#The Space

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

4x22 | 6x3

[ongawdclub]

G o o d

E n e r g y

[apariciopaula]

29/9 till 25/10, lunáticos x2. 167 días en Berlín.

[dustedmagazine]

Urs Leimgruber — AIR Vol. 1 (Creative Works)

When confronted with a four CD set of freely improvised music, basic may not be the first word that comes to mind. But check out the title. What’s more essential to a saxophonist than air? It’s what they project through a horn. If they can’t gather it and blow it through that metal tube in sufficient volume and with enough control, no sound comes out. Urs Leimgruber has been making records using different members of the saxophone family for fifty years, and been playing longer than that. Originally known outside of Switzerland as a member of Om, which recorded for ECM back in the 1970s, he’s operated in completely composed and totally free settings, as well as many creative nodal points on the line between them.

In recent years, he seems to have narrowed his focus to the soprano saxophone. Each disc of AIR Vol. 1 presents an improvisation with a long-term collaborator in The Space, the rehearsal-performance-recording room where Leimgruber works when he’s at home in Lucerne. Hans-Peter Pfammatter plays a prepared upright piano; Jacques Demmierre, an amplified spinet (an antique keyboard that sounds like a harpsichord); Thomas Lehn, analogue synthesizer; and Gerry Hemingway, drums. The accompanists differ in instrument and aesthetic, but each has an individual and deeply considered approach to his instrument. By performing with each in a sequence, Leimgruber invites one to listen for his essential character as a player and improviser.

Certain musical rudiments do not make the grade. While melody and rhythm can be handy, neither is essential. One might expect one or the other to assert their necessity when playing with a drummer, but while occasionally present, both players abstract them into expressions of line, sometimes drawn quite faintly, and other times with force. Likewise, one might look for harmony in encounters with keyboards, but shape and space seem to be more important. With Lehn, mercurial shifts between proximate and distant timbres come into play. But with all of his partners, Leimgruber sounds absolutely like himself. He alternates exquisitely pure tones with bold, lacerating ones, fashioning them into shapes that complement what his partners play, but could be complete on their own.

Bill Meyer

[hidinginsidemymind]

forever living in the moments

between happy and sad

anger and joy

as much as others may hate it

i love to revel in it

the melancholy

the gray

[thedigitalmuseum]

Digital Works Episode 030 - Fiona Morris

A conversation with CEO and Creative Director of The Space, Fiona Morris. The Space was founded in 2013 by Arts Council England and the BBC and is now an independent not-for-profit organisation. The Space's primary goal is to enable the arts, culture and heritage sector to engage audiences using digital and broadcast content and platforms. Over the last 6 years The Space has commissioned 300+ digital projects from arts organisations around the UK. Fiona and I discuss what makes a successful digital project, how digital programming requires a shift in thinking, the importance digital skills, rethinking value propositions, investment, and the meaninglessness of the word 'digital'.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[cosmeretrek]

Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

[gemini-enthusiast]

Hilariously funny that the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

[whiteshipnightjar]

Zoozve, my beloved

[stardella]

Maria and her little alien brother sketchbook dump from the last few weeks

Minor spoilers for Sonic 3 ig

[greseadraws]

dungeon meshi but they end up in the back rooms, a cursed idea that was eating away at my brain

[shyjusticewarrior]

At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.