SAUL STEINBERG @ THE NEW YORKER. 1948/05/29

 

Late for Early Music 💫

 

An Hare & David Sylvian 💫

 

The Editor with his traditional vest 😳

 

Notice the ReVox G36 in the background.

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Be a goat 💫

 

W111 or perfection 💫

 

A musical tempera 💫

 

A Baroque guitar, an harpsichord and a viola da gamba, dated 1940… too cute to don’t buy it.

Sure the artist knew how these instruments were made, considering the load of details.

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An early-bird 🇦🇹 floh-markt 💫

 

With a young Rudolf Buckbinder on piano

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Nina Simone 💫

 

Discipline and creativity 💫

 

… not only self-tortured and -tormented artist, lost in alcohol and thoughts of self-destruction…

"The artist must undertake an inner work that precedes the creative gesture: distinguishing what is individual from what can become a vehicle for a more universal truth.

In this sense, discipline does not limit creative freedom, but rather makes it possible."

M.I.A.V. Raggi, author of "The Sacred Circle"

Empire State Building’s rebels 💫

 

Seriously: I strongly emphasize with these daredevils ❤️

… and - most of all - with their message.

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Ève Guerra or the Art of flashback 💫

 

Your images are often in motion. Did you look to cinema to write the novel?

"From Darren Aronofsky's films, I borrowed the process of recurring flashback. It's about distorting temporality by reproducing the same scene to create an effect of insistence and repetition, almost like overpressure. The same thing happens in Christopher Nolan's work: we see the same scene again, but with different elements.

It's a technique I used in the novel, just as I borrowed some things from poetry: free verse, line breaks... I'm a Latinist, and punctuation is a modern invention, from the 16th century: before that, there wasn't real punctuation, there were segments and breathing units. 

When I write, I really think in terms of breathing units: I interrupt the sentence when I feel I can't carry it forward anymore, when the words no longer hold together. Line breaks aren't casual; they're more melodic." I have a melodic relationship with the phrase. I'm very interested in the sound, as well as the meaning."

Western Electric 300A 💫

 

Yessss!

Such a treasure.

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Robbie Basho 💫

 

Sharing some seldom seen pictures of the iconic musician.

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Goto Unit’s trivia 💫

 

Two SG-146LD on the workshop bench.

My SG-146LD

The Statement 

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Ohhh, indeed!

 

Peter Walker’s masterpiece 💫

 

I love this picture.

PW is elegant, ironic and - well deserved - so proud.

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Max Rostal Violin Recital on Triston 💫

 

This album is an exact reproduction of the original master tape. In order to guarantee the best possible sound quality, no digital equipment or post-processing has been used. It is a hand-numbered limited edition of 250 copies.

Violinist and teacher; born 7 August 1905 in Teschen (Austria), died 6 August 1991 in Bern, Switzerland.

From the age of 15, Max Rostal was already having lessons with the foremost teacher of his time, Carl Flesch. After completing his studies with him, Rostal worked as a violinist in Vienna and Oslo before becoming his former teacher's assistant at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin in 1928. With a group of his students from Berlin including Maria Lidka, Rostal emigrated to the UK where he went on to be a successful and influential teacher and performer in London. He was professor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London until moving to Bern, Switzerland in 1958.

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Office ☺️

 

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Murakami-san ☺️

 

"Anything, if it remains the same for too long, will gradually exhaust its energy."

Haruki Murakami

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