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yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · May 7
Published today! 5/6/25!

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The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975
A unique digital compilation of experimental scores, audiovisual materials, and source documents from the postwar avant-gardes, interpreted by experts on art, music, dance, and poetry.
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yblent.bsky.social
Continuing to feel good about this and to think about what it says about our project. To reviewers out there: thank you for doing what you do.
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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aramsinn.bsky.social
Anthony Braxton changed my life and rewired my brain when I took three classes with him as an undergrad. There's a whole legion of us out there, undercover Braxtonites throughout the music/industry ecosystem. If you don't know his work, maybe you should.
At 80, This Composer Is Easier Than Ever to Celebrate
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November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
yblent.bsky.social
Whose cat is this? In this video from Charles Atlas's Rainer Variations (2001-2), Richard Move reenacts an interview with the choreographer Yvonne Rainer. Is the cat impersonating Rainer's cat? #scoresproject #academicsky #experimentalnotation

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Whose cat is this? Richard Move is impersonating Yvonne Rainer for the purposes of reenacting an interview that is excerpted in Charles Atlas's Rainer Variations (2001-2). Is that cat impersonating Rainer's cat?
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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cmonstah.bsky.social
Stahl house is for sale in case you are in need of an architecturally significant property in the Hollywood Hills:
www.latimes.com/travel/story...
Iconic Stahl House, a Midcentury Modern stunner, up for sale
The Stahl House is selling for $25 million. The current owners say its tour program will continue for now.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
Philip Glass had no business going so hard on the score of this animation. 10/10 🎼🎶
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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kcrowe.bsky.social
Oregon Public Media did a really beautiful mini doc about the first descent of the undammed Klamath River that is worth a watch youtu.be/4FuGuWeAra4?...
First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath River after the largest dam removal in U.S. history
YouTube video by Oregon Public Broadcasting
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November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
Fuck yeah, Libraries!

Court issues permanent injunction in the State of Rhode Island v. Trump, preventing the dismantling and defunding of the Institute for Museum and Library Service.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/69844...
Order on Motion for Summary Judgment – #99 in State of Rhode Island v. Trump (D.R.I., 1:25-cv-00128) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER granting 75 Motion for Summary Judgment and denying 84 Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment. So Ordered by Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. on 11/21/2025. (Jackson, Ryan) (Entered:...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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docsthilaire.bsky.social
I was honored to be invited to give the annual Dotterer Lecture Series in Literature talk at Salisbury University yesterday. It was great meeting new people and catching up with old friends!
An image with a picture of a woman with an ink Mohawk and the cover of her book, The Art of Pity. The text of the announcement reads: English Department For information: 410-543-6445 Shakespeare's Alternate Realities: Aesthetics & Ethics In The Plays Thursday, November 20 • 7 p.m. • Conway Hall 156 Based upon her recently published book, Danielle St. Hilaire examines how Shakespeare confronted and reconciled the tension between claims that affirm the ethical effect of literature because it is grounded in reality and the denial that purely imaginative works can have any such real-world value. The lecture focuses on meta-theatrical moments in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest and Hamlet. Ultimately, St. Hilaire contends that Shakespeare imagined answers to the perennial question, "Why does literature matter?" - a line of inquiry as relevant today as it was during the Renaissance. The Art of Pity Aesthetics, Ethics, and Compassion in Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare DANIELLE A. ST. HILAIRE PANORAMA | FALL 2025
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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adamrothman.bsky.social
This is an incredible photo.
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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yblent.bsky.social
First review of the #scoresproject, by Nicole Kaack for the Brooklyn Rail.

“The Scores Project explodes the research method to its component parts, making visible the scholarly labor of archival sleuthing”

#academicsky #booksky #fluxus #arthistory #archivesky

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The Scores Project | The Brooklyn Rail
This book and website proposes a methodology for presenting time-based media that toggles as nimbly between physical and digital formats. It characterizes the cultural conditions that produced interme...
brooklynrail.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
yblent.bsky.social
First review of the #scoresproject, by Nicole Kaack for the Brooklyn Rail.

