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Play—Or Doing Ever New Things With The Sounds You Already Have
Over the past few weeks I’ve been listening to Huerco S’s recording Plonk. The music finds many ways to hold a listener’s attention, and its sound-flow suggests someone playing with the artifacts of sounds, taking them apart, and arranging them into always new constellations. In other words, it’s not so much Huerco’s sounds that hold Continue reading
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Observations On A Musician Playing Guitar
A tune beyond us as we are, Yet nothing changed by the blue guitar; Ourselves in the tune as if in space, Yet nothing changed, except the place Of things as they are and only the place As you play them, on the blue guitar, Placed, so, beyond the compass of change, Perceived in a Continue reading
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On Play
Play, I’ve come to realize, is a favorite word of mine. In no particular order, here are some possible contexts for it: He plays that piano well. The book’s title was a play on words. My dog is playful. No worries: we were just playing around. You just got played. The musicians were playing off Continue reading

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