Tuesday, October 28th
What she’s saying I don’t understand—and it doesn’t matter.
Moniek Darge and her music boxes, Belgium (Ghent), 2011
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2014
Monday, October 27th
Need a lift?
Konono No. 1, “Makembe”
Live (enhanced footage), France (Festival St. Nazaire), 2009
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières), 1887
2014
Monday, October 20th
Why not start the week with a parade?
Divine Ladies Social Aid and Pleasure Club Parade (with Stooges Brass Band), New Orleans, 2009
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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), Second Liners, New Orleans, 1961
2014
Friday, October 17th
sounds of Japan
Perfume, live, Tokyo, 2014
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lagniappe
art beat
Garry Winogrand (1928-1984), New York (Metropolitan Opera), c. 1951
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musical thoughts
No musical pleasure is “guilty.”
2014
Thursday, October 16th
Like you’ve never heard him before.
James Tenney (1934-2006), Collage No. 1 (“Blue Suede”), 1961
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lagniappe
art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), Detroit, 1955
2014
Wednesday, October 15th
sounds of Argentina
Juana Molina, live, Paris, 2013*
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Tempo, rhythm, improvisation—baseball, too, is music.
Mike Moustakas (third base), Kansas City Royals, 10/14/14
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
– Wed 21 00:50
– Eras 04:06
– Lo decidi yo 10:11
– Ay, no se ofendan 14:41
– Un dia 21:20
– Las edades 29:03
– Sin guia, no 34:59
– Final feliz 41:15
2014
Thursday, October 9th
keep on dancing
“Since The Accident”
Obsolete Music Technology, 2012
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Specter’s Shattered Mix, 2012
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lagniappe
reading table
“Come this way, this way
blind man!”
little butterfly—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2014
Wednesday, October 8th
This I could listen to all day.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Palais de Mari (1986); Blair McMillen (piano) & Ryan Olivier (video processing), live, Philadelphia, 2014
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
My obsession with surface is the subject of my music. In that sense, my compositions are really not ‘compositions’ at all. One might call them time canvases in which I more or less prime the canvas with an overall hue of the music.
—Morton Feldman, “Between Categories” (Give My Regards to Eighth Street)
2014
Tuesday, October 7th
what’s new
Ashley Paul, “I’m In You” (Heat Source), 2014
2014
Saturday, October 4th
more Miles
Miles Davis Septet,* “Yesternow,” live, Norway (Oslo), 1971
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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), Japan (Hiroshima), 1984
*MD (trumpet), Gary Bartz (alto saxophone), Keith Jarrett (keyboards), Michael Henderson (bass), Leon Chandler (drums), Don Alias (percussion), James “Mtume” Forman (percussion).
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