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 | BergsonWp #58 Henri Bergson Western Philosophy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson - Dover Publications 2001: ISBN 0-486-41767-0 %G�%@ Bergson's doctoral dissertation * Matter and Memory 1911. (Mati�� et m��ire 1896) Zone Books 1990: ISBN 0-942299-05-1, Dover Publications 2004: ISBN 0-486-43415-X * Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic 1901. (Le rire) Green Integer 1998: ISBN 1-892295-02-4, Dover Publications 2005: ISBN 0-486-44380-9 * Creative Evolution 1910. (L'Evolution cr��rice 1907) University Press of America 1983: ISBN 0-8191-3553-4, Dover Publications 1998: ISBN 0-486-40036-0, Kessinger Publishing 2003: ISBN 0-7661-4732-0, Cosimo 2005: ISBN 1-59605-309-7 * Mind-energy 1920. (L'Energie spirituelle 1919) McMillan. %G�%@ a collection of essays and lectures * Duration and Simultaneity: |
 | George Washington Here is a film about George Washington. The images are taken from Dover Publications "The American Revolution: A Picture Sourcebook". The music is my arrangement of "Chester". This song was written by the composer William Billings in 1771. The second part of this film shows the Washington Arch at Washington Square in Greenwich Village, New York City. These pictures were taken in February 2001. The World Trade Center looms in the distance. Thanks for watching. |
 | Weightshift video performance by Arturas Bumsteinas, 2007. Premier @ Jauna Muzika fest. The primary material and tool for the Weightshift is the measured weight of all four orchestral scores for Richard Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen (series of editions released in 1983 by Dover Publications). The aggregate weight of the tetralogy (5.52 kilograms) in the form of metal weights is slowly (langsam und schmachtend) placed upon electronic keyboards, pressing the keys that correspond to the harmonic pattern from the beginning of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde -- the material several times employed in my earlier works. Each instrument has a matching section of the tetralogy, or, to be more precise -- the weight of the score of that section, which is 'transformed' from its static state into the sound and three-dimensional sphere, thus implementing an original interpretation of musical text and demonstrating the process of artistic de-dematerialisation (restoring from dematerialized into the material state -- supposing we treat sound as something material). An obelisk for the epic, or What weights on Artūras Bumšteinas Richard Wagner's opuses are epic music par exellence. The epic usually has considerable symbolic weight. In Wagner's case, not only symbolic; as Artūras Bumšteinas reveals in his new multimedia work Weightshift, the score of Wagner's monumental Der Ring des Nibelungen tetralogy weighs as much as 5.52 kg. Surely, that's a bit too much for contemporary, especially experimental electronic music, so Bumšteinas decides to shift this weight. On what? Well, on what else, if not on the synthesizer, an epitome of electronic music of sorts. The artist converts the score's weight to metal bars and arranges them in stacks on the keys of four synthesizers in such a way that the resulting sustained cluster of sound matches the harmonic pattern employed by Wagner in the opening of Tristan und Isolde. At the same time, the weight pressing down the keys of each synthesizer corresponds to the weight of one of the tetralogy's four parts. The graphic scheme of the performed transformation, projected on the wall, further explicates the experiment. One could interpret this as sonic numerology or talk about the symbols' and numbers' conversion into sound, but after seeing the Pervert's Guide to Cinema with contemporary philosophy's sex symbol Slavoj Zizek it's tempting to turn to good old psychoanalysis. The sound produced by the four synthesizers is like a concentrate of Wagner's music, condensed to almost unbearable density. This sustained, heavyweight (weighing precisely 5.52 kilos and pressing on the listeners' ears with all of its mass) drone resembles a colossal monument. Let's imagine that this acoustic monolith symbolizes the epic might of Wagner's oeuvre. It is symbolic that the stacked metal bars pressing down the synthesizers' keys resemble monuments as well. Yet at the same both these micro towers and the synthesizers' sound resemble an obelisk -- a funerary monument. And what, then, is the projected precise scheme that demystifies Wagner's enigmatic tetralogy, if not an obituary to the great German's epic romantism? It appears that Artūras Bumšteinas has announced the ultimate and irreversible death of epic art with his Weightshift. Zizek would not hesitate to conclude that with this work Bumšteinas has killed his father Wagner (in the psychoanalytical superego sense). Such a bold statement could be supported by the fact that in the final part of Weightshift Wagner's sonic concentrate is already "wrapped" in electronic glitches and noises typical of Bumšteinas' electronic music, as if neutralized and naturalized by the latter. by Jurijus Dobriakovas, 2007/05/04 Literatura ir Menas |
