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Nikita Gale, Tempo Rubato. Photo from installation at Whitnet Biennial.

A Player piano but it doesnt hit the strings... we only hear the movement of keys. There are two benches in the room which conceal speakers and a subwoofer amplifying the sound of the keys and hammers.

Nikita Gale has proposed that “bodies are never entirely absent from what we refer to as technology." And that the player piano implies an absent player. That reads like something that's both patently obvious and not necessarily true. Tempo Rubato is a polite, whispered distillation of the musical performances by absent players like her "Private Dancer," in which robotic lights dance to the song of the same name by Tina Turner. Of course, the player piano does not need to make room for a human ghost. For example, the later compositions of Conrad Schnitzler play music that no human could play. They may evoke for some a body with 44 fingers, but for me evoked a ghost in the machine. I remembered hearing Conrad's work while sitting in the room with Gale's "Tempo Rubato." It was interesting how between my ears a sonic ghost manifested, as my mind assigned melodies to the match the rhythm of the moving keys.

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Someday these will all go onto pallets... each month more books come and then we push off shipping for another month.

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I forgot the picture of the Banana Trees

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Beautiful trip today to @nybg and the LuEsther Mertz Library. I brought home some Kale seeds for fall and some empty envelopes to send them flower seeds for the seed library. And I got a library card!

There's an inspiring little community garden by the Botanic Garden train station where they have BANANA TREES!!!

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Hanging out in 974.70049 with Jun-san.

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Ive been hearing geese since Jan 28. At last i see them. Time to plant flowers inside.

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Wintergarden.

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Congratulations @nasa!!!

FANTASIA: The Pastoral Symphony (1940)

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I often run by the local museum on the way to the copy shop. Today i walked and finally noticed this poster.

Its for a traveling exhibition by artist Paul Scott. He is speaking here on November 6th.

"Scott’s journey began in 1999, when he saw a dark blue English platter printed with a scene of the Hudson River. It was in the collection of Ohio State University. He had never seen anything like it back in England even though thousands of such pieces were produced there and sold to the American market. Their surfaces displayed the scenic wonders of the American landscape, its early factories and mills, transportation networks, and prominent civic buildings. Only more recently have British museums added American scenery transferwares to their collections. "

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Saw a rainbow today while runnjng around all afternoon picking up Silent Auction prizes. https://www.32auctions.com/litlegends2022

Also took a little break to sink into couches at Pottery Barn. Very comfy.

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The skylines dont match but i am sure that I was in the bridge in the picture below when i took the pictures of the construction site above back in Dec 2019. Maybe there is another skybridge in that mall... anyway... nothing like the smell of new transit! I will need to post more pics from my trip to Edmonton last month.

Happy New Year from Edmonton!

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Wallpaper glory in the turn of the century craftsman bungalow in Fort Edmonton heritage park. (On 1905 Street).

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I have often wondered why more people dont eat mulberries during their lunch break...

But my shirt and shoes are now showing me why.

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Opalescence

Yaddo Rose Garden.