Ever wondered why Salford and Manchester aren’t the same city? Or why Manchester is so much more dominant than Salford? Or why Salford itself feels unlike any other city in Britain?
A surprising number of people don’t realise that Salford isn’t already part of Manchester, or that it’s even a city of its own. So what would be the good things and the bad things about officially joining the cities together? And how would you feel if Salford was no more?
01:08 – The Salford Oddity
04:47 – Why Manchester is Bigger than Salford
10:01 – Co-existing cities
12:42 – The Arguments For
16:05 – The Arguments Against
I’m building a magical structure with bamboo! This week Anastasia is in Bali, where she is learning how to build with bamboo — one of the world’s most sustainable, strong and innovative materials. She learns this way of craftsmanship from local carpenters and architects and has so many plans for starting new projects back at home!
You can find out more about Bamboo U here! https://www.bamboou.com/?utm_source=y…
We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land.
In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.
Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country.
We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.
Chapters:
0:00 A magical world of bamboo!
1:05 Starting to build a playground from bamboo
1:54 Building small simple structures from bamboo
3:24 Building a roof from only bamboo
4:56 Joinery and carpentry – learning balinese handicraft
7:34 Harvesting bamboo from the rainforest
9:41 Propagation
10:38 Bamboo treatment
11:37 Learning so much while playground building
12:38 Matriarchal design in architecture
14:04 The Green School! A magical utopia built entirely from bamboo
15:46 Crafting a small construction model
17:17 Hot days of hard work
18:35 A tour of the permaculture farm – The Kul Kul Farm
20:08 Finishing the bamboo build!
Beethoven wrote his 32nd and final sonata Op 111 in 1822. He was 51 years old. With it, he completed an extraordinary and unbroken sequence of masterpieces, dating back to his early sonatas Op 2 of 1795. Nevertheless, Beethoven declared, after its completion, that the piano is “after all an unsatisfactory instrument” and turned to the string quartet as his primary field of compositional research until his death in 1827.
The final sonata has two highly contrasting movements: a ferocious and defiant Allegro in C minor, and a beautiful Arietta with four variations followed by a long, rhapsodic and ethereal coda, which itself contains a transcendent 5th variation. The music in this video comes from the second movement’s third variation: a study in compound rhythm, with wild syncopations, which seem to foreshadow the rhythmic innovations of Jazz and boogie-woogie, more than 100 years later.
Beethoven was almost completely deaf at the time he composed this music. Remarkably, his disability seems somehow to have enabled him to voyage into his own inner world of compositional exploration, driven primarily by his own visionary imagination.
MUSICAL EXCERPTS USED IN THIS VIDEO
Excerpt from the second movement of Beethoven’s 32nd piano sonatas Op 111
Pianist: Matthew King
Fasil Say can be heard playing Beethoven’s ‘boogie-woogie’ variation here: • Fazıl Say – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32…
Penelope Crawford can be heard playing Beethoven’s Op 111 on an original Fortepiano in this video. The score is in Beethoven’s handwriting: • Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 32, Op. 111 (…
There are numerous recordings of Op 111 on modern piano on YouTube. Two fine recordings by Igor Levit and Michael Korstick can be heard with the scores here: • Beethoven: Sonata No.32 in C Minor, Op.111…
Mitsiko Uchida’s recording can be heard here: • Beethoven: Sonata Op.111 No.32 in C Minor …
Andrew Schiff can be seen performing Op 111 here: • Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 C minor Op 11…
Mondrian’s painting, Broadway Boogie Woogie, was completed in 1943 in New York City. It was inspired both by the African-American Blues piano music which Mondrian loved, and by the city grid of Manhattan.
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