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I didn't get the impression Dostoyevsky is more class-conscious than the average Russian of his time. But I totally understand getting fed up with him; he's a self-indulgent (and melodramatic) writer who should probably have taken a deep breath every now and then to calm down and properly refine and structure what he has been writing down. Underneath that mess he's brilliant though

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2173076)

If I may ask, Trollheart, do you read books outloud to your sister? That would be a nice, old-fashioned thing to be doing.

Oh yeah. Because her eyes are so bad now she can't read for herself (plus her short term memory is not great) so we tried a lot of things years ago, including an ingenious scanner machine that scanned pages and then read them out to you but it was like HE-CAME-IN-THE-GAR-DEN-AND-LOOKED-UP-AT-THE-WIN-DOW... Very mechanical and boring, plus it was literally the size of one of those old computer scanners so it took up a lot of space. Then I considered audio books but there wasn't much of the sort of thing she likes, and anyway it depends on who's reading. Thought about recording my voice for her then finally advanced the possibility of reading for her. At first she thought no, it's like being a child again and being read stories, and the she must have thought, well no actually, it's more like being a child again and being read stories!

So it works very well. Gets me reading more, entertains her and it also gives her the option to ask if she doesn't understand, hear or agree with something in the book. It's thanks to her that I've been able to get into Dickens, as I doubt I would have - with the best intentions in the world - have got round to doing it myself. Also helps to pass the time when she's in hospital. She told me that once or twice other visitors in the ward, and patients, had been listening to me and thought it was really nice that I was reading for her.

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2173138)

Yep, so much nicer than an audio book or similar; I approve 100% Trollheart! I'm glad that the two of you have something like that to share when, as it always does, conversation wanes. I haven't read to another person since doing it on a regular basis with my son. We could get through an entire book in one evening! Luckily for me, his preferred reading, Nicky's Noisy Night, wasn't too demanding to read out loud. For Dickens, with his vocab and sentence length, you have to stay on your toes a bit more, I suspect.

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Big fan of ZBS Media - especially the whole Jack Flanders series with The Fourth Tower of Inverness being the most well-known.
The Ruby - Galactic Gumshoe adventures too.The productions are incredibly well-done with binaural recordings in various countries.
So, when Jack is in Rio, you get field recordings made in Rio. Good if you want to lose yourself in another world of radio drama.
Started listening 50 years ago and they are still doing new ones today.

https://fritzfreiheit.com/wiki/Jack_Flanders

https://i.imgur.com/Vh48zQV.jpg

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2173196)

Yep, so much nicer than an audio book or similar; I approve 100% Trollheart! I'm glad that the two of you have something like that to share when, as it always does, conversation wanes. I haven't read to another person since doing it on a regular basis with my son. We could get through an entire book in one evening! Luckily for me, his preferred reading, Nicky's Noisy Night, wasn't too demanding to read out loud. For Dickens, with his vocab and sentence length, you have to stay on your toes a bit more, I suspect.

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Oh you are not kidding! There's a character in, I think, Little Dorrit, who is written in such a way that she says everything in one big rush of breath, no punctuation, and reading it out loud makes you realise how well Dickens gets her character across. I literally had to take a deep breath every time I could see dialogue from her, and my chest usually hurt afterwards. You try saying maybe a full paragraph (maybe twenty or thirty lines) all at once! It's bloody exhausting! :laughing:

reading and listening to earlier in the week:

Instant Composers Pool - 30 Years

https://i.imgur.com/4yqCAIa.jpg

Han Bennink - KOK

https://i.imgur.com/ec8BKlR.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mtwAA...Yyc/s-l225.jpg

Interesting read so far - always love to read about programmers and their motivations and backstories.

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Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2173250)

reading and listening to earlier in the week:

Instant Composers Pool - 30 Years

https://i.imgur.com/4yqCAIa.jpg

Han Bennink - KOK

https://i.imgur.com/ec8BKlR.jpg

Cool, in my listening queue. Currently listening to another one featuring Bennink. I love the Dutch swearing around 7:00

Setting aside the somewhat "difficult" working relationship I currently have with Blank Forms (disclosure),
I'm still impressed by their beautiful attention to detail in practically all of their books. It's a wonderful 500
page hardback that has nearly 30 articles, LOTS of beautiful color photos and B&W graphics of various fliers
and general drawings. Got it last week, but am just starting it today. Skipping thru, there's a lot to see
and it's very definitely becoming a permanent part of my collection (like their other five[?] books).

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Edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Naima Karlsson and Magnus Nygren. Introduction by Lawrence Kumpf and Magnus Nygren. Text by Keith Knox, Rita Knox, Bengt af Klintberg, Iris R. Orton, Åke Holmquist, Pandit Pran Nath, John Esam, Michael Lindfield, Sidsel Paaske, George Trolin, Alan Halkyard, Moki Cherry, Don Cherry, Ben Young, Christer Bothén, Ruba Katrib, and Fumi Okiji. Interviews by Keith Knox and Rita Knox with Don Cherry, Terry Riley, and Steve Roney.

Avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry (née Karlsson) met in Sweden in the late sixties. They began to live and perform together, dubbing their mix of communal art, social and environmentalist activism, children’s education, and pan-ethnic expression “Organic Music.” Organic Music Societies, Blank Forms’ sixth anthology, is a special issue released in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name devoted to the couple’s multimedia collaborations. The first English-language publication on either figure, the book highlights models for collectivism and pedagogy deployed in the Cherrys’ interpersonal and artistic work through the presentation of archival documents alongside newly translated and commissioned writings by musicians, scholars, and artists alike.

Beginning with an overview by Blank Forms Artistic Director Lawrence Kumpf and Don Cherry biographer Magnus Nygren, this volume further explores Don’s work of the period through a piece on his Relativity Suite by Ben Young and an essay on the diasporic quality of his music by Fumi Okiji. Ruba Katrib emphasizes the domestic element of Moki’s practice in a biographical survey accompanied by full-color reproductions of Moki’s vivid tapestries, paintings, and sculptures, which were used as performance environments by Don’s ensembles during the Sweden years and beyond. Two selections of Moki’s unpublished writings—consisting of autobiography, observations, illustrations, and diary entries, as well as poetry and aphorisms—are framed by tributes from her daughter Neneh Cherry and granddaughter Naima Karlsson. Swedish Cherry collaborator Christer Bothén contributes period travelogues from Morocco, Mali, and New York, providing insight into the cross-cultural communication that would soon come to be called “world music.”

The collection also features several previously unpublished interviews with Don, conducted by Christopher R. Brewster and Keith Knox. A regular visitor to the Cherry schoolhouse in rural Sweden, Knox documented the family’s magnetic milieu in his until-now unpublished Tågarp Publication. Reproduced here in its entirety, the journal includes an interview with Terry Riley, an essay on Pandit Pran Nath, and reports on counter-cultural education programs in Stockholm, including the Bombay Free School and the esoteric Forest University.

Taken together, the texts, artwork, and abundant photographs collected in Organic Music Societies shine a long overdue spotlight on Don and Moki’s prescient and collaborative experiments in the art of living.