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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 2d

It was very special, and so were your notes. I was sitting next to a couple of people who were not used to this kind of programme. They were very taken by it and we had a great chat about the music. Love when that happens.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 2d

A superb concert. Bookended by Boulez’s Anthèmes, Barenboim (switching from violin to viola during the 2nd half) played works by living composers with roots in 2 cultures. Gilbert Nouno took care of the live electronics. Very happy I didn’t fight the last-minute impulse and bought that ticket 3/3

Repertoire
Boulez Anthèmes 1 for violin
Benjamin Attahir Retour à Tipasa for violin & electronics
Philippe Manoury Partita Il for violin & electronics
Interval
Layale Chaker Before bloom for solo viola
Kareem Roustom Pavane (pour les enfantes défuntes) for viola & live electronics (UK premiere)
Boulez Anthèmes 2 for violin & live electronics
Performers
Michael Barenboim violin, viola
Gilbert Nouno live electronics

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 2d

…which has nothing to do with dead infantas and not much to do with pavanes as they were danced in former times. That very absurdity, however, gave him an approach to a subject itself violently absurd, utterly senseless’ 2/3

Blurred figure of Michael Barenboim on the Purcell Room stage, now illuminated by blue and purple light.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 2d

Still haunted by the UK première of Kareem Roustom’s piece for the children of Gaza, commissioned by Michael Barenboim. Talking about the source of musical inspiration for this work, @disgwylfa.bsky.social says that ‘thinking … of laments, Roustom came to Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte 1/3

Purcell Room under red light, a line of music stands at the very front of the stage.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 6d

Video shows Palestinian children jumping with joy as a parent chants “Hudna! Hudna! Hudna!” — an Arabic word meaning a long-term truce or ceasefire.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 6d

Tintarella di luna

Tall trees with copper leaves against a dark grey sky with light, luminous grey clouds and a full moon behind them. The top of a chimney can be seen in between moon and tree.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 11d

During the military dictatorship in Brazil, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black (1830) was seized by censors looking for subversive literature (red = communist) 🤷‍♀️

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 12d

moonlight

Moon over group of silhouetted trees. Tiny lights appear to the left of a sculptural dead tree.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 14d

Five swans

Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 15d

International Translation Day. St Jerome is tired and being told to reconsider his career choices.

Olivier Roth @olivierroth.bsky.social · 15d

En cette journée mondiale de la traduction, Saint Jérôme, fatigué, se demande s'il doit commander des fleurs ou une couronne. À ses pieds, ChatGPT lui suggère de se reconvertir dans l'immobilier.
(Crédit photo : James Bradley)

Statue en marbre de Saint Jérôme, lion et crâne à ses pieds, tenant un parchemin.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 19d

fox, turning away

Blurry, almost abstract night picture with a reddish-brown shape on green

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 20d

This made me v v happy (plus opening hours that work for me)

David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 20d

Two of my favourite places are about to become one favourite place: www.hardens.com/uk-london/25...

Nose-to-tail browsing comes to Bloomsbury

Two London institutions combine next week with the opening of a new café from the St John stable at the London Review Bookshop, around the corner from the British Museum in Bloomsbury.</p>

www.hardens.com

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 21d

And here’s @badaude.bsky.social’s book, a very good read!

Book on a train seat: Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters, Joanna Walsh

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 21d

During their strictly controlled leisure time, watch factory workers buy and swap postcards of anarchists who are glamorous as today’s film stars. Photography going from surveillance to resistance, anarchists becoming objects of commercial exchange 2/3 tinyurl.com/yn5f8ckj

TRAILER - Unrest (2022)

New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed t...

tinyurl.com

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 21d

In her new book on internet culture, @badaude.bsky.social discusses the use of photography as facial recognition technology during the Paris Commune. It reminded me of Schäublin’s exceptional film Unrest, following Kropotkin’s 1877 visit to a Swiss village transformed by capitalism and anarchy 1/3

I'd add that portrait photography was also used as a nine-teenth-century FRT (facial recognition technology). In the first state-sponsored large-scale photo-portrait project in France, arresting officers captured the faces of revolutionaries during the 1871 Paris Commune, ensuring they could be recaptured if their identities ever went viral on the contemporary media net-works of daily papers. These photographs were not produced or received as works of art, but they were aesthetic. In a time when a selfie was a once-in-a-lifetime privilege, communards had their best clothes brought to jail for their (literal) photo shoots.
The same impulse that led me to mess around with my Al image led to many rearrests.

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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · 24d

“Huge crowds packed the squares and beaches of some of Brazil’s biggest cities to voice their opposition to rightwing endeavors to help Bolsonaro escape jail for his failed power grab”

Brazilians protest in their thousands against granting Bolsonaro amnesty

Huge crowds pack the streets to oppose endeavours to help ex-president escape jail

www.theguardian.com

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 24d

Absolutely! The spacious separateness of the first three syllables falling into the softening and slowing down of the middle ones, the ending gently disappearing into thin air, an inbuilt pause after it, so so pleasing. Enough to fall in love with language :)

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 24d

Those five syllables, per-di-da-men-te, their final ‘e’ merging seamlessly with the initial ‘e’ of e-na-mo-ra-do, walking you through meaning and experience… Perfect words.

Twitter/X post by @springpard reads ‘I'm sorry that English lacks the expression "perdidamente enamorado": lostly in love. You could say "madly in love", but it doesn't have the same ring. It reminds me to the 17th c. French analogies to love: drowned in the Sea of Passion, lost in the Forest of Love’.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 24d

Fab news and fab place, huge congrats! 🥂

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 28d

Never mind the ruby-necklace-gifting ritual — Patricia Lockwood sang, beautifully and unprompted (reasons to attend book launches, occasional series) @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

The Conway Hall’s audience seen from above. A LRB rests on the viewer’s lap.

Patricia Lockwood blindfolds the event’s interviewer.

Lockwood leads the blindfolded man to the expecting members of the audience, by now standing right in front of the stage.

Lockwood gifts the necklace to the winner, a very tall man.

Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 29d

The Fall of Civilisation

Kenneth Clark’s book Civilisation on a pavement, resting against concrete, weeds, and black metal.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · Sep 11

Guilty

Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · Sep 11

At 2pm (GMT -3) Justice Cármen Lúcia will begin her vote in the trial of the coup plotters.

If she votes in favor of conviction, the Supreme Federal Court will form a MAJORITY to convict Bolsonaro and his allies

ERIKA HILTON @erikahilton.bsky.social · Sep 11

🚨 Em breve, às 14h de hoje, a ministra Cármen Lúcia dará início ao seu voto no julgamento dos golpistas.

Caso ela vote a favor da condenação, o Supremo Tribunal Federal formará MAIORIA para condenar Bolsonaro e seus aliados.

Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · Sep 11

At 2pm (GMT -3) Justice Cármen Lúcia will begin her vote in the trial of the coup plotters.

If she votes in favor of conviction, the Supreme Federal Court will form a MAJORITY to convict Bolsonaro and his allies

ERIKA HILTON @erikahilton.bsky.social · Sep 11

🚨 Em breve, às 14h de hoje, a ministra Cármen Lúcia dará início ao seu voto no julgamento dos golpistas.

Caso ela vote a favor da condenação, o Supremo Tribunal Federal formará MAIORIA para condenar Bolsonaro e seus aliados.

Foto da ministra Cármen Lúcia encarando o ministro Luiz Fux enquanto aponta, com o dedo, seu próprio olho

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ha, thanks! Good to learn the need for bookmarks is not universal :)

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · Sep 9

I know, but not all is bleak — now we have bookmarks!!

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