 | Peaceful Henry A "slow drag" written by E.H. Kelly in about 1901. Vess Ossman recorded a fine version of this on 5-string banjo back when the tune was new. I worked this up for ukulele a few years back from Trebor Jay Tichenor's excellent compilation piano book "Ragtime Rarities", published by Dover Publications, Inc. I just discovered an mp3 of a wonderful 1903 recording of this tune by the Edision Grand Concert Band at the Cylinder Preservation and Digitation Project, University of California, Santa Barbara: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1020&query=cylinder2707&num=1&start=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=id Piano sheet music is avaliable online at the website of the Maine Music Box, Folger Libray, University of Maine: http://musicbox1.library.umaine.edu/musicbox/pages/full_record.asp?id=KAS_008276 This is one of my favorite rags. |
 | The Truth about the Dover Intelligent Design Trial Myth #1: There are no peer-reviewed scientific papers supporting intelligent design. Judge Jones said that ID "has not generated peer-reviewed publications." FACT: Judge Jones is simply wrong. Discovery Institute submitted an amicus brief to Judge Jones that documented various peer-reviewed publications, which he accepted into evidence. This is a fact based question which is hard to get wrong. The fact is there are peer-reviewed papers supporting intelligent design. For a list of peer-reviewed ID papers go to: http://www.discovery.org/a/2640 For the truth about the Dover intelligent design trial go to www.intelligentdesign.org. |
 | "White Cliffs of Dover" A Vietnam War Tribute Written in 1941, this selection raised the morale of troops in World War II. Since all soldiers long for peace, it aptly applies to all wars. Soldiers depicted in this presentation were in the same company, and most were in the same platoon I served in. More about my tour is available in On Point: A Rifleman's Year in the Boonies: Vietnam 1967-1968, Ballantine Books (Presidio Press), St. Martin's Press, and ISIS Publications. Recipient of the Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Book Award, 2001. Recorded on a Boss BR-600 using two guitar parts, bass, and three-part harmony with all parts played and sung by your humble veteran, yours truly. It's in the key of C; feel free to sing along. |
 | Loki (by nb) Video tributo realizzato con moviemaker e rielaborazioni con photoshop di copertine di una miniserie su Loki. da wiki: Loki è un personaggio dei fumetti creato da Stan Lee, Larry Lieber e Jack Kirby nel 1962, pubblicato dalla Marvel Comics. Ispirato all'omonima figura della mitologia norrena, è uno dei più temibili supercriminali dell'universo Marvel Comics. Figlio adottivo di Odino, che lo accoglie nella sua casa dopo averne ucciso il padre, Loki ben presto comincia a mostrare invidia e risentimento nei confronti del figlio prediletto di Odino, Thor, che aumenta notevolmente quando quest'ultimo riceve in dono il magico Mjöllnir. Fu a causa sua se vennero fondati i Vendicatori: difatti Loki usò la sua magia in modo da poter usare l'immensa forza dell'incredibile Hulk contro il suo odiato fratellastro; in suo soccorso arrivarono, grazie alla richiesta d'aiuto di Rick Jones e i suoi membri di Brigata Giovanile, anche Iron Man, Ant-Man e Wasp. Quel giorno Loki fu sconfitto solo grazie agli sforzi congiunti di tutti e cinque gli eroi, che decisero di formare una squadra: per questo motivo Loki non riesce a darsi pace, ritenedosi responsabile per la creazione del gruppo. Durante gli anni, oltre a scontrarsi coi Vendicatori e Thor, affronterà molte volte il Dottor Strange, con lo scopo di batterlo e diventare il mago supremo. Una volta alleatosi con Dormammu riuscì a far scontrare i Vendicatori e i Difensori nella speranza che gli eroi si annientassero a vicenda, ma