ridgewood crate beat

is easy

[brownwork]

Very happy to be able to settle in for two days at a favorite venue to play music for you...

[givemesomesoma]

Japanese star map. Tenmon Bun’ya no zu map showing divisions of the heavens and regions they govern, 1677.

[brownwork]

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I’ve been a Francophile since 5th grade and a fairly mediocre speaker of the French language for a few decades. The great experience, since meeting him in ‘82, of working, playing, eating and talking with Guigou Chenevier has been a boon to my language skills - and my awareness of the world beyond North America. That’s not to mention his influence on me as a musician, obviously! One of the oddest situations our group Les Batteries encountered was being commissioned in ‘86 by the Museum of the French Revolution to create a program about the revolution, using texts (and a melody) from their archives. One period of rehearsal in the museum itself found us practicing next to the parts of a de-commissioned guillotine, which I believe to have been the genuine article. While I still do not have a great grasp of the many political and social intricacies of the final decade of the 18th Century in France, some of the pieces on the album we made of the program resonate in these times… Jan. 21, 1793 was the day the former “Louis XVI”, properly known as Louis Capet, felt a guillotine in action.

Le 21 Janvier 793, Capet, tyran dernier, Qu'on nommait Louis XVI A reçu ses étrennes Pour avoir conspiré, Faut avoir une tête Pour être couronné Étant faible et trop bête Il fut guillotiné

(One must have a brain To be crowned Being weak and too stupid He was guillotined)

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Lioconcha hieroglyphica is a saltwater clam that makes cellular automata-style patterns in some kind of hieroglyphical or cuneiform way. Also see the textile cone, the lioconcha castrensis and the nature tag here.

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[1five1two]

Iridescent pyrite from Peru.

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Harry Clarke, Illustration from a rare 1933 edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination 

“The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic,… upon the interior surface of a funnel.”

[brownwork]

"A Descent into the Maelström" is the title of Poe's story.

[vedicardi]

[brownwork]

Oh, How To Do Now!

[abduction]

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[1264doghouse]

Nina Simone 1968

[jazz-improvisation]

Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden in New York City, 1967

photographer: Peter Yates

[gacougnol]

Tina Modotti

Untitled (Mexico City)

1924

[planet-motherfucker]

[brownwork]

We're excited to bring our 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band back to the Woodsist Festival! A lot of great music both days. Tickets at this link.

[design-is-fine]

Louis Renard, Fishes, crayfishes, and crabs, Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, 1754. Amsterdam. Via Teylers Museum