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Mochizuki Harutaka (alto saxophone), live, Japan (Hamamatsu), 2011
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Even in Kyoto—
hearing the cuckoo’s cry—
I long for Kyoto.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694; translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago (lunch hour)
Ilse Bing (1899-1998), Three Men Sitting on Steps at the Seine, Paris (1931)
sounds from all over
Russia
Anton Maskeliade, “Crown,” Moscow, 2014
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Japan
Perfume, “Sweet Refrain,” 2013
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Egypt
Cellar Door, “Blind,” 2013
sounds of Japan
What do you get when you cross Abba and the Chipmunks?
Perfume, “1 mm,” 2013
Some sounds once they enter your brain they never leave.
Perfume, “Baby Cruising Love” (2008)
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How little we know,
and when we know it!*****
We close in on ourselves,
then yelp that the world is awry.*****
We had macaroni for lunch every day
except Sunday, when a small quail was induced
to be served to us. Why do I tell you these things?
You are not even here.—John Ashbery, miscellaneous fragments (“Like A Sentence,” “Tahiti Trot,” “This Room”)
sounds of Nigeria
Fela Kuti, live (filmed by Ginger Baker), Nigeria (Calabar), 1971
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art beat: yesterday at Chicago’s Art Institute
Oda Kazuma, Catching Whitebait at Nakaumi, Izumo (1924)
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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1953-54
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. . . life, that storm before the calm.
—Wislawa Szymborska, from “Negative” (trans. Clare Cavanagh & Stanislaw Baranczak, Monologue of a Dog [2006])
sounds from Tokyo
(an occasional series)
Live from Tokyo (2010)
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