Saturday, 10/8/11

Melody?

Just little fragments now and then.

Harmony?

None in the usual sense.

Rhythm?

Ditto.

What is there?

A sonic space you inhabit the way you would a dream.

Olivia Block, composer, sound artist, performer; “field recordings on damaged cassette tapes,” “controlled feedback from small speakers/contact mic,” “amplified autoharp” (YouTube post); Chicago (Saki Records), 2010

Vodpod videos no longer available.

You’ve got to be bold, or nuts, or both to do what these Saki folks did last year in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood—open a new record store.

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lagniappe

reading table

summer moon—
there is no such thing
as a flawless night

—Kobayashi Issa, 1812 (trans. David G. Lanoue)