Friday, February 9th
sounds of Iceland
Kiasmos, live, Iceland (Reykjavik), 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
today, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
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Category: miscellaneous electronics
2018
Tuesday, February 6th
sounds of Iceland
GusGus, live, Iceland (Reykjavik), 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
today, Oak Park, Ill.
2017
Saturday, October 14th
sounds of Chicago, Amsterdam, Vienna
Made to Break (Ken Vandermark, tenor saxophone, compositions; Tim Daisy, drums; Jasper Stadhouders, bass; Christof Kurzmann, electronics), live, Macedonia (Skopje), 2016
“Dial the Number”
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“Theme”
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lagniappe
reading table
Offering
by W.S. Merwin (1927-)Saturday morning and the trades
are back trading out of the east
offering their samples of cloud
each the only one of its kind
and each of them changing even
as it is offered only once
without a word except the one
sound of hushing to say that this
is all happening in secret
this unrepeatable present
only today for the lucky one
2017
Thursday, October 12th
mesmerizing
John Luther Adams (1953-), Four Thousand Holes (2010)
Taka Kigawa (piano), Chris Graham (percussion), live, New York, 2017
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lagniappe
reading table
This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
2017
Thursday, September 14th
more
Kaija Saariaho (1952-), Petals (1988; cello and electronics); Imke Frank (cello) and Gary Berger (live electronics), live, Switzerland (Winterthur), 2011
2017
Wednesday, February 8th
not the same old stuff
Maja S. K. Ratkje, live (performance begins at 1:30), Norway (Kristiansand), 2013
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lagniappe
reading table
Happy (106th) Birthday, Elizabeth
From the few states I have seen I should now immediately select Florida as my favorite. I don’t know whether you have been here or not—it is so wild, and what there is of cultivation seems rather dilapidated and about to become wild again. On the way down we took a very slow train from Jacksonville here. All day long it went through swamps and turpentine camps and palm forests and in a beautiful pink evening it began stopping at several little stations. The stations were all off at a tangent from the main track and it necessitated first going by, then stopping, backing up, stopping, starting again—with many puffs of white smoke, blowing of the whistle, advice from the loiterers around the station—all to throw off one limp bag of mail.
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), letter to Marianne Moore, January 5, 1937
2017
Tuesday, February 7th
not the same old stuff
Éliane Radigue (1932-), L’Île re-sonante (2000)
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lagniappe
random sights
last night, Oak Park, Ill.
2017
Monday, February 6th
not the same old stuff
Dana Jessen (bassoon), Points Against Fields (Sam Pluta), live, Chicago, 2016
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
So many sounds, made by so many people, we’ll never hear, no matter how much we listen.
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2017
Saturday, January 28th
tonight in Chicago
She’ll be at Stony Island Arts Bank.
Sarah Davachi (1987-), “As the Morning,” 2014
art beat: other day, The Guggenheim (New York)
Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Untitled #5, 1998
2017
Monday, January 23rd
three takes
Mica Levi, “Love” (soundtrack, Under the Skin)
Oliver Coates (cello and electronics), live, London, 2014
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Stargaze, live, Netherlands (The Hague), 2016
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Recording, 2014
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