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This Saturday, at Schloss Libermé, Belgium, Stéphane Egeling (pictured in rehearsal earlier today) will premiere my piece LUFT for solo Piccolo Heckelphone.
This exceptionally rare instrument was developed by Heckel on the request of Richard Strauss. Only a few were made.
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My teacher Jane Cowan b otd 1915. Of her many tenets, two were perhaps the most basic. Technique: playing the cello must feel (and look) easy. Music: each part of the phrase/each clause has a main note towards and away from which every other note flows - exactly as in speech.
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Piano Piece VI, played by Dina Pysarenko
open.spotify.com/track/4NZM2…
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Have you heard Tour de France by Kraftwerk? I would begin with Elektro Cardiogram, a great achievement by any measure!
Just wanted to say that this is one of the finest artworks I have ever encountered.
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Jun 2
When the extremophile begins "writing" this line of poetry, the cell creates a protein that causes the cell to glow red in the dark, thereby turning the extremophile into the "faery" described in the poem itself:
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"the faery is rosy
of glow"
[The first lines from the poem "Eurydice," enciphered as a molecule, on display at Platform in Leeds School of Arts until the end of June]:
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Listen to my newest album on Spotify.
Ukrainian pianist Dina Pysarenko plays the first twelve of my ongoing series of Piano Pieces (a life-long project):
open.spotify.com/album/5iwhT…
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Just wanted to say that this is one of the finest artworks I have ever encountered.
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Everyone needs to read The Xenotext. Buy both volumes -- multiple copies if possible (you can enjoin your friends to read it, too).
Well, that was incredibly interesting and I’m gunna have to read it a couple more times I think before I get the full picture of it. But I’m really looking forward to book 2.
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When I applied to the composition program of the CNSMDP (Conservatoire de Paris), the entrance exams were spread out over several weeks and, among other tortures, included two 12-hour ‘mise en loge’ -- exams during which candidates were not permitted to leave the room. (1/4)
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When I passed the exam, the philosophy paper was “The cause” (La cause). I remember another candidate, next to me, basically breaking into tears. I had a lot of fun answering it. I really miss the challenges offered by this system, which push students to work hard and really flourish - most of it due to the quality of their teachers, of course.
Needless to say that in person (whether for written or oral presentation work) exams trumps any other type of grading / assessment. And yet it is precisely this standard that has come under fire for quite some time in academia, based on politically motivated criteria.
People may quibble about the meritocratic standards of the ENS - but as someone who has been at that school and also worked in other leading universities, I think this method is still one of the best things in French education today.
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After I was admitted, I had, as part of the fulfullment of my diploma, to endure an 18-hour mise en loge for the orchestration class; for this, I arrived at 6.00 in the morning with a large bag of provisions, departing shortly before midnight. (3/4)
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Upon graduating, I felt I had scaled a mountain. Such experiences made it clear that my capabilities could be stretched much farther than I had hitherto imagined; subsequently, even extremely trying situations seemed relatively trivial, by comparison. (4/4)
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One of my favourite podcast episodes. Christian traveled from Leeds, UK to my studio in Kehl, Germany to film this wide ranging discussion of his poetics and his methods.
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Learn more about THE XENOTEXT by watching this interview: "The Most Beautiful Poem of the Century?" (courtesy of @samuelandreyev): youtube.com/watch?v=_ERsN84Z…
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Samuel Andreyev retweeted
May 29
There's no equivalence between Blair and Pope Leo XIV. One states that we somehow need to blindly jump on the bandwagon of AI development, along with political losers such as Osborne and Clegg, notably because AGI is supposedly at the door (nb. it isn't). The other argues that AI confronts leaders with difficult moral choices that should not be bypassed to match the calls of those who benefit from it financially at the expense of others.
One reference that I never see in contemporary discourse about AI is the visionary Henri Bergson. In the final paragraphs of "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion", Bergson delivers a powerful warning about the imbalance between material technology ("mechanics") and human spiritual growth ("mysticism"), concluding that the expanded human body requires a "supplement of soul". Rather than seeing a permanent divide, Bergson argues that technology and morality are deeply interconnected (obvs), yet warns that technological expansion without moral evolution will lead to catastrophe.
We can wait a very long time before Blair delivers his own encyclical on the matter.
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Yes, it truly is. @christianbok
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this is an insane reality bending boundary pushing book
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My video editor has not yet completed post production on this episode — but I look forward to releasing it in short order.
Ahem.
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May 30
this is an insane reality bending boundary pushing book
Rereading this amazing book. A work of extraordinary brilliance; it is a gift to the world.
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Rereading this amazing book. A work of extraordinary brilliance; it is a gift to the world.
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It’s all true
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