Sisters With Transistors - Thank you, Lisa Rovner for making a necessary documentary about electronic music pioneers Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel. Laurie Anderson’s narration is my favorite kind of ASMR.
Trickster - The Many Lives of Carlos Castaneda - My pal Tia turned me onto this riveting podcast about a wily, enigmatic man who wrote books that inspired me to rethink space/time in my early twenties. I’m still trying to figure things out in that realm.
We Were The Universe - By Kimberly Kim Parsons - Please read this novel without distractions because none of its sentences should be missed. The book sinks into the boredom of motherhood, lusty desire, and buried grief. It unpacks a slow and heavy sort of ordinariness that feels painfully relatable, but Parsons is a wise and very funny woman who pays close attention. She turns the ordinary on its head and digs into its magic.
Epistemic curiosity - Or finding patterns and connections to the things you’re already drawn to to deepen the curiosity.
Sometimes I Think About Dying - Shot in Astoria, Oregon, this lovely to-look-at film is an unrushed ooze about isolation, the dullness of office life, and the serendipity of strangers.
A list within a list of music that’s been keeping me company the last few weeks:
Cows
Today from 4pm to 6pm PST on Freeform Portland Radio, I’ll be pumping two hours of bovine-inspired tunes and words into the aural plains. Songs by Soledad Bravo, Linda McCartney, The Seldom Heard, Sleepy John Estes, Lady Isis, Victor Shonen Minyokai, cows, and more. Words by Lydia Davis and Rosamund Young.
York
For the ears: a sketch of the first song on a work in process album about the corps of discovery.
