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Tower block boy

Maybe all forms of music have their symbolic numbers. Plotted against a conversion table, the letters of J. S. Bach’s surname (2 + 1 + 3 + 8) equal 14: double the seven days of creation – a cipher of perfection that structures many compositions by “the Old Wig”. John Cage used the duration 4’33,read more

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Put Me On: #Accumulator_plus

This is the tang in the air: tough love, zero tolerance, ever-growing inequality, CCTVs, ASBOs, and an ‘intensely relaxed’ attitude to what was fuelling the economic boom they said would never bust.– Dan Hancox, Stand up Tall: Dizzee Rascal and the Birth of Grime Shearsmith House in Stepney Green is one of a triumvirate ofread more