Michael Schmidt / Gordon Parks + More
January 22, 2019
Look:
Gordon Parks: Segregation Story
Michael Schmidt: Waffenruhe
Listen:
James Blake: Assume Form
Aaron Rothman
January 16, 2019
Look:
Aaron Rothman Signal Noise
Listen:
Pom Pom Untitled 2
Lara Sarkissian Disruption
John Gossage / The Pond
December 22, 2018
Look:
I just realized I’ve never seen this actual book. I need to fix that.
John Gossage reflects on The Pond
Robert Adams on The Pond
One is grateful for The Pond because we are in trouble, and because irony which focuses on the ugliness of man-made juxtapositions does not at this point, by itself, help. Americans are the audience (and the protagonists) late in a tragedy; we are not wholly ignorant of our crimes anymore, but we have not yet fully paid for them, and we carry a burden of pity for other and fear for ourselves. And though these emotions are appropriate to the events, they threaten an inappropriate exhaustion. If, as may be the case, we are not to experience the coherence of the end of Act Five in our lifetimes, our effort must be to live with the tragedy unresolved – unjustified, and not fully explained. And for this endurance we need to do something more than rehearse the crimes of the early acts.
Listen:
(Old Favorites)
The Album Leaf – Red eye
Boards of Canada – Music is Math