Category: News

MINI-FESTIVAL: Almost Silence

Posted on March 23, 2021June 11, 2021 by GPL

Guy Livingston is curating a mini-festival of music and silence in The Hague in June 2021. Featured artists are flutist Ned McGowan, poet Nafiss Nia, writer and radio-maker Aletta Becker, violinist Monica Germino, and pianist Saskia Lankhoorn. Concerts will take place mostly in The Hague, in June. See the menu above for details. Each event will feature musical or poetic themes of loss, disappearance, absence, calm, and quiet. June 13 “Almost Silence”, a piano concert by Guy Livingston in a

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Music in time of crisis

Posted on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 by GPL

There seems to be little that I can contribute to YouTube at the moment, and I avoid Zoom as much as possible. My response to the current health and political crises is in my radio shows and podcasts. Tune-in every Friday night to “The Bug” on iTunes or via streaming…

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Bombshell

Posted on May 5, 2019May 15, 2019 by GPL

Much to my astonishment, I have become briefly (and marginally) famous for my role (miniscule) in a film about Hollywood beauty Hedy Lamarr. Not only was she the sexiest woman on screen in the 1940s and 50s, but she also was an inventor, and worked with my favorite composer, George Antheil, on a patent for a “secret communications device”. Although nothing came of their brilliant invention, it turned out to be a stunning preview of frequency hopping, a technique which

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Duo with Sophie Dunèr

Posted on May 1, 2019May 15, 2019 by GPL

Sophie Dunèr and I met many years ago in Paris, through our mutual interest in George Antheil’s wacky music. Here’s a video we recorded this winter in Berlin, at SOWIESO.

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The (in)famous Newsletters

Posted on April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 by GPL

Yes, it’s true: Guy has become famous or infamous for his tongue-in-cheek retro newsletters, inspired by vintage advertisements, cereal boxes, and collector’s items:

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Moon Gallery

Posted on April 30, 2019October 9, 2020 by GPL

Guy Livingston is one of a hundred artists selected to create art for the Moon Gallery, which will probably be launched into space and land on the moon in 2022. This project, sponsored by ESTEC (European Space Agency) offers the chance to reflect on the issues of colonization, space travel, memory, politics, and space-time. From now until January 1st, you can view a model of the Moon Gallery and many of the artworks, including mine, at the old Observatory of

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Music, Architecture, and Silence

Posted on April 30, 2019November 1, 2019 by GPL

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That darned cat

Posted on April 29, 2019May 14, 2019 by GPL

Ketzel the Cat now she’s back in the news: Read the marvelous Children’s Book! “A kitten’s stroll down a keyboard leads to a celebrated one-minute composition in this charming portrait of a remarkable true friendship.” Moshe Cotel was a composer who lived in a noisy building on a noisy street in a noisy city. But Moshe didn’t mind. Everything he heard was music to his ears. One day, while out for a walk, he heard a small, sad sound that

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