Links: Strudel (+4)
It’s been a while since I’ve written here but I am trying to get back into the swing of it. I finally wrote down some thoughts about my recent walk in the Pennines, and some more about painting my living room. Here are some of the most memorable things I’ve “consumed” (hate using that word) in the last couple of months.
- Strudel is a really cool online music sequencer slash programming language. You can use it to make electronic beats in the browser, because it’s a Javascript port of a well-known live-coding language for music called tidalcycles which is written in the formidable Haskell.
- I was lucky enough to visit the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford towards the end of the summer to see the This Is What You Get exhibition of artwork by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, who have collaborated to create the art for all of Radiohead’s album covers and many other things. It was so wild to see all these iconic images on their original full-size canvasses. I could have spent hours poring over everything but we took a baby so had to take a bit of a whirlwind tour. If you live anywhere near Oxford, check it out.
- My wife and I have been watching Slow Horses, a really well-made spy thriller with Gary Oldman,
- I really enjoyed this poem by British-Nigerian poet Gboyega Odubanjo who grew up in South London and died in 2023 aged only 27. I just bought his book of poetry, called Adam which was published posthumously and includes the poem above, which I actually saw on the tube.
- Who Do You Want Checking in on You (AM / S), a track from the new album from Joan Shelley.
Photograph: A collection of Stanley Donwood designed album covers at the This Is What You Get exhibition of his and Thom Yorke’s artworks at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.