One more AFROPUNK memory. The bass during PUSHA T's set. Lower than a bass has any right to go. Two or three octaves, seemingly, below any bass sound found in nature. Impossible to transcribe on ordinary paper. Causes healthy legs to go wobbly and tired legs to dance. Fantastic. And still on my mind two days later as I read this story about Australian composers using orchestras to evoke the sounds of the Antarctic environment, and using Antarctic environmental sounds ("seals, wind, blizzards, ice when it cracks and calves, helicopters, trucks") to evoke the feel of orchestras. Engaging with nature in both directions. Which is the opposite of what performers like Pusha T are doing, which is directly challenging nature, or at least bending it to their will. But the impulse, I'm reasonably sure, is the same: to make sense of a world that doesn't provide it on its own. To find order. To discover a truth about the universe that makes healthy legs go wobbly and tired ones, well, that depends on the composer... Here's a library of man-made sounds, from long-gone typewriters, clocks, blenders, etc., that might serve a similar, if unnatural, source of inspiration. Samplers, start your engines... The MUSIC MODERNIZATION ACT may have cleared the RON WYDEN hurdle in the US SENATE, BILLBOARD reports... SONY MUSIC is officially cleared of any legal responsibility for the provenance of the vocals on a posthumous MICHAEL JACKSON album that may or not have been the work of the King of Pop. But Tuesday's appellate court ruling had nothing to say about that provenance. The mystery, and the lawsuit against the producers of three disputed songs, continues. And if Sony learns that rushing out an album to monetize an artist's death may not always be the best idea, that would be a useful outcome, too... Thanks for the heavily filtered memories, MOOGERFOOGER... I see a little silhouetto of a tweet... No one reads the WEEKLY STANDARD for its jazz reviews, do they? Just making sure. Let's not start now. Link not provided, on purpose. If you really need it, scroll backward through your TWITTER feed... RIP INGE BORKH, JIMMY WILKINS and TONY BUTLER.