music clip of the day

sounds of Paris

Ensemble Intercontemporain (Matthias Pintscher, direction), live, Paris, 2015: Helmut Lachenmann (1935-), Mouvement (-Vor der Erstarrung), 1984

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lagniappe

reading table

A dry riverbed
glimpsed
by lightning.

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass