tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38467546623841930842012-01-31T01:52:09.251ZWhere is the appreciative space for exploring inherent and emergent creativity? can there be a positive dynamic balance between a concern with an optimum and a concern with the inclusive (eg a random expressive flow)? Can this help us get beyond an automated insensitivity ? Is there a common inclusive harmonizing factor we are trained not to notice?S.R.Thomasnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3846754662384193084.post-88019004841386090832012-01-29T23:58:00.000Z2012-01-29T23:58:51.197Z

Different cultural groups have different methods of acknowledging and understanding inherent value and innate creativity. Some focus on mediation and silence,  others on natural medicines. others on free dance,..etc The rationality of our current monetary system  reduces value to a comparative measure of exchange, a  set of unsustainable patterns that are reproduced... While essential for are

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Flat oppositional dualism is a man made  ( and sometimes unthinkingly automated) reduction to a simplistic  category system... Complementarity (on the other hand...) relates to natural organisation. In many situations, understanding the 'difference' gives us a chance of intelligent progress...and cooperation... Complementarity is inclusive , oppositional dualism isn't... Oppositional dualism

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The present moment

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Automation Many of us  live  and work most of the time, at the end of, and in, a chain of production. Much of it already automated much more of it likely to be soon. The chain 'provides for our needs', yet these needs are a function of our environment and our subjectivity. This simple fact. That the current productive chain is not natural is important. It was not around for millions of years of

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Is it possible to design/manufacture  a sustainable (economically) profitable system that ensures sustainably empowered subject positions?

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Waking life Hairspray 

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An Interview with Bill McKibben

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Exchange Value? > Comparative Value? > Inclusive Value? > Inherent Value? > Emergent Value?

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The perceptual freedom of the individual soul, to listen, appreciate, move and reconstruct ourselves is under threat of enclosure from an automated system that only values us in terms of levels of production and consumption. Our appreciative choice is threatened by systems on which billions have been spent to ensure we consume and produce to the maximum. We need the space to explore our potential

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Emergence Explaining emergence in our language can be complex, it occurs perhaps best by example, for me    in potentially inclusive/open situations when I notice that subliminally I had been (perhaps objectifying)  and excluding a "section" or aspect of the environment (inner and outer), judging it as irrelevant or not  good enough  when i start to accept it (perhaps for its potential) there

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There are different forms... 1. Building block - Construction Based  (can be automated) 2. The Linguistic: Our category systems, built into our language systems and the stories we tell ourselves and others.. (our Discourse) (Susceptible to automation) 3. The Symbolic: Image based, susceptible to dualism be binary, our memory systems often use them (susceptible to the spectacular image and media

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This was recorded in 2009, it seems, in the contexts of the Wall Street Protests and the Arab Spring we have another opportunity to change in the direction Tony Juniper is talking about, are we going to? The book reviewed here is  worth a read re the above He is attempting to bridge a very difficult gap, on the one hand working with the establishment and Prince Charles (Since the interview

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The opposition of norms/values & data is a false one...what constitutes 'data' is subjective and  depends on norms & values... My concern is with enabling popular  access to  emergent phenomena , the definition of emergence suggests this occurs via awareness of the whole system not just parts or  the sum of the parts. While some actions segment and  restrict appreciative judgement(they are

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We all know, or at least sense, that the world is upside down: we act as if there is no end to what is actually finite: fossil fuels and the atmospheric space to absorb  emissions. And we act as if there are strict and immovable limits to what is actually bountiful: the financial resources to build the kind of society we need.The task of our time is to turn this round: to challenge this false

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This was a randomly created song, I'm not sure about the word 'God' as such words can  be used exclusivly... Everybody Is The Face of 'God' (Background drone (Allah, Gaia, Buddha Krishna Jesus etc)) Everybody is the face of Godand I can't sell that to youEverybody is the face of GodAnd I've met her to...she's you Judgement's easy for the war machineFinding enemies to call obsceneRunning over all

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http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/blog/block-the-bridge-block-the-bill The NHS is a key part of the social fabric of Britain, and people across the country are rightly alarmed at government proposals to break it up. War on Want supports UK Uncut in its vital action to defend the NHS. We need an integrated public health system, fully funded from the public purse, if we are to secure the right to health

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See N-N-N- Nerdcore Project post below I have changed album title from the randmly selected "Nothing but Slavery" to "Engineering Consent" "The Engineering of Consent" is an essay by Edward Bernays first published in 1947.[1] He defines "engineering consent" as the art of manipulating people; specifically, the American public, who are described as "fundamentally irrational people... who

