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Olivier Capparos/Lionel Marchetti - Livre des Morts (entr'acte) I'm not so sure how seriously to take the whole "Book of the De...

Penrose tiling. Can't get enough of it. wiki entry

Such a great, strong record, live at NYU 3/22/69. "Broken Shadows" just tumbles out on the listener, the gorgeous dirge repeated b...

While in the gift shop at the Morgan on Saturday, Carol brought to my attention a book of poems. The painting used for the cover was by Albe...

Went to see the Philip Guston drawing show at the Morgan Library yesterday. I've never been really taken with his work, either before or...

No subject No image No taste No beauty No message No talent No technique No idea No intention No art No feeling No black No white (no and) -...

Taumaturgia is a new, anti-copyright label out of Galicia, Spain (not far from where we might be residing in a decade or so), whose first th...

Jeez, always one of my favorite album covers and this dinky thing is the only image I can find. Apparently, the CD reissue solarized the pho...

I used to talk about the new eating. One time Terry Riley said, "Yeah, even the cooks'll get rebellious. We'll walk into a hamb...

Rhodri Davies/David Lacey/Dennis McNulty - Poor Trade (Cathnor) Sometimes, there's a divide between sheer beauty of sound and underlying...

A meme going around (I found it at Caleb Deupree's fine blog ): The top 100 or so books most often marked as "unread" by Libra...

New CD player in place today (NAD C515BEE). Had to initiate it properly, natch. Damn, does this sound great. Hadn't put it on in a while...

Anthony Patera/David Brown/Sean Baxter - Interference (emd.pl) Prepared piano, prepared guitar and drums, a nice arrangement of instruments....

Steven Hess/Miles Tilmann - Departures (other electricities) A set of six tracks released on vinyl (relatively brief, about 1/2 hour). The i...

It's fairly rare in this neck of the woods to experience a concert made up of three different performances where each one was strong in ...

(I know, I know, that's not the proper cover--but I can't locate an image of one more than about an inch square anywhere....) Toshim...