Oxygen tank next to a small concrete building

Tower reaching from the lower left corner into the sky.

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

Éliane Radigue (24 January 1932–23 February 2026) - The Wire Jo Hutton remembers the French composer and electronic music pioneer who died in February aged 94

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Eliane Radigue turning knobs at a synthesizer

Eliane Radigue, 1932-2026

My Mother Was A Friend YouTube video by Blurt - Topic

My Mother Was A Friend Of An Enemy Of The People - Blurt

youtu.be/BFijM1ZW0i4?...

Community vs. Complicity: How Coffee Shops Have Responded to ICE's Minnesota Onslaught Independent coffee shops are speaking up for their neighbours and saying no to ICE in their stores. Some big coffee brands, however, have taken a different approach.

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

Happy birthday, great composer! Those subtleties made me upgrade my pair of headphones.

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!

Click here to show your support to Chris Foran's story *JusticeForWillieSimmons Willie Junior Simmons is a 68 year old Alabama man serving his 43th year of a life sentence without parole for a $9 robbery.   He was charged with life without

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.

The Mecanno Giraffe, by BLURT 2 track album

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

Trying to catch Hikaru will be... difficult. Goa it will have to be!

Live chess rating showing Vincent Keymer ranking 4th in the world.

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

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Get it on Bookshop.org, not Amazon

The WNBA Superstar Who Left the Game in Her Prime Maya Moore walked away from basketball to focus on social-justice activism. Was it worth it?

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

Stephen O'MALLEY_But remember what you have had_PRÉSENCES électronique 2023 YouTube video by INA grm

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

Éliane Radigue | Frédéric Blondy The Making of Occam XXV YouTube video by Union Chapel London

"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

‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action

“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

Special Episode: Nietzsche Podcast Reading Guide The Nietzsche Podcast · Episode

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

#nietzsche #philosophy

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

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

Glasgow is much more interesting.

Perfect Sound Forever - The Wire In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the artisan fetishism of the vinyl industry

"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...