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Resonant Thoughts: Ian Penman’s “Erik Satie Three Piece Suite” (2025)
“Certain pieces by Satie are like someone took the lovely opening minutes of Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert and cut away all the subsequent faff and bore and chaff and chore and ego moan.” (54) “IN-BETWEEN All those in-between emotions it’s hard to name. Old time feelings in danger of disappearing. Staring into space vs Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: James Rebanks’s “The Place Of Tides” (2025)
“Our lives are a series of choices – about what we do, and don’t do. Over time we decide what to let go of, what must die, and what we will fight to keep alive. Sometimes these are big, deliberate decisions, other times change happens in a thousand thoughtless little moments” (91). “There is no Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Ezekiel Honig’s “Broken Time Can Go In Many Directions” (2025)
(Around 2002, when I was doing research for my dissertation, I saw Ezekiel Honig perform in a tiny bar on the lower east side. There were probably fifteen people at the set. At the time, performing electronic music using just a laptop and Ableton Live was a novel kind of musicianship. Honig’s music was built Continue reading
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