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Zach Barocas, Diasporist Diarist

I’m Zach Barocas. I’m a drummer (I play Ludwig Drums), sometime poet (though not lately — see below for links), a publisher, a somewhat cranky cinephile, an amateur photographer, and a stationery shop owner in Brooklyn, New York City.

Measure Twice

Kimberley’s and my
stationery shop.

Poetry

The Cultural Society (2001-present)

Among Other Things (2005)

Looking Up (2010)

drumming

  • Press
  • New Freedom Sound
  • Jawbox
  • BELLS≥
  • Camorra
  • The Up On In
  • E. Fowlkes Sextet
  • Bright Christ
  • Drew O’Doherty
  • Imaginary Johnny

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Mostly Mornings

A tumblr blog of photographs spanning several years, taken mostly and eventually only in the morning, and eventually mostly from the same position of the same tree. I abandoned the project in 2018.

  • around the web
  • art
  • books
  • clap for sync
  • culture
  • day’s plays
  • drumming
  • film
  • listening
  • micropost
  • mornings
  • music
  • old blog
  • photographs
  • poetry
  • reading
  • reading list
  • record a day 2023
  • time machine
  • writing

Tag: inspiring rhythms

Barry Altschul

Another Time / Another Place, 1978.

Posted on February 13, 2023Categories art, culture, listening, music, record a day 2023Tags barry altschul, creative music, free jazz, improvisation, inspiring rhythms, jazz, loft jazz, NYC, record a day 2023, records, united states

Makaya McCraven

In These Times, 2022.

Posted on February 1, 2023February 1, 2023Categories art, culture, listening, music, record a day 2023Tags chicago, creative music, improvisation, in these times, inspiring rhythms, international anthem, jazz, makaya mccraven, record a day 2023, records, united states

Tom Skinner


Voices of Bishara, 2022.

Posted on January 27, 2023January 27, 2023Categories art, culture, listening, music, record a day 2023Tags improvisation, inspiring rhythms, international anthem, nonesuch, record a day 2023, tom skinner, united kingdom

Inspiration: The Collective

Format AudioPosted on December 9, 2022Categories around the web, listening, musicTags creative music, idris ackamoor, inspiration, inspiring rhythms, Los Angeles, united states

Inspiration: Hamid Drake

Format AudioPosted on December 7, 2022January 1, 2023Categories around the web, art, drumming, listeningTags chicago, corbett vs. dempsey, drums, hamid drake, inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, united states

Nate Smith + Kinfolk + Strings

Format VideoPosted on December 2, 2022Categories around the web, listening, musicTags inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, kinfolk, memphis, Nate Smith, united states

 Myra Melford

Format AudioPosted on November 9, 2022Categories around the web, musicTags inspiration, inspiring rhythms, jazz, myra melford, piano, united states

Inspiration: A Pegada Agora É Essa (The Sway Now)

Format AudioPosted on September 17, 2022Categories musicTags Antonio Neves, Brazil, inspiration, inspiring rhythms, music

Inspiration: Alarm Will Sound

Format AudioPosted on August 4, 2022August 9, 2022Categories around the web, listening, musicTags alarm will sound, inspiration, inspiring rhythms, music, new classical, steve reich, united states

Inspiration: Rosa Brunello

Format StatusPosted on May 27, 2022May 27, 2022Categories around the web, art, listening, musicTags inspiration, inspiring rhythms, italy, rosa brunello

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