Judging from the sounds I hear outside my door in the morning, birds don’t seem to have gotten the memo.
John Luther Adams (1953-), songbirdsongs (1974-80); Callithumpian Consort (Stephen Drury, dir.), 2012
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Monadnock Building)
like nobody else
Charmaine Lee (voice), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 4/17/20
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art beat: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 3/6/20
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Number 1A, 1948 (detail)
This I could listen to all day.
Generations Quartet: Billy Hart (1940-, percussion, lower left), Bob Moses (1948-, percussion, upper left), Dafnis Prieto (1974-, percussion, upper right), Marcelo Perez (1997-, percussion, lower right), live, Boston, 2019
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
alone
Aruan Ortiz (1973-, piano), live, 6/11/20
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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Pure white plum blossoms
slowly begin to turn
the color of dawn—Yosa Buson (1716-1784), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
what’s new
Little Dragon, “Rush,” “Where You Belong,” “Forever,” “Every Rain,” live (home studio), Sweden (Gothenburg), 6/18/20
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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These lazy spring days
continue—but how far away
those times called Long Ago!—Yosa Buson (1716-1784), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
more
Henry Threadgill (1944-, MCOTD Hall of Fame), alto saxophone, compositions
Very Very Circus, live, New York, 1995
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Society Situation Dance Band, live, Germany (Hamburg), 1988
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Paris
Pierre Boulez (1925-2016), . . . explosante-fixe . . . (for solo MIDI flute, two “shadow” flutes, chamber orchestra, and electronics, 1991–93); Ensemble Intercontemporain (Matthias Pintscher, cond.), live, Paris, 2015
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
MCOTD Hall of Fame
His music I first encountered over 40 years ago, and it’s been a perpetual source of joy and inspiration ever since.
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid (HT, 1944-, alto saxophone, composition [MCOTD Hall of Fame]; Jose Dávila, tuba; Liberty Ellman, guitar; Stomu Takeishi, bass; Elliot Kavee, drums), live, Italy ( Cormòns), 2008
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random sights
other day, Chicago
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reading table
In this world
we walk on the roof of hell,
gazing at flowers.—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
like nothing else
Evan Parker ElectroAcoustic Nonet (Evan Parker, saxophone; Barry Guy, bass; Paul Lytton, drums; Peter Evans, trumpet; Okkyung Lee, cello; Sten Sandell, piano; Richard Barrett, electronics; Paul Obermayer, electronics; Sam Pluta, electronics), live, France (Mulhouse), 2015
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random sights
other day, Chicago
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A melancholic introspection retrospective
Was taking place in a white-walled room called Summer Was.—Mary Jo Bang (1946-), from “Don’t” (Elegy, 2007)
Scott Robinson (1959-, contrabass saxophone), “8 min. 46 sec.,” 6/6/20
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