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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2025-01-19 at 15:24

A brief, but illuminating, talk by Jon Fosse on his work. It all comes back to silence.

[#]JonFosse #ASilentLanguage #FitzcarraldoEditions #Silence #NobelPrizeForLiterature

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2025-01-16 at 19:08

Goodbye to this towering presence in our lives, someone who made the world a better and stranger place for so many of us.

Gotta light? He is the light—and the darkness.

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2025-01-02 at 12:33

January mood

[#]DonAyler #DonaldAyler #Improvisation #FreeJazz

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-12-21 at 18:23

Two Paradoxes, by William Wantling (from The Fix, Tangerine Press, 2008; originally published in Down, Off & Out, 1965)

[#]WilliamWantling #Poetry

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-12-21 at 14:29

And here's another little announcement about two new small poems in the new issue of Robin Boothroyd's aswirl.

https://brianlavelle.scot/two-new-poems-in-aswirl-issue-eight/

[#]Poetry #AswirlZine #VisualPoetry #MinimalPoetry

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-12-21 at 13:28

A little Solstice poem on my website today: https://brianlavelle.scot/orcadian-solstice/

[#]Poetry #Poem #Solstice #WinterSolstice #OrcadianSolstice

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-12-08 at 19:57

Any new music from David is welcome!

https://c.im/@compositeur/113618932508464173

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-12-05 at 18:38

A tiny little thing now up at dadakuku, with my thanks to petro c. k. for accepting it.

https://dadakuku.com/2024/12/05/threnody-guitar/

[#]Poetry #MinimalistPoetry #ExperimentalPoetry

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-11-03 at 16:52

[#]NowPlaying Dirk Serries ‘Zonal Disturbances’ (download): irruptions and interruptions from a succession of bleak, Tarkovskyesque landscapes. A really beguiling set of works for the electric guitar.

https://dirkserries.bandcamp.com/album/zonal-disturbances

[#]DirkSerries #ElectricGuitarSoundscapes

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-10-31 at 22:31

Precision + joy = an arc of the infinite

Absolutely stellar concert tonight of music by Iannis Xenakis, performed by percussionist Kuniko Kato, with percussion ensemble IX Percussion α and Nobuo Nakasho (Noh Mai). I’d never experienced Xenakis’s Pléïades in performance until this evening, and it brought new depth to a physically demanding, complex and mesmerising work. Huge thanks to the Reid School of Music, organisers and all the performers.

[#]IannisXenakis #KunikoKato #IXPercussionα

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-10-19 at 14:50

Really enjoying this new release ("Taxi for Purse") on Chicago-based label, pan y rosas discos. Featuring members of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, the full cast is:

Saxophone & objects: Raymond MacDonald

Saxophone & objects: Robert Burke

Double bass: Una MacGlone

Theremin & cello: Jessica Argo

Percussion: David Robertson

Piano: Maria Sappho

Proceeds will be donated to Zaman International's Give Gaza Hope campaign.

https://panyrosasdiscos.bandcamp.com/album/taxi-for-purse

[#]FreeImprovisation #ImprovisedMusic

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-10-03 at 20:52

The new release—The Land—by guitarist Jon Collin is quietly dazzling. The premise of the two long recordings on the album is fascinating. Read more at the Early Music Bandcamp page, linked here. One to consider for #BandcampFriday tomorrow, perhaps.

[#]JonCollin #EarlyMusicRecords #Guitar #FieldRecordings

https://earlymusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-land

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-09-17 at 22:01

So looking forward to Dancing with the Dead, the long-awaited documentary about Red Pine/Bill Porter.

https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/redpine

[#]RedPine #BillPorter #DancingWithTheDeadFilm #ChinesePoetry #TheArtOfTranslation

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-09-15 at 22:37

Chanced upon this launch event on Thursday in Edinburgh for the Scottish poet Gerry Cambridge’s first book of prose, The Ayrshire Nestling. Ticket now secured!

I’m a huge admirer of Gerry’s work so I was really delighted to stumble on the announcement.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ayrshire-nestling-by-gerry-cambridge-book-launch-tickets-1000664714097

[#]GerryCambridge #SaltireSociety #ScottishPoet #TheAyrshireNestling

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-09-01 at 14:34

The dolmen at les alignements de Kermario in Carnac.

Photographs taken on 30 August 2024

[#]StandingStoneSunday #Dolmen #Carnac #Brittany

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Written by Brian Lavelle on 2024-08-29 at 18:09

I've just added a Now page to my website, which I hope (famous last words) to update a bit more frequently with what I have going on musically and, er, writingly...

Everything that's not Now is probably Then.

https://brianlavelle.scot/now

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