September 2011
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Morphogenesis I: Turning Pages, NeoHistory, and...
It was the age of the damned. I lived wearing commuter sandals, on Starbuck’s Intravenous®, in high town, implanted with GoogleMind™, constantly checking facebook obituaries©, and sat under the umbrella of a healthy distaste for the day before. I invented things that went to shit, like the homogenizer for the old, basically a recycling product for everyday use, but it made sense when the...
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Conversation
brainexpansionproject:
Today’s food for thought comes courtesy of David Rock, author of The Brain at Work:
I recoiled in horror this week at a recent story in the New York Times about using twitter-like tools in a high school classroom. The project is well-intentioned: they wanted to get kids more comfortable with speaking up by giving them digital tools to do so. The trouble is, now the...
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Our Brain Is Made of Its Own Architects: The...
scienceisbohring:
Brains are wired with such stunning precision that every neuron knows its place. Miswiring leads to disorders of emotion and thought.
When neurons fail to wire correctly, our bodies and brains go awry in many ways. About one in a thousand babies is born with a disorder called Duane syndrome, in which the nerves controlling the eye muscles send some of their axons to the...
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The question is not about getting on stage, but it is about how you’ll exit.
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Architects/Abstractions (Draft1.a)
Architects/Abstractions—Part 1: Parenthetical Analysis
I think conceptualizing is not as much an intellectual thing as it is an artistic one. Take architects, for example. What they do is create an entire design (of a building, a room, acoustic environments, etc.) based on literally the idea that is presented to them. Then, they come up with something based on formatting rules (the...
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“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
– Terence McKenna (via sol-psych)
Unfortunately, the West and the East are just as responsible for this matter. So quotes like these are either (A) undeveloped or (B) un-researched.
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“If you dedicate yourself to service, the doors will open.”
– Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (via gardenofthefareast)
Tuesday
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Möbius: The Artist
“It is the beast that calls himself the artist, the beast that takes without first giving himself fully. I am that beast in that regard in that tangled room. There are vines in this room, adding to the delusion. I am no artist. I have not bled for my craft. I have not seen myself about to die for the sake of life.
“Perhaps this is wherein the change persists. All change persists...
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Fuck the concept that going back to work or school is “reality.”
That’s imitation meat.
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The Dynamic Human Spirit
I found myself in a position of both great poverty and wealth today. Cut down for my lack of study and at the same time praised for it. I was asked if I could have it (my performance repertoire, i.e. “tunes”) together tonight and if I would like to have a piece premiered next January at a percussion festival.
The ego is the nonsense of these two events being independent. They are both...
I've seen you at night biting the frost of...
Can you cure us of this fate?
Can you mark the litany in its face?
Is that you…
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Q & A
pleasantlydissonant replied to your post: Composers to keep in mind for the project:
What project is this?
Ah! This page that I am running, Yen-Yaw, is actually a Musical venture that I’m sublimating into my composition/performance stage right now. There are a few posts hiding amongst this blog (I’d honestly have to find them myself to hyperlink them), but for now, here’s the...
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Composers to keep in mind for the project:
Steve Reich
Zbigniew Preisner
Philip Glass
Iannis Xennakis
Tyondai Braxton
Terry Riley
Bela Bartok
Morton Feldman (space)
John Cage (silence)
Bruno Coulais
Peter Garland
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
Oh yeah.
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“Our critique began as all critiques begin: with doubt. Doubt became our...”
– Waking Life (via somedaysifeel)
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Getting Coffee
This morning was interesting. Walked up to the barista at Einstein’s and a man walks out of the bathroom, up to the cashier and says, “There is blood all over the corner of the men’s restroom.”
Needless to say, the cup of coffee didn’t make me jittery.
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“If, then, after understanding, at least in theory, that the ego-trick is a hoax...”
– Alan Watts (via plaimaka)
These notes, they are my God.
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Fixated
With melting hands and eyes and feet I became a pastel on parchment. There were blends of hues and dioramas of what used to be this city. Streets were made from the ashes of the buildings burning in vibrant tones eyes should not focus on for long. And for long the street signs would glow with the electricity from men pulling levers. And for a moment, traffic lights were made from holiday...
Zen?
This week I was called a lazy, thoughtless intellectual.
Failed attempt at sharing.
At the beginning of said semester (I’ll remind you that everyone in the apartment is 21 years of age) I mentioned to one of my roommates that it would be great if we would have only two gallons of milk in the fridge, one “Fat Free” and one “Skim.”
About four to five weeks later, I come across not two, but FIVE gallons of milk in the fridge with names on them.
I...
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