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A Man in a Room Gambling (1997 Audio)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD), £14.95 (inclusive)

An audio recording of a performance, originally broadcast on BBC radio, in which British composer Gavin Bryars and Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz conceived a series of five-minute pieces about card tricks....

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John Cage Talks of His Work and Aesthetic (1969)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), £95.00

Conversation between avant garde composer John Cage and Jack Kroll, senior arts editor at Newsweek magazine. Cage was a composer and a philosopher of aesthetics, whose revolutionary definitions of music...

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Isle of Temples, The: Bali (1994 Video)

Director

Deben Bhattacharya

Producer

Deben Bhattacharya

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £29.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows the day-to-day life of the islanders of Bali, a Hindu island - their folksongs, gamelan orchestras and dance dramas. The temple is the focal point of each village where the villagers gather for...

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Taking Note (1994 Video)

Producer

Mags Noble

Subject

Music

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses the importance of notation in the history, performance and composition of music in the western European tradition. Music historian Susan Rankin traces the origins and development of western...

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Trip to Asia (2009)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £19.99

Documenting THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA’s tour of Asia, including their first performance in China since 1979, THOMAS GRUBE’s extraordinary film offers privileged access to one of the world’s...

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Mic Drop (2017)

Director

Keith Piper

Subject

American Studies; Film studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 12 minutes), On request

When Obama dropped the microphone, he knew what he was doing: this gesture remains a powerful way of underlining some final words. Derived from the 1980s rap scene, it signals the point when words reach...

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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Sicilia!, Une Visite Au Louvre (2010)

Director

Daniele Huillet; Jean-Marie Straub

Subject

Art; Music; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 202 minutes), £17.99

CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH covers the years of Bach’s life from his marriage to Anna Magdalena to his death in 1748. ‘It is at once a love story, a documentary, a socio-political statement, and a...

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Successful Sound for Video (1996)

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, VHS (34 min), £49.00 inclusive

One of a series of six programmes covering different areas of video production. Each programme is delivered in sections punctuated with key point summaries. Sound recording for video can be divided into...

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Rave New World (1994 Video)

Director

Paul Sen

Producer

Paul Sen

Subject

Medical sciences; Psychiatry

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1998 sale: £19.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the rave experience from a technological point of view - the music, the lighting, the new video technology and the neuroscience of the drug Ecstasy. Looks at research into the long-term effects of...

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Culture Dans Tous Ses États, La (1997 Video)

aka: Arts in France, The

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes, 2001 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Part of a course consisting of 3 broadcasts and 7 study packs, all relating to different aspects of contemporary France. Each study pack consists of a videocassette, 2 audiocassettes, a transcript booklet, a...

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