et cetera

“People are demonstrably insane when it comes to attributing nonhuman sentience, as can be seen at any dog show.” (Jaron Lanier)

Being just one of several gnomic utterances made during the course of a lecture by Ed Witten in January 1998 at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB. In lieu of reading Brian Greene, whose Elegant Universe is still waiting patiently on the shelf, I thought I’d start with this hours worth of prologue—and [...]

The FuseLeeds festival site at the BBC has some interesting material up, including Steve Reich’s lovely Triple Quartet [Real Audio] and a composition by Jonny Greenwood called Smear [Real Audio]—a title which would have been perfectly at home on a Pablo Honey or Bends era Radiohead album…