like nothing else
Love in Exile (Arooj Aftab [vocals], Vijay Iyer [keyboards], Shahzad Ismaily [electronics, bass]), live (“Eyes of the Endless”), Washington, D.C., 2023
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago (Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape)
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), By the Seine (1887), detail
sounds of Chicago
Damon Locks’ Black Monument Ensemble (DL, vocals, electronics; Dana Hall, drums; Arif Smith, percussion; Angel Bat Dawid, clarinet, vocals; Ben Lamar Gay, cornet; Monique Golding, vocals; Tremaine Parker, vocals; Erica Rene, vocals), “The Body Is Electric” (D. Locks), live, Netherlands (Utrecht), 2021
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Lurie Garden)
sounds of Chicago
Stephen Haynes with Friends (SH, cornet; Josh Berman, cornet; Ben LaMar Gay, cornet; Sarah Clausen, alto saxophone; Hunter Diamond, tenor saxophone; Peter Maunu, guitar, violin; Katinka Kleijn, cello; Damon Locks, samples, electronics; Matthew Lux, bass), live, Chicago (Elastic Arts), 5/30/23
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
sounds of Buenos Aires
Juana Molina (1961-, voice, guitar, keyboards, electronics, compositions) with Diego López de Arcaute (drums, percussion), live, Buenos Aires (CCK [Centro Cultural Kirchner]), 2022
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
sound . . . by . . . sound . . . by . . .
AMM (Eddie Prévost, percussion; Keith Rowe, electric guitar, electronics; John Tilbury, piano), live, Berlin, 2019
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lagniappe
reading table
The old pond—
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694; translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass)
alone
Avner Finberg (violin, electronics, compositions), live (excerpts), Baltimore, Md., 2022
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
like nothing else
Rian Treanor (DJ, electronics), live, Helsinki (Finland), 2018
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random sights
yesterday, outside Chicago
like nothing else
DJ Spooky (AKA Paul D. Miller: turntables, electronics, interview) + Matthew Shipp Trio (MS, piano, interview; William Parker, bass; Guillermo Brown, drums), live, France (Seine-Saint-Denis), 2003
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of New York
Sylvie Courvoisier Chimeara (SC, piano, compositions; Nate Wooley, trumpet; Christian Fennesz, guitar, electronics; Drew Gress, bass; Kenny Wollesen, drums, vibraphone), live (performance begins at 19:00), New York, last night
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reading table
A bird is organized so that it is unnecessary
to assume an immeasurable substance
inside its body that remains after its death.—Nachoem M. Wijnberg (1961-), from “Analysis and Organization” (translated from the Dutch by David Colmer)
(Taking a break.)
what’s new
Patricia Brennan (vibraphone, marimba, electronics, composition), with Kim Cass (bass), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Mauricio Herrera (percussion): “Sizigia (Syzygy),” published 10/13/22
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random sights
other day, Chicago
