Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d’s Pee at State’s End (2021)
• Stefan Lakatos & Andreas Heuser: The Orastorios / Moondog Rounds (2009)
• Squid: Bright Green Field (2021)
• Sparks: “Moon Over Kentucky” (1973)
• BRUIT ≤: The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again (2021)
• Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future (2021)
• The Narcotix: Mommy Issues (2001)

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Added this quarter:

• Cowen & Gross, Talent (May 2022)
• Korinek et al., Oxford Handbook of AI Governance (TBD)
• Silver, On the Edge (TBD)
• Anderson, Soggy Bottom (Nov 2021) [film]
• Metroid Dread (Oct 2021) [game]
• Forza Horizon 5 (Nov 2021) [game]
• Elden Ring (Jan 2022) [game]
• Breath of the Wild sequel (TBD 2022) [game]

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Lonker See: “Split Image pt. 1, 2 & 3” (2016), “Lillian Gish” (2018), “Earth is Flat” (2020)
• Mumps: A Matter of Taste (1977)
• Eddie Henderson: Realization (1973), Inside Out (1974)
• Black Country, New Road: “Opus” (2021)
• Michael Gibbs: By the Way (1993)
• White Hills: No Game to Play (2006)
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Carnage (2021)
• Medeski, Martin & Wood: End of the World Party (Just in Case) (2004), “Reliquary” (2008)
• Turtle Island String Quartet & Paquito D’Rivera: Danzon (2002)
• Ponga: Psychological (2000)

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Added this quarter:

• Johnson, Extra Life (May 2021)
• Grossman, How Social Science Got Better (Aug 2021)
• Buchanan & Imbrie, The New Fire (Mar 2022)
• Kemp, Downfall (TBD)
• Rick and Morty: season 5 (Jun 2021)
• Better Call Saul: season 6 (TBD 2022)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 11 (TBD)
• Succession: season 3 (TBD 2021)
• Barry: season 3 (TBD)
• Atlanta: season 3 (TBD)
• Master of None: season 3 (TBD)

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Lumerians: Transmalinnia (2011)
• Oranssi Pazuzu: Mestarin kynsi (2020)
• Fatima Al Qadiri: Genre-Specific Xperience (2015)
• Oren Ambarchi: Sagittarian Domain (2012)
• Guardian Alien: See the World Given to a One Love Entity (2012), Spiritual Emergency (2014)
• Stara Rzeka: “Przebudzenie boga wschodu” (2013)
• Black Dirt Oak: “Demon Directive” (2014)
• A Tribe Called Red: “Electric Pow Wow Drum” (2013)
• Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor (2006), “Go Go Gadget Flow” (2007), “Hello/Goodbye (Uncool)” (2007)
• Lotic: Power (2018)
• Dev/Null: “Banal Universe” (2007), “Gorechsetra” (2008)
• Otaka Tomooki: “Sound of an Air Raid” (2012)
• Lorn: Ask the Dust (2012)
• Paul Jebanasam: Music for the Church of St John the Baptist (2012), Rites (2013), Continuum (2016)
• Chromb!: “Tu es ma pause dejeuner” (2012)
• Nooumena: Argument with Eagerness (2011)
• Alexander Noice: Noice (2019)
• [bleu]: Sincère autopsie de la finesse (2009)
• Tanya Tagaq: “Uja” (2014), Retribution (2016), “Icebreaker” (2019)
• Zeal and Ardor: “A Spiritual” (2014), “Devil is Fine” (2016), Stranger Fruit (2018)
• Louis Cole: Louis Cole (2010), Album 2 (2011), Time (2018)
• Knower: Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi (2010), Think Thoughts (2011)
• Ben Levin: Freak Machine (2015)
• Khompa: The Shape of Drums to Come (2016)
• Snowman: Absence (2011)
• Rhun: Fanfare du Chaos (2013)
• Arnold Dreyblatt: The Adding Machine (2002)
• Horse Lords: Horse Lords (2012)
• Kooba Tercu: Kharrub (2019), Proto Tekno (2020)
• HHY & The Macumbas: Throat Permission Cut (2014)
• Juan Cristobal Tapia de Veer: Utopia (2013), Humans (2015)
• Kahil El’Zabar: “Return of the Lost Tribe” [Infinity Orchestra version] (2008), America the Beautiful (2020)
• Møster!: When You Cut into the Present (2015)
• Tod Machover: “Towards the Center” (1990)
• Max Cooper: Yearning for the Infinite (2019)
• Mid-Air Thief: Gongjoong Doduk (2015), Crumbling (2019)
• Boring Bathtimes: Loss (2017)
• Larry Polansky: “Ensembles of Note” (comp. 1998, rel. 2010)
• Motorpsycho: The Death Defying Unicorn (2012)
• Rob Mazurek: Dimensional Stardust (2020)
• Ağaçkakan: “Sıkboğaz” (2013)
• Godcaster: Long Haired Locusts (2020)
• Michael Gordon: Light is Calling (2004), Acquanetta (comp. 2005), “Shelter: Is This Wind” (comp. 2005)

