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[ghost of miles]

On 8/27/2024 at 8:01 AM, Matthew said:

Late to the game here, but how was this book? It looks interesting.

Still reading it—paused since that last post, but intending to resume soon. So far it’s very good! 

[OliverM]

Je me souviens [I remember], Georges Perec, 1978

 

[soulpope]

12 minutes ago, OliverM said:

Je me souviens [I remember], Georges Perec, 1978

Not translated into german language til now 🧐🤔 ....

[rostasi]

[JSngry]

They started with jazz?

[rostasi]

Yup. He (or maybe "they") started with "jazz and pop to krautrock and beyond."

[Referentzhunter]

[Jim Duckworth]

[jlhoots]

Rachel Kushner: Creation Lake

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[Brad]

 

An unusual book, to say the least. 
 

 

[rostasi]

[GA Russell]

[rostasi]

"Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second."

[ejp626]

I gave up on The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers as I was nearing the halfway mark.

I'm really enjoying The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams, and incidentally am also near the halfway mark.

[rostasi]

[T.D.]

Every year in Woodstock NY there's an anniversary performance of 4'33' at a museum/art gallery. Kay Larson, a Cage scholar, usually (in my experience) opens with a lecture. Then the celebrated piece, which the musician(s) follow with a "normal" performance.

Edited October 7, 2024 by T.D.

[rostasi]

I enjoyed that book. My upcoming show on the 16th is my 433rd show.
Since I probably cannot have a silent work playing on the radio because
the "dead air" may trigger something technically unwanted (I haven't ever
asked if the station has these controls, but not taking a chance), I've put
together a show that features 433 excerpts from field recordings along 
with the occasional voice of Cage and snippets of music. It's actually a part
of an occasional segment that I have on the show called "electrophonomural."

[jlhoots]

Sally Rooney: Intermezzo

[mjazzg]

21 hours ago, T.D. said:

Every year in Woodstock NY there's an anniversary performance of 4'33' at a museum/art gallery. Kay Larson, a Cage scholar, usually (in my experience) opens with a lecture. Then the celebrated piece, which the musician(s) follow with a "normal" performance.

I really enjoyed that book

20 hours ago, rostasi said:

I enjoyed that book. My upcoming show on the 16th is my 433rd show.
Since I probably cannot have a silent work playing on the radio because
the "dead air" may trigger something technically unwanted (I haven't ever
asked if the station has these controls, but not taking a chance), I've put
together a show that features 433 excerpts from field recordings along 
with the occasional voice of Cage and snippets of music. It's actually a part
of an occasional segment that I have on the show called "electrophonomural."

Sounds a fascinating listen

[HutchFan]

I'm now reading Jan Swafford's biography of Brahms for the second time, after an interval of many years.

 

[Niko]

Oh, didn't he ramble

the autobiography of trumpeter Lee Collins, used but in good shape, even including the Flexi-Disc with an additional track from "A Night at the Victory Club"... Thought I'd show my daughter what a used bookstore looks like, allegedly the biggest English-language one on the continent no less, and take the briefest of looks at the row of jazz books... where this one stood, had been looking for it for a while without high expectations or high effort... it's a very enjoyable inside view on a live in early jazz from New Orleans to Chicago in the form of an endless stream of anecdotes

[jlhoots]

Louise Erdrich: The Big Red

[Chuck Nessa]

Still have my original copy purchased in Ames Iowa on my lunch hour.

[T.D.]

On 10/7/2024 at 4:32 PM, T.D. said:

Every year in Woodstock NY there's an anniversary performance of 4'33' at a museum/art gallery. Kay Larson, a Cage scholar, usually (in my experience) opens with a lecture. Then the celebrated piece, which the musician(s) follow with a "normal" performance.

 

On 10/8/2024 at 1:53 PM, mjazzg said:

I really enjoyed that book

Sounds a fascinating listen

It's really good. Larson seems to be a Zen practitioner (based on her intro/dedication) and gets far more into the Buddhist aspect than anyone else I've ever read on Cage. And the whole thing is extremely well written.

About 3/4 of the way through.

In the meantime I finished this (more urgent because it was from library):

Funny thing. I browsed a bookstore I hadn't visited in a while and saw Larson/Cage, Threadgill/Edwards and The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins on the same shelf, which triggered a reading binge. Purchased the Cage paperback, got the Threadgill via interlibrary loan. Couldn't bring myself to buy the Rollins notebooks because it's a slim volume with a lot of white space; may need to because the (pretty good) interlibrary loan system doesn't have it. 😕