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Edward Bernays, The Father of Spin and Corporatist Mind-Control "Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of… In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or

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Last weekend I set off on a random journey in a local forest, it was cloudy. The random guide pointed me off the path towards thick piece of foliage, with brambles and over a ditch. It seemed a pointless. waste of time and potentially dangerous/painful ... however my previous experience suggested something of value may occur so I continued. I ended up in a cramped space near a fallen tree which  

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Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street -- financial institutions generally -- has caused severe damage to the people of the United States (and the world). And should also know that it has been doing so increasingly for over 30 years, as their power in the economy has radically increased, and with it their political power. That has set in motion a vicious cycle that has

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(Trying to be clever...?)  The significance of unity rests upon the fact that infinite potentiality manifests in particularity. Creativity and Taoism : Chung Yuan Chang Emergence  is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.”  (The  random version ) : Gears are up and down and all that... But we are the

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We are all infinately valuable. This inclusive value is inherent in our one being. This multi layered textured being is our present ground. From the tiniest ant to the greatest whale we are all one emergent movement. Infinitely subtle, infinitely precise relational being.  We want poo. The last 'mistake' occurred because I had left some of the inclusive value out, The minds tendency to compare

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English is a language susceptible to dualism, the assumption of simple boundaries between concepts and 'things'. One way to avoid being dragged into oppositional positions by language (which has  happened to me recently ) may be  to  replace our  binary oppositions with more integrated  "dynamic balanced concepts", our cultures bias tends to name such things negatively as oxymoronic, this may be

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This blog advocates pacifism. Why? because it argues our creativity comes from a common source. And it would be unwise to take arms against another part of our shared  humanity simply because of the influence of  corporate profit  and   media  such as News International Pacifism is portrayed as pointless, ineffective  and cowardly by the same forces that profit from war. This was proved to not

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One potential danger of a focus on our own (cultures) active creative construction is that it can bias us against listening, stopping us being open to positive emergence (which is a property of the whole system),  in the context of pressure from a marketplace of  'off the shelf' constructed prescriptive solutions, and media with certain interests, we may presume  a threatening 'other' and respond

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/16/book-swap-great-pass-it-on A progressive idea by the guardian even if it is an attempt to sell newsapers

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Famous for his TV series on Visual Art and Advertising of some 40 years ago "Ways of Seeing" John Berger recently completed a book on the 17th century writer Spinoza says he hopes the reader will regard the Spinoza that emerges "as a companion, in some ways a contemporary, to us. We're not facing the same world as him, but in many ways it is similar, and his precise rejection of the

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http://climaterealityproject.org Al Gore Explains  why the US is in Political  Paralysis about climate change, large polluters paying the same people and organisations  that cast doubt on the health problems caused by smoking/DDT/Acid Rain to do the same re climate change. Perhaps some of our protection and freedom from  the corporate manipulation of our experience in the direction of over

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One of the greatest destroyers of creative confidence is private  debt, and the attitude that is encouraged towards it by the corporate media and  privileged. it tends to fix people in a 'worthless' subject position. It also conveniently turns people into wage slaves for amoral banks and corporations often via  pointless badly paid  jobs that could be automated (as almost all banking jobs could

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THE APPEALS OF POSTMODERN LIFE Most of us don't ask questions because it all feels pretty good. Although we are bound to be part of the multinational marketplace whether we like it or not, we do not feel it as a burden. In fact we generally enjoy it. The deepest secret of postmodernism may lie in the pleasure it gives us, which has many sources. First there is the sense of freedom it gives us.

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Like many thing is life, creativity benefits from balance. In the case of creativity, it is often a dynamic balance, for example, between allowing space for emergence of form, and strengthening and extending form. The first part is all about randomness, flow and listening, the second is about identifying pattern and structure and extending/developing it. Computers are good a pattern matching and

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All taught forms (eg of movement/thought/song / dance) originally must have evolved from random experiment. In our education many of us are taught an elite set of  "experts" are supposed to have special "genius" "inspiration" that enables them to create 'valid' forms of "quality"The rest of us are taught to copy these formsCopying forms can be done by machines/computers (in many cases better

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Perhaps this Escher woodcut depicts the subject of creativity better than words could. The mind classifies us as replicable patterns, yet our creative spirit is self-similar, fractal and individual

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Much of our potentially open inclusive experimental physical, social and conceptual space has been colonised by the products of the 'Free Market" and Exclusive Organised Religion ( I would include fundamentalist materialism in that)  This has been enabled by the  utilisation of the concept of the 'other' and the classification of more an more of those who fail to fulfill the criteria of '

