tonight in Chicago
These guys will be at Constellation.
Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit (PNL, drums; Lasse Marhaug, electronics and turntable, et al.), “Culius,” live, Germany (Moers), 2014
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Tuesday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Luc Mylayne (1946-), Mutual Regard (through August 23rd)
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Rothko Chapel (1971); Seattle Modern Orchestra (with Julia Tai, conductor; Melia Watras, viola; Stephen Olsen, celesta; Brian Yarkovsky, percussion; Sarah Marroquin, soprano), live, Seattle, 2012
Today Morton Feldman enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill, trumpeter Lester Bowie, poets William Bronk and Wislawa Szymborska, photographer Helen Levitt, and gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates.
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lagniappe
reading table
This performance reminds me at times of Emily Dickinson:
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air—
Between the Heaves of Storm——No. 591 (Johnson), “I heard a Fly buzz”
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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Luc Mylayne (1946-), No. 560, 2008 (Mutual Regard, through August 23rd)
Imaginary Landscapes: A Film on Brian Eno (1989)
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
I wanted to make a kind of music that had the long now and the big here.
—Brian Eno
More of Ornette.
Ornette Coleman Trio (David Izenzon, bass; Charles Moffett, percussion), playing and talking, Paris, 1966
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art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
Here, on Father’s Day, is more of Aretha’s.
Rev. C. L. Franklin (1915-1984; Pastor, New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, 1946-1979), “Dry Bones in the Valley”
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art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009; MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
sounds of Chicago
Here, set to music, is a poem by Dorothy Parker (1893-1967).
Katie Ernst, “Bric-a-Brac” (music by K. Ernst), live (studio performance), Chicago, 2015
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Little things that no one needs—
Little things to joke about—
Little landscapes, done in beads.
Little morals, woven out,
Little wreaths of gilded grass,
Little brigs of whittled oak
Bottled painfully in glass;
These are made by lonely folk.Lonely folk have lines of days
Long and faltering and thin;
Therefore—little wax bouquets,
Prayers cut upon a pin,
Little maps of pinkish lands,
Little charts of curly seas,
Little plats of linen strands,
Little verses, such as these.
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langiappe
random sights and sounds
Last night, while riding my bike in Chicago’s Columbus Park, I bumped into this—a performance by Isabelle Olivier (harp), Larry Gray (bass), and Paul Wertico (drums).
And, too, this great blue heron.
what’s new
Björk, “Stonemilker” (360 degree virtual reality), 2015
sounds from the other side of the moon
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Piano Sonata No. 5; Dmitry Rachmanov, live, San Francisco, 2015
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Here’s another take.
Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), live recording, Prague, 1972
not like this, not like that
Nate Wooley, “Polychoral for trumpets and 8-channel audio”; Nate Wooley & Peter Evans (trumpets), live, New York (Knockdown Center), 2015
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
In 1915 no one had heard an electric guitar. In 2065 sounds we’ve never heard will be commonplace. What will they be?
More of Ornette.
Ornette Coleman (alto saxophone) with Don Cherry (cornet), Charlie Haden (bass), and Billy Higgins (drums), The Shape of Jazz to Come, 1959*
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lagniappe
radio
WKCR’s memorial broadcast continues until 9:30 a.m. tomorrow.
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*Track list (courtesy of YouTube):
00:00 Lonely Woman
05:01 Eventually
09:24 Peace
18:25 Focus on Sanity
25:18 Congeniality
32:07 Chronology
