The Music of Ezra Pound

With samples. I’m not kidding. And as much as I like Pound, some of this stuff ain’t so hot. (Though some of it’s actually bad for a barely trained musician.) Not any example of musical modernism, but interesting enough, some of it.

radiOM.org

Yes, these is an avant-garde webradio station:radiOM.org: Sounds Like Tomorrow Web Radio. Sign up and you can hear concerts from the heyday of the minimalists, an interview with a lover of Ezra Pound’s, and all kinds of other things.

RadioPhiles

At radiophiles.org you can listen to all kinds of interesting interviews. I checked out the one with Freeman Dyson and it was pretty durn good.

Intense Studies And Sneezing

For some reason, I woke today with a serious, uglyfaced cold. I feel like crap. Sneezing, sniffling, the odd ache: it’s all there. I dread waking up tomorrow, and worse, I dread my 14-hour day on Tuesday.
But anyway, I decided to stay at home all day, and decided to make a productive study-day out [...]

More Vamp/Lycan Coolness

I don’t care what you thought of Underworld, because personally, I loved it. And now I’m even more pleased to know a sequel is on the way. Here’s a trailer.
Via Burrrn.net.

“I Can See Your House From Here!”

No, really. Google Earth rocks.

Ezra Pound and the Occult

This is a somewhat incomplete paper and at points the author makes a few claims I’d say constitute “a stretch”, but it’s still worth a look and linking up to the things I’m interested in Pound, anyway. More on Pound coming soon.

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