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Really appreciating this topic. It's been percolating since you first shared it. The Bolded bit reminds me of the analogy that 'awareness is an ocean' : my own and each individual awareness arises like a wave in the ocean and can be identified and experienced as a distinct, individual process in a manner of perception; yet at no point, is the wave ever separate from the whole of the rest of the ocean, nor any of the other waves arising. And the wave itself is not made of the ocean, but what is observed as a wave is a motion flowing through the ocean. My body is not a static thing. I am not one human being... except on a certain level of magnification. Get more myopic and my body is a collection of five trillion individual cells, self arranging in a complex, interrelated pattern that is the involunatary expression of an unfolding process of conditions in existence. This body is experienced lately as a complex pattern that self sustains in an involuntary relational response to stimuli of the environment, for a few decades, then diminishes back into soil, minerals and water vapor. That which manifests, arises seemingly 'of itself', seemingly involuntarily, yet simultaneously, wholly and utterly in accord with all of its environment. The environment is comprised entirely of organisms, while the organisms arise within the environment. Where does one cease and the other arise? self and other dissolve into one another of late... Manifestation seems relational. Requiring several aspects co-arising Relational arrangement. Patterns arising in response to conditions. I experience reality in direct relation to the nature of the organs awareness senses with... Does music manifest in reality? Is music real? It exists in time, yet where in space does it take shape? it seems formless to my senses, yet a cymatic plate will reveal vibration expresses as form in certain conditions. what makes noise different from music? when does music transition into noise? when do I transition into environment? when I eat a banana and it becomes part of my liver, skin and bones? when i excrete the unusable remnants of it and these become a flower next year? manifestation seems relational.

Internet: So which instruments will you be using in this set? FKJ & Masego: Yes. Masego: but... I'mma definitely start with the passport though...

dao gives rise to all jesus, buddha any talk about jesus and buddha any talk about dao all arises from dao dao spoken, is a word dao in expression... is all of reality, life and unlife holding none, giving rise to all and harboring nothing, while sheltering all within its influence dao

Mom, opens her arms wide and smiles at you. She scoops you up and cradles you. Then she lovingly feeds you the elixir of health, disease resistance and vitality... from her own body. All while singing, cooing and cuddling you. talk about power~!

Mom, opens her arms wide and smiles at you. She scoops you up and cradles you. Then she lovingly feeds you the elixir of health, disease resistance and vitality... from her own body. All while singing, cooing and cuddling you. now that's power

*deep bow of respect* Love and Respect To your whole freaking continent and to you two in particular... you have both shared so much so authentically I have benefited in untold ways by your presences here. *deep bow of respect*

Friend of mine wanted to watch a movie he owned on dvd. Dvd was in the living room... he was sitting on his bed with his laptop. ... So he purchased the digital version and streamed it from bed. like a boss!

If sound is defined as vibration then absolutely. It's all sound. Playing advocate I could (and for some years did) experience all phenomenon as nothing but sound all the way up and all the way down. All frequencies of vibrations in reality, even those beyond human senses and all our instruments seemed like sound. The great OM. It's all sound. But lately it's shifted. Sound to me implies hearing. Hearing is comprised of awareness. Sound now is experienced as a relational, transactional collaboration. Air wave vibrations, ear skin capable of sympathetic vibration and at the core, the awareness stimulated by that skin, are each collaborative aspects of one process... sound. Take away any one of them away and sound as I experience it now, becomes vibration only... Remove my ear drum and awareness experiences nothing of the vibration. Remove awareness and though the ear vibrates what is experienced? Remove the wave and there is nothing to stimulate the skin of the ear. In vacuum, without air to disturb in patterns, no sound arises. No matter how hard one strikes a drum with no skin, no sound arises. Cymatics reveals this relational aspect, for without the plate vibrating the powder on it, there will be vibrations, but no manifestation of patterns or shape will occur. That manifestation of patterns is transactional with all aspects requiring presence. Plate, vibrating, powder disturbed coming to rest in the areas of least vibration. The vibration is not the source of the manifestation. Any more than the powder is, or the plate. It's all of a thing. One collaborative interrelated process. Ear skin, Awareness, Vibration... They are for me, of a thing. Sort of like Fire expresses via three aspects. Fuel, heat and oxygen. Remove any one of them and fire extinguishes. Sound is relational. Anything regarding our senses is like this for me now... relational. Non-separatable. But just to me... and I'm not selling anything with these musings... just sharing my experience as this intrigues the shit out of me.

