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Pieces of a Man
This song has haunted me from the first time I heard it. The despair in the lyrics is matched by the clear-eyed pain of the vocals. The poetry stands on its own but it’s the singing that makes the hairs stand up. The piano and bass are pretty tasty too.The son of an opera singing… Read more
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DEMO: She Comes To Me
She comes to me in silent dreams When there’s nothing to say She comes to me in whispers That take my breath away She comes to me with questions Whose answers break my heart She comes to me with nothing That she makes a work of art I hear her in the silenceI see her… Read more
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Century Old Visions: Sound and Vision
Around the same time that photography was revolutionizing the way we see ourselves, sound recording was doing the same for our ears. They say that Abraham Lincoln had a squeaky voice that might have made him unelectable. We’ll never know. On April 9th, 1860, in Paris, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville made the earliest recording… Read more
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Century Old Visions: Richter
“The cinema can fulfill certain promises made by the ancient arts” Hans Richter Something happened roughly 100 years ago that changed the way we think of ourselves. If our species gets its shit together and we prosper for another millennia or six there are a couple of decades at the turn of the 20th Century… Read more
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Century Old Visions: Rilke
This is the first in a series of posts devoted to creative works from the early days of the 20th Century. 1906 portrait of Rilke by Paula Modersohn-Becker “Where others have found a unifying principle for themselves in religion or morality or the search for truth, Rilke found his in the search for impressions and… Read more
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