Posted in music, podcast on Nov 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Post-partisan, global, unity sounds compiled by my music montage-making alter ego, Dub Collision, available as an mp3 download over at nogutsnoglory, my music blog.
Posted in music on Apr 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Four song podcasts constructed from the amazing seeqPOD interface show up on my music blog, nogutsboglorystudios. noguts is serving as fly paper for my muso inclinations. I hope you’ll click the play button.
Steve Lacy & Don Cherry-San Francisco Holiday
Jessica Williams-Bemsha Swing
Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Appache Band
Thelonious Monk-San Francisco Holiday
A few comments… I could exist […]
Posted in art, education, music on Oct 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Given any rich experience, what happens when we commit our sensibility to graphically mapping the experience in real time? Deborah Blair’s paper is fascinating. Her model has much wider applications. And, this toolmaker came up with many such possibilities.
By all means check out the PDF and especially the examples of her students’ maps of […]
Posted in homelife, music on Oct 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Honorary nephew B. has taken up the guitar but he had never seen a lap steel. Once I dug up the smaller Jerry Byrd tonebar, in lieu of the jumbo glass Boyette, he took to bouncing and sliding on my Fouke Indy Rail. I plugged it into the computer and let him find his way […]
Posted in music, web media on Aug 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in anthropology, music, rhythm river music on Apr 18th, 2007 No Comments »
The Gnawa are a syncretic sect inflected by elements of Mystical Islam and North African local religious themes. In the West they have become well known for their public music, based in rugged hypnotic pentatonic vamps played on the guembri, a kind of proto-lute with a rubbery twang, and accompanied by percussion, singing and the […]
Posted in music, podcast on Mar 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Here’s twenty minutes of pedal steel love (160vbr - mp3) from Mr. Emmons, Susan Alcorn, and from Demola Adepoju, out of Nigeria.
The photo is of a Sho-Bud Maverick. I have no idea why they’ve kept their value over the years but I do know why I sold mine some three decades ago. I wrestled it […]
Posted in music on Jan 16th, 2007 No Comments »
For a very brief and very deluded time in my late teens, I thought I’d like to be cool and for me the height of cool was pedal steel master Sneaky Pete Kleinow. (Think Wild Horses by the stones, but his rep was made with The Flying Burrito Brothers. I was so into the “steel” […]
Posted in Thelonious Monk, creativity, music, tools for living on Dec 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
A friend of mine recently afforded me the opportunity to do a project. He loaned me the compact disc set of Thelonious Monk’s London Sessions, (that I’ve long owned on LP,) and I compiled two CDs from the three discs. The first consists of the various master and alternate takes and ends with the musing […]
Posted in music on Oct 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Over on the excellent creative music blog destinationout, saxophonist Noah Howard is featured. He was part of the first avant-garde wave in the sixties, recording for ESP, and has been making a comeback over the last fifteen or so years. destinationout provides a rich recap, mp3 examples, and the link to Noah Howard’s fine web […]
Posted in experiential learning, music, new paradigms, transformative learning on May 31st, 2006 No Comments »
The first presentation in the Music and Experience series, KALAHARI ORIGINS, takes place Thursday, June 1st at 7:00pm in the Main Auditorium of Lakewood Public Library. (15425 Detroit, Lakewood, Ohio) The program’s are focused on a deeply appreciative encounter aimed to go beyond mere ‘musical appreciation’.
KALAHARI ORIGINS is about the folkloric music of the […]
Posted in a-ha!, music, quotes on Apr 19th, 2005 No Comments »
We don’t determine music,
The music determines us;
We only follow it
To the end of our life:
Then it goes on without us.
Steve Lacy
No doubt the genius player is shocking angels right now with single notes.
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