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One definition of creativity concerns classification. Any process of classification into set categories or set procedure can be automated* Hofstadters work (eg Godel Esher Bach) is good on. his area It is only when the categories themselves are reconsidered that creativity comes into play. * as a consequence many professions, including the computing profession, attempt to defend their jobs and

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This blog has mostly been focussed on exploring  random flow techniques of accessing emergent creative form. Recent events in my life, Intuitive conversation and some  Yoga Practice have suggested that sometimes Awareness and Focus may be enough to access distinct "subject positions"  (Character types) ( depends on ones sensitivity perhaps). Our economic system biases access to  subject

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Failiure (mp3) Binary morality... The spectacular image... Programming the  "consumer" Amm4 (mp3) (thanks  Anthony Manetta Manotta)  To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century

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The Jppband

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I love the distance from the western scale - and visited a yurt the day before this emerged.

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Privately held concentrations of capital in fossil fuel industries, driven by a systemic imperitive to maximise short term profits are currently strangling humanities future... mainly by  blocking progressive change in the US senate,  the latest profitable insanity is the extraction of tar sands, and the contested attempt to build a massive Keystone pipeline from Canada.  In a call to action to

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Some would argue that we as individuals are free to reconstruct  our experience of the world around us in an infinite number of ways...If this is so I assume the optimum choice is to assume an inclusive common ubiquitous quality, perhaps a dynamic emergent harmony that in some ways responds to our shared needs and wants But my personal experience and certain critical readings suggest that the

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Art foregrounds relation and exploration. Everyday experience foregrounds the object-oriented, action-reaction, instrumental pole. It offers our action perches -- “affordances” in J.J. Gibson’s vocabulary. We attend to them  and let the the relation side, slip behind the use we can exact from the perception.  Art brings back out the fact that all form is necessarily dynamic form. There is

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An interesting discussion of scientific explanation.

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"I had a dream last might where I was in a slow motion car crash where the automatically driven cars were programmed to convince the 'drivers' that they themselves and 'blind chance' were responsible for the slowly unfolding organised destruction... why, because it was more profitable that way..." This is an exaggeration perhaps but there may be something to it. We have been manipulated  into

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http://www.humane.net/

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"Intelligent control appears as uncontrol or freedom. And for that reason it is genuinely intelligent control. Unintelligent control appears as external domination. And for that reason it is really unintelligent control. Intelligent control exerts influence without appearing to do so. Unintelligent control tries to influence by making a show of force." Lao Tsu

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Our natural environment, is full of layered textured projection surfaces. Canopies of leaves, bushes, cloud formations, moving water... Perhaps our original modes of thought were co-creative with these surfaces, image based, emergent and transformational...gestalts shifting... Trees and bushes could be perceived as archaic information systems, plugged into the earth offering shimmering

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When I think of  'News International' (dominant in promoting war  (all of 127 newspapers  supported the Iraq war) ( and leading the campaign denying climate change in the US )I think of the 'unbiased' leader of the enquiry in the UK : Levenson, this leads me to think  Matthew Freud of Freud Communications, who he apparently bumped into a couple of times at parties of the in crowd. When I think

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Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Persecution of Tim DeChristopher | MichaelMoore.com  He also founded a civil disobedience group, Peaceful Uprising. "Tim is a hero to me," Peter Yarrow, the folk singer, and member of Peter, Paul and Mary, wrote in an article in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that likened DeChristopher to the leaders of the civil rights movement."Throughout American

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It's my own stuttering and faltering  attempt to find a way other than the "be a quiet cog in the machine" technocratic system  we appear (to me) to live in, where the   (metric £$) ,technology  and expertise, instead of serving the whole,  has  often become self-serving and detached from our fragile shared humanity... an example being the continuing needless tragedy in Japan and of course

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Perhaps the layerd textured sounds of the forest used to provide a mutualizing mechanism, we can get a hint of this in public spaces, as the various sound intermingle... Group chanting offers a similar experience. THE MUSIC OF THE BAKA FOREST PEOPLE Music has a central role in the life of the Baka. From an early age they have a keen sense of rhythm, as soon as a baby is able to clap it

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Edward Bernays, famous for manipulating public opinion in the US, renaming Propaganda as PR and using Crowd Psychology and Freudian theory to create Symbolic stunts to amongst other things persuade millions of women to take up smoking, by renaming cigarettes as "Torches of Freedom"This  may belong to the history books, but the current newscorp* investigation  suggests  a few dominant players

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"to say yes to one instant is to say yes to all existence" From "Waking Life"  by Richard Linklater ...Brilliant, I feel the message overall is biased to romantic individualism  and traditional religion ? (not necessarily a bad thing if the prejudice of dualism is avoided?) but  worth watching, perhaps  randomly, selecting a part watching for a few minutes then contemplating/ discussing....

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RRT Think Limitlessly (mp3) This was created with  a toy sequencer package and some tibetan chanting and a sample was added...

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ImprovBFAFE1 (mp3)  a random  love song...

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My experience of random journeys  (i've done a couple of hundred,  by  foot, bicycle, car, bus, train) is that they make me notice things about the local environment I have never noticed before... new spaces appear, I wake up and open my eyes... I notice things I thought were passive as performers... the whole feel of the place changes. But I can't help thinking "'coincidental ' marketing and

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Brian Massumi: From my own point of view, the way that a concept like hope can be made useful is when it is not connected to an expected success - when it starts to be something different from optimism - because when you start trying to think ahead into the future from the present point, rationally there really isn’t much room for hope. Globally it’s a very pessimistic affair, with economic

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"The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power has attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false."

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I'm sure there are amusing Freudian reasons for this (there always are to a Freudian) by the way...  however... As a pacifist and  citizen of a country that seems intent of pursuing wars alongside the US, I feel I must support organisations such as "Voices for creative Non-violence".  On a personal level,  How does this relate to creativity. Drones are at the "business end" of an

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Richard Levy & Kathy Kelly Join US Peace Activists to Sail to Gaza In Humanitarian FlotillaJune 20, 2011Dozens of Americans hope to set sail this week on a U.S.-flagged ship, “The Audacity of Hope,” as part of an international flotilla which aims to challenge Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian solidarity activists are setting sail from a number of ports just over a year after

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Sourcing free drinking water by iphone Of course you need an iphone.... and sound like it's currently getting you to go into big corporate outlets... on the assumption you will get them to refill your bottle? .... they may have loss leading reason had a reason to refill Ben's.(can you get out without  being encouraged to buy anything?), and it happens to be via a company called "caffine concepts

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"For me this is one of the defining environmental battles of our age, it's a fight for sanity against the madness of a mindset that sees the melting of the Arctic sea ice as a good thing. As the ice retreats the oil companies want to send the rigs in and drill for the fossil fuels that got us into this mess in the first place. We have to stop them. It goes right to the heart of the kind of world

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Focussed Random Emergent Experiments (F.R.E.E.) Consist of a "natural random projection" surface (Rosharch, Strobe?, Frame?) Natural  (F.R.E.E.) Rosharch : Natural Movement (Layered Plant Leaves in Breeze)Frame      : Tree Branches...Strobe      : Sunlight filtered by leaves...(best in a forest as depth of forest appears to enhance projective effect) Photos (to add) Met a Fox!  Relates to "

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Calling themselves the "outraged", the people have attacked the unjust pauperising of working Greeks, the loss of sovereignty that has turned the country into a neocolonial fiefdom of bankers, and the destruction of democracy. Their common demand is that the corrupt political elites who have ruled the country for some 30 years and brought it to the edge of collapse should go. Political parties

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Amo l'Italia 

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Forty years ago, Friends of the Earth announced its arrival in the UK with a handful of placard-waving volunteers dumping 1,500 non-returnable Schweppes bottles on the front steps of the company's head office, and demanding that government and industry set up a nationwide recycling network. The media went bonkers. The protest made front page news and the evening TV bulletins. It was the shock of

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I have been going through something of a crisis re this blog recently... wondering if I was just encouraging people to waste valuable time... However something happened today to change my mind , I had been working on a diagram concerning access to options of movement / thought in the present, and the pressures from our designed environment to close this percieved "infinity of options" to a

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Our present ground is always potentially open... it offers  openings for our movement and interaction... the infinite complexity, of the  "buzzing, blooming felt positivity of relational seeds of order churning positively in quasi chaos" Brian Massumi./William James .. this is the qualitative... this potential is our common hope... Yet this potential  is open to being reduced by a quantitative,

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Greek and Middle Ages philosophers positioned the deified Muse as the locus of authority , the wellspring of means by which the artist structures chaos into creation. In the Renaissance, inspiration shifts from the Muse to the creator-genius’s un-deified authority.  (randomness is replaced by reason?)Thus the Renaissance and the subsequent modern era give birth to individualism (which originally

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It strikes me that as more of us become excluded by an  economic system intent on benefitting the top 2-3% in the short term, at the expense of everyone else,  Gil's music  and wisdom becomes relevant to wider and wider audience ... and 

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Listen!                                  This album concept emerged randomly of itself. about 1 month ago.. I decided to shelve it at the time.. However I now think I was wrong. Perhaps for some  it may in some way  provoke discussion of the relation between  random events and systems, and our  societies conception of, use of,  and fear of them. (The Random Access Shaker Table

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Listen! This was an attempt to create completely randomly on our part with an attempt to focus on an "optimum". I may have drifted into attempting harmony, which is laughable on my part... I love the way it starts "wwrongly"and the emergence of something?! My partner on this was Karen who has a blog at "FindingtheNow.com" It's interesting, I feel to to compare with the tune below...

