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Han Bennink (drums, 4/17/1942-), live, Amsterdam, 4/15/17
With Ab Barrs (tenor saxophone), Terrie Ex (guitar)
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With ICP (Instant Composers Pool) Orchestra and friends
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art beat
William Klein (1928-), New York, 1950s
sounds of Russia
One-word review: mesmerizing.
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-), Fachwerk for bayan, percussion, and string orchestra (2009); Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, live, 2013
musical movements
Urban Bush Women, “Walking with ‘Trane” (fragments, commentary), Rockville, Md., 2015
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random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
Sounds so soft they might, it seems, be emanating from your mind.
Jürg Frey (1953-), Floating Categories (2015), live, England (Bristol), 2016
This, I just found, has more than 21 million views. (Where have I been?)
Florence and the Machine, “Cosmic Love”
Live (studio performance), Seattle, 2010
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I had been happy, happy enough, but now I often found myself uttering a spontaneous prayer that went, simply: She is here, still here.
—George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Think you know what a trumpet sounds like?
Nate Wooley (trumpet), live, New York, 4/3/17
#1
#2
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lights have entered
us it is a music more powerfulthan music
—George Oppen (1908-1984), “Till Other Voices Wake Us,” fragment
This I could listen to all day.
Eva-Maria Houben (1955-), lines
R. Andrew Lee (piano), live, Denver, 3/8/17
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random sights
yesterday evening, Oak Park, Ill.
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Yasmine Hamdan, “Beirut,” 2014
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No Romance sold unto
Could so enthrall a Man –
As the perusal of
His Individual One –‘Tis Fiction’s – to dilute to plausibility
Our – Novel. When ’tis small eno’
To credit – ‘Tis’nt true –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 590 (Franklin)
Soundtrack for a man in a box trying to escape.
Ab Baars (tenor saxophone), “Asor,” live, Amsterdam, 2014
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I thought that you were an anchor in the drift of the world;
but no: there isn’t an anchor anywhere.
There isn’t an anchor in the drift of the world. Oh no.
I thought you were. Oh no. The drift of the world.—William Bronk (1918-1999, MCOTD Hall of Fame), “The World”
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