Seán Clancy

‘Everything is bombed’: Beirut church shelters families fleeing waves of air strikes Migrant workers and refugees shut out of official shelters as Israel bombards Lebanese capital

‘Everything is bombed’: Beirut church shelters families fleeing waves of air strikes

Up there in my top 2 trees. I planted 2 baby ones last year… about to get my first bloom.

Either / Or Bandit A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Either/Or Bandit -
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I can't compete with this.

A boy plays football inside a church property-turned shelter for displaced people in Beirut yesterday. More than half a million people are now displaced by war across Lebanon, according to authorities. Almost 400 have been killed, including 83 children. Report soon, @irishtimes.com

Contemporary Music Review Éliane Radigue at 90. Volume 42, Issue 5-6 of Contemporary Music Review

In recognition of Éliane Radigue's death, the recent themed double issue in Contemporary Music Review is now available in free access. (It says 'variable access', but that's because some articles are open essays anyway.) www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcmr20/4...

Celebrated my son’s fictitious festival, Dé Tú Tá, today by being at one with nature (his suggested celebration)

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Psychic Resynthesis, by Mark Fell 10 track album

5 releases and 15 years of blood, sweat and tears. Full digital discography now just €19.60 at Bandcamp (60% off). frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...

Whopper tune…

Melvin Gibbs’s How Black Music Took Over the World | The Brooklyn Rail For a relatively short (three-hundred pages) book on an enormous subject, it may seem impossible to be comprehensive. But Gibbs has the advantage of being one of music’s great inside-men, and he disce...

"an illuminating and comprehensive story"
"great Black musicology"

just in time for World Book Day
you can pre-order the book using the link in the article

thank you @gtra1n.bsky.social
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Lovely to see this happening

Today's evacuation orders in Beirut displace 100,000s - including elderly people, children, people with disabilities, etc. etc., all having to leave in a hurry with no idea what will happen to their homes. This kind of mass forced displacement is illegal under international law.

Me too! Next on my Schiff pile are some ECM Schubert recordings

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And

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Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Listening to some Janáček this morning… always sounds modern to me…

The oldest single-note piece I've found so far (1834). From "L'art du violon" by Pierre Baillot.

G’luck with it. Sampling is so much fun!

Koala Sampler » Home Koala Sampler is the ultimate pocket-sized sampler for making beats in seconds, for iOS and Android. Import or record samples, 24 built-in effects.

If you want to dip your toe into the world of sampling without forking over much cash at the moment, give the Koala app a shot. Has similar functionality/workflow to a SP404 (can even hook them up together) but on yer phone/tablet for 5 bucks…

www.koalasampler.com

The Roland SP404 MKII is the best show in town… it’s a very sophisticated machine, and I use it in a myriad of different ways. If it seems like too much for you at this stage, Roland do a less feature heavy machine called the AIRA P-6. Which is also very good…

Lazzarella, by Minced Oath 9 track album

The latest from @dunksunk.bsky.social is a real treasure… pure beauty…

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Robin Holloway should never go to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory… I fear it would end badly for him…

I s'pose you are goin' a-whalin', so you'd better get used to that sort of thing.

Absolutely. It’s an open and welcoming culture! We’ve been saying happy Dé Tú Tá all day, so I guess that’s the way to do it!

… at the weekend we are having a Dé Tú Tá festival…
Is a lot of fun to buy into yer kid’s imagination…

For the last couple of years my son has been creating a very complex mythology about a civilisation called the Dregaileans… as part of this mythology their most sacred day is the 3rd of March. This is day is called Dé Tú Tá. Today our family decided to celebrate it as a real holiday…

Hard to wrap yer head around the fact that we live in a world where some people think it’s ok bomb a school, yet here we are… Gaza was a blueprint…

Congrats on your new post, Robert!

A google search result for Occam's Razor , with a 'People also ask' suggestion: 'What is Occam's Razor in simple terms'

This made me smile today...

Sorry to hear, Aidan… hope you’re ok.