Every so often, I come across a good sentence. I like when that happens: “The dates in which the story starts and stops are deliberately left vague; the movie feels like it was filmed tomorrow.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Ian Monk, poète, traducteur en anglais de Perec et de Pennac, est mort

Ignore the shitty press and signal boost ANYONE who is doing a good job (currently being drowned out by shit reporting and people complaining about it). Legacy media is NOT coming with us on this journey. Leave them behind.

But it speaks to the hubris that they thought they’d showcase a thing they fundamentally don’t understand.

Follow the link for a complete digital reproduction of this calendar-cum-performance-documentation. Mieko Shiomi is the artist. George Maciunas the designer. The work is Spatial Poem no. 3 (Falling Event). #scoresproject #arthistory #dh #performanceart #academicsky www.getty.edu/publications...

Spoiler: didn't happen: "A careful analysis and comparison of these phenomena with the whole syndrome of the corresponding type of aphasia is an imperative task for joint research by experts in psychopathology, psychology, linguistics, poetics, and semiotics, the generalscience of signs." (Jakobson)

Meltdown could be the name of a movement or protest event. “We’re having a meltdown” then go melt down a bunch of guns and put the metal somewhere inconvenient or somewhere useful or turn them into those tank flipping hedgehogs or whatever

This is a good idea for a report which I cannot cover myself.

Simone Forti reading from her book Handbook in Motion (1974) as part of Meaningless Work, Get to Work, curated by Sarah Cooper and Tashi Wada at the Getty Center in 2021. #scoresproject #arthistory #experimentaldance #academicsky #booksky #DH www.getty.edu/publications...

Simone Forti reading from her book Handbook in Motion (1974) as part of Meaningless Work, Get to Work, curated by Sarah Cooper and Tashi Wada at the Getty Center in 2021. #scoresproject #arthistory #experimentaldance #academicsky #booksky #DH www.getty.edu/publications...

Happening now: smelled a chemical smell wafting from the parking lot, went to check it out. It's Chicago ICE agents unwrapping and assembling a stack of fresh riot shields.

John Cage with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966.

As part of their first week of med school, all 175 first-year UCLA medical students spent a day at the @hammer.ucla.edu for an entre into narrative medicine practices and to use the galleries as a tool for building observation and perspective-taking skills. #ArtsinMedicine #NarrativeMedicine

Unboxing George Brecht's Water Yam. Best viewed at 2x speed, imo. #scoresproject #arthistory #fluxus #academicsky #booksky #DH #performanceart #archivesky www.getty.edu/publications...

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

"The delight in these works — from Warhol to Friedlander, Horn to Gigli — comes from [the fact that] our 👀 trace patterns, spot subtle variations, + construct visual rhymes, taking satisfaction in order + difference. The satisfaction of solving this visual puzzle is a key part of [its] pleasure"

Watch this 8 min instructional video for Allan Kaprow's "7 Kinds of Sympathy" (1976). "The tape is a notation system of that event. It is meant to be read like music or a game plan." #scoresproject #DH #arthistory #academicsky #booksky #happenings #fluxus #notation www.getty.edu/publications...

I absolutely adore trompe l'oeil paintings of printed images, & here's one of my absolute favorites: The Printseller's Window, 1883, by little-known English artist Walter Goodman, a pictorial meditation on modern image culture & photography's impact on painting magart.rochester.edu/objects-1/in...

Meltdown could be the name of a movement or protest event. “We’re having a meltdown” then go melt down a bunch of guns and put the metal somewhere inconvenient or somewhere useful or turn them into those tank flipping hedgehogs or whatever

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

The great concrete poet Eugen Gomringer died last week aged 100.

Meanwhile, at the University of Chicago... www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

I look forward to reading this book! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

An ur-text for the #scoresproject. A single chord on traditional staff plus extensive text instructions for dynamics, attack, articulation, silences, rhythm, tempo, # of repetitions, etc. Young also sent Tudor a personal letter and audio recording. #academicsky www.getty.edu/publications...

just got word that my department's being shut down. two things: 1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal. 2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.

Yes, a computer can beat me at chess, easily, and it moves faster than any human. But what about a game like beer pong? The point is to get drunk while playing. You’re not actually playing if you have a robot do your drinking/playing for you. The point of reading/writing is also to get drunk while..

Papierstück für fünf Spieler (Sept. 1960) by Benjamin Patterson. „Crumple Rumple Bumple“ #arthistory #fluxus #academicsky #booksky #oa #openaccess #scoresproject www.getty.edu/publications...

Evergreen

Program for a performance by the group Theatre of Eternal Music, with La Monte Young, John Cale, Marian Zazeela, and Tony Conrad, ca. 1965, a 2pp primer on listening to #drone music. #scoresproject #academicsky #booksky #johncale #fluxus #arthistory #musicology www.getty.edu/publications...

