If we strip away both the mystical claims and the medical-salesmanship claims, music/sound/vibration really does have a remarkable collection of agencies for changing the human organism. Some are well established; some are plausible but still being investigated; and some belong more to subjective or spiritual practice than to demonstrated medicine.
I’d divide the actual agencies something like this:
What happens if we stop treating Norton Street as entertainment for a moment and treat it as an instrument?
Not a medical instrument. We’re not proposing to cure arthritis, remove your gallstones or straighten your teeth with a three-hour performance of Norton Street. We’re talking about an instrument for the observation of attention, automatic behavior and momentary waking. Continue reading
Forget enlightenment as a grand spiritual trophy. Suppose somebody asks:
Okay, I wake up. I evolve. I become more conscious. What do I get?
The first answer we already stumbled onto is extremely practical:
You get a chance to make less of a mess of your life.
But I think there are several deeper payoffs. Continue reading
There appears to be a great deal of excitement these days about the government to deny the people their customary mail-in ballots. Apparently somebody has had the brilliant idea that if you make it difficult enough for the ballot to get through the mail, you have somehow solved the problem of the voter, which is they might vote Democrat this time. Continue reading
Spent the entire night remastering old videos, which I’ll show today at zoom. Continue reading
Thirty bucks for a box of .45s. I had nineteen dollars, an overdue electric bill, and a client who had promised to call Tuesday. It was Thursday.
The nineteen dollars was actually eighteen seventy-five. I’d forgotten about the coffee.
The coffee wasn’t worth a quarter, but neither was I before I’d had it. Continue reading
Once again i have spent the entire night on a project — in this case, i found some long-lost footage that i was able to locate in the earliest form, the actual video footage.
been working all night to get up some videos for experiments. will demo this at today’s zoom meeting. see you at 6:30 am sharp.
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Today we’re doing something a little unusual.
We’re going to listen to an entire Norton Street play in one sitting. Continue reading
There are some languages that seem to be halfway to music before anybody sings a note. Spanish is one of them.
KGOD Spanish Songbook takes the KGOD songs out for another adventure, this time into the enormous musical world of Spanish-speaking cultures. Continue reading