A full documentary I really appreciated is on youtube in four parts, each half hour long. Here's a link to the first one, for those inclined. Cymatics: Bringing Matter to Life with Sound

Cymatics it utterly fascinating to me. I began obsessing over it when happening upon Sofeggio resonances. Cymatics is the process of observing the physical shape of various sound frequencies revealed by vibrating various types of powders, liquids and non-newtonian fluids/pastes on flat plates at varying frequencies. Powders will reveal through resistance patterns the physical shape of various frequencies. Non Newtonian fluids particularly respond to vibration in highly detailed 3 dimensionality. all form may be described as a physical aspect of the sound of the vibration of its essential nature disturbing the medium through which is passes...

Wow, that is Stunning! Thanks for sharing.

Speer's lyrical guitar, DJ's uncanny pocket and Ms Lee's inspired languid bass. Effortless Coalescing of Three Complimentary Forces... Woven into liquid light for my ears. I hear Ms Lee and Sir Speer host regular live Friday night sessions via facebook where they spin and share whatever their recent favorite musical acquisitions happen to be. That just might be worth signing up for FB to experience.

where does mighty abide? in the boulder that sustains the ceaseless pounding of the wave? or in the water, endlessly eroding the boulders into sand? or in the sand, holding back the rising tide?

The woman speaking in my dream. Was this sound? I heard it. Though not with my ears. I experienced hearing it. or I recall experiencing, hearing it. The sunset she 'spoke of'... was this light? I remember 'seeing' it. Recall becoming aware that it was 'just a dream'. Yet I saw the light, heard the voice... Where does that light live? Where does sound exist? Seems, what is perceived depends wholly on the organ/process. Organs tuned to specific ranges of frequencies. Bats, dogs, porpoises hear all manner of that which I do not. Bees, Fish, Birds, Cats see ultraviolet that I do not. What of all that lies outside our range to sense? Is it 'real'? What makes it real? Do the Bees and me, the same flower see?

can there be buying if there is not also simultaneously selling? can there be sound without hearing? reminds me of a compulsively recurring insistent answerless question that arises, phoenixlike, unbidden in awareness... for decades... since childhood. where does music live? in the instrument? in the fingers? the keys? the strings? in the breath? in the flute? in the holes? in the drum skin? what is the drum without its skin and the hand to strike it? where does music abide? in the air? in the ear? in the mind? in awareness... when i hear music in my mind, is this still music? and at what point, does noise become music? deeply experience it arising, coalescing spontaneously within... reaction of organ to that which it is sensitive to... awareness, centered on sensation and interptetion into story. of what regarding the nature of starlight, do earthworms ponder? i wonder

horrific surreal just stunningly horrific.

Revisiting Robert Anton Wilson's Coincidance and Lynne McTaggart's The Field

walking. barefoot. in the hour before dawn.

this set... thank you!

Internet: So... what instruments will you be using in the set? Fkj & Masego: yes. Masego: I'mma start with the passport tho...

They are my new flavor! Happened on them when listening to Claypool Lennon Delirium. Been looping their live sets and gently dissolving into my headphones ever since. edit to add: I was wondering how that drummer stayed so deeply in the pocket... then I realized while watching 'still alive'... oh right... he's right behind Ms. Lee. He's simply following her sway and he's never out of the pocket.

This morning it's these three playing concurrently and looped.

Welcome Ecclectica... and empathy mate. I will echo the words of moment and Spotless, both of whom, put my thoughts to words more effectively than I likely could have; both are steeped in many years (decades) of grounded practice and experience, combined with keen insight and inspiringly warm, open hearts.