A dark gray cat sitting in an open (screened) window with spring foliage

Spring has sprung

A Famed Brooklyn Cemetery Wants You to Come Visit … Before You Die

I have always been a lover of cemeteries and try to visit historical ones whenever I travel to new places. One of my sisters lives near the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, so I've explored it many times and even went to a concert of Bernstein music there. Go visit if you're in NYC!!

Gift article.

No kings protest in Laguna Beach complete with blue skies and palm trees.

The only bright spot in that episode

yooo free ircam shit

Eliane Radigue - IMA Portrait documentary YouTube video by straypixel

RIP Eliane Radigue.

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Apply!! apply.interfolio.com/179315 IACS is a great place

the actual story of what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year is even more infuriating than we thought

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived

This resonated with me www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

What Happens in a Performer’s Brain While Playing Music?

An interesting way to repeat performances for neuroscience

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/a...

Sounded great!!!

To understand what's going down at WaPo, this information is essential. The tech bros brought Trump to power, and the are exploiting their hold on the administration to accumulate wealth in an obscene fashion. The last thing they want is a newspaper running exposés that mess things up.

Completely shocked by the sudden loss of Catherine O’Hara, one of the funniest and most talented people on this planet.

As a massive fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas, I couldn't think of a better send off than her performance of Sally's Song.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Liz Pelly on the Impact of Her Anti-Spotify Book ‘Mood Machine’ and Where We Go From Here “The point is to encourage people to reject the idea that it’s a one-click solution.”

"So much of the power of major labels is rooted in their ability to protect this idea that musical genius is this rare and scarce thing that only they have ownership over."

Bob Dylan writing about Bob Weir in The Philosophy of Modern Song

David Tudor (1) YouTube video by STEIM Archives

Incredible to see this rare footage, close-up, of the legendary David Tudor performing live at STEIM in Amsterdam in 1994.

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A small white ceramic bowl holds a golden, seared bite topped with pale green sauce and two red berries; an iridescent spoon rests across the rim, its handle adorned with a cluster of black caviar, on a wooden table.

New year's dinner - crab cake with saffron aioli and pomegranates with suspended caviar.

I loved learned about her !!!

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

RIP Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and member of the Kennedy family

She wrote an amazing essay about RFK Jr. and I think a wonderful tribute to her is sharing it with you

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Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions

Musicians being helpful for science !! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A bright, industrial-style rehearsal room labeled “Creative Music Studio.” A maroon banner with gold lettering hangs high on the back wall above a dense arrangement of framed jazz posters, concert bills, and illustrated musician portraits. The space has white brick walls, exposed beams, and large factory-style windows on the right letting in daylight. In the center, two green mid-century chairs sit on layered rugs facing a single microphone stand, suggesting an intimate performance or talk. To the right are stacked folding chairs, a Yamaha speaker on a blue stand, and a cluster of percussion instruments including congas and drums. To the left are music stands and additional framed artwork. String lights run along the wall, adding a warm, informal atmosphere to the otherwise clean, gallery-like studio.

Excited to be playing in Kingston for the release of the "A Year of Deep Listening" at Creative Music Studio.

I loved that book! Especially the male syrup chapter

I'd appreciate if any audio tech folks could help circulate this exciting call for a fully-funded PhD position working in multichannel audio design for galleries.

It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'

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We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric rituals to life

Reinforcing what people have posited about audio and cave paintings. www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

The pocket squirrel, the demon, the authentic dj with local news, I lurv youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Super cool!!

Josephine Baker at Home: 21 Photos of the Legendary Showgirl in Her French Châteaux The St. Louis–born Jazz Age star (and spy) built a life in France, where she raised 12 children and collected a panoply of exotic pets

I didn't know most of these things about Josephine Baker www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/jose...

Loved the duet !!!