#350

Paul Hegarty’s study Noise/Music - a history, though not great, isn’t half bad, if you’re after the noise itself, and less of the meta. I’d agree with some of the reviewers tho - sometimes listening to this stuff feels better than reading about it.

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#351

I understand your approach and totally respect it. I didn’t really go into reasons why to read Noise, but for knowing Attali’s opportunism, and his approach to the history of music production thru out society, is itself telling of a cultural moment we’re within. I would never advocate supporting this person’s politics-- I read a lot of people I don’t agree with because knowing how the other side thinks is important.

#352

I love Carol Shields, such a great book. I saw her read along with Michael Oondatje way back in the 90’s. She was much loved here in Canada (edit/oops, I don’t live in Canada anymore!) and I remember the wave of sadness in the CanLit world when she passed away in 2003. If you’re looking for more, I recommend “Larry’s Party” and the “Dropped Threads” anthologies.

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#353

Reading Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference by David Harvey currently.

Here’s a quote on art and scientific inquiry he quotes from Science, Order, and Creativity (Bohm and Peat, 1987).

“What is crucial is that in some sense the artist is always working from generative source of the idea and allowing the work to unfold into ever more definitive forms. In this regard his or her thought is similar to that which is proper to science. It proceeds from an origin in free play which then unfolds into ever more crystallized forms.”

It’s nice when my academic field of study (urban planning + geography) overlaps with my creative interests.

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#354

love this. def gonna check out

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#355

Just as a little cross-pollination, should anyone in this books thread have enjoyed Robin Sloan’s novel Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. This week’s Disquiet Junto project was inspired, with Sloan’s blessing, by a series of prime numbers that resulted from a contest he ran in advance of the publication of his new novel, which is titled Sourdough. You can check out the prime-related Junto project here:

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#356

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Took about 6 months on a tropical island to finish but thats how it is hehe…
To anyone interested in ancient India and Vedic literature, unless you read sanskrit I would recommend this guy. He gets it.
Confusing and contradictory(thats just how it is). Deep insights into Mind, ritual, sacrifice, eroticism, how life is a debt you repay and the enigma of Soma…

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#357

Books read in August:

Non-Comics

July’s People by Nadine Gordimer. … Infomocracy by Malka Older. … System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge by Clifford Siskin.

Graphic Novels

X’ed, The Hive, and Sugar Skull by Charles Burns. … Demon, Volume 1 and Demon, Volume 2 by Jason Shiga. … Equinoxes by Cyril Pedrosa … Midnighter and Apollo by writer Steve Orlando and — I can’t remember; I think several people worked on this. … Tumor by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Noel Tuazon. … The End of Summer by Tillie Walden. … This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki. … SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki. … Boundless by Jillian Tamaki. … Speak of the Devil by Gilbert Hernández. … Solid State by Jonathan Coulton, Matt Fraction, and Albert Monteys. … The Death-Defying Dr. Mirage, written by Jen Van Meter with art by Robert de la Torre. … Wrinkles by Paco Roca. … 5,000 Kilometers per Second by Manuele Fior.

In the interest of folks who don’t have a lot of time (who does?), I’d recommend in particular the Gordimer novel, the Siskin book on “system,” the two Shiga graphic novels (those are the first two volumes out of six), and Boundless (a graphic novel collection of short stories) by Jillian Tamaki.

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#358

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gift from http://tortoisegeneralstore.com/

'things are either devolving toward,
or evolving from, nothingness
-by l.koren

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#359

How is this? Is this Marxist in orientation or more liberal?

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#360

Thanks to your post I learnt about the concept of wabi sabi.
In a few minutes this has brought some relief to my life.

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#361

Hey guys! This is my first post on lines, having just found out about it through the podcast and being way too into all things drone and sound design.

Currently I’m reading:
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees–conversations with Robert Irwin

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

and my favorite book on creativity, which I reread once every couple years:
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#362

Thanks for the tip. I really enjoy reading it.

#363

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3389-50-off-all-student-reading

FYI, for all your leftist lit needs. have no personal recommendations, as I was just referred to this last night, but the curated lists seem :100:

#364

I guess it’s lines/monome relevant that I just finished reading Ursula K. LeGuin for the first time… That means I’ve finally gotten to hear about the background to the invention of the ansible, since I had read The Dispossessed. What a lovely book! Leaves me with a lot to think about. I have to say that the over-simplified synopsis of “space anarchist visits capitalist society” does convey a bit of just how fantastic it is. And it is true that there’s lot of packaging without substance around this here earth…

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#365

Glad you enjoyed it. In amongst all the social commentary and sf, it also manages to contain one of my favourite descriptions of being drunk, and being hungover. (But still the greatest description of a hangover, for me, is in Lucky Jim)

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#366

a short but interesting read.
the majority of the book features captivating illustrations (think spirograph, lissajous figures) representing different musical intervals as drawn by a harmonograph. And for the ambitious, there are even brief instructions on how to build a harmonograph of your own.

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couple of reviews here:


http://www.nonoctave.com/tuning/book-reviews.html

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#367

On the topic - I saw this recently. I bet they’re amazing in the flesh:

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#368

Finally I am reading a book again - seems to be funny and contains a bit of practical wisdom. Plus it is enchantingly old-fashioned:

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:older_man:t4::+1:t4:

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#369

Books read in September:

Non Comics

  • Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden

Comics

  • King City by Brandon Graham
  • Eartha by Cathy Malkasian
  • The Old Guard, Book One: Opening Fire, written by Greg Rucka, art by Leandro Fernández
  • Uptight #5 by Jordan Crane
  • The Last Contract, written by Ed Brisson, art by Lisandro Estherren, with Niko Guardia
  • Nixon’s Pals by Joe Casey and Chris Burnham
  • FreakAngels volume 1 - 6
  • Lazarus Volume 5, by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark, with Santi Arcas
  • De:Tales : Stories from Urban Brazil by Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá
  • Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
  • Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5: Super Famous
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