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Loose Ends for 2016

Work, family and other projects took precedent over blogging in 2016.  I plan to concentrate more on my Nietzsche blog in the coming weeks.  I have worked on it for 8 years and am finally close to completing the philosophical biography portion of it.  This blog will take a back seat to that one for the time being, although I do have a few topics I still want to post here. 2016 was the year my Flipboard editing sort of took off.  As of this post I have a modest 2,186 followers as of this post, up from my humble beginnings back in 2014 .  My number of magazines proliferated this past year, though news, art, space, and sex remain the topics of primary interest.  I added a number of specialty magazines this year including additional archives on art and hot pix.   SeXtEcH focuses on the diverse world of sex augmentation and technology - everything from virtual reality to toys to sex robots, which is an emerging topic.  My personal opinion is that virtual reality and robotics will bo

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Listening to Rihm: Two Other Movements

I have previously posted about my explorations of classical composer Wolfgang Rihm's vast repertoire of music.   In early 2016, the seventh installation of SWR Music's Rihm – Edition Series was made available in the US.  I purchased it several months ago and have since spent time listening to it off and on.   This CD features the world-premiere recording of Two Other Movements , a large scale 40-minute work which Rihm composed in 2004 as well as several shorter pieces from the 1980's.  I find everything on the CD accessible and enjoyable, but, like most of Rihm's work, it is an acquired taste in modern classical composition. Once again, Rihm is a prolific composer and most of his compositions have yet to be recorded.  This CD is an excellent example of how Rihm views his music as essentially part of a collective, almost continuous body of work, a singular artistic path, wherein Rihm takes inspiration from his previous compositions to create new material.   Two Oth