Post Midnight Allsorts

Time for some divergent sounds -



Yatta - Blues

T-Bone Walker - Super Black Blues

SUNN O))) - Frost (C)

Jennifer Walshe - ALL THE MANY PEOPLS (excerts)

"All the Many Peopls", was a live event with the Irish artist and composer Jennifer Walshe.

All the Many Peopls combines a variety of musical genres through the use of visual and audio references and instruments, creating a fragmentary universe consisting of audio taken from recordings of interstellar noise made by space agencies, video games, sound from YouTube videos shot by soldiers on their phones in war zones and many more. These sounds are juxtaposed with archival footage from safety films and home movies, shot mostly in America in the mid-20th-century. As Jennifer Walshe herself says, the work consists of “a sort of debris we are living in every day”, in the form of random pieces of images and sounds from everyday life.

There are many areas of contact between the works of Jennifer Walshe and those of Joan Jonas: the investigation of the presence of the performative body; the use of a variety of artistic languages and technological media; the transactions between reality and scenic fiction; and the use of disguises and alter egos. In the work of both artists, one can observe the deconstruction of the physical identity and liberation of the personality of the artist, including gender-bound perceived images of women.

ENJOY

Good Morning

Book 54 - Aaron Swartz " The Boy Who Could Change The World"

Aaron Swartz " The Boy Who Could Change The World" (The New Press)





Some stuff feels dated, most of it was pretty interesting. It's definitely a shame that he didn't get to develop his thoughts more.

Here's some of what I got out of the book:
- a sense that other computer people care about good things without being total techno-utopians.
- a lot of Swartz's influences seem like they'd be good reading - sometimes it feels like his thoughts are not quite as well-developed as whatever inspired them if that makes sense.
- the idea/distinction between measuring one's legacy by what the world would have been like without one's existence. This biases against competing to do the same Big Thing that lots of other people are trying to do, and instead of trying to change the world in a way that only you would have. Not sure how much I agree with this but it's an interesting way to think about things.

So, whilst many of these essays seem unfinished, they give you something to cogitate over. Each entry is introduced and placed in some sort of context. Should be of interest to anyone who appreciates the internet.

Book 54 - Aaron Swartz " The Boy Who Could Change The World"

Aaron Swartz " The Boy Who Could Change The World" (The New Press)





Some stuff feels dated, most of it was pretty interesting. It's definitely a shame that he didn't get to develop his thoughts more.

Here's some of what I got out of the book:
- a sense that other computer people care about good things without being total techno-utopians.
- a lot of Swartz's influences seem like they'd be good reading - sometimes it feels like his thoughts are not quite as well-developed as whatever inspired them if that makes sense.
- the idea/distinction between measuring one's legacy by what the world would have been like without one's existence. This biases against competing to do the same Big Thing that lots of other people are trying to do, and instead of trying to change the world in a way that only you would have. Not sure how much I agree with this but it's an interesting way to think about things.

So, whilst many of these essays seem unfinished, they give you something to cogitate over. Each entry is introduced and placed in some sort of context. Should be of interest to anyone who appreciates the internet.

Resonance FM

Resonance 104.4 FM is a London-based non-profit community radio station specializing in the arts run by the London Musicians' Collective. The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and over 300 volunteer technical and production staff.

Available on the web, it is one of my go-to stations.

https://www.resonancefm.com/

https://www.resonancefm.com/programmes

It also hosts The Wire Adventures in Sound and Music.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/adventures-in-sound-and-music-16-september-2021/

Thursday Thoughts

Once again, we had a beautiful sunny day - that is until mid-afternoon when it clouded over. By five it had receded and we were in sunshine again.

I decided, after doing some reading, I would take a walk into town and enjoy the resplendent day. I had a few books to take to Past Sentence anyway and saw Kate at around one in the afternoon. Negotiated five pounds for the paperbacks. Then I poped into my local pub for a couple of pints.

I also found three books for a pound and these are below -



I then walked home and listened to some music and read another article from Wire magazine.

This Never Happened To Me When I Was A Kid

Heh..

Would You...

Would you rather have all your clothes fit perfectly or have the most comfortable pillow, blankets, and sheets in existence?

Would you rather have every shirt you ever wear be kind of itchiness or only be able to use 1 ply toilet paper?

Would you rather have thirty butterflies instantly appear from nowhere every time you sneeze or one very angry squirrel appear from nowhere every time you cough?

Would you rather be able to control fire or water?

Good Night