They're back, Miami's seasonal visitors from the Midwest, hundreds of skyscraper-haunting turkey vultures, slowly teetering thru the air, sniffing for the smells of rotting carrion from dozens of miles away and delighting the denizens of our super-talls with their acrobatically accidental flying.🤭

Headed by Bandcamp today?🐸 My album from '23, filled with eccentric outpourings of luminous time and spacey. Title track is a friccative perc. cto. the 2nd track, a series of spatial distortions varying a snippet of melancholia, the 3rd, woops as onomatopoeiac melodisms, m83-inspired...

Finally, scientific proof! Pianists can sculpt their timbre with touch. 'Using proprietary non-contact sensors capable of measuring key positions at 1000 fps, we measured key movements when professional pianists played using various timbres.'

Free WaPo: archive.is/b1GIK

In the Brickell area tonight? Look up! Nightly luminescent prayer meditations in celebration and manifestation of peace ✌️ against violence, genocide and our ongoing 'capture' by French activists are visible nightly. Look at the Sky! Laugh at the Sky! Let us live with dignity in our own home!

for #NationalPoetryDay one of my all-time favourites.

Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. “It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

Half-off sale at the Bandcamp webshop of Ukrainian composer in exile Valentin Silvestrov, in honor of his 88th birthday

Thomas Pynchon’s new detective novel is bonkers and brilliant fun:‘Shadow Ticket’ features criminal cheesemongers, Jazz Age adventuresses, Hungarian magicians and so, so much more. Free Wapo: archive.is/MIUnr

"Pianos living three lifetimes in one. Blues made and used right on the spot." - Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were…"

Luminescent freedom!

I love this one.❤️ #MeisterEckhart from “Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart”📚🙏

fyi: killing coyotes backfires! (coyote numbers increase when stressed by violence).

floating on my back during our sunday morning swim getting joyfully pummelled by the hail-sized drops of a late summer morning deluge in the sunlight. 🐸 #floridaproblems

“When the host meets the host, they do not greet each other. When the guest meets the guest, they do not recognize each other.” - Yunmen

Here's the very languid cello/piano nocturne which came together this week, score should be up next week:

The massive Everglades Restoration Project has opened a major new canal from Lake Okeechobee, the most polluted lake in the US, which will allow for water cleaning before flooding back to the Glades and less West Coast agricultural waste dumping, which causes algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico:

The original audio:

just finished a little modal piece that came out of nowhere for cello and piano. need to step back and get over my excitement before I start uploading, lol...

In this one volume of sutra, The words have no clear meaning. The sun rises, the moon sets, When will I finish reading it? Reading a sutra by moonlight Unidentified artist. ca. 1332

My mother was Faulkner's wife's nurse in Oxford, MS before I was born, and he was not a fun boss, drunk at 9 AM, yelling and finally forcing her to quit. 🙄 Happy Birthday!

Xi surprised the UN climate summit by pledging GHGs 7–10% below peak by 2035, ≥30% non-fossil energy & 3,600 GW wind+solar. Strong symbolism—but underplays progress. China’s CO₂ already fell ~1% in H1 2025, the first historical drop, powered by renewables, #EV & #BESS boom racing past pledges. 🌍⚡

Finally...

Picking a side:

Michio Kaku on H1B being the secret weapon of the US.

New demo of my SQ #12 uses the new AI instruments from Ace Studio 2.0 Beta, the viola and cello, in addition to their already fabulous violin. The new insts. don't have the same flair as the first violin, but are trained from licensed soloists. SQ #12 score and parts: imslp.org/wiki/String_...

I am personally relieved that they're not voting on removing the recommendation of the Covid vaccine altogether. That was a possibility. I do not like this but it isn't the worst possible scenario.

Short-term thinking is endemic to business, but the idea of businesses actually defecating ON YOUR CUSTOMER to -please 'somebody', lol..., is radically fresh, unlikely to ever be forgotten. Let's make $DIS -> $TSLA: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not all art hangs in museums. Across 1 trillion web pages it lives in sketches, fan sites, & web design. The Wayback Machine keeps this digital gallery open for all to enjoy. 🎨🧑‍🎨 📝 Tell us what irreplaceable works the Wayback Machine saved for you! ⤵️ forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe... #Wayback1T

The ridiculous and yet astonishing Taneyev Fugue from his op. 29, the Russian hallucination of Bach: Performed by Lilya Zilberstein youtu.be/0XOXpWnqXlQ?...

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.

“The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.” - John Marshall #RadioFreeAmerica

Fun and amphibious incitement of poesy here:

Gettn' off the elevator the other day, a guy points to us and says to his friend, 'There's those people who live in a fishbowl.'

Neither this nor that explains why things happen, including karma, and our interconnectedness makes some of our suffering inexplicably communal. Sivaka Sutta (SN 36:21): "To Sivaka" www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/...

This was a powerful recording for a Manhasset Public Library (Long Island) performance of a dark little piece (Nocturne, w/o the key sig) that they also commercially recorded:

Thinking in bigger pictures: Terence McKenna explains his theory behind why the universe keeps getting more complex (Novelty Theory). This audio is from Terence McKenna's "Final Interview" in 1998.

Oooh... this looks interesting for family reasons, new Ken Burns (Elsie's American grandmother, Alfred's mom, ran off with Lucky Luciano at its height):

Meanwhile:

As others have pointed out, climate change chaos is not without its ocassional benefits:

It's not luminescent propaganda, it's a kind of shiny manure, nurturing us 😶

just uploaded the score and parts to my new string quartet, my 12th, to IMSLP. i'll post when it gets approved for downloading. imslp.org/wiki/String_...

Calligraphy of the Chinese character for mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh:

Bizarre and amazing new Liza Lim quartet recording:

Something for the students in your family. #RadioFreeAmerica

Life on Mars revisited, leopard spots, interestingly textured rock w/possible biosig found by Perseverance:

Orson Wells describes meeting Hitler as a teen hiking through Tyrol, 'He made no impression; he was invisible.'

It isn’t enough to love; you have to prove it. -St. Therese of Lisieux

Loneliness

'What is the karma that leads to a short life? It is said: Killing living beings. Rejoicing in the killing of living beings. Speaking in praise of the killing of living beings. Greatly enjoying the death of enemies. Encouraging the death of enemies. Speaking in praise of the death of enemies.'