“The Scores Project explodes the research method to its component parts, making visible the scholarly labor of archival sleuthing”

#academicsky #booksky #fluxus #arthistory #archivesky

brooklynrail.org/2025/11/art_...
The Scores Project | The Brooklyn Rail
This book and website proposes a methodology for presenting time-based media that toggles as nimbly between physical and digital formats. It characterizes the cultural conditions that produced interme...
brooklynrail.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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letterformarchive.org
With in-depth research from sign painter Morgane Côme and dozens of rare alphabet plates, it’s an essential reference and delightful guide to the fashionable letterforms that defined the classic French streetscape.
Two spreads from a book showing decorative letters.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Announcing
Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets

Our latest book takes an immersive look inside the large lithographic portfolios that inspired public lettering in Belle Époque France.

#SignPainting #Alphabets #Lettering

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Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets
A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community in the graphic arts.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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seung.bsky.social
Japanese twitter taking the Suica penguin news very normally
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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jonathangibbs.bsky.social
Bloody hell the line-up for issue 2 of The Little Review is quite something.

www.thelittlereview.co.uk/shop/p/pre-o...
The Little Review No. 2 Growing up in Little Sparta p.11 Unseen Dream Songs by John Berryman p.67 Jane Austen's impish poetry p.77 Pushkin: The Musical! p.89 Luke Kennard on 'irritating everybody' p.103 A chat with JH Prynne's hairdresser p.116 Ursula K. Le Guins kitchen nightmares p.118 Chasing Auden p.123 Sylvia Plath vs The Mummy p.153 NEW WRITING BY: Colm Tóibín, Patricia Lockwood, Alec Finlay, Lucy Ellmann, Ian Duhig, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Camilla Grudova, Rishi Dastidar, Martha Sprackland, Luke Wright, Claudine Toutoungi, Ali Lewis & more £5
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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sarahmdowling1.bsky.social
Interesting that none of the past few years’ discussions of close reading really circled back to this banger: raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/E...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
brb ripping up my degree
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19d
BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
SIGNATURES For Cornell University: Michael I. Kotlikoff President of Cornell University Office of the President 300 Day Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Ben the Winited States (including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servives and the U.S, Department of Education): /N istant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 For the Department of Health and Human Services: Paula Matana S Paula M. Stannard Director, Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Effective Date: 14/7/2025.
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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padrig.bsky.social
Nottingham has one of the most vibrant and forward-looking departments of modern languages around. Music too. To cut them like this, leaving no chance for future rebuilding, is educational vandalism.

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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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mags.colvett.online
Public art is so important
Photo of a street in Queens on a partly cloudy day. The side of a residential building looks over a construction site, painted with street art in two large square areas. A yellow container collects rubble and other waste. Someone bikes by Closeup of one of the murals: eight or nine butts in various sizes and shades of pink on a pink background. They are cartoony and lusciously proportioned
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
our neighbors are our caregivers: our teachers, our home health aides, our chefs, our deliverers, our builders, our nannies, our beautifiers - everyone who works to take care.

and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.
meredithshiner.com Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 21d
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Bomb threats disrupting voting in New Jersey today, which has a competitive governor election.

As with LibsofTikTok and bomb threats to hospitals, the Online Right has seen they can do this to force closures.

Preview of 2026 midterms? Either way, states should be working on plans to deal with it.
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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esotouric.bsky.social
This is probably the toughest document we've ever published, and we do so recognizing it will contribute to Eaton Fire survivors' trauma.

Critical Safety Concerns at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an open letter from independent researcher Shelby Eidson. esotouric.substack.com/jpl
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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bobhawkins.bsky.social
Born on this day in Bologna in 1560 Annibale Carracci… here ‘a youth drinking’ C1580 a beautiful spontaneous sketch like work stolen in 2020 & still missing from the collection of Christs Church picture gallery Oxford.
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM