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"Over the years, Michel Redolfi has revealed our astounding auditory capacities in the water as the pioneer of underwater concerts, where music is electronically broadcast under the surface of the sea or pools to be enjoyed by floating listeners..."

"Chris Jordan's startling photographs capture the deceased albatross chicks that have washed up on an island the north of the Pacific, their stomachs overflowing with plastic litter."

"Mandala is a symbol (a circle within a circle within a circle) used by Buddhist monks as an aid to contemplation and was chosen by the band's manager [who] envisioned the band as being a channel for the audience to release its emotions and the newly named outfit returned to the Toronto scene with its 'Soul Crusade', which was met with mass hysteria."

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"Nick Hornby is again having fun with - making fun - an obsessive music fan. What's different now, 14 years after 'High Fidelity', is that fans live out their obsessions on the Internet, a place where distances shrink, time collapses, and it's very easy to get lost."

"David Shea is a composer working with combinations of samplers and live musicians, centered on the possibilities of electronic and acoustic traditions. The focus is on the interconnections between styles, histories and mediums with single pieces containing multiple layering's of compositional methods, electronic and acoustic orchestrations - Drawing from experimental music and film music influences as well as traditional musics from both eastern and western cultures, many pieces are based on films, novels, mythology and visual sources. "

"Early on, when we were living in England, one of the (U.S.) networks came to us and said, 'We want to buy your format'...we said, 'What?' We got together amongst ourselves and we said, 'But don't they know we don't have a format?' So we thought, well, the best thing we can say is say 'No', so we did. We refused to sell them this non-existent format. So they went away, which was great, and we laughed. One thing we knew for certain was that Python would never work in America."

"Forty years ago today, Jack Kerouac died."

photo by Erdal Yazici (thank you Karyatid for this one)