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2015

Tuesday, June 2nd

sounds of Mali

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba, “Siran Fen,” 2015


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reading table

my rice field too
song by song
is planted

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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The Beatles (Comiskey Park). The Who (Kinetic Playground). The Velvet Underground (Kinetic Playground). The MC5 (Lincoln Park). Bob Marley (Quiet Knight). The list goes on and on. My musical life is unimaginable without the experiences I’ve had with my brother Don, who turns 65 today. Happy Birthday!

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2015

Sunday, May 31st

testify!

Anointed Brown Sisters, “Hold On,” live, LaFayette, Alabama (Mt. Sellers Baptist Church), 2011


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random thoughts

Each day I know less.

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2015

Thursday, May 14th

Whether you live for 50 years, 500 years, or 5,000 years, it makes no difference: always there are new things to hear.

Dieter Ammann (1962-), Violation (1999); Lemanic Modern Ensemble (William Blank, cond.) with Karolina Öhman, cello; live, Russia (St. Petersburg), 2014


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The old pond—
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694; translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)

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2015

Monday, May 11th

career plans for the next life

Maybe, instead of those other things (tap dancer, rubboard player in a zydeco band, bass player in a reggae band, guitar player in a Malian band, cellist in a string quartet), I’ll be a bird.

John Luther Adams (1953-), songbirdsongs (1974-80), Callithumpian Consort (Stephen Drury, dir.), recording (2012)


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Tony Fitzpatrick (1958-), Lunch Drawing #48: A Bird for Bruce Lee

ABirdForBruceLee-600

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2015

Monday, April 27th

Of sounds there is no end.

Harry Bertoia (1915-1978), sound sculptures, Bally, Pennsylvania


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I found a bird this morning, down—down—on a little bush at the foot of the garden, and wherefore sing, I said, since nobody hears?

One sob in the throat, one flutter of bosom—’My business is to sing‘—and away she rose!

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), letter to Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Holland, c. 1862

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2015

Saturday, April 25th

Sometimes nothing is more enlivening than to hear something that sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before.

Rebecca Saunders (1967-), Fury II (2009); Remix Ensemble (Emilio Pomarico, cond.; Antonio Augusto Aguiar, bass), live, Portugal (Porto), 2011

 

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after the dance
right away, cutting
the morning grass

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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2015

Tuesday, April 14th

yesterday in Chicago

He played a version of this, wonderfully, along with Steve Reich’s “New York Counterpoint” and Duke Ellington’s “Come Sunday,” at the Chicago Cultural Center.

James Falzone, “Sighs Too Deep For Words,” live (studio performance), 2011

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random thoughts

Why settle for a mirror when you could have a window?

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2015

Wednesday, March 25th

sounds of Chicago

Dave Rempis (tenor saxophone) & Tim Daisy (percussion), live, Chicago, 2013


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random thoughts

Sometimes it seems surprising that any of us survives even a single day in a world so sad.

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2015

Friday, February 27th

sounds of Chicago

Goofiness is a much underrated virtue.

Mucca Pazza, live, Washington, D.C., 2015

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2015

Tuesday, February 24th

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

—Muhammad Ali

Cecil Taylor Quintet (CT, piano; Harri Sjostrom, soprano saxophone; Tristan Honsinger, cello; Thurman Barker, marimba, percussion; Paul Lovens, drums), live, Germany (Hamburg), 1995

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William Klein (1928-), Blacks + Pepsi (AKA Moves + Pepsi)
Harlem, New York, 1955

Blacks + Pepsi, Harlem, 1955

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