This Week’s Tracks from Soundcloud
In the current crisis, many things despite themselves give off a hollow sound, and not least the language pervading every public realm. This general hollowness, too, is by no means a new condition, to...
View ArticleThis Week’s Tracks from Soundcloud
This evening I shall have to hold the commentary to a minimum, as I have a lot on at the moment (and similarly, as far as I can see, for the next couple of weeks). So, without further ado, this round...
View ArticleSome Remarkable Releases
Halfway through the year is as fitting an occasion as any for compiling an assortment of several remarkable pieces of music offered to the public more or less recently, most of them having been...
View ArticleThis Week’s Tracks from Soundcloud
In this round-up of three tracks from Soundcloud, Scandinavians have the lion’s share, while the odd man out is in effect a bleublancrouge trans-Atlantic collaboration. From the band of Danish and...
View ArticleThe Fires of August Part ii
Heraclitus was most profound when he addressed the λόγος at work in the human soul: here one is least sure one comprehends all that he himself meant by these terms, here the possibilities of dispute...
View ArticleThe Fires of August Part i
This summer rushing by, one can say with nearly no exaggeration, has shook to the noise of outbursts around the globe, while now the clamour is churning during the very month in which, a century ago,...
View ArticleA September Miscellany
With the autumn approaching, the time is right to tend to some of the tasks of maintaining this website, and so readers may notice a few small changes, mainly graphic in kind, here and there....
View ArticleSome Varèsean Themes
After quite a long intermission – which had its reasons, although expounding them would be both an imposition and a bore – henceforth I should now be able to devote sufficient time once again to this...
View ArticleAn Exhibit of Zero in Amsterdam
Currently and for the next few months on view in the Stedelijk Museum here in Amsterdam is an exhibition devoted to the artists from a number of countries who, during the late 1950s and early 1960s,...
View ArticleAbrechnung
One year ago today the Netherlands introduced the so-called “green-pass” system. A day of great and indelible infamy. What follows has been written in sorrow as this anniversary approached....
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