Friday, March 4, 2011

They are not what I will be saying on the ,,mr foch ideas.’’

And I thought I was alone. I mean up in the penthouse. A gram here and there, or a star of David for one more love triangle. Anyway, I <3 Fever Ray <3 <3 <3. I am listening to a song with the following lines. “Raeppear in a flash/ There is more I’d like to know. A comment on someone’s page said just what I thought I come up with: “Reappear in a FLASH/ Cheers.” That is AWESOME. Because as I heard that I was doing this: Okay first another of many genius songs.

Keep the Streets Empty for Me

Memory comes when memory’s old
I am never the first to know
Following this stream up north
Where do people like us float?

There is room in my lap
For bruises, asses, handclaps
I will never disappear
For forever, I’ll be here

Whispering
Morning keep the streets empty for me
Morning keep the streets empty for me

I learned to not eat the snow
My fur is hot, my tongue is cold
On a bed of spider web
I think about to change myself

A lot of hope in one man tent
There’s no room for innocence
So take me home before the storm
Velvet mites will keep us warm

Whispering
Morning keep the streets empty for me
Morning keep the streets empty for me
x2

Uncover our heads and reveal our souls
We were hungry before we were born
x4

To which was commented: “... my streets are always empty...” which makes me want to love the world for a mo.

So this movie, my little gift. It is of a portion of the printable characters using quickview or (or TextEdit would be the same) the Flash file listed (possibly not .txt but that is just a way of lazily forcing the easy viewing of it). And this is just the localized strings (though there looks like a lot more than the localized strings, if you know what they are.) Let me say: nothing. Why? Just a matter of custom. What custom? One that I don’t know. Is it spoken? No. Does anyone learn it explicitly? No. How is it learned by anyone? By perpetual hint. One hint is many, or one word is many: In “Stairway to Heaven” we learn there are two paths we can by go by. That sounds, yeah, make choices. YES in many ways. But two paths, left and right. Very often we explicitly hear “right” as in “I’m trying to make things right around here” or Loquat, from “Need Air”: “If this was a race, who’d win or lose?/ It’s time we start, the letter part./ If you go left, then I guess, I’ll go right./ We’ll see what we come up with when we meet tonight.” (I won’t both to see if “letter” should be “latter.” I thought it was the latter. But it is irrelevant, because the letter works in any case, and, moreover, things are pronounced so as to impart this or that apart from that which is written, so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it foxy or even inkorrekt. As for race. A specious word.) Or my spiel about I am David and rights of passage. Colonizing thought. What is left in this world, or should I say, who? Where are my peeps, my bros, or “bruhs” as they seem to say downunder these days.

