Chicago friends: join me Monday, February 2nd, for a talk at the University of Chicago about my archival research project album "All Is Moved by Love."
Follow the link for more info and to reserve a spot!
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Handwriting on notebook with blue, purple, and black pen says: Nick Zoulek Enter Branch album release Friday, Oct 24 Doors 5pm/Show 5:30pm Featuring ~Nois and an opening set by Casey Foubert First Unitarian Church of Chicago 5650 South Woodlawn Ave Chicago, IL
Chicago friends: I'm playing an opening set of my songs this Friday, and joining my friend @nickzoulek.bsky.social for a couple pieces to celebrate the release of his album Enter Branch.
Tix here and more info here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/music-firs...
Hi!!!!
Metal Ludlow typecasting machine 'stick' with lettering molds inserted, pictured in front of a job case with additional letter molds.
Ludlow typesetting: pictured is a 'stick' filled with letter molds making up one line of a poem. This is inserted into a machine that fills the mold with a molten lead/tin mixture which cools into a slug which is then used to print. Meditative, very close reading, and the type is beautiful.
From someone who recently just learned what terminal even is: this is great, thank you!
Hey Emerging Composers 18-31! Apply for the 2025 Emerging Composers Intensive at Hidden Valley in Carmel Valley, CA! June 27-July 6. I’m teaching w/Amy Beth Kirsten and Alistair Coleman. Applications are due FEBRUARY 15.
emergingcomposersintensive.com for more info.
Stream of consciousness chore list.
asked my teacher-educator partner about this. She said she didn't know of conferences that specifically focus on pedagogy, but that most of the ones she goes to always have sessions/presentations on pedagogy. AERA, AESA, and www.nameorg.org
This is the musical energy I need in my life right now. Thank you!
caseyfoubert.bandcamp.com/album/music-... Out today. Give a listen. If you like it, please consider buying: all proceeds will go to the American Library Association's Leroy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund.
In a week I'm re-releasing an instrumental album I made in the 2000s, mostly on a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder. Only available on bandcamp. All album sale proceeds will go to the American Library Association's Merritt Fund: www.ala.org/aboutala/aff.... More info and purchase link Feb 1st
With all the ramped up fear around DEI dissolution, seems like a good time to remind #librarians & #LibraryWorkers about the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Merritt Fund. If you face joblessness due to discrimination, the Merritt fund is here to help financially. #library
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Logged on expecting a slew of anxiety inducing news/politics posts and instead saw this first and got a little nostalgia endorphin high instead. Thank you!
A picture of two bookmarks, black and gold with a large arrow point from top to halfway down the bookmark. Text says, in part "The Place, Concord Books Times Square, America's Oldest Bargain Book Shop."
Two of my grandfather's bookmarks from what (I'm told) was his favorite bookshop in NYC.
Strange to reflect on my own participation in this cultural/commercial moment in music. I've spent most of my working life as a side-musician/engineer, and have had many conversations lately with colleagues about the difficulty of making ends meet these days.
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good piece - my heart hurts for good young bands trying to imagine a way to make a living in the arts - but I think the core problem is beyond our reach: people don’t have the discretionary income to take chances on music whether it’s shows or purchases. federal minimum wage raise imo but good luck
Book cover: text says "Sonnets From The Portuguese," on a purple background, below is a two color woodcut illustration, green and purple, of a woman looking down at her hand, which she has placed gently inside of another hand.
Peter Pauper Press edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Sonnets from the Portuguese.' Beautifully illustrated by Mary Jane Gorton. Steven Heller offers some thoughts about the design/history of these Peter Pauper Press books here: www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
Favorite thing to happen so far on bluesky: uncanny book recommendation from @jerthorp.bsky.social who recommended José Saramago's "All the Names" based on my favorite bird: Grey Catbird. The prose is very catbird-like and the book is wonderful!
Book cover. Text says: "Goats, H.E. Jeffrey, Pet and Fancy Series 8" Pictured in the lower two thirds of the cover is a goat, standing on green grass, with a blue sky in the background. There are two bright orange vertical color bars framing the picture. The picture has a bold black border. This book cover has to be from the 70s, also probably British (I just checked: yes and yes). The goat is wearing a ribbon around it's neck. It must be the GOAT goat, or the greatest goat of all time: the GGOAT.
There are many things about this book cover that I love.
Screenshot of the Quilt Index website, featuring a quilt overlain with a text block featuring the site's title
"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org
Roy Haynes, one of the greatest drummers to ever live, passed yesterday. Here's my favorite recording of him with John Coltrane.
Small win for the day: finally set up a paragraph style in Pages that automatically formats my bibliography with hanging indents. I get a little thrill with each new bib entry.
I love this. Keeping up with my undergrad ancient Greek by reading Homeric Hymns and book 11 of the Odyssey with tutors!
Wikipedia screen grab for "Scrying." Painting of a woman with black hair in a scarlet dress looking into a crystal ball, in a classically styled courtyard overlooking a stand of trees. Text says "Scrying: Looking into a suitable medium in the hope of detecting significant messages or visions"
From my folder of wikipedia potential-song-titles screen-grabs.
Agreed re academic use of "right"! Another academic one that sometimes gets me is history in present-tense as a default. Sometimes compelling, but often gets confusing.
Interested to see where this takes you and who you find that's working on this! Another one I've noticed is "right?" assuming agreement on background context/factual-information in setting up a persuasive argument or take.