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Listen! This randomly selected housesque tune was knocked up randomly with a toy digital music making package back in the day... much  if not all of  the potential for emergence of inherent quality and analog warmth was limited by the nature of the package?, but, nonetheless it offers and interesting source of comparison..

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Listen! Edits of this  will be combined with the  Chorus -Instrumental section added below

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"It is the nobility of failure and being allowed to fail" Richard E Grant.

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"Borders are not drawn to seperate differences, it is because we have drawn the border that we actively seek differences" http://www.livingindiversity.org

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Listen!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00grm42

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Have taken to some regular meditation, on Buddha, and on a tree/bush outside the Skylight of my home... very entertaining and educational, and cheap.

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SRTKt (mp3)

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http://secretsofcreativity.blogspot.com/p/list-of-creative-secrets.html Has been updated...

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You've been quoted as saying that music played by untrained musicians can be as interesting as music by trained musicians. If an untrained musician wants to take advantage of this idea, can they just do it any old way, or is there a certain approach or philosophy that would be a good idea for them to keep in mind?I should think there are quite a lot of things it would be a good idea for them to

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http://www.awakeninthedream.com/artis/woundedhealer1.html

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The motivation to mystify?  as  we are driven to secure our monetary position by establishing a niche  for ourselves, perhaps an academic niche or personal brand...  something that sets 'me' apart from the rest.  this can drive the understanding of creativity from a coherent balanced centre to a  set of mystified, complex confrontational positions? How, in the context of these forces, do

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How do we find our Voice? If we  assume we need to impose harmony,  we assume harmony is not inherent... By allowing and appreciating random expressive flow, we allow potential inherent harmony to emerge... This is true for the individual And the group... And the expert... Many  of us  have been taught the opposite... So it's difficult to "Start again" To abandon our position... But that's

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Bernay's invented corporate P.R. (renamed from propaganda) one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar. His most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. '

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optimistic listening to  the possibility of waking up to love mending everything for everyone for ever?accepting everything that is here as it is for its potential ?Our potential? ...I don't know...

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Henry Miller, starts out reading from a novel of his, then talks about creativity...from writing to performance... it's monotone at first, I skipped much of it, but about half way through he reflects on his reading  in the context of what was at the time a new technology, audio recording.... and becomes more enthusiastic then contemplates what the future could bring... Not sure why he is here

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Without inclusivity we can't start to create, inclusivity is acceptance of what is. Essentially cooperative...  accepting everything for it's potential emergent harmony... inclusivity includes our aims but doesn't exclude what is. Perhaps the most important insight on a personal level I have gained from my experiments in  Art/Music/Dance is the  realising of a relationship between the

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IhS7yBcMnE#t=06m06s Interesting discussion on BBC re UKUncut. It's association with violence is interesting as only 11 people were charged for rioting on the march, but 138  were for "aggravated tresspass", a law invented to counter hunt saboateurs. Some charged were 15 yrs old. I agree with Whittam Smith as I advocate non-violence... Uk Uncut is a

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Identity is always multiple, always complex, frequently conflicted and always changing Even the best writers, Montaigne observed, "are wrong in stubbornly trying to weave us into one invariable and solid fabric". "Anyone who turns his prime attention on to himself will hardly ever find himself in the same state twice," Montaigne went on. "I give my soul this face or that, depending upon which

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it's interesting the ukuncut group who have staged many peaceful sit ins over the past year,  were being associated in much of  the media with the authorities best mates, the  "black block 'anachists'"  who to my  admittedly limited knowledge consist  usually of a mixture  of undercover cops and  football hooligan thug  types who can't  count above 2, and the misguided ... driven by the

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My sister found a letter about our grandfather, Bert, who fought in the pointless, but profitable(for a few) first world war. His gun battery exploded due to a mistake loading a shell, aimed at some other poor human beings. Most of his mates were blown apart, he was lucky, blown out the tent, he survived. My memory of him is sitting in his chair, rolling a cigarette with shaking hands, he  never

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