Oh, and the following video is just a resource file. It is intentional blurred; with a Mac, you can reckon for yourself this one. You ought to see an actual FLV file. NO DIFFERENT! Or an MP3 of AIFF: why are there “phrases” in common between the two, outside of tags? Hmmmm. And with GIFs and JPGs, and even C programs in Unix or at least Darwin or Mach-O or OS X whatever they call it these days. It’s, like, random, or my biography, or yours, or more, or more-more, or perhaps on stereo files byte order has to be swapped (as demonstrated by the file name at the ends of mp3s). Or perhaps there are hash or cipher tables (d’uh) or enough staring to figure out it is layers, or is there a echo at ten characters (wild assertion time) because they might be the spectrographic text to be printed. Stereoscopic? Some misleading layers. Very hard to leave/learn. For a while—I have some of one of my compositions in spectro form from iZotope RX Advanced printed out after careful parametric settings taped to my bedroom floor (because there is much floor due to our bed being non-existent. I had a few stabs really hard practicing into the wall and backs of chairs, like, I mean writing ideas like stabs at solving a problem, and I read about my favorite parts of New Zealand only two people know about, and recently. And, true to my narcissism, which my second-to-last knock-out (technically speaking) of a girlfriend accused me very much of as I was suffering from a bad break-preposition, how touching, it helped a lot being held, accountable I was for s much of my own difficulteries it is very true, so I read about my implant (cf. Efterklang, not just cloning, ha) which is a strange looking thing and not some mystical MIT or government way of controlling thoughts (see appropriate YouTubes yourself or come to our show—a colleague/collaborator and I—at the Enormous Room Of Restless Rebuttal—are doing, just to beat some research and outdo ourselves in who-really-knows but if my nephew/niece—is there are collective term?—have bunks, and were I to sleep in that spare room of several at my parents’ house in Napier, I’d have to debed that messy lisp of a room), true to my narcissism not just the implant but a message among many about the military putting something in my head, perhaps just magnetic RELAY (she’d be so lucky) devices perhaps thin film magazinetism, which is developed as would films be near my temporary pseudo-office in all its debasing mention FORESKIN! Time for BrisFect of -Fess BUT BUT BUT (I am now listening to Azure Ray after Fever Ray, next it will be “Over the Ray nbow” sung by Barbra Streisand with some TV show host at the same time as “Chasing Rainbows” which is on a tune from Chopin). True to form I forget what I am writing about (true?) about what response I/it would have to loud sounds. Perhaps it feeds off certain frequencies. Perhaps all this, well, get this: at a concert last night, of Mantra and Marteau, the musical director at NEC of the C group for new music said, there is all that codedaphonic row like totally serial stuff (nod to Al Gore of the forever-hint) to talk about—and we are music theorist including Uncle_Monty—but he won’t/can’t because it is music and that is all he is interested in. Well, at least he pointed out loud and clear with suitable pauses that there are those things to investigate, which many of us would have, as contemporary composers/theorists—how else was the modern North American discipline of Music Theory invented, as a breakaway from the Musicology as practiced in the old German tradition, though perhaps headed more toward notationless stuff now, and perhaps not because of John Cage’s Notations (I bought my copy for $6 of something and it is worth hundreds now, not that I could do without it—I am stealing someone’s blog post taken from Notations as the copy of the book was mine; extremely pertinent as I am impertinent)—as approaches to the pre-composition of serial works, reminds me of trifid...-ciphers. But the music was beamed in from Saturn, we were told. I BET it was said for my benefit to lead me astray (I don’t even smoke) once again about the whole Saturnalia rag. But I am Scott Jopling. Who do vodou. (No inslut to vodou, but to pretenders to it and abusers of it, same for Wiccan faiths and practices: I truly believe these things should NOT be insulted. Just like using an obituary for some secret message or doing cocaine from a church altar.) So. My new piano piece. No, back to Charlier and Shinier matters more Guarded than most. EVERY entry is covered my modesty beads, Rubik, D, man, Saturn, Brain, I will not go on because I will be reproducing the article and comments (it is a CIF—comment is free or foment is creem or fascist suck anything strapped on to intelligence like the C-extension to the E-string of a contrabass) so no comment and sue the pants off me please because I will have to do my laundry because I am terrible at showering and doing the laundry and sleeping and get me arrested or naked-ish in the laundromat so I can clean my act up or I had an ex-girlfriend who got naked a lot semi-pubically but once in a high rise (yeah, personal geometry is none of your bidness) the modesty beads came out, or clothes, don’t want the Scientologists, our neighbors, or employers across the river in 5-4-5(to the-)4 to know or see the task at hand. But that was years ago. Here is the movie, if I can get it on Youtube. Read on! Pretend it is yours, write a cunning application to the American Academy in Rome (where I spent a lot of time with Cammy and other friends and colleagues—some of who went on to Villa I Tatti and Dumb-art-on Oaks) and be an artist, sleep with an old poet or two, whatever, we all bossa [some description of novelty or explosion].



Yup yip yip Open Sesame RADIO! Just visible, but an invitation to your own computer. I don’t know what PCs are like, but this is either open source-ish from sourceFORGE-ish or academic agent-006 because -007 is HOT and I am straight, and Macs are kind of more lectrocratic than PCs.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

With one leg missing and she having far to run.


[Probably a zillion errors, this was pumped out, like an everted tire.]

