Fascinating article about consciousness in animals. Looks like the digambara Jains have the right idea.

The beating heart. #skyinasmallcage
Mahogany Opera @copenhagenoperafestival Barbican Centre

Was Arvo Pärt christened Afternoon??

Dubliners! New Music Dublin next week, finally live performing David Downes' huge piece, text by Adam Wyeth, cello and two actors. Beautiful recording also available. A colourful,communicative musical language handled with great confidence. Come and hear!
newmusicdublin.ie/there-will-be-…

Earth as sky, hands as feet. Go inside.

#RaceAcrossTheWorld lovely backdrops, horrible editorialising: bumper-sticker soul-searching, mysterious 'jobs' that pop up, manufactured epiphanies and backstory reveals, journeys that 'accidentally' take folk to the Tourist Department's dream vistas...

Chez mum.

The perks of aging: ticket to see my mum was £16 now £3.45!!

Funny, but horribly sinister. The rhetoric of 'instinct' around which all right-thinking people rally...yuk.

Lingering lotus morning.

Clarity and certainty are overrated. Maybe.

greatest piano concerto of the 20th century

got through the first Unsuk Chin Etude and the first movement of Bartok 2 today without falling off today.
I may be turning into a pianist.

A fascinating read, although the perhaps too-artful plotting overwhelmed the human story. Fantastic control of tension though #thebirthdayparty

It's raining ice. I preferred men.

Auspicious day. Followers and following are palindromic.

Most synthetic cheese ever made pats homage to most synthetic TV show.

It’s how it feels, not how it looks.

Mable the maple, Susan the Magnolia, Joyce the Choisya. Do you give your garden plants names??
Asking for a friend.

Any cellists fancy a go at a 40 minute solo piece that’s fiendish and has a six track
Prerecorded tape element that none of my celli friends has yet dared take on??