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5 Years Ago 2008 : This week I was in Tokyo, where I came upon a book titled Art Space Tokyo: An Intimate Guide to the Tokyo Art World. I was headed to a concert at the club Super Deluxe, so I didnt but a copy, which was unfortunate because it quickly went out of print and sold for hundreds of dollars in the second-hand market. Later, in 2010, the book was a successful early Kickstarter project for a reprint and iPad edition, which finally appeared in mi
vaso stanley d-2012. Theres a free browser-based version, too. Anyhow, my quote of the week in mid-December 2008 was from the book. This is Roger McDonald: This sense of physical impermanence makes Tokyo something like a huge, ever-evolving John Cage composition, whirling itself through chance procedures and the interventions of its inhabitants/users. The image of the week, a 1940s listening device shown in this post, was found via the musician and sound artist Steve Rodens ephemera-rich blog. 鈥?In the Downstream department of legally free downloads: C. Reider reworking nine other musicians work, mischievous Morse code from Sublamp aka Ryan Connor , the collaboration of James Blackshaw and Jozef Van Wissem, and Jonathan Colecloughs amplified sounds. Many of those offsite links have, inevitably, since expired. 10 Years Ago 2003 : I did a holiday gift guide this week, with recommendations based on category a broader concept than genre , suc
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