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Philip Blackburn

"Mo ting fu yu money."

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Compositions, Performances, Events

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You never write

"I'm not dead yet," alleges Blackburn

CAN'T GET ENUF?

The house that Philip built, Kumquat Cottage

We bought a fixer-upper in St. Paul known as Prestonia

Philip on Myspace

Philip's defunct Dinner Club blog

Philip's podcast, Measure for Measure; New Music, New Thoughts

Philip's podcast, Alive and Composing; the Wonderful World of innova

Philip's record label, innova Recordings

Philip's Habanera on iTunes

Philip's P.P.S. on iTunes

Philip's famous series, Enclosures: Harry Partch

Philip's The Henry Brant Collection

Philip's radio/web feature, Music and Nature; A Natural History of Listening

Philip's blog from the set of Robert Altman's last movie (in which he starred next to Virginia Madsen), A Prairie Home Companion

ALL TINGS BELIZE

Kumquat Cottage has her first renters and the website is here to prove it. You do look like you need a vacation. It features Philip's first adventures in flying concrete (the stairs to the roof and the BBQ grill).

Here are some construction pics of the cottage known as Kumquat

The continuing saga of Bitter Jackass Sound Park and Kumquat Cottage, Belize: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

Sign up to receive sporadic news about our incipient life in Belize

Buy Lebeha Drumming, the CD of Garifuna kids from Belize

Belize and Cuba Journal 2004: 1, 2, 3

Belizejungle.com: Our jungle survivalist hero Winston Harris

LATEST GOINGS-ON

Check out the evening we had at Studio Bricolage in Minneapolis where we made and played instruments and debuted the Organ of Democracy ("One person, one toot. Repeat every 4 years") during the RNC convention.

Amaze yourself with the Rumble Strip and Sonic Playground installed at the Flint Hills Childrens Festival, Ordway Center for the Arts, last May. It was big and raucous. In fact, here's the blog to follow the every move

Philip got the see the Japan Society's production of Harry Partch's Delusion of the Fury. He wrote a long review about the experience for the Nietzsche Circle's Hyperion Magazine: Delusion 2.0; Harry Partch and the Philosopher's Tone.

Read what the Chicago Sun-Times had to say about Philip and his Wild Music exploits.

Listen to Carsquawk, inspired by a popular radio show

The Dove Quintet: An improvised quintet for 4 mouth organs and doves

Philip's composition for Wild Music is touring the nation for the next few years. See where.

Some videos for your Youtubing pleasure:

CALLING ON THE RAIN GODS

LIGHT WORK (MANY HANDS)