Luis Soares's Blog, page 62

Six Melodies

Six Melodies John Cage (1950) for violin and keyboard instrument

Performance by the Paul Dresher Double Duo. Karen Bentley Pollick - violin / Lisa Moore piano
Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY Oct. 26, 2014.
Stephan Dyachkovskiy - videographer /  Mark Palmer - video editor

Ishion Hutchinson - Moved by the Beauty of Trees

The beauty of the trees stills her;
she is stillness staring at the leaves,

still and green and keeping up the sky;
their beauty stills her and she is quiet

in her stare, her eyes long lashes curve
and keep, her little mouth opens

and keeps still with its quiet for the beauty
of the trees, their leaves, the sky

and its blue quiet, very still and quiet;
her looking eyes wide, deep, silent

hard on the trees and the beauty
of the sky, the green of the leaves.

Música Anti-Viral 2

Amigos, Conseguem ouvir os pássaros lá atrás? Ahhh companhia boa. ... Tou farto disto... Venham lá concertos!

Pause Between Thought and Action

Erik Gustafsson - Pause Between Thought and Action (2019)

For Now I Am Winter

Ólafur Arnalds - Arnalds, Dan: For Now I Am Winter (Nils Frahm Rework)

A few years ago Nils Frahm made this beautiful rework of the title track from For Now I Am Winter for the albums special edition release.

Summer of '72

In the Los Angeles suburb of San Fernando Valley, Wednesday night was cruise night. A long stretch of Van Nuys Boulevard would be packed with kids and cars from all over Southern California the place to show off your ride.

In the summer of 1972, photographer Rick McCloskey went to Van Nuys to shoot this series of photographs, the culture on the boulevard had become an amalgamation of various lifestyles, automobiles, and very different looks and styles. The tribes included...

Mahan Esfahani: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

April 28, 2020 | Tom Huizenga -- The harpsichord is a beautiful but notoriously fussy instrument. After we wheeled one behind Bob Boilen's desk, it took the bulk of an hour to get the tuning just perfect for the very first Tiny Desk harpsichord recital. Given that our guest was Mahan Esfahani, the instrument's most ardent advocate, we were willing to wait.

Esfahani, who grew up near Washington, D.C., but is now based in Prague, chose a double manual harpsichord meaning two keyboards. This...

Boys Will Be

Jon Ervin is a New York based photographer, originally from Oklahoma.

False Prophet

Another day that dont end
Another ship goin out
Another day of anger, bitterness, and doubt
I know how it happened
I saw it begin
I opened my heart to the world and the world came in

Hello Mary Lou
Hello Miss Pearl
My fleet-footed guides from the underworld
No stars in the sky shine brighter than you
You girls mean business and I do too

Well Im the enemy of treason
Enemy of strife
Enemy of the unlived meaningless life
I aint no false prophet
I just know what I know
I go where only the lonely can go

Im first...

Jericho Brown - Bullet Points

I will not shoot myself
In the head, and I will not shoot myself
In the back, and I will not hang myself
With a trashbag, and if I do,
I promise you, I will not do it
In a police car while handcuffed
Or in the jail cell of a town
I only know the name of
Because I have to drive through it
To get home. Yes, I may be at risk,
But I promise you, I trust the maggots
Who live beneath the floorboards
Of my house to do what they must
To any carcass more than I trust
An officer of the law of the land
To shut my...