{"id":21141,"date":"2021-12-04T19:38:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T19:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=21141"},"modified":"2021-12-04T19:38:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T19:38:14","slug":"weekend-links-598","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/12\/04\/weekend-links-598\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 598"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lucier-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lucier.jpg\" alt=\"lucier.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Wire, July 2004. Illustration and design by <a href=\"http:\/\/non-format.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Non-Format<\/a>. Christopher Cox&#8217;s interview with Lucier is available to read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewire.co.uk\/in-writing\/the-portal\/alvin-lucier-14-may-1931-1-december-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;I went into experimental overdrive. Lyrical motifs became literal imagery. A hammer shattering a plate of glass. A lyrical maze of geometric tunnels and formations.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/aquariumdrunkard.com\/2021\/11\/29\/concrete-music-on-chris-mosdells-equasian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Mosdell<\/a> talking to Aquarium Drunkard about writing lyrics for Yellow Magic Orchestra and others (you can hear his voice on YMO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gCmIEREtPfY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Citizens Of Science<\/em><\/a>), plus the recording of his own debut album, <em>Equasian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Public Domain Review: &#8220;&#8230;this short, odd book confronts a question that has vexed naturalists for thousands of years: how do we account for the precipitation of animals?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/collection\/odd-showers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Odd Showers; or, An Explanation of the Rain of Insects, Fishes, and Lizards<\/em><\/a> (1870) by George Duncan Gibb.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;&#8230;few writers on our list could have functioned in the culture that, today, sees literature as a profession for which you prepare like any other: going to the right school, meeting the right people.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/francine-prose-on-her-encounters-with-the-literary-strange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Francine Prose<\/a> on her encounters with the literary strange.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Where was glass first fashioned? How was it worked and coloured, and passed around the ancient world?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/a-brief-scientific-history-of-glass-180979117\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carolyn Wilke<\/a> presents a brief scientific history of glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2021\/dec\/03\/antony-sher-a-consummate-shakespearean-and-a-man-of-staggering-versatility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antony Sher<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/01\/arts\/music\/alvin-lucier-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alvin Lucier<\/a>. In 1969 Lucier was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bhtO4DsSazc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sitting in a room different to the one you are in now<\/a>. Elsewhere: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubu.com\/sound\/lucier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alvin Lucier at Ubuweb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New\/old music: <a href=\"https:\/\/forceincmilleplateaux.bandcamp.com\/album\/zeitgeist-ambient-music-from-2012-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Zeitgeist: Ambient Music from 2012 to 2020<\/em><\/a> by Marco Simioni &amp; Mattia Saviolo.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/13734\/five-unmissable-films-from-the-japanese-new-wave-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Balmont<\/a> on five unmissable films from the Japanese New Wave movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Spoon &amp; Tamago: Illuminated paintings of Tokyo after dark by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spoon-tamago.com\/2021\/11\/27\/after-dark-keita-morimoto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keita Morimoto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mixes of the week: XLR8R Podcast 724 by <a href=\"https:\/\/xlr8r.com\/podcasts\/podcast-724-laura-bcr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura BCR<\/a>, and Isolatedmix 115 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/2\/isolatedmix-115-hvl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HVL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Strange Flowers: part two of James Conway&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/strangeflowers.wordpress.com\/2021\/11\/30\/secret-satan-2021-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secret Satan<\/a> end-of-year list.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90693444\/jony-ives-first-major-design-since-leaving-apple-isnt-what-youd-expect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jony Ive\u2019s first major design since leaving Apple isn\u2019t what you\u2019d expect.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Dennis Cooper&#8217;s: <a href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/yasuzo-masumura-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yasuzo Masumura<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AeR_SF4cDR4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glass<\/a><\/em> (1968) by Sagittarius | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iI-IoAEGV4U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glass<\/a><\/em> (1979) by Joy Division | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hEyWX6yspOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glass<\/a><\/em> (2009) by Bat For Lashes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wire, July 2004. Illustration and design by Non-Format. Christopher Cox&#8217;s interview with Lucier is available to read here. \u2022 &#8220;I went into experimental overdrive. Lyrical motifs became literal imagery. A hammer shattering a plate of glass. A lyrical maze of geometric tunnels and formations.&#8221; Chris Mosdell talking to Aquarium Drunkard about writing lyrics for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/12\/04\/weekend-links-598\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 598&#8221;<\/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":"New blog post: Weekend links 598","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":[2,42,4,29,7,43,3,13,46],"tags":[3512,8164,11941,11932,11930,11929,3109,9919,11931,11937,10609,7922,11938,1886,11935,11936,11933,11934,980,11940,10727,11939,4255],"class_list":["post-21141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-magazines","category-music","category-science","category-theatre","tag-alvin-lucier","tag-antony-sher","tag-bat-for-lashes","tag-carolyn-wilke","tag-chris-mosdell","tag-christopher-cox","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-francine-prose","tag-george-duncan-gibb","tag-hvl","tag-james-balmont","tag-james-conway","tag-jony-ive","tag-joy-division","tag-keita-morimoto","tag-laura-bcr","tag-marco-simioni","tag-mattia-saviolo","tag-non-format","tag-sagittarius-group","tag-the-wire-magazine","tag-yasuzo-masumura","tag-yellow-magic-orchestra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5uZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21141","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=21141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}