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Thought this free Sunday program might be interesting for some. https://silentfilm.org/making-music-for-film/ Our next free online masterclass features DJ Spooky in conversation with Carter Burwell and Graham Reynolds. These three extraordinary musicians (and friends) will talk about composing for film—touching on the similarities and differences for silent cinema. Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) is an artist and composer with an affinity for silent film. His live remix of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation—Rebirth of a Nation—premiered in 2004 and Miller went on to score Dovzhenko’s Earth and Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, among others. He executive-produced the Pioneers of African-American Cinema box set, which features his scores for two Oscar Micheaux films. Miller performed at SFSFF 2017 with his score for Micheaux’s Body and Soul and there are plans afoot to bring Miller to San Francisco to perform at SFSFF’s next in-person event. Carter Burwell is known to anyone who’s seen a film by the Coen Brothers—his ineffable touch is on everything from Blood Simple to The Big Lebowski to The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, not to mention his scores for films by Todd Haynes and Spike Jonze! Graham Reynolds composed the elegant music for Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, Before Midnight, and Where’d You Go, Bernadette, among his many other film scores. Reynolds got his film-composing start by scoring silent films!

Magnum Square Print sale is back for the week. If you need something small for the walls. https://www.magnumphotos.com/shop/

Speaking of cuils

Hope you have a great birthday

Speaking of animals... https://www.instagram.com/p/CMFcQPijXi-/?igshid=1wydztlawt2v9

Bill Frisell: 70th Birthday Show March 18-21 $10.00 Special broadcast in celebration of Bill’s 70th birthday! Bill Frisell – Guitar Thomas Morgan - Bass Rudy Royston - Drums https://villagevanguard.com/product/bill-frisell-70th

Intel hits back

Also a recording artist for a time

Have watched a few videos (including a rambling Quincy Jones one and another preoccupied that it didn’t have a USB-C port when developed in 2015) and its seems like it’s hit this price point before. Not surprising the reviews at $1500 and $300 are different. Some are more critical of the analog input than Tyll (though he also addresses). Seems you may need to limit output settings to it (saw a AKG response to a OS X question recommending 16/44.1 at one point). Still so tempting.

Antkind. Kaufman is just as fun in print.

Thanks. Good suggestion.

I'm having second thoughts on the HD8XX, not because of the above, but because I went to order replacement pads for the deteriorating cups and headband pads and can't find the latter anywhere. There's hardly a listing on search and Senn is out of stock. I was eventually browsing Croatian resellers, which I'd rather avoid if possible. I don't think Senn is in that much trouble, but anyone have a known source in the US? And yes, there are low-rated third party alternatives I'm unlikely to order.

Plowed through the seven fun episodes

There’s a story behind this. Sadly I can’t remember and Google isn’t helping.

Henri Cartier Bresson - The Decisive Moment

The couple that changed photography - the invention of Robert Capa. https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/dream-teams?vpid=p0973v2z

Second LP in over a year. From “silver” to “gold” with Mr. Zimmerman

Happy accidents in ordering: clear or white? Compromised clear on white mat this time. Also first vinyl played since COVID showed.

Aaron Rose, Photographer In Isolation, Dies at 84 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/aaron-rose-photographer-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare Mr. Rose made his own cameras and other devices, and Rebecca Hackemann, who was his assistant and archivist from 1999 to 2005, said his studio was a sight to behold. “It was littered with glass and silver globes, optical devices and cameras he had built himself that replaced lenses with pinholes,” she said by email. “It was like walking into a different century.” In his darkroom, he spurned the ready-made chemicals available from Kodak and other manufacturers; its walls were lined with bottles and cans full of mysterious substances.

Hope it's a great, sugary one.

Lou Ottens, Inventor Of The Cassette Tape, Has Died https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lou-ottens-inventor-audio-cassette-tape-dead-obit-1139657/ https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975598869/lou-ottens-inventor-of-the-cassette-tape-has-died

What about this? That, some Monk LPs, cheap wine, and my old Eagle One, and I'd probably be happy.

You have another possibility... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dynavox-Record-Model-132-Phonograph-High-Fidelity-Needs-Needle/114427000117

Fun read today. Offering up for sports fans... "Fleming Field was the appropriately abysmal home of possibly the worst team in the history of paid play. They were called the Yonkers Hoot Owls, and their story is a lot like the movie “Major League” … albeit without the uplifting arc or happy ending. In amenities, in attendance and in the independent Northeast League’s standings, the Hoot Owls were dead last, then dead altogether. They lived for just a single, financially ruinous summer." https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-worst-baseball-team-ever