26 July 2012

There's only One Direction! By Mathilde



Have you heard about the latest music phenomenon? It’s a British boys' band know all over the world. It is composed of: Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik.

At the beginning of the year, One Direction began to be know thanks to their song “What Makes You Beautiful?”. Every girl aged 10 to 16 dreams about these five boys who sing about inner beauty and feelings. Girls are crazy about 1D and contribute to a blog and a page on facebook. Some even go to see the house of their favourite band member!

One Direction is a band really close to its fans. All members have a Twitter account and tweet almost every day. All over the world girls and boys can talk to their idols!

Now I will present you each member of the band: Harry Styles is 18, the youngest member. Zayn Malik is 19 and is the girls' favourite. Louis Tomlinson is 20 and he’s the joker of the band. Liam is 19 and he’s calm and reasonable. And Niall is 19 and he is the little boy of the band and also the only Irishman.

One Direction is a boys band which is becoming big in the music world because all the guys are from X-Factor, the Music TV show. People sometimes think that their voices are not real. In a world where the techniques of synthesizing voice and music is ubiquitous, it will take years for One Direction to prove they are not just a passing fad.

During my trip to Portland I was astounded by the massive following this band has there. When will they become better known here?!

11 July 2012

Unprepared piano...


Something to do...

Find pieces by John Cage that illustrate the photos from the series by Chris Jordon "In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster".