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Another music post. Why? Music is a way to decorate time in such a way that evokes strong emotions and passions. As such, structure and tone matter. Eric Johnson originally was trained classically on the piano. However, he migrated piano playing to guitar via string skipping. String skipping ain't an easy skill to develop as a guitarist because in this genre it's intuitive to do runs from one parallel string to the next. String skipping also ties into arpeggio sweeps: instead of playing a chord all at once, you play each note cleanly as you "sweep" across the strings. Eric also uses Koto tapping which takes advantage of string harmonics. Eddie Van Halen used similar techniques in "Dance the Night Away," and in the intro to "Mean Streets," which i never could play perfectly. Ha. But Eric's violin tone and phrasing reveals a golden soul who shapes each note like a Gem. Now, imagine taking that same philosophy to coding and system design. It becomes an art, a science, and a skill. Lots of perfect 4ths and 5ths. A major is a close cousin to E major, which has a lot of the same notes that I enjoy when played in concert with one another. Learning to play an instrument and deconstruct songs provides creative juices when expressing logic as code. I highly recommend it. Lloyd Watts Brian Bowman Nicky Clarke #Music #code #programming #structure #time #creative https://lnkd.in/gU_TuafN

https://lnkd.in/dgkUg9es. - So, here's my new website with a few projects I have worked on.Thanks to all that have supported and collaborated on projects, events and wild happenings. It has never been boring. #artist #sound #audio #music #production #events #projection #mapping #visuals #content #wearenotcontent

The UK's Most Mysterious Collective? What’s next for SAULT? Check out my latest article for The Guide https://lnkd.in/ePAFzU_U

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Frank Zappa looked at music as a science. Music is, in fact, very scientific. And mathematical. I will go into this more in other postings. Always experimenting with sound, Zappa liked to compose pieces in unusual time signatures. His composition called “Thirteen” has a time signature of 13/8. Always attuned to his audiences, Zappa begins the performance here by explaining the time signature. For a detailed overview of “Thirteen,” see: https://lnkd.in/gPhE8szk https://lnkd.in/gy4pytj5

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Check out this insightful blog post delving into the complex relationship between folk legends Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Explore the song Mitchell wrote about the enigmatic figure of Dylan and gain a unique perspective on their dynamic. Follow the link to read the full article: https://ift.tt/Q8maJ4j

‘I know now that I can't make good How I wish I could Go back and put Me where you stood’ S P E Y S I D E, the song marking Bon Iver’s re-entry into our musical consciousness digs pretty deep into the ‘cleaning up’ aspect of transformational development. It’s a sort of a musical rendition of Jung’s comment that we are ‘on the whole, less good than (we) imagine (we are) or want to be." It’s also offering an illuminating return to the stripped back beauty of 2007’s For Emma, Forever Ago. However, particularly the  live version featuring some incredibly fine Saxophone contributions (https://lnkd.in/e-_XhcpV), suggests, to me anyway, that Justin Vernon might nowadays have and hold his angst rather than be totally had by it. But more of that later. I’ve always droned on to anyone who will listen about how I see an evolution of meaning making in Bon Iver’s work. And not just because Justin wove each of their first four albums around the theme of a different climactic season. I suspect that it maybe went deeper than that.  S P E Y S I D E, I’d like to suggest, goes digging into why the journey towards transformational development may require a bit more from us than simply expanding our ability to make meaning. It feels to me like it might be a song about the developmental dimension that the Centre for Human Emergence describes as ‘Screw Up’ – defined as ‘daring to make mistakes and learning from them’ and offered as a doorway into integrating into our inner work the ‘Cleaning Up’ element of Ken Wilber’s model for personal development. When it comes to screw up I definitely am that man. In the words of the Clear Impact Consulting Group ‘Cleaning up is about understanding the filters through which we see the world, including distortions and blind spots…(exploring) the psychological shadow of ourselves that we have not seen or integrated’ About understanding the stuff that has us and holds us and starts dictating to us how we interact with our world. In Robert Kegan’s language it’s part of the process of making ourselves the object of deep and thorough investigative inquiry and bearing witness to all that we discover.  Some of which, of course, can be impossibly beautiful and fill us with gratitude and joy; some of which, equally, might be ugly as hell. But all of it, when we trust our developmental process, can be a doorway into grace. And a deepening of our understanding of the I/Thou relationship that sits at the heart of developmental coaching. #coachdevelopment #innerwork #stunningsax #findinggrace #souljourneys Sian Lumsden Rebecca Stevens Simon Lovegrove Nial O Reilly Anastasia Nekrasova Natalie Goni Mac Ling Karim Hirani Laurent Vuibert Alice Leung Vuibert, PCC Christian Scholtes Philip Brady Johnny Parks Jane Brendgen Liz Hall Liz Stewart PCC 💜 Alis Anagnostakis, Nickie Jakeman Erich Wilgenbus-Lamb Andrew Wood Tim Lyttle Sarah Mumford Áine O’Keeffe Andrew Dornan Association for Coaching (AC)

I think it’s really important to keep current, especially around technology in music. This is a short post-rock influenced work inspired by my recent experience teaching A-Level Music Technology. https://lnkd.in/enMB3DX4