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most listened to music in 2011 :

- andrew chalk - violin by night - faraway press - lp

- taylor deupree & marcus fischer - in a place of such graceful shapes - 12k - cd + 7"

- lawrence english - the peregrine - experimedia - lp

- fennesz - seven stars - touch - 10"

- fire! with jim o'rourke - unreleased? - rune grammofon - lp

- tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972 - kranky - lp

- ingenting kollektiva - fragments of night - oiseaux invisibles - lp

- stephan mathieu - a static place - 12k - cd

- nils petter molvaer - baboon moon - columbia - cd

- the necks - mindset - rer megacorp - cd

- mickey newbury - looks like rain - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - frisco mabel joy - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - heaven help the child - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - better days - drag city - lp

- ohayo (andreas söderström, johan berthling, per eklund) - "the state we are in" - häpna - cd

- nils økland & sigbjørn apeland - lysøen - hommage à ole bull - ecm - cd

- popul vuh - werner herzog soundtracks - spv - cd boxset reissue

- radiohead - the king of limbs - ticker tape ltd/xl recordings - lp

- john surman - flashpoint: ndr jazz workshop - april '69 - cuneiform records - cd + dvd

- david sylvian - died in the wool | manafon variations - samadhisound - cd

- talk talk - laughing stock - ba da bing - lp reissue
- mark hollis - mark hollis - ba da bing - lp reissue

- tindersticks - claire denis film scores 1996-2009 - constellation - 5 lps

- chris watson - el tren fantasma - touch cd + lp

books :

- morton feldman - vertical thoughts: morton feldman and the visual arts - irish museum of modern art

- richard serra - richard serra drawing: a retrospective - the menil collection

- rob young - electric eden: unearthing britain's visionary music - faber & faber

movies / dvd / bluray :

- tomas alfredson - tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

- terrence malick - the tree of life

- steve mcqueen - shame

- béla tarr & ágnes hranitzky - the turin horse

- krzysztof kieślowski - three colors - criterion

- sidney lumet - 12 angry men - criterion (esp. the supplement : john bailey discusses boris kaufman)

- roman polanski - cul-de-sac - criterion

- ken loach - kes - criterion

(a condensed list of the many albums we enjoyed this year. which are usually posted here)

drawing sounds exploding bells...

animal sounds, made visible by bell's translator

frequency modulation series

print from a reader recorder tape

3/4 inch stick of pentolite exploding

electron diffraction record

a school of herring passing under a brown moon

max ernst - 1965

ocean, drawing - piet mondrian - 1909

second diagram of evolution (notebook b)
charles darwin - 1837

detail from the original diagram of evolution

origin of the species
charles darwin - ca. 1857

first five images in series - the new landscape in art and science - györgy kepes - 1956

land between two rivers

the books of anselm kiefer 1969-1990 - george braziller - 1990/1991

was finally able to acquire a copy of the good book (the book of books), though it cost me a weeks pay.
first checked this book out of the massart library as a wee lad, such an influence the good book has had on my life......

some titles
- the heavens
- barren landscapes
- marble landscapes
- shards
- the burning of the rural district of buchen
- piet mondrian - operation "sea lion"
- brandenburg sand
- teutoburg forest
- midsummer's night
- trip through the country
- the rhine
- isis and osiris
- heavy water
- way across the red sea
- through the center of the earth
- the night, when isis weeps
- birth of the sun
- shulamith