Showing posts with label expansion of consiousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label expansion of consiousness. Show all posts
Sunday, April 05, 2020
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Week 4 1/27/19
Consciousness is eternal.
Let those of us, who can and will, create to illuminate this realization, and thus bring about change for the better in the world.
Let those of us, who can and will, create to illuminate this realization, and thus bring about change for the better in the world.
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Week 34 8/26/18
Reject programming.
It is difficult to break away from what one is accustomed to hearing. Listen critically.
It is difficult to break away from what one is accustomed to hearing. Listen critically.
The Celestial Way (Excerpt) by Black Mountain School
Night Traffic in Open Secrets (Excerpt) by Black Mountain School
Ancestral Shadows by Ghost Radio Orchestra
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Compatible with iPod®, iTunes, Windows Media Player and other MP3 players.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Week 23 6/11/17
Subjective emotion is not reality, as the wretched, apparently, would require others to believe.
Examples are so plentiful as to be ubiquitous, and are found in every contemporary arena. There is no greater evil in expression, artistic or otherwise, than that which uses the truth to bear false witness.
Examples are so plentiful as to be ubiquitous, and are found in every contemporary arena. There is no greater evil in expression, artistic or otherwise, than that which uses the truth to bear false witness.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Week 20 May 21, 2017
Give attention to the setting.
Consciousness expands, engaging reality and sensory awareness. This is understanding separate and distinct from the social, cultural, and political abstractions that encompass daily pursuits.
This is experience revealed in elevated expression.
Consciousness expands, engaging reality and sensory awareness. This is understanding separate and distinct from the social, cultural, and political abstractions that encompass daily pursuits.
This is experience revealed in elevated expression.
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Week 12 3/26/17
Finished work demonstrates mastery of knowledge, judgement, and skill of execution.
Conceptual sound composition demands process and production equal to the artist's vision.
Conceptual sound composition demands process and production equal to the artist's vision.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Week 11 3/19/17
Creative freedom cannot be conferred, or earned. It must be seized.
Like every choice, the creative act implies risk, reward, and consequences. This demands grace, if the end result is to possess meaning.
Note from Crucibulum Media:
Like every choice, the creative act implies risk, reward, and consequences. This demands grace, if the end result is to possess meaning.
Obscure Terrain by Black Mountain School
Delmarva (Excerpt) by Black Mountain School
The Voice of Time in Gold by Ghost Radio Orchestra
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Resolution for a Problematic Music
Observe a surfeit of information yielding little in the way of what might be called enlightenment.
One proceeds with awareness and intent, not subject to the idea that "such and such a thing has been done before". As these notes demonstrate, there are ways and means to look beyond "the given".
Needed is a conclusive synthesis and assessment of these concepts, falling, as they do, outside common musical limits, that illuminates the resulting form of aesthetic sound art, its purposes, methods, and effects.
One proceeds with awareness and intent, not subject to the idea that "such and such a thing has been done before". As these notes demonstrate, there are ways and means to look beyond "the given".
Needed is a conclusive synthesis and assessment of these concepts, falling, as they do, outside common musical limits, that illuminates the resulting form of aesthetic sound art, its purposes, methods, and effects.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Something Missing
Among many things, culture reflects the common aspirations of a social group.
Without cohesion, there is only decay, and no government of any value can provide this. It is found in the vision of the artist, in authentic expression, and in the traditions and rituals of community.
Ambimusica.com
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Be or Seem
Perceptions do not lie. They must be rightly directed and interpreted.
The issue is not one of self-awareness or self-knowledge, but rather of the capacity to distinguish appearance from reality. Clarity does not require guidance; thus it is highly prized.
Ambimusica.com
Friday, November 04, 2016
Authenticity
Insight reveals reality beyond appearances, in life and in the visual arts.
That same insight reveals false appearances as well. So it is for the composer in creating and sustaining atmospheric effects through sound. Falsified experience sounds forced, frenetic, or artificial in emotional content, tone, and mood, while genuinely immersive atmospheres evoke contemplative settings conducive to the expansion of consciousness.
Ambimusica.com
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Against Collective Thought
Authentic artistic expression may be viewed from diverse perspectives.
This authenticity is a form of "breaking out", and breaking out is not a form of "joining".
This authenticity is a form of "breaking out", and breaking out is not a form of "joining".
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Consciousness and Environs
"What are you doing out here?"
Listening.
"I don't hear anything."
You have to listen, and hear.
Listening.
"I don't hear anything."
You have to listen, and hear.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Continuum and Flux II
Consciousness, to the extent of human knowledge, is a rarity in the vast universe.
What we live, know, come to know, and express has value. And it is only a beginning.
What we live, know, come to know, and express has value. And it is only a beginning.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Mythos
Every artist must speak independently. I speak for none other than myself.
The progress of art in every form of expression is one of continual revelation.
The progress of art in every form of expression is one of continual revelation.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Black & White
Generally speaking, it is not difficult to take perspectives that allow enduring clarity and wide latitude of thought.