A window into Yvonne Rainer’s mind at work, in this case for a dance work set to Satie’s Gymnopédies. #scoresproject #academicsky #dance #musicology #booksky #yvonnerainer #notation www.getty.edu/publications...

A window into Yvonne Rainer’s mind at work, in this case for a dance work set to Satie’s Gymnopédies. #scoresproject #academicsky #dance #musicology #booksky #yvonnerainer #notation www.getty.edu/publications...

Dynamics in this piece range from pp to pppp, which must count as extended technique for the saxophone. #scoresproject #minimalism #terryjennings #onoloftconcerts #academicsky #lamonteyoung #booksky #musicology www.getty.edu/publications...

Director Mark Sandrich explains the 'Laughograph' to Helen Mack on set of MELODY CRUISE (1933). This was Sandrich’s first sound feature and a surprise hit for RKO.

there is a fascinating set of art intersections to explore on this site: www.getty.edu/publications... I spent a little time checking out the “Spatial Poem” of Mieko Shiomi from 1965-75 (I bet @zefrank.bsky.social would appreciate it, too) #art #music #scores #poetry #notation

Alison Knowles • Three Songs, broadcast on KPFK, March 11, 1978 #Fluxus

An ur-text for the #scoresproject. A single chord on traditional staff plus extensive text instructions for dynamics, attack, articulation, silences, rhythm, tempo, # of repetitions, etc. Young also sent Tudor a personal letter and audio recording. #academicsky www.getty.edu/publications...

An ur-text for the #scoresproject. A single chord on traditional staff plus extensive text instructions for dynamics, attack, articulation, silences, rhythm, tempo, # of repetitions, etc. Young also sent Tudor a personal letter and audio recording. #academicsky www.getty.edu/publications...

An ur-text for the #scoresproject. A single chord on traditional staff plus extensive text instructions for dynamics, attack, articulation, silences, rhythm, tempo, # of repetitions, etc. Young also sent Tudor a personal letter and audio recording. #academicsky www.getty.edu/publications...

Looking to fill a hole in my syllabus: A good essay on Jung’s hero’s journey (and/or the basic Hollywood 3-act plot) but from a jaded/poststructuralist perspective? Most of what I see on this is either writer’s advice books/blogs or inside-baseball Jungianism. #academicsky #flimstudies

Quite the inventory of techniques in this score for “String Music” (1960) by Benjamin Patterson. Subsequent pages are worth a look—wd love to hear a performance of this! #scoresproject #musicology #blackcomposers #fluxus #academicsky #booksky #arthistory #doublebass www.getty.edu/publications...

On Wednesdays, we bring the noise! Every city, every town, every Wednesday 6PM disrupt business as usual for 15 minutes with defiant and joyful noise that spreads the demand TRUMP Fascist Regime MUST GO NOW silence = normalizing fascist consolidation Where will you join the noise today?

This score has notations for the use of extended technique for both piano and stringed instrument: imagine Tudor and Patterson performing this! #scoresproject #musicology #arthistory #academicsky #booksky #fluxus #notation #extendedtechnique www.getty.edu/publications...

“Jesus wept for his people who did not know the things that make for peace … Turn to your neighbor and say ‘Governments lie.’” Jeremiah Wright on Confusing God and Government is haunting me today. www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

Just encountered a familiar sounding analysis of an intellectual/ideological movement that was said to be bound to dissolve into petty rivalries…”as indeed it did.” Is there some obvious example I’m missing of an intellectual movement that didn’t dissolve into petty rivalries?

Say it again: experimental scores are material objects. Here Ben Patterson uses layered transparency sheets (plus text instructions) to create the score for “Décollage for Wolf Vostell.” #scoresproject #academicsky #musicology #arthistory #booksky #fluxus #openaccess www.getty.edu/publications...

Say it again: experimental scores are material objects. Here Ben Patterson uses layered transparency sheets (plus text instructions) to create the score for “Décollage for Wolf Vostell.” #scoresproject #academicsky #musicology #arthistory #booksky #fluxus #openaccess www.getty.edu/publications...

“The article narrates Cage’s explosive independent interest in mushroom identification that culminated in an appearance on an Italian quiz show where he won a considerable sum of money.” #scoresproject #johncage #academicsky #mushrooms #arthistory #musicology #booksky www.getty.edu/publications...

“The article narrates Cage’s explosive independent interest in mushroom identification that culminated in an appearance on an Italian quiz show where he won a considerable sum of money.” #scoresproject #johncage #academicsky #mushrooms #arthistory #musicology #booksky www.getty.edu/publications...