‘We did a seance for Beethoven, to see what he thought’: the playful, pioneering life of field-recording maestro Annea Lockwood The New Zealand composer burned pianos, sampled earthquakes and recorded Belfast’s peace walls. And at 86 is still invested in her life’s work: to appreciate the music in everyday sound

Annea!

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

Np System of a Down - System of a Down.

This looks great

Palantir is also highly exposed on government contracts for its survival and this is exploitable.

Absolute Enemy of the People type shit.

All UK government contracts with this company need to be terminated.

I get the impression in his language he reads more recent strands of philosophy which might be unique though.

Also absolutely ignores fact that Rowling and ilk have expanded into wider forms of fascism than transphobia too.

Is it one of the last remaining shows on the BBC that doesnt condescend its listeners? Glenny hasn't changed that either.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Dadaism How, in 1916 in Zurich, artists responded to the absurdity of war by creating absurd art.

I dip in and out of In Our Time podcast but this recent one is great www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

There's a good interview with Cooper here www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

yr seen Bugonia?, kinda wild

Killer flick.

He’s the best of the 4 Chris’s.

Discord | Fitzcarraldo Editions Jeremy Cooper, the author of Brian, returns with Discord, a subjective journey through the world of classical music. On a night in August, an audience at the Royal Albert Hall attends the first ever c...

First and probably last book I’ve read where Evan Parker pops up as a semi-fictional character and kinda enjoying it. Cafe Oto gets a scene too fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/discord/

Hemsworth is a comedic actor stuck in the body of a straight man actor (see Furiosa for the correct casting of the guy)

Hope not, tho he only ever plays two characters - a ruff or a simpleton (or combination of both) but he does it with elan. Just watched ‘Calm with Horses’ and he’s great in it.

If anything nobody has really done peak Mann successfully especially not Mann himself.

Subpar Marinetti ripoff too.

Best films with the worst soundtrack, Midnight Run gotta be up there I’m telling yr, mob shoulda gone after Danny Elfman.

This is Galaxy brain rot.

From 2004 and holds up still

Hmm is there a Sonnet 4.7 yet?

np Shane Parish - Autechre Guitar

"Rome Beef" surely?

The guy is total electoral poison in Europe now, even the right wing populists are pretending they hardly know him.

What's the point of the AI then

Why.

Anyhow I've seen The Omen 3 and I'm pretty sure he was a successful businessman not a 10x bankrupt.

Appreciate the symbolic flourish but all this talk of Demons and Antichrists in lieu of discussing clear pathologies seems a strangely North American feature.