Saturday, December 20th
alone
Georg Friedrich Haas (1953-), Hommage a Steve Reich (1982)
Hans Ludemann (piano), live, Germany (Cologne), 2012
Each time I listen to this, it sounds different.
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Friday, December 18th
lucid, adj. translucent, pellucid, clear. E.g., Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians.
Steve Reich (1936-), Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76)
Ensemble Intercontemporain with Synergy Vocals, live, Paris, 2014
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reading table
the door latch
rusting scarlet . . .
winter rain—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
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random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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Sunday, December 13th
Hearing this voice, from a gone world, gives me goosebumps.
Vera Hall, “Death Is Awful,” live, Livingston, Ala., 1939
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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Friday, December 11th
what’s new
Joanna Newsom, “Leaving the City,” live (TV show), 12/8/15
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Thursday, December 10th
alone
Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board), live, England
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Wednesday, December 9th
Why God made “repeat.”
Morton Feldman (1926-1987; MCOTD Hall of Fame), Coptic Light (1986); Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Peter Eotvos, cond.), live, Amsterdam, 1998
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art beat
William Eggleston (1939-)
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Sunday, December 6th
like nobody else
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973), “That’s All,” live, France, 1960
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random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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Saturday, December 5th
Thurston Moore (guitar), Okkyung Lee (cello), Ikue Mori (laptop)
Live, New York, 2009
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musical thoughts
Music, too, is a continually expanding universe.
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Thursday, November 26th
two takes
Lee Morgan (trumpet) with Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Harold Mabern (piano), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Billy Higgins (drums), “Yes I Can, No You Can’t,” 1966
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S. Mos, mash-up (Tupac Shakur, “Holler If Ya Hear Me” [1993]), 2011
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And everything turns and turns
and the unknown turns into the song
that is the known, but what in turn
becomes of the song is not for us to say—Mark Strand (1934-2014), “The Webern Variations,” excerpt
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Saturday, November 21st
sounds of Mali and France
Amadou & Mariam with guest Bertrand Cantat, live, France (near Belfort), 2012
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reading table
We dream – it is good we are dreaming –
It would hurt us – were we awake –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #584 (Franklin), excerpt
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