A still from The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), a feature-length animated film by Lotte Reiniger.
• Hélice 39 is a speculative-fiction journal (in Spanish) whose current issue includes an article by Marcelo Sanchez: “What did Borges think of Lovecraft?”
• Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
• Old music: Hydrophony For Dagon by Max Eastley & Michael Prime; The Adventures Of Prince Achmed by Morricone Youth.
• Public Domain Review lists some of the writers whose works will enter the public domain this year.
• “Modern Japanese Printmakers celebrates vibrant mid-20th-century innovation“.
• At Nautilus: “Here’s what’s happening in the brain when you’re improvising.”
• At the BFI: Pamela Hutchinson selects 10 great films of 1926.
• New music: The Future Is Now by Pietro Zollo.
• At Dennis Cooper’s: Phil Solomon Day.
• 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse.
• Runaway Horses (“poetry written with a splash of blood”) (1985) by Philip Glass | Unicorns Were Horses (1996) by New Kingdom | Red Horse (2002) by Jack Rose
John do know any details about the production of Hydrophony For Dagon? All the online sources I’ve seen simply reproduce the credits and notes on the recording. Who did what. I’d love to hear more about how that set came to be.
That’s a good question but I’m afraid I don’t have an answer. All I know is that Eastley has a history of using hydrophones in his exhibition works and recordings. I expect you’ve looked at his website which isn’t very enlightening. There used to be a short film on YT, Clocks of the Midnight Hours, showing some of his sound-making creations in action but it’s currently blocked by a copyright complaint.