extraordinary evidence (seven years, twenty four years, fifty years)

'... stay calm. this is simply the beginning' 

- hans gruber, die hard 

well 32C yesterday. 34C today.

and then gradually back down to the weekend and then a week at seasonal average temperatures (22C). 

of course greta thunberg is right. this is simply the beginning. 

and, of course, if the AMOC fails it will actually get colder here (colder and drier). 

here we see horsemouth live from the riverside on this day ( yesterday or maybe the day before) in 2021 (methinks). a beer and pizza mission with howard in stratford. 

meanwhile in attali land 

horsemouth has been continuing his investigations into jacques attali's stage of composition -  the one that comes as we move out of the era of repetition - the mass production and stockpiling of musical commodities - and into the era of composition, which is what exactly?

seven years after the initial publication of attali's first (french) edition came the english translation by brian massumi. this was introduced by frederic jameson (who was mainly interested in attali's relation to adorno) and afterwarded by noted musicologist susan mcclary.

in her essay mcclary finds extraordinary evidence of the inauguration of composition. how convincing we find this mish-mash of new wave and philip glass (and laurie anderson) is a distinct matter of taste. 

twenty four years after its first publication attali published an updated and substantially re-arranged version. horsemouth published a review in MUTE. 

and next year it will be fifty years since its initial publication. 

you'll pardon horsemouth if he is a little slow out of the gate - he hasn't thought about this stuff in a long time. 

horsemouth is up slightly early and has fed the chickens. it is due to be a hot day. 

at the weekend horsemouth will miss the leigh folk festival (he simply cannot get away). however should you be around in the south east he recommends it to you. 

after that it is soon the end of the month.