like nobody else
In a world of too much—news, suffering, noise—he offers a small, quiet space to inhabit.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For John Cage (1982); Jesse Mills (violin), Rieko Aizawa (piano), live, New York (Bargemusic, Brooklyn), 7/30/21
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Ukraine
Alyona Alyona (1991-), “Open,” 2018
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Any fence maintains the other / side is “without form.”
—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “As We’re Told”
sounds of New York
Brandon Lopez (bass), Mat Maneri (viola), live, New York, 2/22/22 (published yesterday)
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), detail from Interchanged (1955)
sounds of Berlin
Stephan Bodzin (DJ), live, Berlin, 2015
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Ukraine
Valentin Silvestrov (1937-), Requiem for Larissa (1997-1998, written in memory of the composer’s wife); Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra (Hobart Earle, cond.) and the National Choir of Ukraine (Yevhen Savchuk, choirmaster ), live, Odessa (Ukraine), 2018
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A sound-world like no other.
Enno Poppe (1969-), Prozession (2015/20); Ensemble Musikfabrik (Enno Poppe, cond.), live, Leipzig (Germany), 11/22/20
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Ukraine
Alyona Alyona (1991-)
“Рими на бітах,” 12/6/21
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“Стержень” (feat. KALUSH, et al.), 2020
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“Голови,” 2018
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. . . all news feels foreign today . . .
—Mike McCormack, Solar Bones (2016)
timeless
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Rothko Chapel (1971); Nikola Kachanov Singers and Russian Chamber Singers of New York (Nikolai Kachanov, direction) with Jessica Meyer (viola), Zen Wu (soprano), Issei Herr (cello), Jeffrey Irving (percussion), Roberta Michel (flute), Mikhail Zeiger (celesta), live, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, 6/2/19
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Mark Rothko (1903-1970), detail from Untitled (Purple, White, and Red), 1953
sounds of Chicago
Ben Lamar Gay, “Oh Great Be the Lake” (B. Gay), published 10/6/21 (Open Arms to Open Us, 2021)
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sounds of Paris
Ensemble Intercontemporain (Matthias Pintscher, direction), live, Paris, 2015: Helmut Lachenmann (1935-), Mouvement (-Vor der Erstarrung), 1984
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A dry riverbed
glimpsed
by lightning.—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass
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