Blog Posts in 2025

New Year (January 2025) (Update Post)

Reprints from Materials (February 2025) (Update Post)

Recent Poems Read (March 2025)

Paul Shearsmith (1946-2025) (March 2025)

MaerzMusik 2025 Report: Part 1 (May 2025)

MaerzMusik 2025 Report: Part 2 (Mazen Kerbaj) (May 2025)

MaerzMusik 2025 Report: Part 3 (May 2025)

"I Say 'I'": Alice Notley (1945-2025) (May 2025)

There's a Riot Going on (June 2025)

Louis Moholo-Moholo: The quality of truth (June 2025)

What is a reading? John Wieners at Brooklyn College (September 2025)

Recent writing elsewhere (September 2025) (Update Post)

First Nettles, Earliest Persons (Preview) (October 2025) 

Triumph of the Outcasts, Coming! (Preview) (October 2025) 

 

November Updates (November 2025) (Update Post) 

The Sound of Wadada Leo Smith (Preview) (November 2025)  

Pat Thomas, Architecture, Abstraction (Preview) (November 2025)

Romance and Revolution, Feeling and Form (Preview) (November 2025)

 

Bill Dixon and "the form of the song" (Preview) (December 2025)

Blog Posts in 2023

A True Account (November 2023: Update Post)

“Moral Clarity” (October 2023: On Gaza)

News of News of News of News (September 2023: Update Post)

News of News of News (July 2023: Update Post)

Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) (June 2023)

News of News (May 2023: Update Post)

“The Subject of Emancipation”: Trilce Translation Launch (May 2023)

Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton: Preview (April 2023: Update Post)

Latest (April 2023: Update Post)

In other news... (April 2023: Update Post, Lorenzo Thomas, Karen Brodine...)

Gaia: Two Orchestral Works by Wayne Shorter (March 2023)

News and Views (February 2023: Update Post)

“Myths and Dreams”: The Rolling Calf/Pat Thomas (February 2023)

The Goldfish Bowl: The Romantic Englishwoman (1975. dir. Joseph Losey) (February 2023)

IKLECTIK Gigs (January 2023: Update Post)

New from Materials (January 2023: Update Post)

Jackie McLean’s Cry (January 2023)

(Not so many posts this year, the writing mostly elsewhere. I’ll try to come back to/keep this up this blog though. A hidden corner somewhere, a pile of notes.)

Blog Posts in 2022

Present Continuous (Update Post) (November 2022)

New Pamphlet (Update Post) (November 2022)

Juliet Fraser - Wave Songs (October 2022) 

New (Update Post) (October 2022)

Sean Bonney Special Issue (September 2022) 

Pharoah (On the passing of Pharoah Sanders) (September 2022) 

Betsy Jolas’ bTunes (September 2022) 

Up-to-date (From Attica to AMM) (Update Post) (September 2022) 

Songs, Wastes, Soadies and Suites (September 2022) 

Hip-Hop, Genre and History: Pink Siifu Live (August 2022)
Time Jumping Over Itself: Roscoe Mitchell in London (August 2022)

 “Give what you can and take what you can’t ” (On Poets’ Hardship Fund Reading) (July 2022)

Some Other Stuff: Grachan Moncur, III (1937-2022) (June 2022)
Il Prigioniero at the Barbican (June 2022)

Recents (Vivier/McPhee/Nodosus/Duras) (May 2022)

Anna Mendelssohn / Amiri Baraka (More Recent Writing) (Update Post) (April 2022)
Houben / Oliveros / Mitchener / Thomas (April 2022)

March News (Update Post) (March 2022)

Fanfares from the Abyss: Bill Dixon’s Late Style (January 2022) 

To Start the Year (Update Post) (January 2022)

Blog Posts in 2021

Rob Halpern's Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World (December 2021)
December (Update Post) (December 2021)

Ligeti in November (November 2021)

"May as well be a rainbow": Moran and McBride at the Wigmore Hall (October 2021)
Dominic Lash Ensembles at Cafe Oto (October 2021)

Autumn (Update Post, includes obituary for Maryanne Raphael) (September 2021)

Summer (Update post, includes obituary for Callie Gardner) (July 2021)
"The Last Octave": Variations on Frederic Rzewski (July 2021)

Histoire(s) du Cinéma: Viewing Notes (June 2021)
Two Silences (On Theo Angelopoulos & Marleen Gorris) (June 2021)
Recent Writing (June) (Update Post) (June 2021)
Lord Shango (1975) (June 2021)

February Papers (Recent Writing) (Updated Post) (February 2021)

John Russell (1954-2021) (January 2021)
"Real life is a reign of terror": Le Pont du Nord (1980) (January 2021)
Bobby Few (1935-2021) (January 2021)

Blog Posts in 2020

Four new from MATERIALS (Update Post) (December 2020)
Golden Eighties (1986, dir. Chantal Akerman) (December 2020)

100 Films (Update Post) (November 2020)
The Name: Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver) (1979, dir. Marguerite Duras) (November 2020)

Les Mains Négatives (1979, dir. Marguerite Duras) (November 2020)
Vargtimmen / Hour of the Wolf (1968, dir. Ingmar Bergman) (November 2020)
“Toothache in the Soul”: Summer Interlude (1951, dir. Ingmar Bergman) (November 2020)

“You only passed through my flesh”: Affair in the Snow (1968, dir. Yoshishige Yoshida) (October 2020)

“I've saved a life / I've done nothing”: Akitsu Springs (1962, dir. Yoshishige Yoshida)(October 2020)

“What would have been a film”: Le Camion (1977, dir. Marguerite Duras) (October 2020)

Heroic Purgatory (1970, dir. Yoshishige Yoshida) (August 2020)

Eros Plus Massacre (1969, dir. Yoshishige Yoshida) (August 2020)

“Until death, I will walk throughout Europe”: Farewell to the Summer Light (1968, dir. Yoshishige Yoshida (August 2020)

“Airpower Coming Out of My Mouth”: Candace Hill (October 2020)

New Writing Elsewhere: June and July (Update Post) (July 2020)

Urban Guerrilla Planning in the United States: As Above, So Below (1973, dir. Larry Clark) (July 2020)

“It has become that time of evening”: The Horse (1973, dir. Charles Burnett) (June 2020)

Calvin Hernton in 1966 (June 2020)

Elaine Mitchener Solo--Café Oto Livestream, 23.03.20 (March 2020)

McCoy Tyner/Recent Writing Elsewhere (Update Post, including McCoy Tyner obituary) (March 2020)

'Why?' Alan Shorter's Parabolic 'Free' Jazz (March 2020) 

Unit Structures: The Art of Cecil Taylor (A Report) (February 2020)