What are you listening to?

[silent thunder]

I played that song for my ferns... they are now Sequoias...

[moment]

1 hour ago, Taomeow said:

 

 

For me too, and I was instantly drawn in.  Apparently he was a member of some rather herbivorous band, forget its name, which he left to start doing his own thing.  And this is the outcome.  I read some of the comments and the first one went something like, "don't listen to this while applying makeup -- I started out just intending to make myself look nice for the day and ended up painting myself for battle."    

 

"painting myself for battle".

 

Yes, it is becoming time.

Edited August 20, 2020 by moment

[silent thunder]

there is a crack, in everything...

that's how the light gets in...

 

 

[silent thunder]

 

[silent thunder]

Yes Sir!

[moment]

John Bonham on the drums--

 

They say when Bonzo played air drums, the air made drum sounds out of respect!

Edited August 21, 2020 by moment

[Geof Nanto]

The old made new.

Makes me smile.

 

 

 

 

 

[Geof Nanto]

And this one makes me weep.

 

 

[silent thunder]

I had no idea who Adrian Belew or King Crimson were when a friend took me by the hand and pulled me to the venue.  It was a rare day off for me back in my performing days and I was reticent to spend it in another theater.

 

So glad I didn't resist.

When I heard this piece live @ First Avenue in Minneapolis in 1990... i was gobsmacked... transported... 

 

 

 

[liminal_luke]

 

[Taomeow]

An oldie.  Some assert it's three thousand years old.  Voyager 1 took it into deep space in 1977.

 

 

 

[silent thunder]

1 hour ago, Taomeow said:

An oldie.  Some assert it's three thousand years old.  Voyager 1 took it into deep space in 1977.

 

 

 

Just look at that wood glowing in that instrument.  And the tone quality... and... 21 strings! Wow.

 

That instrument always elicits such deep response in me.

It's always captivated me.

 

here's one of my favorites... on a seven string Guqin.

 

Particularly the lower tones, induces potent resonances in me that remind me of extremely large singing bowls...

Edited August 29, 2020 by silent thunder

[doc benway]

Brushy One String says 21 strings is 20 too many!

 

 

 

[silent thunder]

BRUSHY!

[Taomeow]

2 hours ago, steve said:

Brushy One String says 21 strings is 20 too many!

 

 

"Seeking daily decrease," as some taoists recommend, we can go down from one string to no strings attached  

 

 

 But then there's the compromise between the "too much" of ten thousand strings and "not enough" of no strings: two strings of erhu!

 

 

[Apech]

 

And there's another country,

I've heard of long ago,

Most dear to them that love her,

most great to them that know;

We may not count her armies,

we may not see her King;

Her fortress is a faithful heart,

her pride is suffering;

And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,

And her ways are ways of gentleness, and all her paths are peace.

[silent thunder]

 

[silent thunder]

 

Edited August 31, 2020 by silent thunder

[sambista2002]

Transition:

A fever dream wafts a fantasy of incorporating these loosening movements I see in these musicians' neck, shoulders, and spine into practice : 

full and relaxed at same time*?...  bums, get ready to roll:

https://youtu.be/HHN9UO8A0oQ?t=5

(*Our qigong teacher's teacher (Feng top student) guided him to "bring your other interests into your practice": tango! ...in the last third of class we follow his tango cat- and cross-steps and suddenly even more mysterious and coiling upper body shapes; silly grins bloom throughout the corps, an infectious light boosts energy and each student's eyes travel thru the forest of smiles, we move together and tai chi becomes unity and individually differentiated pleasure).

 

 

Moving the above perspective to breath: 
immaculate control of physical body motion (theremin) sculpts vocal-like expression/breath;

(hands hear the note in the mind and arrive "before" the note moves air ?):

 

 

 

 

Breathing from the bottom: an unwavering, steady unhurried ensemble wave's majestic advance maintains soft tension; Steve Slagle's woodwind breath weaves different shapes (based on a simple six note pattern (ba-da-dat... baa-daa-daa-a-a-a...)) dodging the expected, unhurried, always in the time, still sticking the landing:

exercise for me: improvising different shapes to get to the resolutions in a structure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m03B5NNade4

 

two mighty fat girls (be sassy and creative over a steady pulse; (...requires true talent)):

https://youtu.be/VS49B6RzVeY?t=1499

 

if you're still here:

...I try to very slowly move and flirt with the broad, wide, rough and lazy march tempo in this circus music:

(excerpt from Hal Wilner's Amarcord with Carla Bley's ensemble)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJXz7CQ3xVk

 

coda: teacher's tango added humor to my tai chi practice

Edited September 1, 2020 by sambista2002
Wordy Worderson messes w/ simple gestures of grounding and child's play

[Jadespear]

 

[Iliketurtles]

 

[silent thunder]

Khruangbin evidently retreated to their Houston area farm for some isolation recording.

Mordechai is the result, released back in June.

 

Their SE Asian Funk infused mellowness and quirky sense of humor is just my speed lately.

 

 

and then they hit me with this... 

 

<woof!>

Edited September 4, 2020 by silent thunder

[silent thunder]

 

[Nungali]

 

 

 

Did you sweep us far from your feet
Reset in stone this stark belief
Salted eyes and a sordid dye
Too many years
But don't despair this day, will be their damnedest day
Ooh, if you take these things from me
Did you feed us tales of deceit
Conceal the tongues who need to speak
Subtle lies and a soiled coin
The truth is sold, the deal is done
But don't despair this day, will be their damnedest day
Ooh, if you take these things from me

Undefined, no signs of regret
Your swollen pride assumes respect
Talons fly as a last disguise
But no return, the time has come
So don't despair this day, will be their damnedest day
Ooh, if you take these things from me

Ooh, if you take these things from me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nungali]