what’s new
Brian Eno & Peter Chilvers, “Bloom,” 6/4/24
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago (Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks“, through 9/22/24)
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), East River from the Shelton (East River No. 1) (1927-28), detail
weightless
Roger Eno & Brian Eno, “Iris,” 2020
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
Weary of this too-much world?
Sounds this spare, this spacious, offer a refuge—a way in.
Brian Eno (1948-), “Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV),” 1993
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
The more I listen to this, the more I hear.
Brian Eno, “New Space Music,” 2014
next week in Chicago
She’s playing Thursday at Thalia Hall.
Julia Holter, live (studio), Seattle, 2013
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musical thoughts
There was nobody as good as her when I was making music back in the day. If Julia Holter had existed in the 1970s she would be a goddess.
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
Feel like floating?
Brian Eno, Thursday Afternoon, 1985 (Jonathan Jolly, video, 2014)
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Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill)
more
Brian Eno (1948-), “An Ending (Ascent)”, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno), 1983 (remastered 2005)
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
more
Brian Eno, Ambient Music 1: Music for Airports, 1978
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All night long
the windswept clouds
plovers calling under the moon—Yosa Buson, 1716-1784 (translated from Japanese by W.S. Merwin and Takako Lento)
what’s new
Brian Eno with Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine), “Only Once Away My Son,” 11/6/17
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It is like the story of the Chinese Zen Master Dongshan, who was asked, “Is there joy in your practice?” He replied, “It is not without joy. It’s like sweeping shit into a pile and then picking up a precious jewel from within it.”
—Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, “Simple Joy”
Feel like floating?
Music for Airports, “1/1” (B. Eno, R. Davies, R. Wyatt), 1978; Bang on a Can All-Stars, live (arr. Michael Gordon), San Diego Airport, 2015
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To a Snail
By Marianne Moore (1887-1972)If “compression is the first grace of style,”
you have it. Contractility is a virtue
as modesty is a virtue.
It is not the acquisition of any one thing
that is able to adorn,
or the incidental quality that occurs
as a concomitant of something well said,
that we value in style,
but the principle that is hid:
in the absence of feet, “a method of conclusions”;
“a knowledge of principles,”
in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.
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