SOUND EXPERIMENTS ~

 

S O U N D     E X P E R I M E N T S

University of Chicago

2022

MERCY DEE ~

 

CHUCK BERRY ~

 

RE A D    M E

ROBBIE BASHO ~

 

Robbie Basho

CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE JAZZ SESSIONS ~

 

R E A D     M E

1 of 2500

M O S A I C    R E C O R D S

JAMES PURDY ~

 

Oxford, 2022

THIS IS THE WAY IT'S DONE ~

 

JB

way ahead

of his time

R E A D    M E

RizzoliElectra

 2022

FAREWELL DAVID LINDLEY ~

 

1944-2023

FIVE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA ~

LITERARY ALCHEMIST ~

 

R E A D    M E

MIRCEA CARTARESCU ~

 

R E A D    M E

MOSAB ABU TOHA ~

On A Starless Night

On a starless night,

I toss and turn.

The earth shakes, and

I fall out of bed.

I look out my window.  The house

next door no longer

stands. It's lying like an old carpet

on the floor of the earth,

trampled by missiles, fat slippers

flying off legless feet.

I never knew my neighbors still had that small TV,

that the old painting still hung on their walls,

that their cat had kittens.

Palestinian Streets

My city's streets are nameless.

If a Palestinian gets killed by a sniper or a drone,

we name the street after them.

Children learn their numbers best

when they can count how many homes or schools

were destroyed, how many mothers and fathers

were wounded or thrown into jail.

Grownups in Palestine only use their IDs

so as not to forget

who they are.

Sobbing Without A Sound

I wish I could wake up and find the electricity on all day long.

I wish I could hear the birds sing again, no shooting and no 

    buzzing drones.

I wish my desk would call me to hold my pen and write again,

or at least plow through a novel, revisit a poem, or read a play.

All around me are nothing

but silent walls

and people sobbing

without sound.

Hard Exercise

In Gaza,

breathing is a task,

smiling is performing

plastic surgery

on one's own face,

and rising in the morning,

trying to survive

another day, is coming back

from the dead.

A Rose Shoulders Up

Don't ever be surprised

to see a rose shoulder up

among the ruins of the house:

This is how we survived.

_________________________

Mosab Abu Toha

Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear

Poems from Gaza

City Lights Books,  2022

JOHN SAYLES IN THE CLOSET ~

 

AGNES VARDA CLOSET PICKS ~

 

ISABELLE HUPPERT STICKS IT IN THE BAG ~

 

TOM LUDDY, CINEMA ~

 

Mr. Luddy at the 2017 Telluride Film Festival. The festival became a gathering of devotees to the religion of filmmaking, and Mr. Luddy was its most fervent believer and its main officiant. Credit...Pamela Gentile, via Telluride Film Festival

T O M     L U D D Y

1943 ~ 2023

DALE MARTIN SMITH ~

 Look for the Local

It would not have been possible

to say to you, Here, inhabit

this now. Rain and leaves

suggest time is with you.

Corners, cluttered with plants,

books, pictures.  The trees

were full of leaves, and now not

so red, so yellow.

In this blur what is apprehended

bends toward, and away, from you.

Slow day of rain, and naked,

hair up, casual in this light.

________________________

Dale Martin Smith

BLUR

Knife | Fork | Book, 2022

Canada

HUEY PIANO SMITH ~

 

January 26, 1934 – February 13, 2023

GEORGE HARRISON ~

 

GEORGE HARRISON

Feb 25, 1945, Liverpool, UK.

IRIS DEMENT ~

 

Goin' Down To Sing In Texas