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Added this quarter:

• Kenny, The Plague Cycle (Jan 2021)
• Davies, Driven (Jan 2021)
• Robertson, The Enlightenment (Feb 2021)
• Slavitt, Preventable (Mar 2021)
• Ferguson, Doom (May 2021)

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Department of Eagles: In Ear Park (2008)
• Benoit Pioulard: “La Guerre De Sept Ans” (2006)
• Émilie Simon: Végétal (2006)
• David T. Little: “How We Got Here” (2003), “Tricky Bits” (2007), Agency (comp. 2013, rel. 2019)
• Anakronos: The Red Book of Ossory (2020)
• Straylight Run: “How Do I Fix My Head” (2007)
• Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation (2007)
• Beat Circus: These Wicked Things (2019)
• Volcano!: Paperwork (2008)
• Parts & Labor: Mapmaker (2007)
• Invisible Things: Home Is the Sun (2012), Time As One Axis (2016)
• The Dear Hunter: The Fox and the Hunt (2020)
• Combat Astronomy: Kundalini Apocalypse (2013)
• White Flight: White Flight (2006), White Ark (2009)
• Eartheater: RIP Chrysalis (2015)
• Kablam: “Everything for Everyone” (2019)
• Nubya Garcia: Source (2020)
• Cave: Threace (2013)
• Wildildlife: Six (2007)
• Cyann & Ben: Happy Like an Autumn Tree (2004)
• Ken Valitsky [Walicki]: “Meaning – Less” (1995), “Black Velvet Elvis and the 900 Foot Jesus” (1998)
• Rick Cox: Fade (2005)
• UFOmammut: Eve (2010)
• Journey to Ixtlan: “Burnt Coyote Teeth” (2008)
• Legion of Two: Riffs (2009)
• DM Stith: Heavy Ghost (2009), Pigeonheart (2016)
• Clubroot: Clubroot (2009)
• Yacht: I Believe in You, Your Magic Is Real (2007), See Mystery Lights (2009)
• Kiran Leonard: Grapefruit (2016)
• Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses: Perils (2005), Manfauna (2007)
• Yugen: Labrinto D’Acqua (2006)
• Jean Louis: Jean Louis (2008), Morse (2010), Uranus (2013)
• Ken Valitsky: Species Compatibility (1993)
• Alexander Mosolov / Metallica: “The Iron Foundry” (1927/2020)
• Jun Togawa: “カウンセル・プリーズ [Counsel Please]” (2004)
• Tom Zé: Jogos de armar (Faça você mesmo) (2000)
• miRthkon: “Daddylonglegz” (1999), The Illusion of Joy (2006), Vehicle (2009)
• Hoppy Kamiyama: “Flesh For The Jet Set” (1998), A Meaningful Meaningnessless (2005)
• Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma: Sol Central (2000)
• Ebonylake: As Ghosts We Dance in the Thrashing Seas (1998)
• Natsumen: Endless Summer Record (2005)
• Fire!: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago (2009), In the Mouth, A Hand (2012)
• Buck Jam Tonic: Buck Jam Tonic (2003)
• Clarence Clarity: Save Thyself (2013), Who Am Eye (2014)
• Zegota: “A March to the Dead Sea” (2001)
• Rovo: Pyramid (2000)
• Flotation Toy Warning: Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck (2004), The Machine That Made Us (2017)
• Leonid Fedorov & Vladimir Volkov: “Галушка” (2007)
• Encre: Flux (2004)
• Alex Tiuniaev: I Knew Her (2008)
• Skeletons: Lucas (2007), Money (2008), People (2011), The Bus (2012), Am I Home? (2016)
• Keefe Jackson / Jim Baker / Julian Kirshner: So Glossy and So Thin (2020)
• Clogs: “Who’s Down Now?” (2003), Lantern (2006)
• Lau Nau: Valohiukkanen (2012), Poseidon (2017)
• Ultralyd: “Saprochord” (2007), Inertiadrome (2010)
• Sebkha-Chott: “Gode Sainture Cuir” (2019)
• Eyedea & Abilities: “Burn Fetish” (2009)
• Kiss Kiss: “Virus” (2009)
• Endon: “Born in Limbo” (2017)
• Jocelyn Pook: Deluge (1997), Untold Things (2001), Caótica Ana (2007)
• Murmuüre: Murmuüre (2010)

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Added this quarter:

• Viale, Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality (Oct 2020)
• Christian, The Alignment Problem (Oct 2020)
• Duke, How to Decide (Oct 2020)
• Moynihan, X-Risk (Nov 2020)
• Anderson, Security Engineering 3e (Dec 2020)
• Cargill, The Long View (TBD)
• Benson & Moorhead, Synchronic (Oct 2020) [film]
• Docter, Soul (Nov 2020) [film]
• Wright, Last Night in Soho (Apr 2021) [film]
• McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible 7 (Nov 2021) [film]
• Chazelle, Babylon (Dec 2021) [film]

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Estradasphere: It’s Understood (2000)
• To the Ansaphone: To the Ansaphone (2003)
• Seaworthy: The Ride (2002)
• Terra Ambient: Wanderlust (2009)
• Troum: Grote Mandrenke (2012), Mare Morphosis (2013)
• Johannes Enders: Dome (2007)
• Carl Oesterhelt & Johannes Enders: Divertimento für Tenorsaxophon und kleines Ensemble (2010)
• Fever the Ghost: Crab in Honey (2014)
• Lyra Pramuk: Fountain (2020)
• The Necks: “Bloom” and “Further” (2020)
• Hannah Marcus: Desert Farmers (2004)
• Shannon Wright: Dyed in the Wool (2001)
• Hossam Ramzy: Source of Fire (1995)
• Vladislav Delay: “Rasite” (2020)
• Buffalo Daughter: I (2002), Pshychic (2003)
• Cornelius: Point (2002)
• Algiers: Algiers (2015), The Underside of Power (2017)
• Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2020)
• Friends of Dean Martinez: “Ethchlorvynol” (1999)
• In the Summer of the Mushroom Honey: “Thank You, Mr. Bishop!” (1999)
• DeVotchKa: How it Ends (2004)
• Anahita: “Velvet Shoon” (2009)
• Iglooghost: Neo Wax Bloom (2017)
• A Taste of Ra: Morning of My Life (2007) [wow!]
• Danny Cohen: “In the Barrio” (1999)
• Ill Ease: “New York, London, Paris” (1999)
• Matmos: “Ultimate Care II Excerpt One” (2016)
• Thee Oh Sees: Face Stabber (2019)
• The Soft Pink Truth: Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? (2020)
• Kayo Dot: “Aura on an Asylum Wall” (2006)
• Live Human: Monostereosis: The New Victrola Method (1999)
• Odd Nosdam: Burner (2006), Level Live Wires (2007)
• Ne Zhdali: She-Ye-Ye (1991)
• Blast: A Sophisticated Face (1999)
• Sotos: Platypus (2002)
• X-Legged Sally: Eggs and Ashes (1994), The Land of the Giant Dwarfs (1995)
• Höyry-kone: Hyönteisiä voi rakastaa (1995)
• Louis Sclavis: “Ottomar” (1989)
• Charming Hostess: “Sha! Shtil!” (1998)
• Optical *8: Bug (1994)
• Don Salsa: “The Deck” (1997)
• Dollshot: Lalande (2019)
• Vivenza: “Fondements bruitistes” (1984); “Prolétariat & industrie” (1984)
• Carter Tutti Void: f(x) (2015)
• Trytony: “Zazuły” (1992)
• Łoskot: Amariuch (1998), Sun (2005)
• Deep Turtle: Turkele!! (2003)
• Marc Mellits: Tight Sweater / Agu / Fruity Pebbles / Disciples of Gouda (2006); Paranoid Cheese (2007)
• Non Credo: “Agnes’ Lament” (1988)
• Jeff Rosenstock: No Dream (2020)
• Enrique Morente: “Omega” (1996)
• Cafe Tacuba: Revés (1999)
• Gasp: “Little Jupiter Come Home to a Groat Man” (1998)
• Velma: Cyclique (1999)
• Sandy Dillon: Electric Chair (1999), Las Vegas is Cursed (2000)
• Hint: “100% White Puzzle” (1995), Dys- (1996), Wu-Wei (1998)
• Hissanol: “Angra” (1995), The Making of Him (1998)
• Pugs: Pugs (1993), Sports? (1994), Pugs Bite the Red Knee (1997)
• Soft Mountain: Soft Mountain (rec. 2003, rel. 2007)
• Ensemble 4’33”: Taxidermy (1999), Happiness, Fame and Fortune (2002)
• Paul Dresher: “Dark Blue Circumstance” (comp. 1986, rel. 1993)
• After Crying: “European Things” (1990)
• The Flower Kings: “Retropolis” (1996)
• Voo Voo: Oov Oov (1998)
• Leyland Kirby: “When We Parted, My Heart Wanted to Die (Friedrichshain Memory)” (2009)
• Insides: Clear Skin (1994)
• Hildur Guðnadóttir: Leyfðu ljósinu (2012)
• Carl Stone: “Al-Noor” (2007)
• Jean-Paul Prat: Masal (1984)
• Ray Lema & Professeur Stefanov: “Ponji” (1992)
• Valentin Clastrier: Hérésie (1992)
• Steve Martland: “Horses of Instruction” (comp. 1994, rel. 2001)
• Lake Trout: Volume for the Rest of It (1999), Not Them, You (2005)
• Mikel Rouse: “Soul Train” (1996)
• DJ Hidden: Literal Evil (2006), Enclosed (2013)
• The Group: “Worksong” (1975)
• Dave Liebman [Expansions]: The Puzzle (2015)
• Lamp of the Universe: Heru (2005)
• School of Language: Sea from Shore (2008)

