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JEFFREY JACOB, Piano 1/10 Guest Artist Recital 8 p.m., Beall Hall Performing contemporary piano music. FREE Admission Tue. GLEB KARPUSHKIN, Horn 1/13 ALEXANDER TUTUNOV, Piano Guest Artist Recital 8 p.m., Beall Hall One of Russia's leading horn players. FREE Admission Fri. OREGON JAZZ ENSEMBLE 1/16 with DIANE MONROE, Jazz Violin UO Ensemble & Guest Artist 8 p.m., Beall Hall $5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens Sun. 1/18 Wed. 1/21 Thur. 1/22 Fri. 1/23 Wed. 1/28 RICHARD GWILT, Baroque Violin WINNIE KERNER, Harpsichord Guest Artist Recital 4 p.m., Beall Hall Scottish and Italian music from the 18th century. $9 General Admission, $5 students & senior citizens UO CHAMBER CHOIR UO Ensemble 8 p.m., Beall Hall $5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens OREGON STRING QUARTET with DIANE MONROE, Violin UO Faculty Ensemble & Guest Artist 8 p.m., Beall Hall $9 General Admission, $5 students & senior citizens “NO TENORS” Vocal Recital Benefit for UO Opera Program 8 p.m., Beall Hall Music by Mozart, Verdi, Donizetti, and Weill. $18 and $10 reserved seats; 346-4363 for tickets OREGON WIND ENSEMBLE UO Ensemble 8 p.m., Beall Hall FREE Admission o UNIVERSITY OF ORECON For our complete calendar, check: music.uoregon.edu Karney sucks competently Mediocrity is Karney's strong point; her band excels at reminding listeners of better, dynamic music By Ryan Nyburg Senior Pulse Reporter After so many great singer-song writers passed on to the big folk festi val in the sky last year, it's good to see that a new batch is attempting to take the reins. But while making an effort is a laudable act, so is good songwrit ing. Funny how that fact seems to es cape so many people. One of the most recent of these no talent demon-spawn is Kamey (yep, just "Kamey"), whose self-titled album is somehow able to exemplify all that is mundane and worthless in rock music. An amazing feat for certain, especially from an apparent newcomer, but I've never been one to doubt the potential for everyday people to create music that truly and honestly sucks. The problem does not lie in a lack of talent. Kamey and her band are com petent musicians in their own blandly tunctional sort of way, but they nev er use their skill toward anything more than repeating the standard rock forms of years past. The music never strives to be anything new or inventive; in fact the band even seems to scorn any inven tive behavior instead of aiming for the predictable and boring. But in itself, the music is not the problem. Many songwriters have over come worthless accompaniment by the pure force of their lyrical and melodic power. Kamey is not one of this select few. Lyrically, her songs are stripped-down tales of drugs, lost love, want and rebellion. All pretty standard REVIEW fare these days, and Kamey doesn't re ally add anything new to the mix, other than maybe a startling lack of detail. In fact, the songs are so stripped that they cannot possibly hold any connec tion to real life. While they are more than likely about something, this does not necessarily translate into something meaningful. Throughout the album, Kamey fails to make any convincing ar gument as to why anyone should care. Someone also might have wanted to point out to her that no matter how much you twist your vocal inflection, "earth" and "dirt" do not rhyme. With all that said, I would like to offer my sincerest thanks to Tom Heinl for putting out a record worth hearing. This Eugene resi dent's latest, entitled "With or Without Me," is certainly an inter esting piece of work. Featuring a wide variety of local musicians playing background, Heinl Turn to HEINL, page 10 ISRAEL continued from page 6 rorism except for incredibly tight secu rity measures in odd places, such as malls. After our group left Tel Aviv, a bomb was detonated at a bus stop out side the city in a suburb that we had passed only days before. The moment was startling, like looking in the mirror and seeing your own mortality. One of the most touching experi ences I had in the country came from a fortunate interaction with a tour guide at Independence Hall. Our docent was a woman, about my mother's age, who told us point blank that she did not want her children to serve in the army (2-3 years of military service is compulsory in Israel after high school graduation, and college is postponed until later) but she added that it would be unfair to ask that they be given ex ceptions, and that they would proba bly be fine. However, her voice be trayed her statement and I could sense her suppressed fear. Still, I also noticed the strong confidence at her core that so many of these people tap into. Although Israel is a country where people cannot dig more then a few inches down before uncovering arche ological remains, the country is, for the most part, shockingly Westernized. For me, the phrase "Middle East" con jured images of crowded dirty cities, bumpy roads, camels and people in Steven Neuman Freelance Photographer The Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is considered one of the holiest sites to modern Jews. The Dome of the Rock (center) is sacred to Muslims. ancient fashion. These images could not be further from the truth. The country seems more like Southern California than anything else. The cities feel like incarnations of Ameri can ones with a slight twist, and the citizens dress more fashionably than most in Eugene. The only camels we ended up seeing belonged to the Bedouin (one of the last Arab no madic tribes) who left them tied up outside their tents next to their cars. One of the few exceptions to this seeming normality was the prevalence of soldiers. Having armed forces so prevalent constantly breaks the illu sion that these cities could just be San Diego. The Israeli army is everywhere in the country, and it is as much a part of the youth culture as, say, going away to school for the "college experi ence" is for Americans. Twenty-year old Israelis, dressed in green fatigues with semi-automatic weapons strung around their necks, stroll around tourist destinations (the army takes the soldiers on sightseeing tours of the country as part of their duty) talk ing on their cell phones. It is a surreal sight, made even more so by the sol diers' close proximity to my own age. Steven Neuman is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. Reggio’s film shows life as war ‘Naqoyqatsi,’ the third in a series of films from director Godfrey Reggio, is ideal for renting on DVD By Aaron Shakra Pulse Editor A forgotten film need not be limit ed to something old, especially when the film didn't even play on the big screen in Eugene. "Naqoyqatsi," which ran theatrically in 2002 but missed the Emerald City, has re cently been released on video. This is the third film of Godfrey Reggio's "-qatsi" series, so named after words from the Hopi lan guage. "Koyaanisqatsi," released in 1983, translates to "life out of bal ance." "Powaqqatsi," released in 1988, translates to "life in transfor mation." And finally, with "Naqoyqatsi," we have, "life as war," or "war as a way of life." The producers add their own interpreta tion of this word, which is "civi lized violence." The word "tone poem" is fre FORGOTTEN FILMS Courtesy Stills from Godfrey Reggio's "Naqoyqatsi,” which was recently released on video and DVD. quently used to describe this style of film, arguably pioneered (or at least popularized) by director Reggio. Each is a series of filmed images de livered to a sweeping orchestral score by Philip Glass. While the titles describe the narra tive theme of each of the films, the tag line for "Naqoyqatsi" is some what misleading, because it disguis es the multiple meanings the film contains. Yes, images of war are prevalent, but these are also paral leled with those of technology, biol ogy, industry and modernization. Obviously, the connection here is that these two are inextricably linked. What might not be so obvi ous is how humans have increasing ly come to reflect their own creations — that this drive toward war and civ ilization is ultimately dehumaniz ing, alienating and out of balance with sustainable living. Of course, this might be assum ing too much. Since "Naqoyqatsi" is entirely image and music-driven and completely lacks dialogue, there is space for a viewer to make Turn to NAQOYQATSI, page 11
