#Music Recent #vinyl and #CD finds at thrift stores and used record stores: #vintage recordings of #classical from two traditions (both records in excellent condition), a legendary #Afropop artist, and an #indie band I'd never heard of until last week.

An agate stone that looks like an ocean painting ✨

Stunning: HH 49/50 Over thousands of years, its boundary will move outward, eventually visually covering the distant background galaxy from Earth's viewpoint, demonstrating the dynamic, changing nature of astronomical phenomena. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, SSC)

#Music A "cerebral" (pardon the pun on the title) composition by #ChickCorea. #Jazz www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpD...

The Brain

YouTube video by Chick Corea - Topic

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#FlashFiction from my #book "Reflections". #Art #AbstractArt #Music #Fiction #Writing

The first of four in a strange project of #improvisation over two prerecorded pieces played at the same time. Are you chicken to listen to such #music? #ExperimentalMusic sericscribner1.bandcamp.com/track/snohom...

Snohomish Piece I: Enter, the Chicken, by S. Eric Scribner, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosaly-Meyer

from the album Four

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#Art "Park Near Lu" by Paul Klee, 1938. #Abstract #Landscape

#ClassicalMusic The #Japanese classical ensemble of #koto (with singing), #shamisen, and #shakuhachi. The music is #heterophonic with harmony (and dissonance) resulting because the parts don't all "get there" at the same time. #TraditionalMusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcsP...

Riley Lee 尺八 WSF08 World Masters Concert Zangetsu 残月 shakuhachi, koto, shamisen. Japanese Music

YouTube video by Riley Lee Music

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Today's reposted #jokes are reading. #Books

"Night Taxi" - my oil painting

Wild #grasses #abstract

#Music #Improvisation: #flute, #piano, #drums, and some #surreal #stream-of-consciousness ramblings about a #cat. sericscribner1.bandcamp.com/track/surrea...

Surrealisticat, by S. Eric Scribner

from the album Eight Pieces

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#Music This sounds nothing like the original by #Björk. Whether that's a good thing, a bad thing, or nothing at all, is up to you. #RockMusic #GrungeRock #Metal #CoverTune www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eE7...

Army Of Me (Well Adjusted Album Version)

YouTube video by Beanbag - Topic

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#Art #Landscape by Sesshu Toyo, late 15th Century. #JapaneseArt

#ClassicalMusic Obviously it's a #festival of #European #EarlyMusic. But the intro: besides "looking like" a #HieronymusBosch painting, it also appears to be Kaii in my #fantasy #TondSeries, and Nanta is greeting the sunrise with the Great Bagpipe/Horn on Horn Hill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSV0...

La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion - Opening Concert Early Music Festival Utrecht 2023 - Live HD

YouTube video by AVROTROS Klassiek

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Today's recycled #jokes may need some #counselling. Or not.

These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .

Night-Shining White by Han Gan depicts a cavalry horse owned by Emperor Xuanzong. The horse is tethered to a post. Ink on paper, ca. 750. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

NGC 1872: open or globular cluster? Image date: 19 July 2010, 10:00 This spectacular NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows NGC 1872, a rich cluster of thousands of stars lying in our small neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This little-studied cluster is located in the con...

Happy Podcast Monday! -Betsy Jolas at 100 -Braxton, Wadada, Residents gems at 50 -New Glass, Hillborg, Brennan, Courvoisier, Scribner, Kim and more tinyurl.com/JolasAt100 @philipglass.bsky.social @kbcs.bsky.social @theresidents.bsky.social @stevenericscribner.bsky.social @neumarecords.bsky.social

Flotation Device 2026-08-02 - Betsy Jolas at 100 by Flotation Device

Flotation Device celebrates the 100th birthday of the indefatigable Franco-American composer Betsy Jolas, and the 50th anniversaries of Anthony Braxton’s Duets 1976, Wadada Leo Smith’s Song of Humanit...

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Final blackboards of renowned physicists: Richard Feynman Albert Einstein Niels Bohr #histSTM #Feynman #Einstein #Bohr

#Music A #1990's #electronica #remix of something from the 12th century. #Hildegard doesn't really need an "updated" version, but, why not? This is quite nice. #EarlyMusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTRG...

Vision (O Euchari In Leta Via)

YouTube video by Emily Van Evera - Topic

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In my #TondSeries of #fantasy novels, there is the slight possibility that a Fyorian expletive may be the origin of the villain's hybird monsters, known as "gruntags" and definitely reminiscent of #HieronymusBosch. #Writing #Books

#ClassicalMusic A set of introspective, tragic (and often quite melodic) #lieder about things breaking up: the end of conventional #tonality for #Schoenberg. #ChamberMusic #Soprano #Piano www.youtube.com/watch?v=21yu...

Schoenberg: The Book of the Hanging Gardens (Bryn-Julson, Oppens)

YouTube video by Micha Weinst

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Today's reposted #Jokes are #signs of the times?

This mosaic comes from the east church at Theodorias (modern Qasr in Libya 🇱🇾) & shows a fish sinuously swimming. Originally, the church had 50 mosaics on its floor. They have now been removed and placed in the nearby, purpose-built museum. 🕰️c540AD 📷 @jonalendering.bsky.social #MosaicMonday

Out for a bike ride and I stumbled across a small fossil bank near Canberra airport. First uncovered in 1844, these brachiopods date to the Silurian age and are around 430 million years old. At the time of discovery, they were believed to be the oldest known fossils 📷 mine

#Art "Time Island" by Karin Mamma Andersson. #StillLife

My most mysterious group #improvisation. (A double improvisation: it's two recordings on top of each other.) #ExperimentalMusic sericscribner1.bandcamp.com/track/at-night

At Night, by S. Eric Scribner

from the album Eight Pieces

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