Loki aiutò gli eroi a sconfiggere il mostro terrorizzato dalla forza di quest'ultimo. Prima della fine di Asgard, Morwen una potentissima maga del Caos s'impossesso del corpo di Tess Black, una figlia di Loki. Morwen ritornata sulla terra, grazie a un'errore dell'Uomo Ragno durante una battaglia, decise di ringraziare l'arrampicamuri dandogli potere e salvandolo dalla distruzione che lei avrebbe arrecato al mondo materiale. Loki attratto dall'energia caotica riuscì a intercettare il supereroe e quando scoprì che Morwen aveva posseduto sua figlia si alleò con l'eroe nell'intento di liberarla. Assieme liberarono Tess e Loki diede all'Uomo Ragno una runa nel caso che Tess fosse di nuovo minacciata o che volesse riscuotere il debito che Loki aveva nei suoi confronti. Durante la saga Ragnarok, Loki riuscì a ritrovare lo stampo di Mjöllnir, il nucleo di una stella, e grazie a quello fabbricò altri martelli magici. Con queste armi e degli alleati, riuscì a distruggere Mjöllnir e la terra degli gnomi. Loki conquistò Asgard ma Thor lo affrontò assieme a Capitan America e Iron Man, alla fine Loki si ritirò. Con le sue armate riuscì a distruggere molte parti della terra di Asgard, nello scontro finale con suo fratello sullo Yggdrasill, l'albero che collega i mondi, venne sconfitto poiché suo fratello aveva acquisito un potere paragonabile a quello di Odino. Quando Thor distrusse gli Asgardiani, probabilmente morì con loro. La canzone è Arbeau - Pavane, Belle qui tiens ma vie Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1519, Dijon - July 23, 1595, Langres). He was a Catholic priest, a canon of Langres, and a theoretician and historian of the dance. A dance manuscript written by Tabourot was published in 1588, and reprinted in 1589 and 1596. This manual contains detailed instructions for numerous styles of dance (branle, galliard, pavane, tourdion), as well as short sections about military music, drumming, and marching, and a few details about dance forms such as the Morisco (whence the English Morris dance), the Canary (reputed to be from the Canary Islands), the Allemande, Courante, and Basse danse. This manual, Orchésographie (Orchesography), is a major source of information about Renaissance Dance. It is available online in facsimile and in plain text, and there is an English translation by Mary Stewart Evans, edited by Julia Sutton, in print with Dover Publications. It contains numerous woodcuts of dancing and musicians, and also includes many dance tabulations in which extensive instructions for the steps are lined up next to the musical notes (though this is misrepresented in some modern editions), a significant innovation in dance notation at that time. |
 | The Leopard Lounge Presents Ripper778 and Tim Merrick The Leopard Lounge Presents: ripper778/twelvestringsband and TimMerrick Please have a great time enjoying these two musicians who each highly excel in their chosen genre :) This Lounge was so much fun to do...thanks Shane and Tim! ripper778's YT Channel: http://www.youtube.com/ripper778 twelvestringsband's YT Channel: http://www.youtube.com/twelvestringsband Shane's featured videos Disarm (cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsD00aJHUvg Lucky (cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n-7MgUvAlQ Simple Man (cover done by TwelveStrings): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iecVpaw-g4 TimMerrick's YT Channel: http://www.youtube.com/timmerrick Tim's featured videos Killing in the Name (solo/cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_IsSoZYss Licks and Riffs with Tim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVUSuj7kwSw Clouds Over California (cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmM97xVrEjs Fa-shee-own: Shades by Kenneth Cole Hoodie by SoHo Disco ball earrings from HALO Henna Temporary Tattoo from DoverPublications :) If you know someone in our Music Community, or your own community at home, is struggling, please lend them a hand or give them a shoulder to lean on. When someone is kind to you, please Pay It Forward :) It is amazing what happens in your life when you do for others. Need more exposure ideas? Please visit my awesome colleagues' channels...they do wonderful shows promoting musicians/actors/comedians as well: http://www.youtube.com/ModernOracle http://www.youtube.com/TheBorgLives http://www.youtube.com/KavernKitty I love you ALL! Thanks so much for watching! Love and hugs, Joy xo |
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