"The galaxy's awaiting
the planet Earth's awakening."
I'm with Butch 100% on this one:
Morris developed this system gradually in the 1970s and 1980s, after his work in jazz, free improvisation and contemporary music left him dissatisfied. He had tired of the theme-solo-theme patters of jazz; collaborative improvisation had moments of brilliance, but Morris's desire to isolate and elaborate interesting melodic or rhythmic fragments was generally frowned upon; and he felt the reverence towards composers and printed scores in contemporary music did not allow for the full use of each musician's unique voice and improvisations.
Keyboardist/bandleader Sun Ra and drummer Charles Moffett both conducted improvisations of jazz musicians in the 1970s, and Morris credits both as major influences.
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Karger said his group isn't bothered in the least that millions of people still use Post-it notes, but thinks they might be tempted to dial back on the yellow squares if computer programs were designed better. A good program, he said, would have none of the fields and forms common to the genre, and would instead allow someone to easily type or paste in anything they wanted. This design criteria has been elevated by his study group into something of a mantra: "No interfaces."
Yes, its true. Muppets are back, and they've moved into YouTube, and if this wasn't enough culture shock for you, how about some Free Range Strauss?
Some may ask, "Why do the girl guitar players need a website?" I'm happy to tell you why. I'm lucky to have a long and fairly illustrious career as a female guitar player. I've been a professional guitar player/concert performer/session player/recording artist for over 30 years (Yikes! How's that possible?). After all this time people still come up to me and ask, "Why don't more women play the guitar?" I'm still surprised by the question even though I've heard it hundreds of times and I've finally figured out a way to give people an answer. The answer is on the pages of Girls With Guitars.Girls With Guitars - A place for female guitar players to meet, greet and share information.
He embraced his heritage and adopted his homes ideals and values.
"This and that from the research into the mind and brain.
"If you have an interesting study, please flickr message me the finding and reference and I'll make it into a mindbite when I have a mo."
thenfb: Will be fun to see how different news outlets react to the site.
thenfb: Wow. Okay NFB.ca is pretty much headline news across the country
See also Tom's essay on the always-additive nature of learning at School of Everything: "Once you have learnt something you see the world differently. Not only can you appreciate or do something that you couldn't appreciate or do before, but the way you saw the world before is now lost to you. This works for the small things as well as the big picture. If you learn the meaning of a new word, you won't be able to ignore it like you did previously. If you learn how to make a cup of out of clay you won't ever be able to see cups like you used to before."
April 3, 1968
"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."You can download the full recording at The "B" Side as the 45rpm single Melrose MLK-1
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Because Amazon is so easy to use? I don't buy that argument if only because the payment transaction itself is several screens long. The only answer left says the NiN fans were assured far more of the (reasonable price) $5 they spent would go straight to their idols, coupled with their just wanting to be a part of the hyped temporal happening of it all.Curiously, or maybe not curious at all, there is a lot of freely trade-friendly file-shared artists in the Amazon lists.
Bop era pianist, Lennie Tristano alumnus and free-jazz educator Connie Crothers offers a basic introduction to 'Free Jazz' by taking a familiar melody (What Is This Thing Called Love) through three progressively more 'outside' variations. "On the fourth," she says, "I will just play."
Because Amazon is so easy to use? I don't buy that argument if only because the payment transaction itself is several screens long. The only answer left says the NiN fans were assured far more of the (reasonable price) $5 they spent would go straight to their idols, coupled with their just wanting to be a part of the hyped temporal happening of it all.Curiously, or maybe not curious at all, there is a lot of freely trade-friendly file-shared artists in the Amazon lists.
Our aim is to stimulate children???s interest and love for nature, and to make them realize that the way we live our lives has influence on the environment. Eco-agents always focuses on possibilities, and our goal is to make the voices of the children heard.
There's two things about William Gray's story worthy of note to those who would change the world:
- From his personal experience, he had some idea of the practical problem he needed to solve, but he hadn't a clue how to solve it, and even after showing his first quite absurd solution to the Bell officials, neither he nor they had any idea how to proceed. Not until he stumbled upon the solution by sheer chance. Nonetheless, if he hadn't been looking for that coin-bell sound, he would never have noticed it.
- Seems Gray Telephone had a sugar-daddy in Amos Whitney, and it's worth a note too that while the initiator, discoverer and developer Gray got the company named after him and got a world where his original crisis-problem was now permanently solved, it is the bankrolling Amos who got the top-salary job.
WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?Alan Alda to Anton Zeilinger, Edge.org presents 151 answers (107,000 words)
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"
"O cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration!
Soften the ground of our being and
carve out a space within us where
Your Presence can abide.
Fill us with your creativity so that we
may be empowered to bear the fruit
of your mission.
Let each of our actions bear fruit in
accordance with our desire.
Endow us with the wisdom to produce
and share what each being needs to grow and flourish.
Untie the tangled threads of destiny that
bind us, as we release others from the
entanglement of past mistakes.
Do not let us be seduced by that which would
divert us from our true purpose, but illuminate
the opportunities of the present moment.
For you are the round and the fruitful vision,
the birth-power and fulfillment,
as all is gathered and made whole once again."
Interesting idea: a parallel banking system based on community commons -- South Bruce Peninsula puts up 8% of some arbitrary figure, and then loans it out (at fair rates) as community scrip for local infrastructure, homeowners and improvements, community development projects, and voila! jobs galore, eco-economically self-contained! Of course, it gets better (more practical for everyday use) if it is Provincial or even, dare I say, a National scrip -- hmmm ... isn't that where the Bank of Canada came from?
