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Easily reached by regular ferry service, Ile St.-Honorat has sweet-smelling eucalyptus groves, sprinkled with lavender, thyme and rosemary, and generally rocky beaches. There are no cars, just nicely shaded paths. A quaint and spacious gift shop sells CDs of the monks' exquisite chanting as well as jars of their homemade honey and bottles of their wine...
Oval is one Markus Popp, a German-born artist. Dok, a collaboration with Japanese musician Christophe Charles, is the band's fourth album. Oval's artistic medium is the compact disc itself--Popp evidently takes CDs, scratches them, samples the resultant skipping and manipulates the recordings into musical works. With Dok, Oval samples the results of a project by Charles in which he recorded bells from around the world. Popp subscribes to the social theories of the late Gilles Deleuze and Feliz Guattari and makes his art according to their ideas of rhizomes and machines. His constructions are rhizomatic: they...
...questionable, though, whether Dok be appreciated without some knowledge of the philosophy that went into making it. It's certainly more listenable than Oval's previous albums, which have been physically painful to the ears. The distinctive clicking of the skipping CDs provides a percussive element, and various other layers of sound are layered above this to create reasonably cohesive compositions. The end result, though, isn't terribly exciting on first listen. Repeated listenings (Dok must be actively listened to) yield more; Popp's subtlety emerges. If you're willing to put the time into it, Dok is an interesting...
...during the late afternoon and early evening. A Boston native, he has been involved in radio for ten years. Skip's good looks and charm light up the studio as he eagerly talks about plans tonight for his 25th birthday party. Behind him are walls lined with thousands of CDs and tapes categorized by color according to release date. Their labels conveniently list how many seconds there are before the song starts. This serves to tell the DJ how long he or she needs to talk before the music begins...
...invest in stocks and have 10 years before you'll need the money. If that's you, convert this year while the taxman is running a Roth special: you get to spread the tax liability over four years. But if you're near retirement and lean toward bonds or CDs, converting may be a bad idea. Analysis by accountants Grant Thornton shows that a couple in the 28% tax bracket ('98 income between $42,350 and $102,300) will need 22 years to come out ahead, assuming some state tax, a 15% federal-tax bracket in retirement and 6% average...