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Added this quarter:

• Tosi & Warmke, Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (Jul 2020)
• Liao, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Jul 2020)
• Heffernan, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future (Sep 2020)
• Kumar et al., Cyber Defense Mechanisms (Sep 2020)
• Dalio, The Changing World Order (Sep 2020)
• Steffens, Attribution of Advanced Persistent Threats (Sep 2020)
• Barash, Threats (Oct 2020)
• Romaniuk & Manjikian, Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy (Dec 2020)
• Zimmer, Life’s Edge (Mar 2021)
• Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Vols. 3-6) (TBD)
• Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World (TBD)
• Deudney et al., Catastrophic and Existential Threats and World Orders (TBD)
• Pinker, book on rationality (TBD)
• Iannucci, The Personal History of David Copperfield (Aug 2020) [film]
• Anderson, The French Dispatch (Oct 2020) [film]
• Reeves, The Batman (Oct 2021) [film]

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Four Tet: New Energy (2017)
• Liturgy: H.A.Q.Q. (2019)
• Chris Potter: Circuits (2019)
• Ukandanz: Yetchalal (2012)
• Soap&Skin: Lovetune for Vacuum (2009), From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend (2018)
• Lingua Ignota: Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him (2017), All Bitches Die (2018)
• Flume: Skin (2016)
• Lye By Mistake: Fea Jur (2009)
• Bazooka: Perfectly Square (1992), Blowhole (1994)
• Kolkhöze Printanium: Kolkhöznitsa (2008)
• The Armed: Only Love (2018)
• Desire Marea: Desire (2020)
• Jono El Grande: Neo Dada (2009)
• Ske: 1000 Autunni (2011)
• Bohren & Der Club of Gore: Patchouli Blue (2020)
• Beth Custer: The Shirt I Slept In (1995)
• Phantom City: Shiva Recoil (1997)
• Goldie: “Dragonfly” (1998)
• yMusic: Ecstatic Science (2020)
• Katie Gately: Loom (2020)
• Matt Elliott: Drinking Songs (2005)
• David Holmes: Bow Down to the Exit Sign (2000)
• Frontier: Heater (1997)
• M’Lumbo: Spinning Tourists in a City of Ghosts (1999)
• Tarantula Hawk: Tarantula Hawk [2000] (2000)
• Rollerball: We Owned Lions (1998), Bathing Music (2000), The Trail of the Butter Yeti (2001), Behind the Barber (2004), Rollerball (2006), Ahura (2008), Murwa Mbwa (2011)
• Ektroverde: Ukkossalama (2003)
• Pharaoh Overlord: Lunar Jetman (2012)
• Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores: The Quiet Room (2005), The Smother Party (2006), The Blind Spot (2007), Sister Death (2012)
• Supersystem: A Million Microphones (2006)
• Meringue: Music from the Mint Green Nest (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Manning, A History of Humanity (Apr 2020)
• Saldin & Teles, Never Trump (May 2020)
• Peters, Innumeracy in the Wild (May 2020)
• Lieber & Press, The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (Jun 2020)
• Ritchie, Science Fictions (Jul 2020)
• Lissner & Rapp-Hooper, An Open World (Sep 2020)
• Perlroth, This is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Sep 2020)
• Kania, Fighting to Innovate (TBD)
• Johnson, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfare: USA, China, and Strategic Stability (TBD)
• Tinnirello, Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
• Caplan, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Policy (TBD)