I dare say Darcy is right and his comment struck me as a perfectly viable model for the future of recording in a world where it is almost a given that an indy record will be lucky to break even. But as a community barn-raising event, it does make good sense, as a means to properly document what would otherwise be left to less-than-ideal field recordings using questionably placed lapel-clip microphones, it would be worth it to the 'appreciators' just to have the master sitting somewhere for posterity, and from that perspective then does it perhaps make common-good sense that the collectively financed master should be in the Creative Commons?
mini documentary on the long-running experimental community directed and inspired by the Italian futurist/architect Paolo Soleri; the model for ArcoSanti appears to be one of a work-retreat kibbutz rather than as a long-term permanent residence, but again, it is a probing into a plausible positive future where we humans can live within the ecology.
This follows on the earlier posts about the Zeitgeist's Venus Project by Jacque Fresco, but what troubles me about both visions is why they are two, why they are disparate, working on the same problem, but only within their own highly personal model. The documentary here does hint that Paolo may not be precisely democratic in his plan, despite claims to the contrary, and it seems much the same with Jacque, and that, I think speaks heaps for the Science and Engineering visioneers. I understand the human story is largely one of a Genetic Program, but just as we always wanted Batman to work with Superman, I'd want Fresco to work with Soleri, both to work with the Buckminster Fuller legacy, all to look into Ortegrity and just generally treat the subject of an alter-destiny with an open scientific mind. Is anyone doing that? Other than Latitude Zero that is. Or are they all pursuing fixed-idea personal utopian visions of charismatic Castanedas???
Accept no pundit market-trend forecasts of gloom until you hear out Nassim Taleb and his argument of how our daily lives are dominated by ripples from game-changing disruptions no one expected, those glitchevents that Buckminster Fuller called "Unforeseen Leaps in capabilities", what Sun Ra called "the Greater Unknown".
Hmmm ... what's this? a strong correlation between ranking and free trade-friendly MP3's available? Co-incidence? Or the fulfillment of a prophesy!
Peter Hum writes "December's No. 2 movie in Russia -- a musical that's worth our consideration because it's all about youthful Soviet jazz fans who took on the Communists"
"If you want a better world, make a better music." (Marshall Allen)
Nassim Taleb is only interested in one topic: chance. Particularly extreme and rare events, the "Black Swans", the point where improbable chance falls at the intersection of philosophy/epistemology, philosophy/ethics, mathematics, social science/finance, and cognitive science.
Accept no pundit market-trend forecasts of gloom until you hear out Nassim Taleb and his argument of how our daily lives are dominated by ripples from game-changing disruptions no one expected, those glitchevents that Buckminster Fuller called "Unforeseen Leaps in capabilities", what Sun Ra called "the Greater Unknown".
"Science is the ability to predict the next 'most probable'" -- a visit with Venus Project architect/designer Jacque Fresco, on applying the scientific method to urban architecture, and on how our environment nurtures our behaviours, on how access to information renders our 'primative' beliefs obsolete and on his vision of a world where "the probability of war drops to zero"
well ... any man who is a friend of his local racoons is a friend of mine. by the looks of it, this was filmed at the Venus Project ... which is now for sale for a very reasonable price - I've been trying to pry an answer obout as to why the prototype is being sold (talking about 'access to information') but so far the only reasonable answer (proffered by detractors) is that he shouldn't have chosen a state with a governor named Jeb, and might have had better luck attracting participants had he built it in Arizona.
Trailer for a film by William Gazecki about Jacque Fresco, the self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a "generalist" or multi-disciplinarian -- a student of many inter-related fields. He is a prolific inventor, having spent his entire life (he is now 90 years old) conceiving of and devising inventions on various scales which entail the use of innovative technology. As a futurist, Jacque is not only a conceptualist and a theoretician, but he is also an engineer and a designer.
Apropos to this, is this: "It is not difficult to imagine end-of-the-world scenarios. Indeed, the problem is to imagine a plausible future in which humanity ultimately arrives at a positive outcome." (http://tinyurl.com/78yktf) so for whatever other reservations there may be, you have to give Jacque points on that count, and yes, we have seen those locations before here on TFP.
What indeed; download the pdf to read BeyondFree - worth a re-printing, even if it is old news, and older still if you compare it to this really old news - yikes! I'm only six years ahead of Seth, Kevin et al?? egad, I'm losing my edge!
I don' know how yuz done it, but yuz done it.Take the thumbnail tours at the bottom to get a feel for the game, then go get lost in a Candy Shop (see if you can find the Old Recipe Celtic Crumble, or the Sugar Mice!)
RoboJapan writes "A TV commercial for The Ladders who say 'We only work with the big talents' -- I just have to wonder just how good The Ladders really are? I mean, if they are catering to such a 'high-class' clientele, then you think that they would have been able to afford Godzilla or Gamera?"
while it's a nice shot in the Retirement Income for old Guilala, as RoboJapan notes: "hard the economic times are for everybody. Companies can't afford the "high-price" monsters anymore."
How many people have visited or longed to visit Japan just to walk in Nakajima-san's footsteps. Oops, a rather bad choice of words there ... To stand in his shadow? Er ... not much better ...
Hilarious ... and true.
Only thing missing is the business plan.