The so-called "black and white" viewpoint, denounced by its detractors as "narrow-minded" and "absolutist" is neither intellectually nugatory nor intolerant, rightly understood. Fundamentally, an attitude that takes absolute ideals into account must acknowledge the dynamic nature of reality in order to be viable, and open to the increase of wisdom, that is to say, to expanding critical analysis and judgement.
Reality is no "sealed system", and its nature is a continuum of change. One can speak and think with a great deal of certainty, while comprehending fully the fact that it is always possible to know more, and modify assessments accordingly. Conversely, it is also necessary to understand that the dynamic in reasoning between poles, those "grey areas" between the black and white, is constantly shifting as well, making it clear that their ultimate disposition is in one direction or the other, reality being an ongoing affair not conforming to a static set of expectations. One cannot simply expect reason, or the lack of it, to negate the truth of cause and effect. Neither should one be subject to impermanent and biased whims simply to conform to social, political, academic, or artistic norms, regardless of the settings and circumstances in which they occur.
Simply put, it is a mistake, as Cicero stated, "to attempt to force others to believe as we do", and "to believe that success is made by crushing others". It is possible, indeed, be right, regardless of any and all arguments to the contrary, no matter how cleverly or "passionately" they are proposed against objective evidence and experience.
The so-called "black and white" viewpoint, denounced by its detractors as "narrow-minded" and "absolutist" is neither intellectually nugatory nor intolerant, rightly understood. Fundamentally, an attitude that takes absolute ideals into account must acknowledge the dynamic nature of reality in order to be viable, and open to the increase of wisdom, that is to say, to expanding critical analysis and judgement.
Reality is no "sealed system", and its nature is a continuum of change. One can speak and think with a great deal of certainty, while comprehending fully the fact that it is always possible to know more, and modify assessments accordingly. Conversely, it is also necessary to understand that the dynamic in reasoning between poles, those "grey areas" between the black and white, is constantly shifting as well, making it clear that their ultimate disposition is in one direction or the other, reality being an ongoing affair not conforming to a static set of expectations. One cannot simply expect reason, or the lack of it, to negate the truth of cause and effect. Neither should one be subject to impermanent and biased whims simply to conform to social, political, academic, or artistic norms, regardless of the settings and circumstances in which they occur.
Simply put, it is a mistake, as Cicero stated, "to attempt to force others to believe as we do", and "to believe that success is made by crushing others". It is possible, indeed, be right, regardless of any and all arguments to the contrary, no matter how cleverly or "passionately" they are proposed against objective evidence and experience.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Opposing Forces
Recognize the dominant forces in play throughout cultural settings.
These are forces of control, and particularly in terms of discourse, intellectual judgement, and the arts. All such spurious "authorities" are media driven, and are owed no loyalty or subjection as mere appearances of reality, shallow and unjustifiable.
As such there is no rebellion beyond individual choice, as a matter of personal integrity.
Made once, it is the choice of liberation, and it is permanent.
These are forces of control, and particularly in terms of discourse, intellectual judgement, and the arts. All such spurious "authorities" are media driven, and are owed no loyalty or subjection as mere appearances of reality, shallow and unjustifiable.
As such there is no rebellion beyond individual choice, as a matter of personal integrity.
Made once, it is the choice of liberation, and it is permanent.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Real Light
A balanced, yet critical and incisive state of mind is not effortless.
The purpose of my compositions and recordings, beyond the application of experimental and aesthetic principles, is to promote and enhance the emotional state of equanimity.
In terms of contemporary music, very little is done in that regard, and very little of that is done effectively.
The purpose of my compositions and recordings, beyond the application of experimental and aesthetic principles, is to promote and enhance the emotional state of equanimity.
In terms of contemporary music, very little is done in that regard, and very little of that is done effectively.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Fire, Fix, Pose
There are uncanny aspects to contemporary experience.
Where cultures lack common subtleties of perception, and these qualities are suppressed within the social order, any heightened sense of reality beyond the mundane is stifled. Those experiencing the transcendental are silenced. Dubious materialist beliefs are held unassailable, and promoted with imperious ardor. Still, those who most strenuously hold to such ideas claim to be so intellectually weak and helpless that they must be "protected" from perspectives they reject and denounce as a matter of faith, because these points of view make them afraid.
Where cultures lack common subtleties of perception, and these qualities are suppressed within the social order, any heightened sense of reality beyond the mundane is stifled. Those experiencing the transcendental are silenced. Dubious materialist beliefs are held unassailable, and promoted with imperious ardor. Still, those who most strenuously hold to such ideas claim to be so intellectually weak and helpless that they must be "protected" from perspectives they reject and denounce as a matter of faith, because these points of view make them afraid.
Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Choices and Variations
Observe the sources of quietude and those of chaos.
Consider the effects of culture upon consciousness. Act accordingly.
Consider the effects of culture upon consciousness. Act accordingly.
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