This is a Quake I™ (yes “I” am trademarked up) map designed by history. It is the weapon of choice for some people, the grenade pin remover, which is required after a vodou attack. It is the insertion of the funny annoying thing that probably clicks found in E1M1, the Slipgate Complex and those are for real, for clever stupid real, real chic. My friend “Uncle_Monty” and I have spend many loving hours gulping down slime and riding each others’ rockets—Uncle Monty of course is the sleazy fat old geezer from Withnail and I (1987).


And my friend, Jonno, is indeed from Montreal, as his name would suggest. More still, of course, to come, but such complexities and complacencies and complaints and replacemencies and relationshipwrecksinseas and complicities and who is your friend, girlfriend, father, these days, as a Professor Jeanne Bamberger used to say when we were neighbors at MIT, “amorphous boundaries.” Or my voice leading ideas on voice misleading or missed-voice leading. I was briefly just called “Snake,” for lack of something witty, but Jonno can barely be outdone and was brieftly “Uncle_Mongoose.” Ach, we creatures, great ones, small ones, edible and gullible and bury my head in the sand, sinking of course, or at least scuppering.

Okay, on a different note, I wonder about about people I know, what they really were in my life. I have concluded is that Twin Peaks nailed it: “The owls are not what they seem.” And every day I lose connection further with what I though my various types of relationship were. I cannot get myself to talk to some people I was close to; that includes a number of people fake in my life, and people who have told the big lies to me. Jonno is not one. Sorry to name names. Like, it’s his real name.... I will mention my most recent ex-girlfriend in that fake context. No one knows of this brief relationship.

Yuck. The National’s “Apartment Story” from Boxer reminds me of earthquake drill in Napier New Zealand, or boyscout camp. Why not just pass me a post-apoplectic instruction manual? Or, for that matter (plasma even), I am beconfusedandincediary (is like when you expose yourself naked?—immolate) because I am understand everything as a commentary on now and plans and not ?weightlifting and on ?conservation family valleys and warm tactile feelings and I do like it that the want everything to be right, because wrong is bad, right? And what’s left when all is said and done? Naturally I cannot believe anyone with eyes, ears, brains, and who has lived in a few countries and enjoyed them thoroughly could not be Marxist to some decent orthodox extent, and hate the political far-right and anything of privilege. I should have smelt that rat like it was made of aluminum when I heard these “lefties” being encouraged to get more bourgeois jibs because the “organization,” which I thought was a small leftist propaganda group, needed money money money not really that funny. Conservative, yeah, fear enough. Honest. The most honed, perhaps. (I had a flashback to Rotorua in a our funny little hotel and I am left sad, lonely, angry, and whatever. Her major loss.) But I am very very tired; teaching composition to 33 students and running an electronic music studio is a harder job than it sounds. Ha. (But fun, of course.) Very very draining, especially as I have mammoth projects to do, not in the least this scoobydooing what I is doing, and that is swimming the Baring Sea because the Ice Age cometh. The blogs and videos and visual art are my main thing, though I am writing a four-part-chord non-repeating Vexation of sorts. It is algorithmic, but in a very careful aesthetic sense. Tonight a few of us—including some students, which was awesome because it would have been an ear-opener, and they are just very very excellent students, it sort of made it seem more worthwhile that the few who could make it did, braving the cold of Boston tonight—Boulez’s golden hammer and Stockhausen’s downloadable mantric ringtones.

