non-satie @js0000@sonomu.club

i keep listening to them over and over-
unreleased takes (white album)
solo material (john (ono), also paul)
tv specials (concert for george)
regular releases (revolver)

it''s like i've fallen into a northern england time warp ...

2020 NOT
going to be brilliant

buckle up bonzo

⚡

radiohead minidiscs:
indulgent fascinations

hour after hour

homeless reindeer mural
lovely ...

but the "value" part is crazy
they're putting up glass protection
scandal about red noses

homeless used to sleep there
now there's a barrier

it's about money
any artistic "meaning" is subsumed
by institutional efforts at protecting (economic) value

homeless
christmas
(away from mural)

🎨🏚

disappointing rehearsal

some only covering
their (musical) asses
never opening
ears minds (theirs)

hearts (ours)

☁

blackbird special
school of honk
friendsgiving 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZidlVAHxIg

⬛

just saw pete townsend on (economics (!) segment from) pbs news hour

if you write a line like, "i hope i die before i get old," you are going to get old and have to explain that line (over and over) until you are (finally) dead.

💥🎸

kraftwerk
spiegelsaal

(das ist alles)
⌨️ 🎼

i remember playing bass guitar in a high school jazz band and when i was evaluated by bass teacher it was said i could be better at emphasizing 2 and 4 to help make band swing harder

many moons later, listening to sun ra, i am bending my knees at the 2 and 4 to emphasize them.

it took a while, but now i know ...

🕺

i take it as a good sign
while transversing my music collection on complete random shuffle-
some music comes on and i'm like-
wtf is that?

(i take it to mean i am apparently nurturing a healthy musical garden)
🌱

there is joy in repetition
(but also danger
(each moment precious
(each repetition changes
) ) )

🌊

a (holiday) clip featuring members of BABAM! (Boston Area Brigade of Activist Musicians) enjoying an old chestnut during a school of honk friendsgiving event ...

(still with me?)

yes- it's extremely ad hoc, but (hopefully) entertaining nonetheless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQkE-HakpHs

school of honk
friendsgiving-
shared food, then entertainment featuring smaller varied musical ensembles
people exercising creativity by making sounds;
other minds activated by listening and thinking about those sounds

(another world is possible)

wrote up "missy" (too many zoos)
for brass band

only 2 voices (so far)- easy!

music notation imperfect, but helpful
(still need to add dynamics, phrasing, articulation to manuscripts)

a very raw setting (just trying to notate recording)

🎷🎺🥁

saxophone soloist
USA national anthem

(not quite jimmy (more like brecker), but tuneful rendition nonetheless)

god bless capitalism
(also cocaine)

(american) football on teevee

you can learn so much about the nation
watching it

🇺🇸🏈📺

"But the condition of being alive is what I play all the time."
- o.coleman

🎷 💓

yoko ono
WARZONE
now or never

((chilling) art music)
🔉

when brass bands
rehearse

there will be spit

music
(in all of its guises)
most ephemeral of arts
(nothing to see, nothing to touch)
like mind
(frail and fleeting existence)

always finding now
(eternally)

🌚