HeyJaredPurposeful Listening
Reviews, interviews, essays on music and sound by the author of Music after the Fall
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Schubert dub 9 (opens the original)
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The following is an extract from my current book-in-progress, Schubert dub. If you are new here: welcome! You may like to know that a list of previous instalments can be found here.New extracts from Schubert dub are published every month. To read them all, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.<input c
Purposeful Listening 22 (opens the original)
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Purposeful Listening 21 (opens the original)
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Purposeful Listening 20 (opens the original)
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In the drought and endless heat, the brambles have exploded across the garden. I went out again this week as the sun cooled past the trees to collect more, for the freezer, for winter crumbles, maybe jam. Bittersweet. A gesture towards plenty arising from a moment when, at its darkest, the world seems on a tipping point. What choicer, more nourishing species will brambles outlast, I thought? Will we be picking them in the still longer summers to come?As I gingerly stretched and plucked, I listen
Purposeful Listening 19 (opens the original)
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Parish notice: After this issue, I will be taking a short summer break for a couple of weeks. Paid subscribers will receive their regular Schubert Dub update next month, and there will be a shorter issue for free subscribers too, featuring a longish review of GBSR’s seminal boxset of the Feldman trios. But apart from these I will be putting my feet up in the French countryside for a bit. Regular service will resume in September.Alex RossReaders will no doubt have seen the recent announcements fr
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