February 2012
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My new sounds:
New Old Jam
Now reading: Being with Dying (Joan Halifax)
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Book: 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
You do not have the option to fight with Murakami, he is not looking for a fight. I like to fight authors, so I pick books like Gravity’s Rainbow or 2666 that are hyper-referential, academic, and exhausting. A book like that is an 800+ page chess match against a Kasparov. Murakami is different. It’s not for lack of brilliance. If we were to play chess, he would surely win. It’s...
July 2011
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June 2011
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October 2010
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Epiphanie Sequence in Meany Hall
(This is a review I wrote of the DXARTS department’s 2010 Fall Concert. Info on Anderson’s work here)
Joseph Anderson’s Epiphanie Sequence deliberately steps over the conventions and concepts used to categorize sound and music. It teased the question of authorship and managed to feel at once like rarefied abstraction and earnest document, to borrow Dellaira’s modes of...