January 2012
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ListenOf course I heavily dig the “noisy burst of...
Jan 26th
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MIKE SNIPER: An Indie Label in 2012. →
Mike Sniper from Captured Tracks explains the role of the true indie record label in 2012.  mikesniper: I posted a recent Facebook comment regarding our policies with signing artists and found myself getting into a discussion of what the role of an independent label is in 2012, something I’ve often been asked about in interviews but have never really been able to elaborate on. Basically,...
Jan 9th
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December 2011
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May 2011
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“We are musicians and our model is sound not literature, sound not mathematics,...”
– Gérard Grisey
May 26th
“If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose all heart. If...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (via jacecooke)
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April 2011
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March 2011
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“s24o is an abbreviation for sub-twenty-four-overnight, a style of bicycle...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivendell_Bicycle_Works#S24o
Mar 29th
January 2011
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Smattering Gong
Atop sheets at home stay in Ubud, Bali, a sarong lain across my feet to keep them cool. Do the songs I hear outside mimic the fluttering voice of the local birds, the local bugs, the local frogs? The swell of avian chorus gives way to a mirrored cluster of ringing bells. Practicing Balinese gamelan next door plays counterpoint and harmony with the opera of nightly birdsong and insect pulse....
Jan 29th
A Flying Qi Gong
Flying to Bangkok via Beijing (formerly Peking) aboard an Air China Airbus, in the middle of some forgettable American Jennifer Anniston film (ok, ok, I was enjoying Bounty Hunter), the projected-VHS image stopped and a brief intermission of an exercise video began. Simple stretching to enliven and then cool down our twelve-hour-flight ground bodies. Not everyone joined, but I enjoyed glancing...
Jan 23rd
December 2010
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About motorcycles---By Frederick Seidel (Harper's... →
“There is an ascetic, Brancusi aesthetic in the simplicity of the perfection of these boats and the loveliness of their wood. They are violins.” About motorcycles, surely, but this quote about the “severe gorgeousness of these needles that go slow” perfectly captures the playfulness and love of life/things in Seidel’s prose and poetry.
Dec 22nd
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September 2010
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Sep 17th
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Trailer for surf film Temporal Collections by Ryan Thomas. Beautifully shot foam, sound, sand, waves and riders, discovered while hounding the most excellent Mollusk Surf Shop located in the Outer Sunset. Long live silver halide grains suspended in a gelatin colloid!
Sep 17th
Horaflora feature on foxy digitalis →
Local weirdo and man-about-town Raub (seriously, look down from the stars, brother, here he comes a-ramblin’ now)  featured: “The sounds themselves include guinea pigs, broken hard drives, cell phone speakers in mouths (like a talkbox), playground equipment, E-bowed metals, all sorts of prepared instruments, answering machine feedback, found vibrations, as well as a bevy of spectral,...
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August 2010
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Jozef Van Wissem on swan neck baroque lute playing “Amor Fati (Love is a Religion)” from his Ex Patris LP on Important Records. Performed at Augustijnenklooster, Ghent in July 2009. Beautiful and haunting pacing.
Feb 5th
“No piano need feel duty-bound to always sound like a piano”
– Glenn Gould, as quoted from this excellent review of Bill Orcutt’s most impressive LP, “A New Way To PAy Old Debts.”
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January 2010
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ListenJay Reatard’s version of Nirvana’s...
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December 2009
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ListenOneohtrix Point Never, performing live on the July...
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“CHAPTER A for Hans Arp Awkward grammar appals a craftsman. A Dada bard as...”
– from Chapter A of Christian Bök’s work Eunoia which consists of chapters written using words limited to a single vowel. I first came across this work in the June 2006 issue of Harper’s but was somehow reminded of Bök this morning while reading a sonnet by Frederick Seidel. Other rules...
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November 2009
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“Lévi-Strauss comes from two immediate disciplines, the French sociologists Émile...”
– Guy Davenport on Claude Lévi-Strauss, RIP, from Every Force Evolves A Form, originally published in the Hudson Review in 1979.
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October 2009
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ListenThe final part of the Grouper set at ATP earlier...
Oct 16th
Milton Glaser's: 10 Things I Have Learned →
newelizabethan: hiten: amotion: evrt: {Excerpt} 1. You can only work for people you like 2. If you have a choice, never have a job 3. Some people are toxic, avoid them 4. The Good is the enemy of the Great 5. Less is not necessarily more 6. Style is not to be trusted 7. How you live changes your brain 8. Doubt is better than certainty “One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute...
Oct 15th