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Christopher Rouse: Rapture (2000)
• The Comet is Coming: Afterlife (2019)
• David Garland: Verdancy (2018)
• Cleric: Regressions (2010), Retrocausal (2018), The Book Beri’ah Vol. 2: Chokhma (2019)
• Persona: Uptight (2000)
• Trioscapes: Separate Realities (2012)
• Yazz Ahmed: Polyhmnia (2019)
• Rudiger Oppermann: “Teil 1-7” (1986)
• Linus Pauling Quartet: Killing You with Rock (1998)
• Miranda Sex Garden: Carnival of Souls (2000)
• Sin Ropes: Three Cherries (2000)
• Orso: My Dreams Are Back and They Are Better Than Ever (2004)
• Floating Points: Crush (2019)
• Tiere der Nacht: Kräuter & Weltmeister (2005)
• Jacob Collier: Djesse Vol. 2 (2019)
• Trentemoller: The Last Resort (2006)
• New Wet Kojack: New Wet Kojack (1995), Nasty International (1997)
• Milk Cult: Project M-13 (2000)
• FKA Twigs: Magdalene (2019)
• President’s Breakfast: Doo Process (1995), III C (2002), Formidable Foe (2006)
• Eat Static: Crash & Burn! (2000)
• Wagon Christ: Musipal (2001)
• Luke Vibert: Big Soup (1997)
• Robert Stillman: Rainbow (2016)
• Kurushimi: Kurushimi (2016)
• Lower Dens: Nootropics (2012)
• Laurel Halo: Dust (2017)
• Jeffrey Brooks: The Passion (2019)
• Patrick Zimmerli: Sun on Sand (2019)
• Grimes: Geidi Primes (2010), Darkbloom (2011)
• Junius Paul: Ism (2019)
• Fishmans: Long Season (1996)
• Superconductor: Heavy with Puppy (1994), Bastardsong (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Mercier, Not Born Yesterday (Jan 2020)
• Greene, Until the End of Time (Feb 2020)
• Klein, Why We’re Polarized (Jan 2020)
• Michaels, The Triumph of Doubt (Feb 2020)
• Luca & Bazerman, The Power of Experiments (Mar 2020)
• Hahn, Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Mar 2020)
• Maçães, History Has Begun (Mar 2020)
• Norcross, Morality By Degrees (Apr 2020)