So that was a real pleasure in this world I absolutely hate. No, I do remain alive of course and just mentally throw up (on fools and their highness and immature partial edification, wear Borges categorical analog passive filters in which trying to change the things bandpassing not the inductor/capacitor f and Q determinants is plain futile. I have a strange a video found on my computer during the “bad” times when someone was tormenting my life to craziness, I jest not, I’d almost like to be arrested for some weird trumped-up charge so I can write more than a blog. I’m patient, so very patient; and were I committed as one as I am a Veronica Mars (she knows how to dress so excellently). In a single old-fashioned ewer of milk (especially pronounced the Belfast way, ”milik“), in how many wheys can your thoughts be curdled? Not just skimming the surface, but not taking it to a lab? Since love and war and dreaming and nonsense and reading and getting lost ack, I have gone over this crying-over-spoilt-milk with its white impure, which is like s-impure (pronounced Italianishly since it is an Italian thing) when an initial s is followed by a consonant, so lo would be the masculine definite article of that very singular variety. My mind is awash with too many ideas trying to account for a bad break-up and strange media files appearing on my computer, and where am I? Salvaged from my second madness which are self-consistent, and this time I can say for sure, REAl absolutely revoltingly true. Mythology surrounding the first was a little whacky, but that is hardly the point: I was accounting for a weirdness in a limited capacity to be Velma. But this time, it all accords with my instruction manuals and with my Psychotic Scrawls—I must put them all up; there is a copyright issue with iii as I used the singing bells of Benjamnin Iobst and I haven’t successfully sought permission—tried with no response but I will try hard. ii is up here or on Tumblr already (all these blogs and other sites are accessible from http://anonymous-infinity.com because they all spell Amf.’s name differently, as she is both real and unreal, plus it is time for major mirroring and distribution and caching has been happening all the time by my including very attractive keywords all along, in every post, just to make sure, and so much is told already in one of only a couple of ways of getting this screenplay past the censors, and that one way mentioned is the best way of all, which is to have something dense in information, in some fairly unique style and not some kind of common, say, acrostic. That is like the Magic Eye image you can find. But the clever-ish thing is the very subjects, or exact quotes/angles chosen. Who would spot that in such randomness, and it is not something I really need to think about a whole lot, since my mind has kept a journal of randomness, perhaps scrapbooks, since I was a kid. It is like the repeated pattern of a Magic Eye Image, the thing you can actually see, but not think is significant as it is medium for communicating something else deeper. Oh well. I feel silly. Oh, that’s right, I don’t feel silly. The censorial supressor-wannabes must. “Asleep on a Sunbeam,” so happy by B&S from Dear Catastrophe Waitress. Is there a turn of that phrase “Catastrophe Student”?

So that map is also something dental, ocular, aural, all insertion like an earring or earwig or ringing ear or ringworm or wormhole or holier-than-thou, or thousands of wholes turning into parts, or in this map, whares (M&amacron;aori meeting houses) and ramparts, in one of the battles of the great Totikowaru, one of the greatest M&amacron;ori warriors ever, which means one of the greatest warriors of the world ever. His fifty men could keep at bay over a thousand Pakeha goons. He himself was amazing. This map is either in the Taranaki Province of New Zealand where his final battles took place, or in the Hudson River, with Lincoln Logs (or Napier Bones?) and stumps and Well-Tempered Clavier partly cleared ground-basses (more passacaglie) and Trenton trench warfare in Taranaki with parapet palisades despite being on the TASman, and Major Hunter killed (like, that was a name, like, say, Henry Hudson, or is it, like, someone who hunted who was important, and so EVERYTHING IN THIS SICK FASCIST-BECOMING WORLD IS AND I DO NOT MEAN CURRENT REGIMES. I AM SICK SICK SICK OF WHAT FEELS LIKE A CULT OF SELF-ASSUREDNESS WITH NO EXPERIENCE—HENCE A CULT REPLETE WITH REWARD PROMISE AND EXTREME REJECTION—HI PETER HOW DOES IT FEEL BEING SQUASHED—JUST FINE THANK YOU BECAUSE I AM ALREADY A FAIRLY MARROW PERSON, PHYSICALLY, BUT I DON’T PUMPKIN OR ANYTHING ELSE ODDLY SELECTIVELY IN THAT BREAD-RAISING YEAST INVECTIVE WHEY—AND THE GUARDIAN SURE TOOK THE SHEEN OFF ALL SEMBLANCE OF INTELLIGENCE AND APPRECIATION FOR ENGLISH HUMOR—FOR IT WAS STACKED BY LONDONERS I KNEW AND GORMLESS FOOLS HERE OF UTTER PREDICTABILITY WHERE ABILITY IS A HIGHLY EXAGGERATED SUFFIX. BUT SHOULD I GO THROUGH THAT SHEENLESS CIF AND ANALYZE REFERENCES, AND HAVE A DEEP STAB AT EVERY NAME BECAUSE, AS WITH UNCLES—KIN AND FRIEND, ADAPT IT, YOU DISIN-GENIUS FOOLS LYING IN THE GENTLE BREEZE—A GENTLE BREEZE SAY AT TE MATA OR FLAT ROCK I LOVED MORE THAN ANYTHING UNTIL I THOUGHT IT WAS RAPED FROM ME BY AN INFERIOR LITTLE ALWAYS-TARDY-TO-SCHOOL-THEREFORE-LATE BEASTIE OR WORSE YET

