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Alley Stoughton
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host/producer of Not Brahms and Liszt on WMBR Cambridge ● research professor at Boston University Computer Science ● #Radio #NewMusic #ModernClassical […]

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Just over 9 hours of daylight today, with snow on the ground and temperatures ranging from 18 F to 31 F. But because the trees to the southwest out our kitchen window are bare of leaves, we can see the ridge line that's normally obscured. Late fall beauty!
View out kitchen window, showing ridge line and sunset to the right.
December 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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This morning out with the dogs. Note the crescent moon.
Two dogs in a snowy yard, one of them running, with the light of dawn on the horizon in a clear sky, and a crescent moon where the sky is still darker.
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Orchestral music by Daníel Bjarnason, Anthony Cheung, Miguel Kertsman, Behzad Ranjbaran & Wang Lu - featuring Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / Nikki Chooi, Iceland Symphony Orchestra & Bruckner Orchester Linz / Wolfgang Schulz - […]

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Cover of Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and JoAnn Falletta's album "A Hero's Life", featuring a graphic with a closeup of a bow on a violin set the middle of vibrant colors. Cover of Boston Modern Orchestra Project's New Focus Recordings album "The 21st-Century Orchestra: Music from Brown University", featuring a massive forbidding structure with no entry points with a blue sky and scattered clouds above. Cover of Daníel Bjarnason and Iceland Symphony Orchestra's Sono Luminus album "The Grotesque & the Sublime", featuring a graphic with a man upside down suspended over a gray floor with a tree branch in the foreground and a black background. Cover of Miguel Kertsman's Navona Records album "Amazônia", featuring a photo of a leopard partly submerged in an opaque river - looking at the camera.
December 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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I love our six month old golden retriever, but he's sure a handful. Case in point: it's snowy and cold outside, so to take him out for his bathroom activity, I need to put on boots and a coat. When we come back in, consequently, he gets to the living room first […]

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Golden retriever puppy on his back on couch, looking like a nutcase.
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Music by Carola Bauckholt, Ruby Colley, Gen Morigami, Anna Pidgorna, Nour Symon & Zihua Tan - featuring NO HAY BANDA, Ludovico Ensemble, EXAUDI, Ensemble Dal Niente & Ensemble SuperMusique / Collectif Ad Lib - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (12/8/25) 4-5:30pm […]

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Cover of Anna Pidgorna & Ludovico Ensemble's Redshift Music album "Invented Folksongs", featuring a graphic of a flying dove carrying a small white and red flower in its beak - all on a black background. Cover of Ensemble Dal Niente's New Focus Recordings album "portrait RE / Flux / Pacific Time", featuring a graphic with a subdued rocky seascape in the background with three touching while discs overlayed on top, with different quadrants tinged in pink, blue, yellow and red. Cover of Ruby Colley and EXAUDI's New Amsterdam Records album "Hello Halo", featuring an abstract painting with what looks like paint that has been spattered onto the canvas and dripped vertically down - where only selected parts of the canvas have been hit, and there is one big group of spatters. Cover of Zihua Tan and NO HAY BANDA's album "what came before me is going after me", featuring a graphic with a pile of 3d colored shapes that look like they are alive in some weird way.
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Lazy cold snowy day at my house
Black retriever mix (Lucy) napping on couch. Large tabby cat (Cedric) napping on blue shawl on top of couch. Black and white cat (Digby - Cedric's brother), napping curled up in cat bed. Golden retriever puppy (Jasper), napping on couch with chin on arm rest.
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Cold early morning, out with the dogs. 3F -16C
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Puppy in motion!
golden retriever puppy running toward stationary black retriever mix in snowy yard closeup of running puppy in snow
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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First real snow of the season in North Adams, MA, USA

#northadams #berkshires
Black retriever mix in profile standing in snowbank, with snow falling. Golden retriever puppy with coat on half lying in the snow with snow on his nose, looking up a camera. Red saltbox house in snowy yard, with tree framing it in the foreground.
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Once again - but this time in our new home in North Adams, MA - we have are celebrating the Solstice and Christmas with our Swedish lights.
Swedish Christmas lights from inside one of our windows: 3 electric candles on either side of a red base, rising to a point with a seventh candle. Swedish Christmas lights seen from outside in the dark.
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Chamber music by Jennifer Bellor, Gary Eskow, Michael Ippolito, Ivar Lunde & Randall Woolf - featuring David Leisner, Meredith Blecha-Wells / Sun Min Kim, László Mező / Christopher Johnson, Ovidiu Marinescu / Carl Cranmer & Schroeder-Umansky Duo - on Not Brahms […]

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Cover of Michael Ippolito's Azica Records album "Strange Loops", featuring a maze with stems and leaves growing on it. Cover of Gary Eskow's Navona Records album "Many Streams, One River (Volume 1)", featuring an abstract painting with thick strokes of different colors all jumbled up. Cover of David Leisner's Azica Records album "Dedications", featuring an abstract painting suggesting perhaps a landscape. Cover of Ovidiu Marinescu & Carl Cranmer's Navona Records album "Resurgence Vol. 3", featuring a graphic with a cello and piano on a background with flowers and other items on irregular regions of different colors.
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Grateful for some sun out here in Western Mass!
A rectangle of sky with scattered clouds and the sun coming out atop one of them.
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This morning, the puppy figured out how he could emulate one of our cats and lie on the back of the couch.
Large tabby cat (left) and six months old golden retriever puppy (right) sharing the top of a couch.
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Occupy puppy's blanket!

