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“I only called myself a composer once my friends considered me one.” Eliane Radigue

Natürlich, wer sonst...

"There were two liquor stores right next to each other and one of the liquor stores was also a post office." Gaute Granli (Rump State) in The Wire 511

An essential free download - Studio International: Art & Experimental Music (1976), with Michael Nyman, Cornelius Cardew, Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno, David Toop, Steve Reich and Morton Feldman. Amazing!! monoskop.org/log/?p=20530

FIFA killed football.

O! Ein Gott ist der Mensch, wenn er träumt, ein Bettler, wenn er nachdenkt. Hölderlin, Hyperion

"we try to make music that’s more like normal music that’s heard through a damaged mind" Boards of Canada, The Wire interview October 2005

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Eliane Radigue, 1932-2026

I wrote about how small, independent coffee shops in Minnesota have been standing up to ICE and protecting their communities. Big brands like Starbucks and Caribou Coffee, meanwhile, have been doing the opposite. #CoffeeSky

Joyeux anniversaire to French composer Éliane Radigue (b.1932) who turns an incredible 94 years of age today! Her work is proof that subtlety can be seismic, and that the smallest shift can change everything. Long live sustained tones, deep attention and Éliane Radigue!

Willie has been in prison for 43 years now, essentially for stealing $9 when he was 25. We have been running a Spotfund campaign to fund his canteen account, buy him sneakers, etc. The money is also used to fund a lawyer to help release him from prison. www.spotfund.com/story/2d235e...

"Then there is Blixa Bargeld : a pair of bulging eyes on a stalk. His body is so thin you fear the guitar strap cutting into his collar bone must be the cause of the torments he voices." The Wire 11/85, review of a Neubauten concert in London, one of the first non-jazz articles in the magazine.

BLURT means BLURT means BLURT. Ted Milton still going strong at age 82. blurt-tedmilton.bandcamp.com/album/the-me...

Vincent. Holy smoke. #schach #chess #vincentkeymer

Monsooned Malabar coffee. Remarkable. barringtoncoffee.com/gallery/mons... "Monsooning is a processing method in which green coffee is exposed to the high humidity conditions present during the monsoon season." #coffee #india

Deep respect for Maya Moore. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... #wnba #basketball #justice #blm

Beautiful story. And quite astonishing, if you think about it.

What a difference 62 years makes…and doesn’t make… #RadioFreeAmerica

I always like to listen when Stephen O'Malley speaks. Here he illuminates his composition "But remember what you have had". Quite fascinating, really. youtu.be/wFiEdw72LWU?... stephenomalley74.bsky.social

"When something isn't really working, adding to it makes an even bigger mess. Instead, you have to see what you can take out to make things clearer, cleaner and more accessible." Éliane Radigue #minimalism #simplicity unionchapeluk.bsky.social youtu.be/Aioj8Om2cVU?...

"Es gibt Namen, die man an alle Galgen der Welt schlagen sollte." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Schriften und Briefe I #lichtenberg

“Scotland claims it’s a society that’s free from racism. [...] So how does a free society that’s free of racism produce the same kind of outcomes that a segregated, racist society produced in the United States?” T.C. Curry www.theguardian.com/education/20... #scotland #racism #philosophy #slavery

open.spotify.com/episode/6igl... - helpful info on where to start with Friedrich Nietzsche. #nietzsche #philosophy

I like bookshop.org's clutter-free ebook app and now you can read "How to resist Amazon and why" for free on it. #bookshop #anti-prime #reading #books

At a time when money has effectively replaced, Mamdani's win is a glimmer of hope. #mamdani #nyc #democracy #humanity

"... mit dem Überlegenheitsgefühl des im Tageslicht der Vernunft sich rasierenden Menschen." Th. Mann, Der Zauberberg, 3. Kapitel #thomasmann #zauberberg

"The current perception seems to be that a release is less visible when it’s not on the glorified vinyl format. The LP is a recognised, relevant medium dripping in nostalgia and excitement. The CD doesn’t have quite the same allure." - @imprec.bsky.social from www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

At $16 for a liter this is a damn fine #riesling from the #mosel. Steinmetz never disappoints, even his entry-level wine has beautiful character.

#musk, #bezos, #zuckerberg - stop complaining, start boycotting.

Trayvon Martin dreamed of flying airplanes. But he was killed in a racist murder in 2012. His death sparked a national conversation about racial profiling &, following the acquittal of his killer, the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Happy birthday, Trayvon. #TheMarchContinues

Autherine Lucy was accepted to the University of Alabama but the school rescinded her application when it realized she wasn't white. She enrolled after the NAACP obtained a court order. #OTD in 1956, a mob of white men attacked the car driving her to her first class. #TheMarchContinues

"Like the first whispers from a kettle when it clears its throat before a boil. (...) She steeped real coffee in the miniature cafetiere that held exactly enough for one and tried not to remember the space in her morning routine." A.L. Kennedy - Original Bliss #coffee #scotlit #alkennedy

"At least some of us are frustrated citizens of a future that will only arrive after our lifetimes". Most importantly then, we need to support those currently alive and with a lifetime window extending further out a bit. - farmersmanual farmersmanual.bandcamp.com/album/reject...

Elegant and delightfully sweet cup of #coffee from Turihamwe, the first washing station built, owned and run by women farmers in #Burundi. A light roast of Red Bourbon beans grown at 1750 m altitude. Roasted by Boon Boona.

Hans Castorp rauchte.

I knew Instagram wouldn't make it easy. Can't wait to get out of there.

Hilton, Nashville TN - La Marzocco nightmare #coffee

I can't get over the fact that Robert Hübner mastered Finnish just because he wanted to be able to chat with his Finnish pals. I've been struggling to learn Javascript for a decade, not getting anywhere. He even ended up translating books from Finnish into German. He was a great chess player.

The diversity of characters in Mann’s Magic Mountain astounds me every time I read it. It’s not just Castorp or Settembrini - every personality in this book is portrayed with so much creative insight that each could easily be the protagonist of its own book. Pure magic. #thomasmann #zauberberg

In 1995 #NASA tested a spider's web weaving capability under the influence of various drugs. Below is a comparison of a normal web with one where the spider had sampled #caffeine. #coffee rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders...

The similarities b/w FIDE and the Republican Party are striking. Both live deeply in the past, both have turned into a hopeless circus and both are utterly dominated by an egocentric individual with little to no respect for others.

Piano is an album of three pieces written by Slovak composer Adrián Demoč, released by @yukozama.bsky.social in '24. Beautiful piano music and silences. A reminder that every now and then it's necessary to stop what I am doing and just sit down for a moment. elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/piano

A sad story of America's appalling healthcare situation. A handful are winning big time, most are losing everything. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/o...

I am 2/3 through the fascinating #coffee history "Where the Wild Coffee Grows". After learning about coffee's origin in #Ethiopia in part 1, following its sensational tour through the rest of the world in part 2 I now return to Kafa, which, apparently, holds the key to coffee's future.

Went to a public screening of This is National Wake in New York. Beautiful film about a South African punk band during Apartheid. Now that the Dark Age is back in America This is National Wake gave me back a glimpse of hope. www.thisisnationalwake.com #nationalwake