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Pohjola Pekka: Keesojen lehto (1977)
• Mandingo: The Primeval Rhythm of Life (1973)
• Zao: Z=7L (1973)
• Speed Limit: Speed Limit [1975] (1975)
• Clivage: Regina Astris (1977), “Mixtus Orbis” (1979)
• Rialzu: Rialzu (1978)
• Orchestra Njervudarov: Con le orecchie di Eros (1979)
• Arcane V: Marron Dingue (1978)
• Random: Nothin’ Tricky (1977)
• Yochk’o Seffer: Delire (1976), Ima (1977), Ghilgoul (1978)
• Bobby Krlic: “Fire Temple” (2019)
• Imants Kalniņš: Symphony No. 4 (1973)
• Frederik Magle: Anastasis-Messe (2017)
• Kollektiv: SWF-Sessions Volume 5 (rec. 1973, rel. 2001)
• Glenn Kotche: Anomaly (2014)
• László Hortobágyi: Transreplica Meccano (1989)
• Helga Pogatschar: Mars Requiem (1995)
• Les McCann: Invitation ot Openness (1971)
• Buddy Terry: Pure Dynamite (1972)
• Allison Miller: Glitter Wolf (2019)
• Fieldwork: Simulated Progress (2005)
• Mahjun: Vivre la mort du vieux Monde (1971), Mahjun [1973] (1973), Mahjun [1974] (1974)
• K. Miho & Jazz Eleven: Kokezaru Kumikyoku (1971)
• Béa Tekielski: La folle (1976)
• Malcolm Braff & Stephane Galland: “Afro Blue” (2015)
• Malcolm Braff & Aurélie Emery: “Crimson Waves” (2011)
• De Lorians: De Lorians (2019)
• The Pyramids: Lalibela (1973), King of Kings (1974), Birth / Speed / Merging (1976)
• Masahiko Sato: Yamataifu (1972)
• Iltar: Iltar (1977)
• Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Osorezan / Dō no Kenbai (1976), Ecophony Rinne (1986), Symphonic Suite Akira (1988)
• Emmanuel Booz: Dans quel état j’erre (1979)
• Haki Madhubuti: Medasi (1984)
• Heinrich von Biber: Battalia à 10 (1673)
• Sigmund Snopek III: Virginia Woolf (1973), Trinity Seas Seize Sees (1974)
• Olga Bell: Tempo (2016)
• Christy Doran: Black Box (2001)
• Serge Bringolf: Strave (1981)
• Lask: Lask (1982)
• Letícia Garcia: Magamaquiavérica em canturbano (1984)
• Fulano: Fulano (1987), En el Bunker (1989), El Infierno de los payasos (1993)
• yMusic: First (2017)
• Het: Let’s Het (1984)
• Eskaton: Ardeur (1980), Fiction (1983)
• Daisuck & Prostitute: Shinu Made Odori Tsuzukete (1981)
• Heiner Goebbels: Der Mann im Fahrstuhl (1988)
• Blanck Mass: “Death Drop” (2019)
• The Blech: Zip Zip (1987)
• Lights in a Fat City: Somewhere (1988)
• Elomar: Fantasia Leiga Para Um Rio Seco (1981)
• Billie Eilish: “Bad Guy” (2019)
• Herbert Bairy: Traumspiel (1980)
• John Psathas: Omnifenix (2000)
• Adam Hopkins: Crickets (2018)
• Ein Jahr Garantie: Hoch/tief (1982)
• Fibulator: Drank from the Asphalt (1993), Unhammerlike (1994)
• Bruce Hornsby: Absolute Zero (2019)
• Chris Cutler & Lutz Glandien: Domestic Stories (1992)
• Lutz Glandien: The 5th Elephant (2002)
• Trey Anastasio: Surrender to the Air (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Forcehimes & Semrau, Thinking Through Utilitarianism (Nov 2019)
• Buchanan, The Hacker and the State (Feb 2020)
• MacAskill, What We Owe the Future (TBD)
• de Lazari-Radek, The Philosophy of Pleasure (TBD)
• Tye, book about vagueness and the evolution of consciousness (TBD)
• Yglesias, One Billion Americans (TBD)
• Flynn, In Defense of Free Speech (TBD)

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Joe Henry: Tiny Voices (2003)
• Glass Eye: Hello Young Lovers (1989)
• Joshua Abrams: Mandatory Reality (2019)
• Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: Savvy Show Stoppers (1988), Music for Pets (1991)
• Dark: Dark (1986)
• Wavestar: Moonwind (1987)
• Chuck van Zyl: Europa (1991)
• Amon Tobin: Fear in a Handful of Dust (2019)
• Steve Douglas: Rainbow Suite (1981)
• ALASKALASKA: The Dots (2019)
• Big Thief: U.F.O.F. (2019)
• Jon Hassell: Flash of the Spirit (1988), Dressing for Pleasure (1994)
• Eternal Wind: Eternal Wind (1984), Wasalu (1988)
• Night Ark: “Trilogy” (1986)
• David Parsons: “Tantra” (1992)
• Joel Ross: KingMaker (2019)
• Zig-Zag: Pièces manquantes 1976 (rec. 1976, rel. 2014)
• Holly Herndon: PROTO (2019)
• Manu Dibango: Waka Juju (1982)
• Deca: Claustrophobia (1989), Simbionte (2002), Aracnis Radiarum (2007)
• Echo Collective: Plays Amnesiac (2018)
• Mesadorm: Heterogaster (2018)
• Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel (2019)
• Lubricated Goat: Schadenfreude (1989)
• Ministry: “Leper” (2003)
• Walking Timebombs: Walking Timebombs (1997)
• Unrest: Isabel Bishop (1992)
• Membranes: The Gift of Life (1985)
• Maurice Louca: Elephantine (2019)
• Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem (1984), Dark Waters (2001), Kingdom Come (2001), Savage Altars (2006)
• Sunwatchers: Illegal Moves (2019)
• Karyyn: The Quanta Series (2019)
• Overpass: Overpass (1993)
• Hetch Hetchy: Swollen (1990)
• Bad Luck: Four (2018)
• Brandt Brauer Frick: Miami (2013)
• Fire! Orchestra: Arrival (2019)

