moon traveller herald

DERACINATION FEEDBACK BOSTON MUSIC News you can use -A guy reading a paper at a bar today is a slug from prehistory. But give that same guy a cell phone to read this paper and he melts into the crowd. Pres. Obama called Ted: “The Soul of the Democratic Party.” I hung out for the funeral procession that was in my neighborhood. Some memory serves well  -  A couple of years ago we had a discussion, trying to remember encounter with Ginsberg and Dylan. We each remembered differently. Elmore - Reading recently,  I found it remarkable to learn that Elmore worked in his brother's Radio repair shop after getting out of the Navy. Did this inform his feedback loop? The Fractalist  -  Born in 1924 from a family of noted European mathematicians, Benoit Mandelbrot had an early interest in maps, and began early on to study nature's rough terrains. Wurlitzer Electric Piano   Being an homage to the electric pi...

Judith Charles Gallery is pleased to present  Odd Harmonics , a collaborative exhibition with Butterscotch Records and Moog Music featuring work by Fran ç ois Chambard, Cassandra C. Jones and Tomory Dodge. Odd Harmonics is a month-long contemporary art show and performance series curated by label head Allen Farmelo. Meanwhile, CBS :Sunday morning had a nice piece on Theremins. Their tale of Leon was different than the one I'd known..having him as a more complicit KBGer and not necessarily kidnapped back to the USSR. Web site had some good links (below) robschwimmer.com The New York Theremin Society "Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage"  by Albert Glinsky (University of Illinois Press) albertglinsky.com moogmusic.com Joe's Pub , New York City thereminworld.com

From the vaults - Mobile Wolfram 16 Mar 2011 It is still too early to gauge the ultimate effects mobile device development will have on overall development practices. But a big rethinking of applications is going on in terms of input and location capabilities, with other changes likely to follow. One of those changes may be a lessening of the pervasive influence of search technology, and an increase in 'question answering' technology, according to mathematical software pioneer Stephen Wolfram. (- Jack Vaughan) http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/2240033430/Wolfram-sees-mobile-apps-driving-programming-changes

From the vaults - Cathode Ray - On Crookes' demonstration that cathode rays travel in straight lines and produce phosphorescence - Ultimate realities Crookes saw in the maltese cross of mica inside a vacuum tube inside a vacuum tube and facing a silver cathode. induction coil. energized. and then, phophorescense! a light casting the shadow of the cross. the matter radiant in 1879. - Jack Vaughan, November 05, 2003

Stuffed Bud Light Year Hanging on light pole Blue Hill Ave. Another child gone down.            -Jack Vaughan, Oct. 2013

Sunday in Surreal Time: A.J. Langguth's "Jesus Christs" - A.J. Langguth's "Jesus Christs" came to me as a drug store paperback (1969) in the time and the place when that was how you found most books.  It was unexpected, a different take on the story of Christ than I'd really ever seen. I'd probably have heard Lenny Bruce's routine depicting Christ with Moses driving through Spanish Harlem, dropping into St Patrick's Cathedral, encountering Cardinal Spellman and Bishop Sheen, so there was some semblance of familiarity to this version of Christ who walked among us.  And, there was some similarity in the imaginings – asking what if the son of god was around the corner.  "Jesus Christs" was a mindbender. In vignettes short and long it showed Jesus wandering through different eras, in various human incarnations. "Jesus Christs" took a black out comedy skit approach of in some of its vignettes - Vaudeville's Olson and...

i. The tattered artificer had his way would build a honey comb shrine with words like bees becoming light spectral casting on the cave wall. ii. My brother sat versus Seamus Heaney on a plane to Ireland My son and I saw him on the lecture stage at Harvard We tracked and traced him But never met him at The Field. Had pints anyway you take what you can Along the way. iii. Seamus cadged a stone from my ear and it in his palm displayed He dropped the ink in the water boys and poked you with a poem you know the stuff jumped off the page. iv. There was "this woman who sat for years in a wheelchair, looking straight ahead" and it evinced a neighbor walking to worship o'er. Betty in rouge She'd trudged gingerly to Saturday 4oclock mass old brown coat forwardly she was leaning toward praying. vi. There was 'Blessed be down to earth! Blessed be highs!" that popped my pa again into my poor boy's cra...