oh this screenplay is boring me to tears, boring me to death which (1) suggests potential necrophilia, and (2) more broadly, a sad end to humankind due to the arrogance of pretenders to the heir to throne of unselfishness whereas they should be thrown to the air of their complete unexpressed selfishness (for it is ineffable, but I’ve done what I have been able to, to f it over. And what a bad fit).

Yeah, forget this screenplay, I’ll go for the one where girlfriends and friends and the other f words are for real, honest or at least with no malice by intention or by willing misguidance accompanied by smugness with sacred official oh-so-turned-away righteousness of headiness of hanging ten, even one in ten would decimate or at least tithe if it were income. Yeah, I‘ll switch my screenplay completely around, to something happy. Like I will post

ugh. Went to Tumblr instead. Bye bye, sasasasasasasasa.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Oh! What a Lovely War!

“And fornicate my bleeding life away.”

I have been coding some crude MaxMSP patches, both for algorithmic piano composition, and for pedagogical purposes (for my advanced students). I have also been thumbing through many of my books, which is way more fun that looking at a computer screen with decent pr0ns. Some such books: one concerning Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, http://www.amazon.com/Fathers-Daughters-Their-Own-Words/dp/0811806197, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) with the following review:–

“FANTASTIC BOOK” (5 Stars)

This book was published under the name of Steve Goodman (a lecturer in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London), not of Kode9. So it is not a tutorial on how to make wobbly bass in Massive. True, because of its subject matter it can be at times heavy on the SAT phraseology, but I seriously doubt the usefulness of writing a vibrational ontology for kindergarteners, especially if that ontology is explicitly developed in the context of Leibniz, Deleuze and Guattari.

If you are looking for a fresh perspective on sonic weaponry, piracy, pop music as torture, sound systems, earworms, crowd control, and the Big Bang then this is the book for you.

If you are looking for “a pretty interesting philosophical read,” try Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. Wait, maybe that too is “over-written,” “quickly filling and hard to digest,” so better try Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Crafts: An A-to-Z Guide with Detailed Instructions and Endless Inspiration.

And if you are looking to practice your reviewing skills without having to read anything, go to Youtube and join the pissing contest coming up with the next lackluster metaphor for face-metling griminess when commenting on the latest Datsik track.

PS. Read the editorial reviews. If you feel like you don't understand them, save your money and buy instead Kode9’s Memories of the Future.

(The review is evidently responding to a troll.) At least the title of the book is honest, and the material too, though I am so dumb it is probably about how to eat recently killed game with delicacy (but no relish), on polishing Rolls Royce engines while they are running, on contradancing. I have bought 100 or so new books in the past six months, such is the intrigue I have with fonts of wisdom, the smell of paper, nice layout, always from major presses. I love books and paper and manuscripts; I used to have a part-time summer job (1998) at Houghton Library at Harvard University. That’s where the rare books and manuscripts are kept, real white glove and glass rod material.

