sounds of Buenos Aires
Juana Molina (1961-, compositions, vocals, guitar), live (studio), Seattle, 2017
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A cicada shell;
it sang itself
utterly away.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Robert Hass
alone
Maja S. K. Ratkje (voice, electronics, miscellany), live, Chicago, 2014
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alone
Oren Ambarchi (guitar, electronics), live, San Francisco, 2016
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tonight in Chicago
She’s performing at Graham Foundation, Madlener House.
Matchess (aka Whitney Johnson, 1981-), “Of the Living” (video footage shot on Washington Island, Lake Michigan), 2018
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other day, Oak Park, Ill. (snow lightly falling)
tonight in Chicago
They’re playing at Elastic Arts.
Dave Rempis (alto saxophone), Brandon Lopez (bass), Ryan Packard (drums, electronics), live, New York, 2019
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How many traits
must a thing have
in order to be singular?—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Two, Three”
more
Agnes Obel, playing and talking (begins at 2:05; “Won’t You Call Me,” 3:00; “Island of Doom,” 13:55; “Broken Sleep,” 25:35), New York, 1/14/20
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what’s new
Balún, “Vaivén”, “La Nueva Ciudad”, “El Espanto,” “Punto De Encuentro,” live, Washington, D.C., 12/20/19
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sounds of outside and inside
This I could listen to all day.
Cool Maritime (AKA Sean Hellfritsch), from Sharing Waves, 2018
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The bush warbler
in a grove of bamboo sprouts
sings of growing old—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
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sounds of Haiti and Chicago
Nathalie Joachim (vocals, electronics) with Spektral Quartet, “Papa Loco” (trad.), live (studio), New York, published 10/29/19
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She cries. Oh no. Oh no no no.
—Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
From Buenos Aires to Helsinki.
Caterina Barbieri (modular synthesizer), live, Helsinki, 2018
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Reading is rapture (or if it isn’t, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door). A felicitously turned sentence can induce it. Or a description. Or unexpected behavior. Or ordinary behavior raised to the nth degree. Or intolerable suspense, as with the second half of Conrad’s Victory. Or the forward movement of prose that is bent only on saying what the writer has to say. Or dialogue that carries with it the unconscious flowering of character. Or, sometimes, a fact.
—William Maxwell (1908-2000), The Outermost Dream
