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Influence And Style Traces: Moondog’s “Pacific Ocean (Rain Forest) (no date) and Steve Reich’s “Nagoya Marimbas” (1994)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich Continue reading
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Borrowed Thoughts: Notes On Four Words
curiosity ~ desire to know intuition ~ the faculty of attaining direct knowledge or cognition without rational thought and inference kind ~ of a sympathetic or helpful nature wonder ~ rapt attention at something awesomely mysterious or new to one’s experience Continue reading
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Borrowed Thoughts: Haruki Murakami On Mundane Actions
“No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.” – Haruki Murakami Continue reading
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On A Not-Knowing Knowledge
The jazz guitarist John McLaughlin says that when he played with Miles Davis in the late 1960s, Davis gave him some advice before a recording session for In A Silent Way (1969): “Play like you don’t know how to play guitar.” McLaughlin, of course, went on to great heights of jazz-Indian music fusion with his Continue reading
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Bill Murray On (Groovy) Vibrations
In a recent New York Times interview, the actor Bill Murray discusses the importance of having a sense of spontaneity, improvisation, and connection with others. He observes that being playful not only puts both himself and others at ease–it also gets everyone into a deeper kind of sync: “It pays off in your life when Continue reading
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Haruki Murakami On Repetition
Haruki Murakami, master novelist and enthusiast of long distance running, makes this observation about the repetition of writing, and the experience of repetition itself as a perceptual tool for tweaking the senses: “The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.” Continue reading
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