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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”
sounds of Flint*
Tunde Olaniran, “Namesake,” 2016
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viewing fireflies
he takes a tumble . . .
There’s one!—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
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*Michigan.
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Tank and the Bangas, live (“Boxes and Squares,” “Quick,” “Rollercoasters”), Washington, D.C., 3/6/17
Steve Reich (1936-), Mallet Quartet (2009), So Percussion
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At worst, one is in motion; and at best,
Reaching no absolute, in which to rest,
One is always nearer by not keeping still.—Thom Gunn (1929-2004), “On the Move” (fragment)
sounds of Mali
Salif Keita, live, London, c. 2002
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What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), letter
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William Parker’s In Order To Survive (WP, bass; Hamid Drake, drums, MCOTD Hall of Fame; Cooper-Moore, piano, vocals; Lewis Barnes, trumpet; Rob Brown, alto saxophone), “Hymn,” live, New York, 2013
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He isn’t doing that right—that was a very important one. It was what Astaire claimed he was thinking whenever he watched himself onscreen, and I noted that third-person pronoun. This is what I understood by it: that for Astaire the person in the film was not especially connected with him. And I took this to heart, or rather, it echoed a feeling I already had, mainly that it was important to treat oneself as a kind of stranger, to remain unattached and unprejudiced in your own case. I thought you needed to think like that to achieve anything in this world. Yes, I thought that was a very elegant attitude.
—Zadie Smith, Swing Time
MCOTD Hall of Fame
William Parker’s In Order To Survive (WP, bass, composition; Hamid Drake, drums, MCOTD Hall of Fame;* Lewis Barnes, trumpet; Rob Brown, alto saxophone; Cooper-Moore, piano), “Criminals in the White House,” live, New York, 2013
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radio
Today—his birthday—it’s all Ornette Coleman all day on WKCR-FM (Columbia University).
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*With saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill; trumpeter Lester Bowie; gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates; composer Morton Feldman; poets John Berryman, William Bronk, and Wislawa Szymborska; and photographer Helen Levitt.
sounds of Detroit
John Lee Hooker (1912-2001), “Boom Boom” (J.L. Hooker), live, 1960s
The world may be going to hell, faster than ever, but in the meantime, at YouTube, this has over 11 million views.
sounds of Eau Claire*
Bon Iver, live, New York, 2016**
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*Wisconsin.
**Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
00:16 “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄”
02:58 “33 ‘GOD'”
06:45 “Heavenly Father”
10:50 “29 #Strafford APTS”
15:34 “Beach Baby”
18:31 “666 ʇ”
23:42 “715 – CRΣΣKS”
26:20 “Calgary”
31:01 “22 (OVER S∞∞N)”
34:42 “8 (circle)”
40:54 “Minnesota, WI”
48:13 “____45_____”
54:15 “Creature Fear”
1:00:35 “00000 Million”
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