And speaking of iDance Contra’s “canned hell”: am I, trying not to disturb nature by opening that “can of hell” by breeching Pauli’s exclusion principle, and instead being more inclusive, reading about dancing, ... censored, though, lightbulb! Something just clicked! It is popular at places like Harvard and BU because the patterns resemble predictable flow in fluid dynamics! And that is all about lovin’. Here are some pictures, and this ain’t the 1/10th of it:–




And here are some excerpts. It really must be about fluid negotiating bends and changes of diameter of pipe, kind of a Bernoulli thing. Here is part of the derivation of the Bernoulli equation for incompressible fluids:



I get a hint, looking at that, that someone likes their sativa, but seriously, like, with gravity.

http://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dart/appendix_a.htm
http://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dart/appendix_b.htm

And some incredible information about flow in contradance:–

[Retrieved from http://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dart/aesthetics_1.htm on 20110227-1914.]

AN AESTHETIC OF CONTRA DANCING

The responses given by my informants in answer to the question “What makes a good dance?” can be divided into a number of clusters of criteria, each of which I would like to discuss in some detail. These clusters include the “flow” of the dance, the choice of figures and formations used in the choreography, the complexity of the dance, the social interaction that takes place within the dance, the degree to which the dance moves conform to the expectations of the dancers, the fit of the dance to the music, the physical activity level of the dance, and the quality of specialness or uniqueness exhibited by a dance.

FLOW

The most common short response to the question, “What makes a good dance?” was “good flow.” The concept of “flow” seems to refer predominantly to the transitions between the dance figures rather than to the figures themselves, and it relates to how smooth these transitions feel to the dancers. Here are two summary statements from my informants that give an idea of what is meant by this term, “flow”:

Good flow means that each transition is easily maneuvered and rewardingly maneuvered. (Jennings 1990b)

If the dance is smooth, it means that the transition from one figure to the next is easy to achieve. You do not ever have to turn the hard way. You don’t ever have to stop, literally stop in your tracks, and backtrack to do something else. Everything flows into the next thing, so you are eternally walking forward. (Park 1990)

The term “flow,” as used by my informants, has both physical qualities which have to do with the laws of physics, and nonphysical qualities which have to do with the expectations of the dancers and the degree to which they perceive the dance as “making sense.”

The physical component of “flow” concerns the motion of the body. In a dance with good flow the dance sequence avoids transitions where the dancer must change his or her momentum suddenly through either a change of direction or a change of dancing speed. (“Suddenly” is an important qualification, since many dances have either a full stop, or an assisted change of direction through an “allemande” or other strongly connected figure performed with another dancer.) If such a change of momentum is easily anticipated and can be done comfortably, it may not disrupt the flow of a dance. An example of a comfortable change of momentum might be the change from a “circle left” to a “circle right,” a transition which is common and anticipated and for which dancers have learned to adjust their footwork to make it smooth. An example of an uncomfortable change of momentum might be an “allemande left” followed by a “circle left,” in which the dancers must change from a forward counterclockwise motion to a sideways clockwise motion, requiring both a change of body position and a change of direction. Bad flow may also result from movements that are difficult because the hand that is needed is not free. Steve Zakon gives an example:

We just finished a “swing,” now the men allemande right. Well where’s your hand at the end of the “swing?” It’s behind the lady. You can’t get there. (Zakon 1990)

...

It is possible to have too much flow in a dance, especially when the choreographic sequence includes a lot of circular motion. A dance with too much flow can leave the dancers either disoriented or dizzy. Ted Sannella comments on this phenomenon:

...

In the composing of contra dances with good flow, conservation of momentum is an important principle. The movements work better when one takes advantage of the momentum already established in a previous figure, because the dancers do not have to work as hard to perform the dance. In particular, when rotating figures move into other rotating figures, the direction of rotation should not be reversed. Gene Hubert elaborates:

If you’re going to have a circle on either side of an “allemande right,” it should be a clockwise circle, which means “circle left”.... And “allemande left” means that you’re going around the other direction, which is basically “circle right” direction. So “allemandes” and “circles” work together that way.... And “swings” to “circles” and “circles” to “swings” are the same deal. A “left circle” is a basically clockwise movement, and a “swing” is a clockwise movement. They go together real naturally. (Hubert 1990b)

The conservation of angular momentum may produce acceleration and deceleration within the dance. For example, going from a “circle” into a “swing” involves an acceleration of movement, because as two dancers pull closer together for the “swing,” the conservation of momentum results in their going faster, an exciting and pleasing effect.

