DIFFUSION from Kouhei Nakama on Vimeo.
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,
absentminded. Someone sober
will worry about things going badly.
Let the lover be.
version of Rumi by Coleman Barks
Years ago at a workshop South African composer and instrumentalist Abdullah Ibrahim asked the class,
What makes the music?
Nobody had a ready answer in a classroom full of musicians. Dr. Ibrahim went on to challenge the class about the nature of the so-called instrument. What is it, really?
I also recall Alan Watts asserting:
What the planet earth does is: people. It peoples.
For my own part, I’m all over the idea that what we do in making partial sense of what we are doing with where we are at, is neatly addressed by the conception of:
