November 9, 2020 Issue

Two delightful sentences in this week’s “Goings On About Town”:

1. The bright moments—including the fragments of sampled speech, rapidly chopped up, that bracket the album—make up for Lopatin’s overreliance on sad robot voices. – Michaelangelo Matos, “Music: Oneohtrix Point Never”

2. A group of thirtysomethings celebrating a birthday plucked a bunch of eerily fresh-looking calla lilies out of a public trash can. – Hannah Goldfield, “Tables For Two: The Odeon” 

I relish the Matos construction for its surreal elements - "fragments of sampled speech, rapidly chopped up," "sad robot voices." Goldfield's conjures a sweet image of found poetry. Both are marvelous!