I find that in reading Ezra Pound, the joy I receive is not a simple, pure joy. It is not like hearing a candence finally sliding into resolution at the end of a melodic line, nor the perfectness of a set of angles in a Kandinsky, nor is it the brilliance of a single...
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →For those of you in Korea, there’s a craigslist for the city. Not very full, since it’s English only, but it’s something. via c(h)ristine. C(h)ristine found something funny there, too. Brrrrrrrr.
Read more →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.
Read more →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...
Read more →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.
Read more →No, really. Google Earth rocks.
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