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hi all.  it is very cold in providence.

I joined the list maybe three or four weeks ago and agree 100% with kim. while I like seeing calls for work and general art alerts, my mailbox has been a little overfull of promos for events I cannot possibly get to. or playlists (how many of these do I need to get a day?) kicking promoters off is a bit draconian, but will probably make the purpose of this list more clear to us who want to participate in it. i don't know where promo info should go, but this list has really seemed more like a bulletinboard with kinkos copied flyers all over it.

anyway. now for some content by me. i hope some response can be generated and whatnot.

so, 2003 was rather damn fine for me. (to start, I've had my powerbook for a year. bling.) lots of performances, lots of work, lots of drawing lines between boxes with text in them, general joys and emotions etc.

I have been continually perplexed by developements in music and art. this may come off as a short toplist but-

morton feldman wrote some amazing music and I have been fortunate to find more and more people who are as into it as I. (missed a perf of quartet 2. <heartbreak>) his influence getting recognized and this is always a critical point for the work of an artist and for those influenced by him. I got a copy of his selected writings (from exact change press, available on amazon so don't fret about unavailability) and was very into it, didacticism and all. I feel in his work a stong sense of care and precision (even in his use of chance/indeterminacy/however you want to put it). clarity and communication (when 'difficulty' presents itself, it is transparent, neither on the surface nor in the depths of the music).

the wealth of electronic music that is simply amazing. musicians creating and performing work that I have a wonderfully hard time categorizing (some tasks I leave up to wire magazine) more enjoyable to listen to. people playing instruments and singing instead of just staring at their laptops (though that has made some damn fine work this last year as well).

cremaster 3 - damn. completely overwhelming. if all art was given this kind of support... (see also isaac julien's recent 3-channel film that was at metropictures in chelsea. forgot the name but had a similar level of quality and vision) neither have anything to do with the focus of this list, but are stunning.

the poetry of cole swensen, stephen ratcliffe and others. ratcliffe's _portraits and repetition_ is of special interest to microsounders. immense (over 400 pg) but so focused and remarkable clear. moments enlarged and reflected, sense and memory become loosed from their moorings. read! (if not these, something!)

much more to blab about. figured i'd try to light a fire. its cold anyway.
hey. i'm pretty happy. you?


b.



"	I want to go to the elevator
& ascend in the cool
wind that lifts us
in our just-awake traits
into the dusk & our skirts asking questions

of cringing atoms singing like brass bands in the closet

I will make the music for you, a view
with no pictorial illusion of volumetric space"	-eleni sikelianos


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