music clip of the day

string festival
day three 

Wolfgang Rihm (1952-), String Quartet No. 13
Arditti Quartet, live, London, 2012

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lagniappe

reading table

One peers down into regions where one’s feet would never, never have trod, because in certain regions, indeed in most, one has no purpose whatever.

—Robert Walser (1878-1956), “Balloon Journey,” 1914 (translated from German by Christopher Middleton)