Saturday, December 26, 2009

crumple

crumple
from Wikitionary

Verb
(transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
(transitive) To cause to collapse.
(intransitive) To become wrinkled.
(intransitive) To collapse.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

prolepsis

prolepsis (plural prolepses)
From Wikitionary
  1. The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
  2. The representation of something which has occurred before its time. I'm a dead man.
  3. (rhetoric) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
  4. A grammatical construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond. That noise, I just heard it again.
  5. A philosophical concept used in ancient epistemology to indicate a so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Graham - Jersey subdivisions as proto-Minimalist aesthetic


Dan Graham - From Homes of America (1965)

Evenings For New Music - Carnegie program cover


A very hip logo for a very important series that ran from 1964 to 1980 in Bufallo and New York. Every program presented during the Evenings for New Music can be viewed and searched on the University of Bufallo Music Department Library website.

Image taken by CJM at Baird Hall Library in the "Treasure Room." Apologies for the image quality. Shot with iPhone with only one florescent light source available.