Mourning for Paris – and for us all – I turn once again to Jan Zwicky, looking for hope in dark times … Prelude There is, said Pythagoras, a sound the planet makes: a kind of music just outside our hearing, the proportion and the resonance of things – not the clang of theory or the…
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Jan Zwicky
PRACTISING BACH for performance with Bach’s E Major Partita for Solo Violin, BWV1006 Prelude There is, said Pythagoras, a sound the planet makes: a kind of music just outside our hearing, the proportion and the resonance of things – not the clang of theory or the wuthering of human speech, not even the bright song of…
the painter’s act of looking
I just read this very interesting little text on Paul Cézanne by Blake Gopnik. Cézanne is said to be a painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. It has to do with his experimentation with…
the musical rules behind the universe
I must admit that the concept “computational geometry” almost made my brain go into freeze mode. How can anyone say anything understandable about Bach from the perspective of computational geometry & algorithms? Well, to my SURPRISE: Bernard Chazelle can! “Discovering the Cosmology of Bach” is actually a fabulous interview. It is informative, engaging and also…
You can never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough
Did I ever tell you how much I like Anne Carson? Have a look at this: I hate traveling … you don’t think until you stumble on something, traveling makes you stumble all the time. Its spooky. Stumbling is good for writing … – Anne Carson (2001) Quad (1981) a television play by Samuel…
portrait of books & music
A few books from my Woolf collection. I will be systematic in reading Woolf this year, but unsystematic in which of her texts I read when. Much of the time I will go back en forth, combining her original work with texts on her work. I will also focus on her non-fiction with the same…
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