"A note sounds. Then it sounds again. But everything has changed. Not only is the note colored by a different resonance the second time around, but featureless time has been marked with the beginnings of a grid. The one note at the start defined only a before and an after. The second discloses a pulse. In accordance with this pulse, a third sound appears, but up a step, encouraging the accompaniment—which has not drawn attention to itself so far—to move conversely down.
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Paul Griffiths reviews two new books about Bach. I'll probably read both, but it's his writing I find delightful.
Turning 6lbs of brass and 600 parts into a tenor saxophone at the Yamaha factory.
Eddie Campbell ruminates on Roy Lichtenstein's "appropriation" of comics art.
Among other things.
Via Blog of a Bookslut.
The Smithsonian has a fascinating article about the Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department, which fitted disfigured veterans of the Great War with prosthetic faces. One benefit of reading it online is that there's an accompanying video.
The Economist opines that Steve Jobs' anti-DRM argument is "in short, . . . transparently self-serving. It also happens to be right."
Let me repeat, The Economist said that.
I'm mad at the weather. It's cold. Colder, in fact, than it should be. This is why I'm mad. If things were just as they should be, I wouldn't complain.
I was standing in our magazine room — the room where we keep our supply of magazines — pulling out a couple of boxes of our beautiful February issue, when group publisher Angela Speziale walked in. It's nice to see Angela. She's smart, she's real, she's no nonsense, she means business. This is how things should be.
"Hello," I said. "How are you?"
"I'm well," she said. "And how are you?"
"I'm feeling…
Distressing news: Vandal punks have defaced the Gaudi-designed dragon at Barcelona's Parque Güell.