Ever tire of a world so busy?
Alvin Lucier (1931-), Charles Curtis (solo cello with slow sweep pure wave oscillators [2002]), on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon (solo cello with pure wave oscillator [2000]), Alvin Lucier (electronics), Charles Curtis (cello), live, Detroit, 2014
sounds of Jamaica
Burning Spear, live, Paris, 1988
sounds of Chicago
Still fresh after seventy years.
John Cage (1912-1992), Credo in Us (1942)
Third Coast Percussion, live, Chicago, 2011
sounds of New York
More from the drummer on the new David Bowie album.
Mark Guiliana Beat Music (MG, drums; Stu Brooks, bass; Yuki Hirano, keyboards; with guests Steve Wall [tape recorder], Jeff Taylor [vocals]), live, New York, 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
Unknown –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #778 (Franklin), last line
more sounds of Kinshasa*
Mbongwana Star, “Malukayi” (feat. Konono No. 1), 2015
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*Democratic Republic of Congo.
sounds of Kinshasa*
Mbongwana Star, “Kala,” 2015
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Birds, plants, music—one of the most astonishing things about this most astonishing world is its variousness.
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*Democratic Republic of Congo.
alone
Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board), live, England
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
Thurston Moore (guitar), Okkyung Lee (cello), Ikue Mori (laptop)
Live, New York, 2009
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Music, too, is a continually expanding universe.
Need a jolt?
Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board) and Many Arms (Nick Millevoi, guitar; John DeBlase, bass; Ricardo Lagomasino, drums), live, Philadelphia, 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
two takes
“I Never Learnt to Share” (J. Blake)
Spektral Quartet (arr. Chris Fisher-Lochhead), live, Chicago, 2015
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James Blake, live, Berlin, 2011
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
When we’re full of music, we’re free of everything else.
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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