“On Saturday night, about 35 cars converged at the Santa Monica Airport parking lot. Inside each vehicle, the passengers had 12 pages of instructions: Arrive exactly at 7:50 pm; stay inside your car with the windows rolled up; when you see a flashing light, turn on your headlights; wear a mask. They had come to see PARKED, an invitation-only, drive-in dance performance put on by Jacob Jonas The Company.” – Dance Magazine
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Facebook And YouTube Copyright-Police Bots Are Blocking Classical Musicians’ Concert Streams, Sometimes Mid-Performance
And the music at issue is almost always in the public domain. The bots, developed and trained on popular music, are finding performance videos of, Bach, Mozart, Chopin and so on to be too similar to existing commercial recordings by other musicians and automatically blocking them. Then the appeal process with these enormous corporations is frustrating and way too slow. – The Washington Post
U.S. Copyright Office Says Digital Millennium Copyright Act Should Be ‘Fine-Tuned’
The issue discussed in a report just released by the Copyright Office is the DMCA’s Section 512, which lays out what social media companies and Online Service Providers (e.g., Spotify, YouTube) must do to remove pirated material and police copyright infringement. The Office says that the balance has shifted too far toward the OSPs, leaving creators whose material has been posted without permission to play “whack-a-mole.” – The Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Studios And Craft Unions Struggle Over How To Restart Production
“The industry task force that was assembled last month to address the safety issues has generated a 30-page draft of a white paper that is designed to convince governmental officials to give Hollywood the greenlight to resume production. … But the white paper is not complete and has not been signed off by all of the participants in the task force, which has spurred anger and finger-pointing among union and studio officials and … the labor negotiating body for the major studios.” – Variety
Italy’s First Classical Concert Since Lockdown: Muti In Ravenna, June 21
The performance, Riccardo Muti conducting the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra in Scriabin and Mozart, will be the opening event of this year’s Ravenna Festival. Attendance will be limited to 250 people, masks required, with both audience and musicians practicing social distancing. – Yahoo! (AP)
Rothko Chapel In Houston Finally Has A Post-Renovation Opening Date
The Menil Collection’s octagonal landmark, which houses 14 of Mark Rothko’s black paintings, was closed in early 2019 for work that included reinforcing the walls, installing a digital lighting system and replacing the skylight to protect the canvases from sun exposure. The Chapel’s reopening, originally planned for June, has been postponed to September because of the COVID epidemic; there will be a “soft opening” in July. – Archinect
Are We Losing Our Abilities To Read Deeply?
Beyond self-inflicted attention deficits, people who cannot deep read — or who do not use and hence lose the deep-reading skills they learned — typically suffer from an attenuated capability to comprehend and use abstract reasoning. In other words, if you can’t, or don’t, slow down sufficiently to focus quality attention — what Wolf calls “cognitive patience” — on a complex problem, you cannot effectively think about it. – National Affairs
The Atlantic Magazine Cuts 20 Percent Of Its Staff
The 68 staff cuts are mostly attributable to the collapse of the company’s events business, which was one of its strongest pillars for many years.
Why Should It Matter If You Know What You’re Listening To?
Our preconceived ideas about a composer or piece can keep us from listening with fresh ears. An intermezzo by the mighty Brahms? Before you hear a note, you may already have decided it’s great. – The New York Times
Can The “Experience Economy” Survive The Pandemic?
The economy’s reliance on live events has been growing for years. When Disneyland opened in 1955, it sparked a boom in the theme park business. In recent decades, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Great Wolf Lodge water parks and more have emerged to compete for the attention — and money — of American families. – The New York Times