#catsofmastodon
Photo of large tabby cat lying on tan blanket under table (not seen), surrounded by chairs. Cat is looking at camera.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I wonder what Jasper's dreams are like!
Puppy lying upside down with green chew toy in his mouth and an unhinged expression.
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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@mattblaze Not sure if you've ever been to Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA, but I'd been meaning to take a photo from the Route 2 overpass, thinking it would give a really different perspective than what one sees on the ground.
Photo of Mass MoCA from the Route 2 overpass, showing bell tower and sign, with parking lot in foreground.
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Mass MoCA in North Adams on a gray day.

#massmoca #northadams #berkshires
Photo of Mass MoCA from the Route 2 overpass, showing bell tower and sign, with parking lot in foreground. Photo of Mass MoCA sign from behind, so letters are reversed, silhouetted in a gray sky, with light tower in courtyard in foreground.
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Music by Michaela Catranis, Stefania de Kenessey, Alexis Lamb, Adam Roberts, Mischa Salkind-Pearl & Matthew Welch - featuring Donna Weng Friedman / Curtis Stewart, Lamnth, Mivos Quartet, Percussia & Conrad Tao - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (11/24/25) 4-5 […]

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Cover of Mischa Salkind-Pearl's New Focus Recordings album "Lines and Traces of Desire", featuring the additional text Music for Cimbalom Nicholas Tolle / Mary Bonhag Lamnth / Ludovico Ensemble on a gray background with what looks like a string of white flowers. Cover of Percussia's Neuma Records album "Murmuration", featuring a photo with a dense flock of birds (starlings, presumably) over a field of grain beyond which is a river and distant hills. Cover of Adam Roberts and Conrad Tao's New Focus Recordings album "Book of Flowers", featuring four painted colorful flowers on green stems, over a background with blocks of solid colors: red, green, yellow and blue. Cover of Stefania de Kennessey's Navona Records album "Microvids", featuring nineteen small stones of various composition and shape on a mottled gray/white background, with the additional text 19 MINIATURES DONNA WENG FRIEDMAN PIANO CURTIS STEWART VIOLIN IMPROVISATION KRYSTAL JOY BROWN NARRATION HELEN-CHA-PYO CONDUCTOR NEW JERSEY YOUTH SYMPHONY LOLA LOPEZ GUARDONE SPANISH NARRATION
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Our new puppy, Jasper, still (!!!) hasn't adjusted to the clocks falling back. This was my view at 6:45am this morning. And during breakfast, he tore the stuffing out of an old pillow, before we noticed what was happening.
Photo of a house with a cat in the window and two dogs in the yard - with a cloudy sky in the background. Golden retriever puppy lying in a mass of pillow stuffing, looking at the camera.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Music by Frank Horvat, Michael Nyman, Robbie Teehan & Michael Torke - featuring Michael Nyman Band, Siwoo Kim / East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Alan Klaus / Phil Roberts / Nancy Dahn / Vernon Regehr & Vicky Chow - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (11/17/25) 4-5 […]

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Cover of Michael Torke's Ecstatic Records album "Last", featuring an image from behind of a man standing on a country road, with trees on either side. There is fog and subdued light. Cover of Alan Klaus's Centrediscs album "First Light", featuring a graphic with evergreen trees on either side mirrored in water and with clear sky above, at sunrise, with a brilliant symmetric blast of light in the very center of the image. Cover of Frank Horvat and Vicky Chow's Redshift Music album "The Banff Suite", featuring a photo of a rocky mountainside with some trees, perfectly mirrored in a still lake - but where sunlight only reaches the hillside, and the entire left of the image is in total blackness. Cover of Michael Nyman's album "Drowning by Numbers", featuring the text "A film by Peter Greenaway" - on a dark blue background on which there are blotches and grids, one with numbers, and a drawing of a man with wild hair calling out.
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Closeup of remnants of a golden leaf on the sidewalk.
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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First snow of the season in North Adams, the Berkshires.
View down hill on city street with show on houses and yards but not on street, snow on the hill in the distance, and cloudy skies.
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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No idea what Jasper had in mind!
Golden retriever puppy with body and head pointing between cabinet and wall.
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Perhaps our cat Cedric is still trying to figure out just what kind of creature our new puppy Jasper is?
Large tabby cat smelling sleeping golden retriever puppy.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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View from highway of North Adams, MA. Note the row of wind turbines on the hill.
See post. Visible are top of warehouse in foreground, part of Mass MoCA sign, church, trees with late fall colors and buildings, and ridge line in the background with row of wind turbines - topped with partly cloudy sky.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM