Link.

(This letter is in response to a book review about 20th Century Music.)

The Music That Is Best Is That Which Is Most Enjoyed By The Listener.

This article was long overdue, in my opinion. Many thanks to the author.

To be limited to only the music that has been foisted upon us by marketeers is nothing more than being a dog whose master is a Pavlov of sorts.

Just like in literature, art, and cinema, music is a broad field with endless opportunities, often leading to great aesthetic rewards.

I am therefore optimistic that the internet and other…

Click here to see the actual report. Look below for the text.

RESEARCH REPORT
Elvis to Eminem: quantifying the price of fame through early
mortality of European and North American rock and pop stars
Mark A Bellis, Tom Hennell, Clare Lushey, Karen Hughes, Karen Tocque, John R Ashton
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http://www.last.fm/group/Dream+Therapy+Through+Music

1. i have about 4000 tracks loaded into itunes.
2. i have a setting that i've created in itunes where i can select 'tracks least recently played'
3. i sort by time, going from shortest to longest. i start with tracks @ a 30 second duration, so as to log in last.fm.
4. hit play, and set volume to the absolutely lowest setting, so that the music blends in with the naturally ambient sounds of your personal environment, in your bedroom, or wherever you sleep.
5. these music tracks are of music that i generally like, but am not…

Messaien's piano
throws notes like handfuls of stones
to clatter
against a glass-
house God:
birds'
arrhythmic hearts,
they're precipitated into the bluster
and terror of spring.

The beautiful world hardly responds
yet these go on - chorus, soloist. Make a joyful noise
unto the Lord.
Are you glass -
your absence a mirror?
Well, I lob stones.

Far off,
as from a distant copse,
hear what bodies do:
suspension,
interruption.
That long, perfect fall.

· From Common Prayer by Fiona Sampson

Tom Recchion has been a artist/composer/art director in Southern California since the 1970’s. He is the co-creator of the legendary Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). At the time he discarded object making (though he employs it now) and concentrated on the ephemeral nature of sound. His early practice in low-tech sonic exploration presaged many of the genre's exciting developments of the last quarter-century: record manipulation, live tape loops, free improvisation, found and invented instruments, installation, and more.

In the LAFMS his group, The Doo-Dooettes, became one of the 3 anchor points for the collective's endeavors as…

Well, mate, it's time to fare thee well, adieu, so long, and all the best to you.

It's hard to believe that you've flown the coop, it seems like you were just here, chuckling over the Derek & Clive send up of Fireball XL5.

Thanks for all the good memories: S.H.A.D.O. Dinky toys, burning the chalice with Sun Ra's Arkestra, your vigorous defence of vinyl versus digital, you ringing me up @ KPFK @ 330am, thanking me for playing "Yoo Doo Right" by Can, while you were zooming around on the freeway system in your Dodge Colt.

I'm still glad…

Priests to Purify Site After Bush Visit

By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA

March 9, 2007, 12:20 AM EST

GUATEMALA CITY – Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.

"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties…

Paul Burwell

Experimental performance artist

Published: 09 February 2007

Paul Dean Burwell, artist and musician: born Ruislip, Middlesex 24 April 1949; (two sons with Sheila Cobbing); died Hull, Yorkshire 4 February 2007.

Paul Burwell was infamous for his exuberant fusions of fine-art installation, percussion and explosive performance. He was a staunch advocate of, and passionate participant in, all forms of experimental art.

In 1983 Burwell, the sculptor Richard Wilson and the performance artist Anne Bean formed an unholy alliance as the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, a multi-media urban-junk-and-pyrotechnics percussion trio. Their first appearance was at the London Musicians' Collective, and for…

Salman Khan's 'Tumko Na Bhool Payenge', partly inspired by the Hollywood thriller 'The Long Kiss Goodnight', revolves around Vir (Salman), a man who seems to have it all…loving parents and a doting fiancé Muskaan (Diya). However, life is not at all perfect for Vir, as he begins to have what are suspected to be strange hallucinations, hallucinations consisting of him being chased by armed men, and of an attempted assassination on the country's Chief Minister, among others; with no clue whatsoever as to what these hallucinations might mean, Vir tries to go on with his life…until one day his world…

Breaded cd cover plus more by Tony Mostrom.