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Added this quarter:

• McCarty, Polarization (Jul 2019)
• Christensen et al., Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research (Jul 2019)
• Sheehan, The Transpacific Experiment (Aug 2019)
• Granville et al., Prime Suspects (Aug 2019)
• Graziano, Rethinking Consciousness (Sep 2019)
• Grimes, The Irrational Ape (Sep 2019)
• Russell, Human Compatible (Oct 2019)
• Schwitzgebel, A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures (Oct 2019)
• Jones: 10% Less Democracy (Feb 2020)
• Rid, Active Measures (Apr 2020)
• Prasad, Malignant (TBD)
• Frankish, Consciousness: The Basics (TBD)
• Russell, AI: A Modern Approach, 4th edition (TBD)
• Arrhenius et al., Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (TBD)
• Pummer, Effective Altruism for Everyone (TBD)
• Dubber et al., Oxford Handbook of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
• Gray, Ad Astra (Sep 2019)
• Docter, Soul (Jun 2020)

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Attrition: Etude (1997)
• Sons of Kemet: Your Queen is a Reptile (2018)
• Sharon van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow (2019)
• Buke & Gase: Scholars (2019)
• Kasper Bjorke: The Fifty Eleven Project (2018)
• The Hangovers: Slow Dirty Tears (1998)
• Her Name is Calla: The Quiet Lamb (2010)
• Daniel Pemberton: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
• The Woodentops: Well Well Well: The Unabridged Singles Collection (1986)
• Ill Considered: Ill Considered (2017)
• Rattlemouth: Walking Like a Full Moon Dog (1996), Fist Full of Iffy (1998)
• Jean Derome & Rene Lussier: Soyez vigilants, restez vivants! (1986)
• Chandra: Transportation (1980)
• Drowning Pool: Aphonia (1989)
• Plasticland: Salon (1987)
• Theon Cross: Fyah (2019)
• The Comet is Coming: Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (2019)
• Quinsin Nachoff: Path of Totality (2018)
• Victoria Williams: Happy Come Home (1987)
• Nihiloxica: Biiri (2019)
• Christian Scott: Ancestral Recall (2019)

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Added this quarter:

• Asma & Gabriel, The Emotional Mind (Apr 2019)
• Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Apr 2019)
• Cowen, Big Business (Apr 2019)
• Rosenblum & Muirhead, A Lot of People are Saying (Apr 2019)
• Friedman, War and Chance (May 2019)
• Ward, The Other Side of the Story (Aug 2019)
• Courtwright, The Age of Addiction (May 2019)
• Milo, Good Enough (Jun 2019)
• Frey, The Technology Trap (Jun 2019)
• Frunton, Digital Cash (Jun 2019)
• Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You (Jun 2019)
• Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology (Jul 2019)
• Edge, Statistical Thinking from Scratch (Aug 2019)
• Dawkins, Outgrowing God (Sep 2019)
• Marcus & Davis, Rebooting AI (Sep 2019)
• Bloom, untitled book about benign masochism (TBD)
• Vincent, Beyond Measure (TBD)
• Stevenson & Wolfers, Principles of Economics (TBD)
• Cobb, The Mind Machine (TBD)
• Pinker, untitled book about common knowledge (TBD)
• Fukanaga, 25th Bond movie (Apr 2020)
• Nolan, untitled film (Jul 2020)
• Villeneuve, Dune (Dec 2020)

Books

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