Ben Harper
@cookylamoo.bsky.social
I make Unpopular Music, occasionally mistaken for art. http://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/
"A story on a deeper, subverbal level, as one told to you while falling asleep." Listening to pianists with a keen sense of timing, playing Christopher Fox and Morton Feldman. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Loose Pianos
Christopher Fox: Unmeasured
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February 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
"A story on a deeper, subverbal level, as one told to you while falling asleep." Listening to pianists with a keen sense of timing, playing Christopher Fox and Morton Feldman. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New post. Listening to pianists with a keen sense of timing, playing Christopher Fox and Morton Feldman. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Loose Pianos
Christopher Fox: Unmeasured
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January 31, 2026 at 11:22 PM
New post. Listening to pianists with a keen sense of timing, playing Christopher Fox and Morton Feldman. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
I keep asking myself, why does he bring in the piccolo so early? Listening to Taylor MacLennan and GBSR Duo play Feldman's 'For Philip Guston' at Kings Place. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
For Philip Guston, later
Thirteen years ago I heard the GBSR Duo of George Barton and Siwan Rhys performing Morton Feldman's For Philip Guston in the chilly back room of an art gallery for four-and-a-half hours. On that occas...
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January 19, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I keep asking myself, why does he bring in the piccolo so early? Listening to Taylor MacLennan and GBSR Duo play Feldman's 'For Philip Guston' at Kings Place. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New post. Listening to Taylor MacLennan and GBSR Duo play Feldman's 'For Philip Guston' at Kings Place. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
For Philip Guston, later
Thirteen years ago I heard the GBSR Duo of George Barton and Siwan Rhys performing Morton Feldman's For Philip Guston in the chilly back room of an art gallery for four-and-a-half hours. On that occas...
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January 18, 2026 at 10:55 PM
New post. Listening to Taylor MacLennan and GBSR Duo play Feldman's 'For Philip Guston' at Kings Place. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
"It becomes impossible to hear this music for what it is." Listening to weirdness from Pacha Wakay Munan, Harry Partch, Magnus Granberg, Jason Doell & Naomi McCarroll-Butler. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New Year Weirdness
Pacha Wakay Munan: El tiempo quiere cantar
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January 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
"It becomes impossible to hear this music for what it is." Listening to weirdness from Pacha Wakay Munan, Harry Partch, Magnus Granberg, Jason Doell & Naomi McCarroll-Butler. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Big piece to get the new year rolling: listening to weirdness from Pacha Wakay Munan, Harry Partch, Magnus Granberg, Jason Doell & Naomi McCarroll-Butler.
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New Year Weirdness
Pacha Wakay Munan: El tiempo quiere cantar
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January 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Big piece to get the new year rolling: listening to weirdness from Pacha Wakay Munan, Harry Partch, Magnus Granberg, Jason Doell & Naomi McCarroll-Butler.
