Sad news today: Karlheinz Stockhausen is dead. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=T4RWBOA5SZZVTQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/12/08/db0801.xml
I have enjoyed his music since I was first introduced to it in 1981 - "Set Sail for the Sun" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aus_den_Sieben_Tagen has been one of my desert island discs since I heard it back then.
http://www.stockhausen.org/licht_by_malcolm_ball.html
Text Festival, books and stuff
As already featured in the anniversary post on 19 March, the field of action of first festival was contextualised with the ‘Text’ (ISBN 0 9...
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Having done virtually no research about Leiria before I arrived, I was very enamored with it - a very charming little town, given what I im... -
As per the last blog, the first novel of my post-UK period, The Family Idiots , is near enough finished (just proofing, etc) so I have mov... -
We will call first thinking the ‘thought-there’ Sylvain Lazarus. The value of a thought is measured by its distance from the continuity ...