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191 Heavy

10 Sunday Feb 2013

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191 Heavy, music, sound collage

191 Heavy

A sound collage put together by me for the Coursera course Introduction to Digital Sound Design.  All samples are either recorded by me or are public domain.

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Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, performed on solo double bass by Mauricio Romero

05 Saturday Jan 2013

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Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, performed on solo double bass by Mauricio Romero

This guy is a little better than me.  Just a little.  Well, yeah, a lot.  I didn’t think this was possible. 

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Still Life by Sam Taylor-Wood

27 Thursday Dec 2012

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Still Life by Sam Taylor-Wood

I spent the day with my kids at the North Carolina Museum of Art.  They had (among other things) a special exhibition of still life paintings from Cezanne, Renoir, O’Keefe, etc.  A *lot* of paintings of fruit bowls and baskets.  

Toward the end of the exhibition there was a monitor playing this film.  After viewing it (twice) we went backwards and looked at all those other fruit bowls again.  As you might expect, the film had a dramatic effect on how I saw the other paintings.  

 

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Life sentence for reciting a poem

20 Thursday Dec 2012

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Life sentence for reciting a poem

According to RootsAction.org, Qatari poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami was sentenced to prison for life for reciting a poem praising the uprising in Tunisia.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_al-Ajami

There is an international effort of poets and other artists to petition the Qatari government to release him.  This link takes you to a petition demanding his release.  

 

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Prepared Piano

06 Thursday Dec 2012

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Angela, avant-garde, John Cage, ModPo, music, poetunderconstruction, prepared piano

Prepared Piano No. 1

This is a piece of “music” played by me on an Android app that simulates the prepared piano sound of John Cage.  Rather than going into detail explaining this, I’d like to refer you over to Angela at poetunderconstruction, who has already done a terrific job of this.  (She also writes a damn fine blog).

I got reintroduced to John Cage at ModPo.  Now I can’t get enough of the guy.  Thanks Angela for posting about the piano app.

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News, data and insight about the powerful forces that shape the world.

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Just another human being who's trying to reach new levels of consciousness.

A PILLAR OF SOCIETY

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Poetic Landscapes Of The Spirit

M.O.A

Poetry On A Roll

"free-verse" poetry from the soul

notes by scribblerbean

life in the margins, caffeinated.

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Disorder shall prevail thanks to Sister Entropy

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Wuji Seshat

Selected Poems

She's in Prison

Poetry by Leanne Rebecca Ortbals

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reading the Zora Neale Hurston boxed set plus two books.

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The 365 Poetry Project

Read A Little Poetry

Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? ― Mary Oliver

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Letters from Edinburgh to Manila, and Back

Poesy plus Polemics

Words of Wonder, Worry and Whimsy

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By Erika Enriquez

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