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Category: miscellaneous electronics

Saturday, March 15th

serendipity*

Christopher DeLaurenti (sampling Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On” [1971]), live, Seattle, 2009


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lagniappe

reading table: passings

Bill Knott, February 17, 1940-March 12, 2014

Night Thought

Compared to one’s normal clothes, pajamas
are just as caricature as the dreams
they bare: farce-skins, facades, unserious
soft versions of the mode diem, they seem
to have come from a posthumousness;
floppy statues of ourselves, slack seams
of death. Their form mimics the decay
that will fit us so comfortably someday.

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*This I bumped into yesterday, listening to the radio (WFMU: Miniature Minotaurs [Kurt Gottschalk]).

Friday, March 14th

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

Friday, March 7th

two takes

Weary of winter? Here in Chicago we’ve had six feet of snow. How about a little trip south, way south, to Argentina?

Juana Molina, “Un Dia”

Live (TV show), c. 2010


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Recording, 2008


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lagniappe

found words

This just in from Spotify:

Now trending near you. Bob Dylan.

Wednesday, February 19th

sounds of Chicago

Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things (MR, drums; Jason Roebke, bass; Greg Ward, alto saxophone; Tim Haldeman, tenor saxophone), “Wilbur’s Tune,” live, Paris, 2010

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Mike Reed’s Myth/Science Assembly (MR, drums; Tomas Fujiwara, drums; Josh Abrams, bass; Greg Ward, alto saxophone; Ingrid Laubrock, tenor saxophone; Taylor Ho Bynum, trumpet; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Tomeka Reid, cello; Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone; Nick Butcher, electronics), live (rearranging a found Sun Ra fragment [excerpt]), Chicago (Chicago Jazz Festival), 2011

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Mike Reed’s Loose Assembly (MR, drums; Josh Abrams, bass; Greg Ward, alto saxophone; Tomeka Reid, cello; Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone), live (studio performance), Chicago, c. 2009

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If other Chicago musicians are “busy,” what’s Mike Reed? In addition to leading various groups, he owns and operates Constellation, a performing arts center. Then there’s the Pitchfork Music Festival, which this summer will feature, over the course of three days, Beck, Giorgio Moroder, Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, et al. He books and produces it.

Tuesday, January 28th

This just in from my son Luke (now twenty-two, living in Kansas City):

Did you see Stevie Wonder last night with Daft Punk?

Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk, “Get Lucky,” live (Grammy Awards), 1/26/14

Saturday, January 25th

sounds of Japan

What do you get when you cross Abba and the Chipmunks?

Perfume, “1 mm,” 2013

Friday, January 17th

Chvrches, “Lies,” live, Scotland (Glasgow), 2012


Ever notice how terribly young everyone seems to be getting?

Thursday, January 16th

sounds of Chicago

Hieroglyphic Being (AKA Jamal Moss), “Space Is The Place (But We Stuck Here On Earth)”

Wednesday, January 8th

William Basinski, “Silent Night,” 2004

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lagniappe

musical thoughts

If all we ever listen to are things that sound like things we’ve heard before, aren’t we living, however comfortably, in an echo chamber?

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taking a break

I’m taking some time off—back in a while.

Friday, January 3rd

what’s new

Darkside, live, Paris (Pitchfork Music Festival), 10/31/13


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lagniappe

art beat

Lee Friedlander (1934-), Japan (Kyoto), 1981

1. Kyoto, 1981