{"id":16465,"date":"2015-03-01T02:04:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T01:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16465"},"modified":"2015-03-01T02:39:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T01:39:18","slug":"weekend-links-248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/03\/01\/weekend-links-248\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 248"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Dreamers (2013) by Kate Baylay<\/a>, from Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP composer and musique-concr\u00e8te<\/em> pioneer Tod Dockstader<\/a>. “I didn\u2019t have the money for electronic sounds…I had to have things like bottles, or anything that would make a noise. It didn\u2019t matter what it was; if it sounded interesting, or I could make it interesting, I\u2019d go for it.” Geeta Dayal<\/a> talked to Dockstader for Wired<\/em> in 2012. Dockstader’s film credits included Fellini’s Satyricon<\/em> and Tom and Jerry cartoons. He also wrote the story for one of the latter, Mouse into Space<\/em><\/a>, in 1962. Ubuweb<\/a> has some early Dockstader recordings.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “…anyone who has ever sat in a cafe, or in the bath, with a paperback owes a debt to Aldus and the small, cleanly designed editions of the secular classics he called libelli portatiles<\/em>, or portable little books.” Jennifer Schuessler<\/a> on Aldus Manutius, and the roots of the paperback.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “At Chernobyl, we made ‘the world\u2019s first radioactive nature preserve.’ We made black rain. We made the Red Forest, which was green when the day began, and is dead.” Mary Margaret Alvarado<\/a> reviews The Long Shadow Of Chernobyl<\/em> by Gerd Ludwig.<\/p>\n

Prison was often the fate of those caught circulating samizdat<\/em> in the Soviet Union\u2014not only the “high” samizdat<\/em> such as Solzhenitsyn, but the crude and lowly joke books as well. The official rationale for the prohibition was in context no less reasonable than the rationale given more recently for condemning Charlie Hebdo<\/em> or R. Crumb. There is always a perception that the very serious project of perfecting society is being undermined. But society will not be perfected, and it is a last resort of desperate perfecters to go after the subtle-minded satirists who understand this.<\/p>\n

Justin EH Smith<\/a> on why satire matters<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “You have to do your research, and you\u2019ll find treasures that you couldn\u2019t even have begun to sit down and draw until you saw them in front of your eyes,” says Annie Atkins<\/a>, graphic designer behind The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Tales of Hoffmann<\/em><\/a>: exclusive materials from the making of Powell and Pressburger\u2019s masterpiece. <\/em>The film will be released on Blu-ray by the BFI later this month.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The illustrated score for Irma<\/em>, the opera offshoot of Tom Phillips’ A Humument<\/em>, is now available from Lulu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mellifluous Ichor From Sunless Regions<\/em><\/a>, a free album of Hauntological electronica by The Wyrding Module.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kraftwerk<\/a> at the controls: what the group’s live instrument setup looks like today.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Booze, Blood and Noise: The Violent Roots of Manchester Punk by Frank Owen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: 14th February 2015 by The S\u00e9ance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vintage logo designs<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Transmission<\/em><\/a> (1979) by Joy Division | Radioactivity<\/a><\/em> (William Orbit mix, 1991) by Kraftwerk | Bellstomp\/Pond Dance<\/a><\/em> (Mordant Music remix, 2012) by Tod Dockstader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dreamers (2013) by Kate Baylay, from Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen. \u2022 RIP composer and musique-concr\u00e8te pioneer Tod Dockstader. “I didn\u2019t have the money for electronic sounds…I had to have things like bottles, or anything that would make a noise. It didn\u2019t matter what it was; if it sounded interesting, or I could … Continue reading “Weekend links 248”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,29,7,48,3,14],"tags":[7058,7061,3517,6847,355,7063,1393,7060,7055,7057,1886,6921,7054,122,517,7059,354,4665,2803,5337,5137,7056,164,119,7064],"class_list":["post-16465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-illustrators","category-music","category-politics","tag-aldus-manutius","tag-annie-atkins","tag-bfi","tag-charlie-hebdo","tag-emeric-pressburger","tag-frank-owen","tag-geeta-dayal","tag-gerd-ludwig","tag-isak-dinesen","tag-jennifer-schuessler","tag-joy-division","tag-justin-eh-smith","tag-kate-baylay","tag-kraftwerk","tag-manchester","tag-mary-margaret-alvarado","tag-michael-powell","tag-mordant-music","tag-robert-crumb","tag-the-wyrding-module","tag-tod-dockstader","tag-tom-and-jerry","tag-tom-phillips","tag-ubuweb","tag-william-orbit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4hz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}