THE LIST
what I am seeing, reading, hearing, tasting, and experiencing of note
Dom Casmurro, Machado de Assis
For in the addict’s dream
sprout stainless steel flowers,
endless iron blades,
eye-droppers of oil,
water-dippers of zinc,
saws of marine cut.
It’s like the inside of a star,
the light in these toolshops —
there in their own splendour
are the essential nails,
the invincible latchkeys,
the bubbles in spirit levels
and the tangles of wire.
They have a whale’s heart,
these tool shops of the port —
they’ve swallowed all the seas,
all the bones of ships,
waves and ancient tides
come together there
and leave behind in that stomach
barrels which rumble about,
ropes like gold arteries,
anchors as heavy as planets,
long and intricate chains
like intestines of the whale itself
and harpoons it swallowed, swimming
east from the Gulf of Penas.
The Citizen, Pablo Neruda
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I went into the tool shops
in all innocence
to buy a simple hammer
or some vague scissors.
I should never have done it.
Since then and restlessly
I devote my time to steel,
to the most shadowy tools:
hoes bring me to my knees,
horseshoes enslave me.
I am troubled all week,
chasing aluminum clouds,
elaborate screws,
bars of silent nickel,
unnecessary door-knockers,
and now the tool shops
are aware of my addiction —
they see me come into the cave
with my wild madman’s eyes
and see that I pine for
curious smoky things
which no one would want to buy
and which I only goggle at.
anchors as heavy as planets,
long and intricate chains
like intestines of the whale itself
and harpoons it swallowed, swimming
east from the Gulf of Penas.
Once I entered, I never left
and never stopped going back;
and I’ve never got away from
the aura of tool shops.
It’s like my home ground,
it teaches me useless things,
it drowns me like nostalgia.
What can I do? There are single men
in hotels, in bachelor rooms;
there are patriots with drums
and inexhaustible fliers
who rise and fall in the air.
I am not in your world.
I’m a dedicated citizen,
I belong to the tool shops.
—Translated by Alastair Reid
Anton von Webern: The Path to the New Music, Willi Reich
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Anton Webern (20th Century Composers), Malcolm Hayes
Anton von Webern: The Path to the New Music, Willi Reich
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Anton Webern (20th Century Composers), Malcolm Hayes
Anton von Webern: The Path to the New Music, Willi Reich
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Anton Webern (20th Century Composers), Malcolm Hayes
Bagatelles op.9
Anton Webern
Uncle Meat
Mothers of Invention
Good Vibrations
Beach Boys
Nord
Paolo Conti
Pina 2011
Pina Bausch, Wim Wenders
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists,
Kay Larson​
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For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles, John Cage
About Silence
John Cage
4'33"
John Cage, David Tudor
Music of Changes (1951)
John Cage
The Anatomy of Theme in Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, Dimitri M. Smirnov
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Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice, Pauline Oliveras
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Experimental Music Since 1970, Jennie Gottschalk
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Pina Bausch, Royd Climenhaga
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A Book of Surrealist Games, Mel Gooding
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A Geometer of Sound Crystals: A Book on Philip Herschkowitz, Dimitri M. Smirnov
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The Musical Idea: And the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation,
Arnold Schoenberg
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Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists,
Kay Larson​
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For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles, John Cage
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Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century, Nate Chinen
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Deep Listening A Composers's Sound Practice, Pauline Oliveras
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Experimental Music Since 1970, Jennie Gottschalk
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/1628922478/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Pina Bausch, Royd Climenhaga
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/0815385595/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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A Book of Surrealist Games, Mel Gooding
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/1570620849/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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A Geometer of Sound Crystals: A Book on Philip Herschkowitz, Dimitri M. Smirnov
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/1978167040/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Anton von Webern: The Path to the New Music, Willi Reich
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B009SV1IUI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Anton Webern (20th Century Composers), Malcolm Hayes
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/0714831573/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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The Musical Idea: And the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation, Arnold Schoenberg
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/0253218357/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists, Kay Larson​
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/1594203407/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles, John Cage
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/0714526916/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century, Nate Chinen