At more than 8 hours & over 60 musicians, Anthony Braxton’s Sonic Genome Project is my kind of song. Its world performance premiere came in Vancouver on January 28th – the slightly less than half an hour that these three clips capture give just a hint of the entire event. All of the links in this paragraph are worth reading (&/or hearing / viewing) to deepen the experience. I wish I could have been there.
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