www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
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"Highly sensitive to the delicate environment each piece creates, while being confident enough to speak out when needed." Listening to Magnus Granberg. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Granberg, Granberg and Granberg
Magnus Granberg: The Willow Bends And So Do I
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November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Highly sensitive to the delicate environment each piece creates, while being confident enough to speak out when needed." Listening to Magnus Granberg. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New post, with Magnus Granberg two or three times. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Granberg, Granberg and Granberg
Magnus Granberg: The Willow Bends And So Do I
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November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
New post, with Magnus Granberg two or three times. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
"Like on a long journey through open landscape, impress with an unyielding image despite any surface variations along the way." Long piano works by Linda Catlin Smith and Forrest Moody. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Two more long-ass piano pieces
Linda Catlin Smith: The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023), Volume One: The Plains
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November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Like on a long journey through open landscape, impress with an unyielding image despite any surface variations along the way." Long piano works by Linda Catlin Smith and Forrest Moody. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Hey I wrote something how about that? www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Two more long-ass piano pieces
Linda Catlin Smith: The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023), Volume One: The Plains
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November 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hey I wrote something how about that? www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
"A Romantic disquisition made through a renewed, corporeal language." Listening to Liza Lim's 'String Creatures'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Liza Lim: String Creatures
Liza Lim: String Creatures
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October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"A Romantic disquisition made through a renewed, corporeal language." Listening to Liza Lim's 'String Creatures'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New post. Listening to Liza Lim's 'String Creatures'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Liza Lim: String Creatures
Liza Lim: String Creatures
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October 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
New post. Listening to Liza Lim's 'String Creatures'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
"A way of finding music that endures past the point when all momentum has been exhausted." A moment's pause. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
A moment's pause
Huw Morgan: Melos
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October 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"A way of finding music that endures past the point when all momentum has been exhausted." A moment's pause. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New post. A moment's pause. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
A moment's pause
Huw Morgan: Melos
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September 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New post. A moment's pause. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New post. The return of 840 and a bonus Music We’d Like To Hear. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
The return of 840 and a bonus Music We'd Like To Hear
840 at St Cyprian's, Clarence Gate
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September 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New post. The return of 840 and a bonus Music We’d Like To Hear. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
"I am not a fan of this sort of thing." New releases: stories, conversation, Icelandic rap battles, technobabble, paltry yatter. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
What Is Going On
Olly Sellwood: Charlene from Big Data and other stories
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September 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"I am not a fan of this sort of thing." New releases: stories, conversation, Icelandic rap battles, technobabble, paltry yatter. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New post. Olly Sellwood! Peter Falconer! The Zöllner-Roche Duo! Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson! Thomas Kotcheff! Bryan Curt Kostors! Cage! Feldman! Ranting! www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
What Is Going On
Olly Sellwood: Charlene from Big Data and other stories
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September 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
New post. Olly Sellwood! Peter Falconer! The Zöllner-Roche Duo! Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson! Thomas Kotcheff! Bryan Curt Kostors! Cage! Feldman! Ranting! www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
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September 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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"Freewheeling exploration that’s unconcerned with accidentally revisiting what has been done before." 14 albums: it's the End Of Summer Noise Round-Up 2025. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
End Of Summer Noise Round-Up 2025
Mauricio Moquillaza: Mauricio Moquillaza
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September 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"Freewheeling exploration that’s unconcerned with accidentally revisiting what has been done before." 14 albums: it's the End Of Summer Noise Round-Up 2025. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New post. It's the End Of Summer Noise Round-Up 2025. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
End Of Summer Noise Round-Up 2025
Mauricio Moquillaza: Mauricio Moquillaza
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September 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New post. It's the End Of Summer Noise Round-Up 2025. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
"The impersonal gains profundity when it engages with the listeners to reflect upon themselves." Exaudi sing Jürg Frey and Apartment House play Gombert. Isn't that supposed to be the other way around? www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Weeks with and without voices: Frey, Gombert
Jürg Frey: Voices
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September 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"The impersonal gains profundity when it engages with the listeners to reflect upon themselves." Exaudi sing Jürg Frey and Apartment House play Gombert. Isn't that supposed to be the other way around? www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New post. Exaudi sing Jürg Frey and Apartment House play Gombert. Isn't that supposed to be the other way around? www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Weeks with and without voices: Frey, Gombert
Jürg Frey: Voices
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August 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
New post. Exaudi sing Jürg Frey and Apartment House play Gombert. Isn't that supposed to be the other way around? www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
"The dual nature of astringent timbre and surprising resonance." Listening to three solo albums by Marco Fusi, on viola d'amore and violin. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Three Fusis
Andrew Greenwald: A Bridge Between Spaces
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August 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"The dual nature of astringent timbre and surprising resonance." Listening to three solo albums by Marco Fusi, on viola d'amore and violin. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
New post. Listening to three solo albums by Marco Fusi, on viola d'amore and violin. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Three Fusis
Andrew Greenwald: A Bridge Between Spaces
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August 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
New post. Listening to three solo albums by Marco Fusi, on viola d'amore and violin. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...