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All Fired Up

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
All Fired Up

Eileen Sackman has been setting fires forever. At midnight on Friday, Oct. 23, the small shack containing the wood firing kiln on the campus of SUNY New Paltz was covered in a blue tarp as rain poured down on the six students watching their work transform within the intense 2,350 degree heat. The ancient craft of... »

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From Coltrane to Quatrane

Thursday, October 29th, 2009
From Coltrane to Quatrane

The improvisational music of Miles Davis reverberates off the walls in the college dorm room of Vince Tampio and Mike Kadnar. These two SUNY New Paltz music students make up half of the jazz band Quatrane. Jazz flows emotionally through the instruments of these musicians and transforms into notes for their listeners to experience. The quartet fell... »

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Sound Off! Meet Brett Barry

Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Sound Off! Meet Brett Barry

Communications professor Brett Barry has been in the voice acting business for many years. He incorporates his love of editing with his love for voice acting in his home studio. In this piece, reporter Sarah Calandra Fine interviews Barry about experiences. »

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Visiting Fite’s Magnum ‘Opus’

Friday, September 25th, 2009
Visiting Fite’s Magnum ‘Opus’

Imagine waking up every day consumed with the one thought, one goal, one destination. Such an obsession consumed sculptor Harvey Fite, as he spent 37 years working on his life’s work, Opus 40. Fite’s piece, which spreads out over six acres of land, is compiled of finely fitted stones, curved ramps, fountains out of... »

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