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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Salon
My mom and I are organizing a get together at our home in Spokane where Kevin Long and I will be showing some of our work and then talking about it afterward. Kevin is planing to perform about four songs for acoustic guitar and voice and I am very much looking forward to hearing him because he is an excellent song writer. I also have a number of songs for guitar and voice I could play but I've been trying to think of as many other types of things that I could show instead. Not that I don't like my guitar songs, just that it might be nice to have a bit of a wider range of variety.
I have a neat computer music piece I made this quarter that I can play but other than that nothing really comes to mind. So I think I will need to write or find something to practice to show at the event.
If I am going to write something I need to first figure out what it is that I want the people there to be thinking about and helping me with or what I would like to show them that I already feel I understand. I am trying to work hard at this because I want everyone to have a really excellent time so that they will want it to happen again. Finding a place where people are listening to what you are performing and willing to ask questions is difficult and I want this thing to be one of those places.
Perhaps I could call around and see if someone would like to come and read some poetry...
okay, well it is late. Much love.
I have a neat computer music piece I made this quarter that I can play but other than that nothing really comes to mind. So I think I will need to write or find something to practice to show at the event.
If I am going to write something I need to first figure out what it is that I want the people there to be thinking about and helping me with or what I would like to show them that I already feel I understand. I am trying to work hard at this because I want everyone to have a really excellent time so that they will want it to happen again. Finding a place where people are listening to what you are performing and willing to ask questions is difficult and I want this thing to be one of those places.
Perhaps I could call around and see if someone would like to come and read some poetry...
okay, well it is late. Much love.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Our Prayers Have Been Answered
HUMAN SIZE HAMSTER BALLS!
Unfortunately this video only shows kids on the water but I think it is an important step toward the human-in-ball future we all so desire.
Unfortunately this video only shows kids on the water but I think it is an important step toward the human-in-ball future we all so desire.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Song 2
I have not recorded all the stuff I've been working on for my "one song a week project" but I did have a chance to at least get a rough copy of this song done.
The guitar part for this song is in 7/8 the vocal part is in 4/4. When you play something in 7 against something in 4 they don't repeat their original relationship for a several repetitions.
(e.g: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 etc...)
The melody in 4 riding on top of a slowly shifting and for me slightly unsettling guitar in 7. I wrote the song as a lullaby because I thought it would be neat to capture the situation where you sing to your child something that is simple and soothing, as a way to combat what ever disruptive thing is happening - or in the song, you sing something in 4 against something unfamiliar in 7.
The guitar part for this song is in 7/8 the vocal part is in 4/4. When you play something in 7 against something in 4 they don't repeat their original relationship for a several repetitions.
(e.g: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 etc...)
The melody in 4 riding on top of a slowly shifting and for me slightly unsettling guitar in 7. I wrote the song as a lullaby because I thought it would be neat to capture the situation where you sing to your child something that is simple and soothing, as a way to combat what ever disruptive thing is happening - or in the song, you sing something in 4 against something unfamiliar in 7.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Talks:
Over the last couple of days I have enjoyed these talks.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is funny but I think I would hate to hang out with him. On the other hand i am fairly sure I could go camping with Richard Dawkins.
For some reason this talk is called "an atheist's call to arms". It's actual title is "queerer then we suppose" and is about the ability of our brain to understand things on levels of magnitude on the atomic scale and on the universal scale. It is very nice.
This one is just nice because it is quick and rational.
What I have been interested in is that despite these arguments these ideas still stick around. It is very interesting.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is funny but I think I would hate to hang out with him. On the other hand i am fairly sure I could go camping with Richard Dawkins.
For some reason this talk is called "an atheist's call to arms". It's actual title is "queerer then we suppose" and is about the ability of our brain to understand things on levels of magnitude on the atomic scale and on the universal scale. It is very nice.
This one is just nice because it is quick and rational.
What I have been interested in is that despite these arguments these ideas still stick around. It is very interesting.
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