa
Outtakes- Take 4: Dean Moss/Yoon Jin Kim, Karole Armitage and Sally Silvers
- Column by Steve Dalachinsky
Dance: Strings Attached: Joe Goode Troupe's Wonderboy - by Diego Costa

DVD | FILM
Bodies Being Bodies: Mackenzie's Spread with Kutcher and Heche - by Diego Costa
Origin of The World: Bressane's Herb of the Rat - by Diego Costa
The Torturing Cure: Lars von Trier's AntiChrist - by Diego Costa
'Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris, dir. by Raymond de Felitta - by Steve
Koenig
Otto, or Up With Dead People, dir. by Bruce LaBruce - by Diego Costa
Outtakes - Take 3: Finnish film by Tuevo Tulio: Column by Steve Dalachinsky
Inside Out In The Open: An Expressionist Journey Into The Music Known As Free
Jazz:
A documentary by Alan Roth - by Steve Koenig
J'aimerais Partager Le Printemps Avec Quelqu'un - by Diego Costa
Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived - by Diego Costa
The Politics Of Dancing: Tony Manero dir. by Pablo Larrain - by Diego Costa

POETRY
Sleep - by Barry Wallenstein
Seeing Charles (For Charles Tyler) - by Barry Wallenstein
In New Orleans - by Barry Wallenstein
Beat Angel Blues, for Harold Norse - by Valery Oisteanu
Steve Dalachinsky and Bassentric Live at Local 269
Harold Norse: Celebration of His Life at Cornelia St Café
Steve Dalachinsky with Steve Swell's Nation of We: What Matters Most.
For Michael Jackson (1982) - by Steve Koenig
The Ballad of the Bark - by Steve Koenig
For Miko - by Jim Ryan
Elves - by Jim Ryan
Can't Get There - by Jim Ryan
Just A talk about exCept - a mesostic poem composed and performed by Marc
Thorman
McCoy ... McCoy (Tyner) - by Len Fraser
Score #1 for Synthesizing # 2 - by Vernon Frazer
Punkboy Blues - by Steve Koenig
1998 - by David Messineo
Grito Verde at Teatro Amazonas - by David Messineo
Uplift - by David Messineo
Paris - by Eve Packer
blue horn - by Eve Packer
for John Hicks - by Barry Wallenstein
Stones and Pillows - by Michael Jay Price

BOOKS
It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American
Music
by Amanda Petrusich. Review by Evrim Hikmet Özler


Warmly,
Steve Koenig
Editor