Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Reviews of Two Books on Music: "Music After the Fall" by Tim Rutherford-Johnson, and "From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate" by Nathaniel Mackey

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I found these two books in the public library and had a lot of time to read them during the coronavirus pandemic. They are both on the topi...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Review of the Album "Air Drop" by Darryl Blood

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This dropped into my inbox on day, and I decided to give it a listen. The title “Air Drop” conjures images of supplies descending by parachu...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

CD Review: Ball of Wax volume 60 (60 x 60 = 60)

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I received this CD compilation in the mail after contributing a song (the way music has to be heard now, during the covid pandemic). I popp...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Ten More Albums (Jazz; Also Beatles, Battles, and Two Guys Named Chris)

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Continuing the mini-reviews of ten albums from my collections of CDs, cassettes and vinyl albums during the corona virus lockdown. There wa...
Monday, May 11, 2020

Ten More Albums

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Continuing the mini-reviews of ten albums from my collections of CDs, cassettes and vinyl albums. One needs something to do during the oron...
Monday, May 4, 2020

Ten More Albums

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Continuing the mini-reviews of ten albums from my collections of CDs, cassettes and vinyl albums. One needs something to do during the oron...
Friday, May 1, 2020

Ten Albums

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Well, I've decided to unshelf and dust off this blog during the corona virus lockdown, though with somewhat of a different focus. Obvio...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Concert (and CD) Review: "An ear alone is not a being" - Bonnie Whiting plays John Cage, 4/29/2017

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"Bonnie Whiting, head of the UW's Percussion Studies program, performs music from her newly released Mode Records debut, 51'15....
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Concert Review: Seattle Composers Salon, 3/3/2017

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" The Seattle Composers’ Salon fosters the development, performance and appreciation of new music by regional composers and performers....
Thursday, March 2, 2017

"Magical (Sur)realism" and Music

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This is a discussion I started on social media with the intent of putting it in this blog. As in previous such discussions, the initials ar...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Mini Reviews: Four Recordings from SIMF

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I picked up these four recordings featuring Seattle-area (and other) artists during the “merch-mart” last weekend at the Seattle Improvised ...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Third Day of the Seattle Improvised Music Festival 2/4/2016

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The Workshop " Improvising Together: A Listening and Playing Workshop for Dancers and Musicians led by dancer Sheri Cohen and musicia...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Concert Review in Poetry, Art, and an "Optigon": Seattle Phonographers Union 1-19-2017

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1. Lights dim, sounds dim Songle distantce foghorn Emergence of electronic dronenotes, not electronic, microtones shift inside grains of ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

A seasonal Digression: “Experimental” Christmas Music

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This is an expanded version of something I posted (on my previous music blog) in 2010. First: Messiaen's “20 Aspects of the Baby Jesus...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

The Worst Music, Revisited

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I thought I’d revisit an old meme (now gone) that’s been annoying me for years. Though I’m glad that it’s gone, my question is really how i...