Ben Harper
@cookylamoo
I make Unpopular Music, occasionally mistaken for art.
Festival and Forum 2025 YouTube playlists are now up! If you missed any of the events or simply want to relive how wonderful this year’s edition was please head here: Festival: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Forum: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
New post. Being in the audience for Music We’d Like To Hear, Summer 2025. cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…
"I can stop kidding myself I’m going to be motivated to think about it seriously." cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…
New post. I'm already very sorry. cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…
"Once the process takes hold the material strays outside of any clearly defined bounds." Listening to Kory Reeder's 'Homestead' and works by Cyril Bondi and d'incise. cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…
New post. Listening to Kory Reeder's 'Homestead' and works by Cyril Bondi and d'incise. cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…
Here are the isolated vocals to the end of God Only Knows. Brian Wilson wrote and produced this at 23 years old
You should all get to this and then rub it in that I missed it. #summerflu
"As if the unadulterated form wasn’t trippy enough." Pianos, pretty much, with albums on Another Timbre and Sawyer Editions. cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…
New post. Pianos, pretty much, with albums on Another Timbre and Sawyer Editions. cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…
Just read that Per Nørgård, one of the composing giants of our time, has died. With sad coincidence, he's programmed in our series at @kettlesyard tomorrow night. Deni Teo and Joseph Havlat will be playing his Cantica for cello and piano. A nice way to remember a great life.
"A clear organisational method behind the piece can be inferred from listening, even if it can’t be readily explained." Listening to Catherine Lamb's 'interius/exterius' and Jürg Frey's 'Longing Landscape'. cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…
New post yay. Listening to Catherine Lamb's 'interius/exterius' and Jürg Frey's 'Longing Landscape'. cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…
TONIGHT - this beautiful music, performed by Zubin Kanga and Mira Benjamin - tickets only £5: citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-event…
On Friday 23 May, Mira Benjamin (electric violin) and Zubin Kanga (piano and electromagnetic resonator) perform Scott McLaughlin's stunning, immersive drone work, "we are environments for each other". Details and booking forms here: citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-event…
RIP Yasunao Tone (1935-2025), unique and totally hardcore….
"A brooding, atmospheric piece of disturbing transformations." Listening to Raven Chacon's 'Voiceless Mass' and Martin Iddon's 'Hesperides'. cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…
Guess I lied about this.
Hello and welcome new followers! Swear to god I'm gonna make my site phone-friendly real soon. cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadri…