Robert Barry
@monsterbobby
Freelance writer (The Wire, Tribune, Art Review, Mubi Notebook, &c.). Musicker (Far Rainbow, The Pipettes). Reviews Editor at The Quietus. Author of The Music of the Future (Repeater, 2017), Object Lessons: Compact Disc (Bloomsbury, 2020). Idiot.
London Voices post-Stimmung at Wigmore Hall tonight (and my programme notes)
Phil Coy’s sculpture, Stereo Pair (the other half out of shot, behind me), at Brunel University.
Albrecht Dürer’s depiction of matt goodwin eating his own book on live TV
someone has grafittied the word ‘honte’ (shame) on the wall text in the Palais de Tokyo’s current Echo Delay Reverb exhibition where they explain why they felt they had to remove Cameron Rowland‘s artwork Replacement from the show
this album has such a specific vibe. i don’t feel like listening to it all that often these days, but nights when i do want to, there’s nothing else quite hits the spot.
beautiful set from rafael toral @cafeotodalston.bsky.social tonight
any time you see one of these machines at the hotel breakfast you know you’re going to spend your morning in a series of endless queues.
Look, all respect to the translator of Plutarch's Moralia and all, but I think if my first names were William Clark I would simply not go by an initialism that makes me sound like somewhere people visit to take a piss.
i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ee... What is going on this photo? did one of them nearly fall over or something? Is Starmer falling into a k-hole and needing to reassure himself of the continuing existence of reality?
some pics from Charlemagne Palestine’s installation for the My Teddy Bear show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (just closed yesterday, i’m afraid)
Today I learnt that this picture of Wayne Shorter from @thewiremagazine.bsky.social #38 (April 1987) was taken by Normski, later of DEF II and Dance Energy.
not sure how Dave Mustaine from Megadeath ended up in 13th century Siena…
burning the giant anchovy is the community’s way of asserting their agency over the chaos of the world
even though the anchovy parade was cancelled, they did still burn the the giant anchovy on the beach
Despite owning a copy for years, I somehow only just realised that the classic self-titled 1973 João Gilberto is (exec-)produced and mixed by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind.
extremely exciting book post this morning. Brand new Tate Publishing book on the legend Larry Achiampong, feat. my essay “AFK Gone Crate Digging”
kind of love that @cafeotodalston.bsky.social have the name "Jürg Frey" graffitied on the wall of the cubicle in the gent's toilets, as if the composer of "Landschaft Mit Wörtern" were your mate's ska-punk band.
exciting post! thrilled to receive this books featuring 3 of my little text scores, alongside absolute legends like annea lockwood, raven chacon, pamela z and maria chavez.