One way for the dancers to change directions without disrupting the flow of the dance is to use assisted changes of direction, as noted above. An “allemande,” for example, can be used to send two dancers in the opposite directions from which they came, without their having to stop or turn around. Dan Pearl gives an example:

”Anniversary Reel” by Ted Sannella has a deal where the actives go down the center while the inactives come up the center, and you allemande with your next neighbor by the handy hand, and you immediately return to your original neighbor. So it’s like you’re using the next one in line like a pole.... It’s an assisted change of direction, and that kind of muscle tension in contra dancing is fun. (Pearl 1990)

The dance composer must be careful in the use of the directions “right” and “left” if the dance is to flow well. If many dancers are doing a movement together it is not likely to be confusing, but if a single dancer must make a split-second decision between right and left, some dancers will be confused, and the flow of the dance will be disrupted by their hesitation. John Krumm has noticed this problem:

I find there’s a lot of right and left anxiety on the dance floor, a lot more than anybody imagines there is.... Thirty percent of the dance floor will be confused by simple right and left hand things. They’ll have to think. If you put right and left together a few times in one sentence, you can confuse fifty percent of the floor. Or if you have different things doing right and left, like put your left hand on your right shoulder and face left, then you confuse almost everybody. (Krumm 1990)

Another guideline offered for the composing of dances with good flow is that the last move of a dance must flow well into the first move. This is because when the dance is actually performed by the dancers, the dance is repeated perhaps fifteen times, and the transition from the last move to the first one becomes just as important as any of the other transitions. Ted Sannella emphasizes this point:

People, when they’re writing a dance, sometimes they start at the top and they go to the end. And they don’t think about what happens when you go from the end to the beginning again. You may have a dance that flows beautifully all the way through until you get to the end, and then the last figure doesn’t flow into the beginning again for the next repeat. (Sannella 1990a)

The last principle of flow discussed by my informants comes out of the problem of too much flow discussed above. In order to avoid a dance being disorienting or dizzy, the dance composer needs to insert moves which do not revolve, to break up the circular flow of a dance which contains a lot of “swings” and “circles.” Straight line movements such as the “forward and back” figure or a “down the center and back” figure will serve to break up a dizzying circular flow, as will any kind of “balance” figure.

[Retrieved from http://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dart/changes.htm on 20110227-1907.]

TABLE 2. CHANGES IN CONTRA DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY

FORMATIONS:

1. The triple formation and the proper formation are used less frequently.
2. The improper formation and the Becket formation are most commonly used.

SYMMETRICAL ROLES:

1. There is less distinction between the roles of the active and inactive couples.
2. Terminology has been altered to reflect this change.

FIGURES:

1. The use of the “swing” has increased.
2. Fractional figures are common.
3. Figures danced on the diagonal are being used.
4. Borrowed and invented figures have been added to the repertoire.
5. “No hands” figures have become more popular.
6. Strongly connected figures are used to facilitate good flow.
7. The use of figures requiring unequal roles has declined.

TRANSITIONS:

1. The sequence “down the center and back” and “cast off” has declined in use.
2. Figures that cross the set and return are now used more often in their half form.
3. Transitions are designed to build momentum for vigorous dancing.

COMPLEXITY:

1. Sequences are more complex.
2. Figures of shorter duration are common.
3. Dance movements are faster and use closer timing.

MULTIPLE PROGRESSIONS AND END EFFECTS:

1. Dances have been composed that progress the dancers more than one place in a single round of the dance.
2. Both single and multiple progression dances may require dancers to dance outside their minor set of two couples.
3. More complicated choreography has resulted in more complex adjustments that must be made at the ends of the set.

NUMBERS OF DANCES:

There are many more dances in circulation now.

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I have so many books to write about, and interests, now that I made a major breakthrough. It might just be a TP in my ~life. I talked about TP in this blog or the other. And, especially pertinent....

