http://www.ndorward.com/blog Music, poetry, thinking aloud: Nate Dorward's blog Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:37:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Aug.29 in Toronto: A poetry/sound/multimedia performance-- cris cheek (London/US) + Barnyard Drama [Christine Duncan/Jean Martin] (Toronto) 8pm, at Somewhere There Live Creative Music in Toronto 340 Dufferin Street - one block South of Queen Street ** entrance from Melbourne Ave. ** www.somewherethere.org $8 cover, or free admission if you purchase cris's new book part: short life housing (specially priced for ... http://www.ndorward.com/blog/?p=472 ANNOUNCING..... cris cheek part: short life housing This book collects seven texts written between 1981 and 1999, by UK-born, US-based poet/multimedia artist cris cheek. cheek was one of the key figures in the London poetry scene of the 1980s -- the so-called "linguistically-innovative poetry" grouping later anthologized in Robert Sheppard and Adrian Clarke's ... http://www.ndorward.com/blog/?p=465 Latest update: well, so much for the Bowne job. They got rid of most of the workforce there a few weeks ago, including me. So, at the moment I'm trying to figure out what to do nex, whther to try to get back into freelance proofreading, editing & typesetting, or ... http://www.ndorward.com/blog/?p=463 Happy New Year, folks. My Xmas gift this year was... getting told by management that I'd be moved to the graveyard shift (10pm to 6:30am) beginning Jan 26th. Sigh. In other news, pleased to see a few more notices for the Jim McAuley album: Ben Ratliff in the NY Times: nice to ... http://www.ndorward.com/blog/?p=457 Still keeping a watchful eye out for reviews of Jim's The Ultimate Frog -- here's a recent pair: David Adler's review Stef's Free Jazz blog Incidentally, it's worth mentioning (in connection with the excellent Adler review) that "For Rod Poole" was actually recorded before Rod's death -- the titling is in honour (and ... http://www.ndorward.com/blog/?p=452 Some early-bird print reviews for Jim McAuley's The Ultimate Frog -- I'm very happy for Jim & Jesse Zubot that it's getting some nice press. Vish Khanna's review and Q&A feature in Exclaim! Chris Bilton in Eye http://www.ndorward.com/blog/?p=449 A little writeup of Jim McAuley's The Ultimate Frog by Brian Olewnick here. Brian's more exclusively concerned with electroacoustic improv these days, so it's nice of him to give the release a little love on his blog. (I think it helps that McAuley is not a dogmatic free improviser who ... http://www.ndorward.com/blog/?p=447 Yep, Jim McAuley's new two-CD set is out, with a set of liner notes by yours truly. It's a fantastic collection of duets with a variety of partners, including the late Leroy Jenkins, the Cline brothers (Alex & Nels), & Ken Filiano. Here's the long version of my liner notes ... http://www.ndorward.com/blog/?p=445 Have just done a big reinstall of the site & am trying to clean up the nasty spamlinking that was added in here after it was hacked. Let's see if this works, or if stronger measures are needed..... there's a lot of cleanup needed on the posts, but I want ... http://www.ndorward.com/blog/?p=215 The new book at last... More details on this page. It's a great relief to get this book into the world at last -- it should have come out a couple of years back but got waylaid by various things in my personal life. My favourite pieces here are a pair ... http://www.ndorward.com/blog/?p=210