what’s new
Cory Smythe (piano) with Sofia Jernberg (voice), Joshua Modney (violin), Tomeka Reid (cello), Peter Evans (trumpet), Zekkereya El-magharbel (trombone), Ryan Muncy (alto saxophone), Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), David Leon (alto and baritone saxophones, clarinet), Jessie Cox (drums and percussion), Stephan Crump (bass), “Combustion 2” (Frank Heath, video), 12/2/22 (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
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lagniappe
random sights
last night, Chicago
what’s new
David Leon (alto saxophone, compositions) & Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), live, New York, 11/29/18
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lagniappe
reading table
The Constructed Space
by W. S. Graham (1918-1986)
Meanwhile surely there must be something to say,
Maybe not suitable but at least happy
In a sense here between us two whoever
We are. Anyhow here we are and never
Before have we two faced each other who face
Each other now across this abstract scene
Stretching between us. This is a public place
Achieved against subjective odds and then
Mainly an obstacle to what I mean.
It is like that, remember. It is like that
Very often at the beginning till we are met
By some intention risen up out of nothing.
And even then we know what we are saying
Only when it is said and fixed and dead.
Or maybe, surely, of course we never know
What we have said, what lonely meanings are read
Into the space we make. And yet I say
This silence here for in it I might hear you.
I say this silence or, better, construct this space
So that somehow something may move across
The caught habits of language to you and me.
From where we are it is not us we see
And times are hastening yet, disguise is mortal.
The times continually disclose our home.
Here in the present tense disguise is mortal.
The trying times are hastening. Yet here I am
More truly now this abstract act become.
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