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“ATTENTION is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality  of experience” u can read the whole quote from  “flow: the psychology of experience” @valahara  here*s my 2 cents too...... LEARNING what to ignore can improve our quality of experience. too happy sunday

i*m so sorry u can*t hear the requiem of reconcilliation posts from youtube. there is an article i found in google that says u can watch youtube videos in contries that do not allow them by masking your IP adress..... but i can*t say that i understand how that is done. reading “how to*s” about computers is rather like  reading about how long to bake a soufle- the words can*t really express the tangible reality alas. cheers always

so the the track “the gnu tune” (or time as jon put it) is Kinda like a Piccasso line drawing-most of the :information” is in the negative space..... OR it is like alexander calder mobile-the perfect fifth shape moves in space and time like the shapes in a mobile and Sometimes the perspective shifs and the shape seems truncated-hence the flat-fives.... ok? 

 so vicky chow is the pianist in the conlon nancarrow video i posted. valahara tumblr posted a wonderful piece for prepared piano played by her... that*s worth finding-really And i posted a video of a piece by andy akiho who wrote the prepared piano piece played by ms chow.... Isn*t that a lovely circle? and yet there are folks who claim to be Bored-how is that possible??? 

happy new year

so my life is often a barely controlled experiment-or many experiments at once.dunno really.  the audio post “the children” for example and the quest for feedback about that post. thanks to mary and valahara for the kind words also just put all my amps away in the closet-don*t get to play shows anymore. around the house i play thru small powered spkr-good for testing effects patches if i go out i bring the katana mini and play on the street(weather not good for that sort of thing these days) alas. my next adventure starts today-a small keyboard for recording stuff from my slush-pile. i*m a lousy piano player on my best day but anyway..... will post some of the results here*s today*s inside joke question-did giacinto scelsi own a white lab coat? 

no i used to just give them away.  most of my tunes have been posted to this blog.  nowdays the cd maker just sits in a box-iv*e learned that many people have no cd player anymore(i couldn*t face the day without my cd collection but what do i know)..... my last record for a "label" is at markmcmahan.bandcamp.com-called "noise for 38.54"-not for the faint at heart(was  rather disturbed  after being stranded in athens  ga and u can hear that) the only other "commercial" release in recent time is the "again again" cd... considering that is the tour(and drummer) that got me stuck in athens.... oh well.....

happy saturnday