ko.yaa.nis.katsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life disintegrating. 4. life out of balance. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
Koyaanisqatsi is a groundbreaking 1982 motion picture essay which looks at modern life and its imbalances.
It was directed by Godfrey Reggio, with [...]

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The Second International Conference on Music and Minimalism will occur September 2-6, 2009, at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, directed by Kyle Gann and David McIntire.
All scholars in this area are invited to submit papers. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

both American and European (and other) minimalist music;
early [...]

In GLASS: A Portrait Of Philip In 12 parts, Academy Award nominated director Scott Hicks (”Shine”) documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, including Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar and Martin Scorsese.
Below, director Hicks offers his insight into [...]

In this classic clip, South Park Elementary presents the happy, non-offensive, non-denominational school play, with compositions by Philip Glass.
Bogus, but funny!

The IBM Glass Engine is designed to enable deep navigation of the music of Philip Glass. Personal interests, associations, and impulses guide the listener through an expanding selection of over sixty Glass works.
The interface is unusual, and takes a few moments to understand, but it lets you navigate Glass’s music in a variety of ways, such [...]

This MIDI DIY project looks at making a MIDI glockenspiel, aka Quasimodo’s Revenge

The idea was to take a child’s toy xylophone and get the computer to play it. Now I know that the computer is capable of making noises electronically but it is much more interesting to watch an instrument being automatically played. I am [...]

Classical minimalist composer Philip Glass, who wrote music for both the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 2004 Athens Games, isn’t looking forward to the competitions in Beijing.
“I think that we should pull out,” says Glass. “The Chinese are supposed to be taking care of human rights; they haven’t done it. The only reason we [...]