A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.
As part of my work on sound heritage, I'm running a short survey on sounds (not music) that are important personally/culturally to people from different parts of the world. Please do help if you can 🙏 (versions in other languages will be added soon) tinyurl.com/5579y76e
Can anyone unpaywall this? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The global biogeography of passerine songs
Although bird songs are classic models for understanding the evolution of vocal communication, their global diversity has long made the development of a unifying framework challenging. By analyzing th...
science.org
NYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
A rule is most often only the means which those who do kno something adopt for protecting themselves from the need of really teaching those who want to learn. | #hinton
Shakespearean football on display: Norway vs English with bribery besides.
After a while, so much time of non-interaction had passed between us that she was a stranger again. | #gladmam
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
@drewdaniel.bsky.social @lordchiefjustice.bsky.social Just letting y'all know there's a general strike in Portugal tomorrow (3 JUN). Hopefully we manage to stop this "pacote laboral" (labour package) that attempts to rid us of some basic worker's rights. Have a nice show in Lisbon today, tho.
And in Montreal, catch Lisa Robertson launch Riverwork alongside Shanzhai Lyric, hosted by Michael Nardone, at Parquette:
!["Emancipatory politics always destroys the appearance of a natural order, reveals what is presented as necessary & inevitable to be mere contigency as it makes what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable." [a tense-modified Mark Fisher quote] as a sticker in a bathroom.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfjc4mcqvt4dvnmfktltefp5/bafkreifzlcp2qo3v76ggswq3xey3szwtok4nodltgwc25e7fssqu4aqhni)
Ever wondered what Miles Davis sounded like before he lost his voice? lewisporter.substack.com/p/new-years-...
Miles Davis: UNKNOWN First Recorded Interview—1951! (UPDATED)
(NOTE: I ADDED some information from the Swedish archive about the date and about how these interviews were made.
lewisporter.substack.com
Joy Harjo's BASIC RULES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT POETS
Soon part of an exhibition. If you're near Bard, go check it out. ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhib...
Assume Form - CCS Bard
Opening Reception, Saturday, April 4, 1pm - 4pm<br/> Limited free seating is available on a roundtrip chartered bus from New York City for the April 4th opening. Reservations are required and can be m...
ccs.bard.edu
"You could not encounter a more engaging, enthusiastic, laser-focused craftsman of sound and sonics"
GRAMMY-nominated hip hop producer and sound engineer Bob Power has died aged 73
Power worked on iconic records from the likes of D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, J Dilla and A Tribe Called Quest
mixmag.net