I see the Coen brothers have a new cinematic experience awaiting me. Yes, just for me. No Country for Old Men was quite something. From Wikipedia (yawn):–

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh, a hitman hired to recover the missing money. The character was a recurrence of the “Unstoppable Evil” archetype found in the Coen brothers’ work, though the brothers wanted to avoid one-dimensionality, particularly a comparison to The Terminator.[7] The Coen brothers sought to cast someone “who could have come from Mars” to avoid a sense of identification. The brothers introduced the character in the beginning of the film in a manner similar to the opening of the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth.[8] Chigurh has been perceived as a “modern equivalent of Death from Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal.”[9] Chigurh's distinctive look was derived from a 1979 photo from a book supplied by Jones which featured photos of brothel patrons on the Texas-Mexico border.[10] After seeing himself with the new hairdo for the first time, Bardem reportedly said, “I’m not going to be laid for three months.” Bardem signed on because he had been a Coens’ fan ever since he saw their debut, Blood Simple.[11]

The latter film is one of my favorite films ever, and I think while watching (it for the tenth time) that I received my first success handjob. Quite startling. Closely behind Blood Simple is the candid O Brother, Where Art Thou?. I would certainly not label it a comedy. And, yes, the parallels with Homer’s Odyssey are in plain sight. I am sure many people say that. I bet many of them haven’t read Homer’s Odyssey, even in translation. They might just know about Circe, the Sirens, Calypso, and Trojan Horses. No, that’s the Iliad.

On my other blog I am singing of song, about

Friday, February 25, 2011

Das ist kein cubed.


“Today” or “Dear” or “Gloves & Scarf” or “It’s a Yellow Murmuring Thing”



That yellow thing lies below the warzone of a painting, i.e., my painting has to start somehow and sometimes a spray can is simplest. It’s also a vas deferens (“carrying away vessel”), the yellow brick road, a test pattern to see if canvases work. Things tend to lie about warzones.

Oh, “In the hall of the mountain king”—I really want to know what that is all about. It feels important if it is on my download of the 50 darkest pieces of classical music. I wonder too about “All creatures great and small.” I need to know. I will massage them (get it, “knead”) until something arises (get it, “yeast”). I doughn’t know if it will have bred anything short of a crust. Actually if the crust is cut off, then in Italy it’s a tramezzino and not a panino.

Painting and room arrangement/glorious interior design © 2010–2011 Peter Whincop. If I change my name, you’ll know it’s because of a spelling problem I can’t face, or care not to be reminded of. But, no, I like my name. And so do I.

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nb. Read web logs carefully, that is to say, “theft vent.” And if you can solve that and are not some fascist scum, then you could save the world. Magari. I think I can (as I am editing back and forth, since the next statement holds, once I check the facts and make sure, which I have been VERY careful to do, there are no claims about people that could be misconstrued). Scenario, a little like corporations barging in on patents just by breaking someone else’s: the individual probably can’t afford to defend themselves legally. And the usual response is, I got a year out of it, so fcuk that sheet now. Or smile and say, I know I did the work, and developed that artificial virus that emulates a ducks back, and that corporation is just water. Or say, and this is that “next statement that holds,” I’ve done my work and whatever, whatever, it’s not longer quadrivial. The rest is naïve and trite and vile. Like a vial of naïve backwards—well, to make it work I suppose you have to accept that there is envy among that subject of reading: nV = PrT. I could do this: nV/∂A = ∂PrT/∂A where A ≜ area—cross section of volume, area under pressure. And boyhowdy, how de-boy-ed often has that been relevant. My friends used to say I was Cartesian and not Caucasian as I am noticeably thin (when you can actually notice me)—perhaps I have a prostrate Napoleon complex—so the ∂/∂A is a somewhat pertinent and slightly ga-ga operator.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

She told me “concrete” was not well understand. And it had CO2 trapped in it to be harnessed.


Image © 2011 Peter Whincop. It is the local ice-skating rink. Or something like rust on abstract. Which means “to draw from.”