Week 36 9/10/17

It is never the burden of the artist to accept or address cultural failure.

The failure of a culture to thrive and progress is a collective failure, with collective causes, not the failure of the individual. When the consequences of ignorance are groupthink result in the inability to distinguish objective reality from subjective appearances, cultural perspectives are devalued and degraded.

One may as well expect a stone to applaud the subtleties and dynamics of authentic artistic expression.  And the artist will not waste time seeking such things.

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Week 35 9/3/17

To evoke atmospheres, the composer must minimize the subjective.

The result, in the final expression, is a sense of vibration and the engagement of perception with as little interference, or influence of personal dynamic, as possible.

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Week 34 8/27/17

Widen and expand that which is narrow.

It is possible to listen, and hear, beyond commonly-perceived limits.  The same is true for the art of thinking, as it is so for all the creative arts.

Yet few will make the effort, and to do the work is a challenge only a very few will accept.

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Week 33 8/20/17

Events may be viewed as natural or contrived.

Those who attempt to control culture will be overcome by it.

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Week 32 8/13/17

Artistic expression often serves as a portal to the future.

Where doors are closed, one is looking in the wrong direction.

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Week 31 8/6/17

Authentic perspective lies in the transcendent.

But the word "transcendent" is ruined by shallow usage. Better to say, simply, it is a perspective that is rarely understood.

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Week 30 7/30/17

Momentum is a wave gathered in Memory.

Time Future is potential brought into being by Thought.

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Week 29 7/23/17

Authentic expression worthy of interest implies response, rather than unthinking reaction.

As information alone is of no value without interpretation and evaluation, so is artistic expression of a superficial nature lacking meaning.

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Week 28 7/16/17

Dream Machine is a forward thinking musical group from Austin, Texas.

As a free thinking individual, it is my pleasure to recommend the music of DREAM MACHINE.

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Week 27 7/9/17

Look, it cannot be seen; listen, it cannot be heard.

Only the artist understands.  And this is the penalty paid by those cultures who demand creativity they will not support because they cannot comprehend that which transcends the mundane.

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Week 26 7/2/17

American music may be compared to radiation, moving in every direction.

It is rooted in a source of American impulse, that of striving, and driving, toward freedom.

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Week 25 6/25/17

Step away from conditioning.

Look ahead, listen ahead.  Do not simply accede to the given narrative of culture.

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Week 24 6/18/17

The limits of the mind are unknown.

The limits of perception may be extended beyond the narrow confines of subjectivity.

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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.

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Week 22 6/4/17

Ideological expression is no more than a political statement, and politics is the death of art.

Artistic expression related to politics is nothing unless it involves the world that is larger than mere politics.  What is called "political awareness" is facile abstraction in the greater context of human consciousness and experience.  It is a pathway, and a small part of a pathway, toward a higher view of reality.  And it is at a far, far distance from any summit.

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Week 21 May 28, 2017

The reader will have noted the cultural pretense that "the arts" are of essential importance.

This is nothing more than a sham perpetuated by academic, political, and cultural interests  The arts have been suppressed and manipulated in service to illiberal agendas for over a half-century, and this is the current state of affairs. For the artist there is only knowledge and the capacity to act, if freedom to do so becomes possible.

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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.

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Week 19 5/14/17

To the nihilist, there is no purpose or reason, thus there is no judgement.

The artist is explorer and discoverer.  The concerns of the artist are no different, and culturally, worthless opinions are nothing new, and indeed, nothing at all.

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Week 18 5/7/17

Many find "ambient music" desirable as a retreat from the stresses of contemporary life.

This is worthwhile as a beginning of understanding.  Plainly, we are conditioned to certain ideas that produce expectations of life and our place within it. We expect "intensity" and it is expected of us. We expect "extremes" and believe them to be "normal" within the scheme of things.  But this is a kind of programming that is deleterious to elevated states of being and consciousness.

It is necessary to discern what stresses in our experience lead us to clearly appreciate the cultural expressions that directly oppose them.  Gaining a fundamental sense of such things, rather than ignoring them in a specious "quest for authenticity", makes perceptual change permanent, rather than simply possible.

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Week 17 4/30/17

No individuality?  No art.  There can be no tolerance for any such scenario.

Art is impossible in any collectivist setting.  There, find no more than propaganda. This is the totalitarian groupthink that led to the destruction of both the music and motion picture industries.

And certainly this is an ideological perspective, one of personal and creative freedom.

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