tonight in Chicago
These guys will be at Constellation.
Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit (PNL, drums; Lasse Marhaug, electronics and turntable, et al.), “Culius,” live, Germany (Moers), 2014
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art beat: more from Tuesday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Luc Mylayne (1946-), Mutual Regard (through August 23rd)
Imaginary Landscapes: A Film on Brian Eno (1989)
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musical thoughts
I wanted to make a kind of music that had the long now and the big here.
—Brian Eno
More of Ornette.
Ornette Coleman Trio (David Izenzon, bass; Charles Moffett, percussion), playing and talking, Paris, 1966
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art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
sounds of Chicago
Here, set to music, is a poem by Dorothy Parker (1893-1967).
Katie Ernst, “Bric-a-Brac” (music by K. Ernst), live (studio performance), Chicago, 2015
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Little things that no one needs—
Little things to joke about—
Little landscapes, done in beads.
Little morals, woven out,
Little wreaths of gilded grass,
Little brigs of whittled oak
Bottled painfully in glass;
These are made by lonely folk.Lonely folk have lines of days
Long and faltering and thin;
Therefore—little wax bouquets,
Prayers cut upon a pin,
Little maps of pinkish lands,
Little charts of curly seas,
Little plats of linen strands,
Little verses, such as these.
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random sights and sounds
Last night, while riding my bike in Chicago’s Columbus Park, I bumped into this—a performance by Isabelle Olivier (harp), Larry Gray (bass), and Paul Wertico (drums).
And, too, this great blue heron.
what’s new
Björk, “Stonemilker” (360 degree virtual reality), 2015
not like this, not like that
Nate Wooley, “Polychoral for trumpets and 8-channel audio”; Nate Wooley & Peter Evans (trumpets), live, New York (Knockdown Center), 2015
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musical thoughts
In 1915 no one had heard an electric guitar. In 2065 sounds we’ve never heard will be commonplace. What will they be?
Some sounds seem as though they’ve always been there—you just didn’t notice them until now.
Tim Hecker (right) & Daniel Lopatin (left), live, Belgium (Leuven), 2013
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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Waterloo Bridge Sunlight Effect (1903)
In response to Monday’s post on Dylan covers, a reader commented:
Fairport Convention’s “Si tu dois partir” (a French-language version of “If You Gotta Go, Go Now”) comes to mind.
Fairport Convention, “Si tu dois partir” (B. Dylan), recording, 1969
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random sights
Tuesday morning
Louisville, Kentucky
keep on dancin’
Four Tet (AKA Kieran Hebden), live, London, 2015
How many DJs lead off with Albert Ayler?
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random sights
Monday morning
Louisville, Kentucky
Great Dylan covers? The list is surprisingly short. There’s Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower.” And Johnny Winter’s “Highway 61 Revisited.” And this.
Antony and the Johnsons, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (B. Dylan)
