Tom, via Russell. Brilliant.
Tom Armitage talks about what rules can yield in terms of games. I listened to him in terms of musical systems (some of which are games, too).
"The system is rules *and* human input."
I watched this the same night as David Sylvian's Amplified Gesture on free improvisation. I'd recommend them as a pair.
Artist Rachael Morrison is documenting the "unique scent" of each book in MOMA's book collection. All 300,000 of them.
I've been taking (physical, non-smell-based) inventory at Stout Books in Berkeley these last couple months and some of the books' smells have definitely stood out.
I'm enjoying imagining someone trying to find or order a book by smell.
Jack Ely, the Kingsmen’s vocalist on 1963’s “Louie Louie,” recreates the track 40 years later in a stable in the presence of a horse. I especially like how he replicates his (classic) mistake on the record, namely coming in too early on the last verse and then starting again.
That's the voice. Right there.
DON'T THEY KNOW?
Sometimes while passing by points of industry in the middle of nowhere I imagine I'm on one of last freight trains still operating, moving cargo to one of the last factories able to stay in business. The grain factory I'm passing at the moment is full of white tailed deer, whos diets consist largely of oat fiber left inside the factory by the people who had to shut it down. I pass a series of symetrical pools that have become more of a pond system and a heron playground than a water treatment plant. Don't they know it's the end of the world?
