Musical Ecologies
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Curated by Dan Joseph https://linktr.ee/danjoseph
How ‘The Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/a...
How ‘The Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life
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November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
How ‘The Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/a...
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/6VVkEB7h
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
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November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/6VVkEB7h
His Music Saw Our Age of Information Overload Coming www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...
His Music Saw Our Age of Information Overload Coming
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October 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
His Music Saw Our Age of Information Overload Coming www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...
Happy Birthday Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) - listen all day long on WKCR! 🎹 🎶
Thelonious Monk Birthday Broadcast | WKCR 89.9FM NY
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October 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Happy Birthday Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) - listen all day long on WKCR! 🎹 🎶
Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92
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October 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
Hey New Yorkers, send a letter to Governor Hochul urging action on Nonessential Helicopters:
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Urge Governor Hochul to Act on Nonessential Helicopters
Please take action by sending a letter to New York Governor Hochul urging her to join with New Jersey Governor Murphy in demanding the FAA ban or reduce nonessential helicopter traffic plaguing our ne...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Hey New Yorkers, send a letter to Governor Hochul urging action on Nonessential Helicopters:
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The old WFMU blog, Beware of the Blog, has not been updated since 2015, but we've continued to keep all the pages accessible to the public. Our host Typepad is now going out of business (let this be a lesson as to how unsafe "the cloud" is), and all blog pages will disappear on September 30. (1/2)
September 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The old WFMU blog, Beware of the Blog, has not been updated since 2015, but we've continued to keep all the pages accessible to the public. Our host Typepad is now going out of business (let this be a lesson as to how unsafe "the cloud" is), and all blog pages will disappear on September 30. (1/2)
Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...
Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...
At 85, Annea Lockwood Isn’t Done Listening to the Earth www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a...
At 85, Annea Lockwood Isn’t Done Listening to the Earth
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June 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
At 85, Annea Lockwood Isn’t Done Listening to the Earth www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a...
Guy Klucevsek, Multi-Genre Accordion Virtuoso, Is Dead at 78 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/a...
Guy Klucevsek, Multi-Genre Accordion Virtuoso, Is Dead at 78
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June 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Guy Klucevsek, Multi-Genre Accordion Virtuoso, Is Dead at 78 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/a...
A newly found piece by Ravel, “Sémiramis: Prélude et Danse,” written sometime between 1900 and 1902, when Ravel was in his late 20s, will be premiered by NYPHIL Thursday www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/a...
A Ravel Work Premieres at the New York Phil After Nearly 125 Years
A prelude and dance by the French master recently surfaced in a Paris library. Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic will give the world premiere.
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March 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A newly found piece by Ravel, “Sémiramis: Prélude et Danse,” written sometime between 1900 and 1902, when Ravel was in his late 20s, will be premiered by NYPHIL Thursday www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/a...
"Asked about her message to parents and students concerned about what might happen should the department [of Education] be eliminated, Ms. McMahon said, 'We will see scores go up.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...
Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon Says We Don’t Need the Agency
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that President Trump intended to sign an executive order aimed at closing her department. The agency cannot be closed without approval from Congress.
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March 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Asked about her message to parents and students concerned about what might happen should the department [of Education] be eliminated, Ms. McMahon said, 'We will see scores go up.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...
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March 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The Wizard of Vinyl Is in Kansas www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...
The Wizard of Vinyl Is in Kansas
Chad Kassem is on a mission — saving listeners “from bad sound” — at the rural factory where he pores over LPs from some of music’s most important artists.
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March 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The Wizard of Vinyl Is in Kansas www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...
How AI and Algorithms Are Transforming Music | On the Media | WNYC Studios www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
How AI and Algorithms Are Transforming Music | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The state of music criticism; and the AI generator that could put composers out of a job.
www.wnycstudios.org
December 28, 2024 at 4:15 PM
How AI and Algorithms Are Transforming Music | On the Media | WNYC Studios www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
“If we do not take action to slow shipping speeds and eliminate fishing lines, we will be responsible for the whales’ extinction” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/o...
Opinion | A Picturesque New England Town’s Debt to the Right Whale
We owe it to the right whale — and to so many other species — to reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.
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December 23, 2024 at 1:25 PM
“If we do not take action to slow shipping speeds and eliminate fishing lines, we will be responsible for the whales’ extinction” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/o...
My conversation with the late Phill Niblock in 2021 as part of the Musical Ecologies Series in Park Slope, Brooklyn (2012-2023) youtu.be/AGzZgbAblho
Musical Ecologies: Phill Niblock (2/18/21)
YouTube video by Dan Joseph
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December 20, 2024 at 3:07 PM
My conversation with the late Phill Niblock in 2021 as part of the Musical Ecologies Series in Park Slope, Brooklyn (2012-2023) youtu.be/AGzZgbAblho
Journalists doing journalism; reporters reporting! @lizpelly.bsky.social
The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
Spotify’s plot against musicians
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December 20, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Journalists doing journalism; reporters reporting! @lizpelly.bsky.social
Guitar Tracks (2021) for 11 #guitars, performed September 26, 2021 at the Newtown Creek Nature Walk in #Greenpoint, #Brooklyn on the Taking It Outside series presented by Music for Contemplation #mufoco
Dan Joseph – Guitar Tracks (2021) [with score]
YouTube video by Dan Joseph
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December 14, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Guitar Tracks (2021) for 11 #guitars, performed September 26, 2021 at the Newtown Creek Nature Walk in #Greenpoint, #Brooklyn on the Taking It Outside series presented by Music for Contemplation #mufoco
World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays an Egg at 74 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...
December 6, 2024 at 12:03 PM
World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays an Egg at 74 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...
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December 4, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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DUO METRIX (Tom Chiu & Dan Joseph) 7:30 PM Sunday as part of Oto Zono ("Sound Garden") curated Masa Hosojima 🎶
December 1, 2024 at 2:52 PM
DUO METRIX (Tom Chiu & Dan Joseph) 7:30 PM Sunday as part of Oto Zono ("Sound Garden") curated Masa Hosojima 🎶