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Alun

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About Me

actor/forensic psychodama psychotherapist/musician. I trained in drama and later qualified as a psychotherapist. I have worked extensivly in applied theatre, particularly with the internationally acclaimed GEESE THEATRE COMPANY where I performed as an actor and ran theatre based group work with offenders on probation and in prison from 1989 until 2005. I specialise in working theraputically with violent men and I still work in this field but am now freelance and looking to extend the spectrum of what I do.I am also a musician and song writer with the band BLACK WATER ECHO and formally a member of THE LLAMAS. Black Water Echo was formed by myself and multi-instrumentalist/sound technician Steve Gilbey in 2000. We have so far completed one album PATRIOT SONGS which is available from our band website. A new album called MOODS & MADNESS is reaching completion and will be available in the autumn. Steve has a side project under the name DISPOSABLE MAN which I highly recommend. The project features Richard Verbal who is a superb punk poet. I also highly recommend our friend FRAULEIN who has some great music on her site and also CRECHE COLLECTIVE featuring Fraulein and her invinsible sister Milly - devestating electro-punk of the first magnitude and a peerless live experience.MySpace provides a unique space for musicians, artists and creative people in general to communicate. Thank you for visiting.td, .whitetext12, .lightbluetext8, .blacktext12, .btext, .blacktext10, .text, .orangetext15, .nametext, .redbtext, .redtext, A:link, A:visited, A:active, A:hover, a.navbar, a.navbar:link, a.navbar:active, a.navbar:visited, a.navbar:hover, a.redlink:link, a.redlink:active, a.redlink:visited, a.redlink:hover, a.searchlinksmall:link, a.searchlinksmall:active, a.searchlinksmall:visited, a.searchlinksmall:hover, table td div div font, div table tr td font {

My Interests

music, theatre (experimental, community based, improvisational, mask), art (SEE PICS), film, + Psychodrama, Dramatherpy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Psycho-Cybernetics, Transactional Analysis, Accelerated Learning, Neuro Semantics, Role Theory, Attachment Theory, Oblique Strategies, memetics, politics, philosophy, theology, metaphysics, anthropology, evolution, improvisation.ITTA : ARTIST/COMPOSER - SOUTH KOREA ROBERT FRIPP - FRIPPERTRONICS ROBERT FRIPP - SOUNDSCAPE BRIAN ENO BRIAN ENO - INTERVIEW - 77 MILLION PAINTINGS QUODIA - THE FIRST SIGN (EXTRACT)

I'd like to meet:


Go to ImageShack® to Create your own SlideshowWASSILY KANDINSKY
Go to ImageShack® to Create your own SlideshowJEAN MIRO
Go to ImageShack® to Create your own SlideshowDON VAN VLIET - AKA CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

Music:

Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Howard Devoto, Magazine, Luxuria, David Bowie, Can, King Crimson, The KC ProjeKts, Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto, Tony Levin, Bill Bruford, John Wetton, Frank Zappa, The Mothers, Captain Beefheart, The Magic Band, Van Der Graaf Generator, Neu!, Scott Walker, Matt Johnson (The The), Jon Hassell, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmit, Michael Karoli, Jakki Leiberziet, Damo Suzuki, Philip Glass, David Sylvian, God Speed!You Black Emperor, A Silver Mount Zion, Cluster, Amon Duul II, Steve Roach, The Orb, Orbital, Micheal Hedges, Kaki King, Eric Mongrain, Bert Jansch, Jan Akkerman, Django Reinherdt, Steve Howe, Broken Social Scene, Radiohead, Siouxie & The Banshees,Public Image Ltd, Iggy Pop, Roxy Music, Bjork, Monteverdi, Rameau, John Taverner, Miles Davis, The Velvet Underground, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, XTC, Joy Division, New Order, Television, Jeff Buckley, Messiaen, Soft Machine, Bill Nelson,Perotin, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Charles Trenet, Jake Thackery, Johnny Cash, Disposable Man, Sigur Ros, FSOL, Faust, Laurie Anderson, Echo & The Bunnymen, David Byrne, Toru Takemitsu, Stravinski, Edgar Varese, Sibelius, Carl Neilson, Moondog, Kurt Weill, The Smiths, Sparks, Cluster, Harmonia, Goldfrapp, Aphex Twin, Devoto Shelly, This Heat, Henryk Gorecki, Mahler, Arron Copeland, The Modern Music Ensemble, Bang On A Can, Jimi Hendrix, Jack Bruce, Cream, CSN&Y, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Harold Budd, Hilliard Ensemble, John Foxx, Cabaret Voltaire, John McLaughlin, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti & Remember Shakti, Zakhir Hussain, T.H."Vikku" Vinayakram, V Selvaganesh, U.Shrinivas, L.Shankar, Sevara Nazarkhan, Nusrat Fetah Ali Khan, Trilok Gurtu, Ravi Shankar, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Joji Hirota, Eric Satie, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consnansa + Medieval, Baroque, Avante Gaurde/Experimental & World Music.Checking out: John Zorn, Strings of Consciousness, Aranis, Quodia, KTU, Trey Gunn Band, Whiz Kid Colours, Lowsparks, freulien, The Residents, John Cage, Decoder Ring, Pere Ubu, Bella Bartok, PIL, Steve Severin, Gang of Four, Jaques Brel, Leo Ferre, Georges Brassens, South 33, Translogic, SayCeT, Ernesto Tomasini, Othon Mataragas, Liu Fang, Analog Missionary, The Spiritual, Alessandra Celletti, Sun Moon Star, Building, Medecine Music, 21 Love Hotel, Frederic D. Oberland, Voytek Konikiewicz, The Informati,Inferious, Heliot Ness, Kapital 1 Band, Denque Fever, Attab Haddab, Philip Gelb, Kotogirl, Ma Jie, Wu Fei, Bent, the Magic Radio Ensemble, Crystal Castles, Chris lane, Kaxoano-Sum, Kneebody, Sarah Perrotta, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Boards of Canada, Alex Bozas, Huun-Huur-Tu, Cosmic Shenngy, White, 10, Itta, 4th Race, Chukimai, Creche Collective, The Books.... LA MONTE YOUNG - UNDER CYAN LIGHTS IN ATLANTIC CITY

Movies:

Stop Making Sense, True Stories, Koyaaniqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi, Atomic Cafe, Erazerhead, 200 Motels, The Draughtman's Contract, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Gangs Of New York, Raging Bull, The Seven Samurai, Ran, Citizen Cane, Apocolypse Now, The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Four Feathers, A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera etc. Buster Keaton: The General.Peter Greenaway, Martin Scorses, David Lynch, Akiro Kurosawa, a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vaW1nMTI0LmltYWdlc2 hhY2sudXMvbXkucGhwP2ltYWdlPTAyMDZpbmN1YmF0b3JmZDQuanBn" target="_blank"
Go to ImageShack® to Create your own SlideshowRUSSELL MILLS

Television:

Documentaries: Adam Curtis: The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares, The Trap. John Pilger: Breacking the Silence, Death of a Nation, The New Rulers of the World, Palistine is Still an Issue, Flying the Flag (Arming the World), Stealing a Nation, Paying the Price (Killing the Children of Iraq). Richard Dawkins: The Roots of Evil. Joseph Campbell: The Power of MythVideo: Brain Eno - 'Mistaken Memories of Medieval Manhattan', 'Thursday Afternoon', '77 Million Paintings' David Sylvian - 'Steel Catheadrals'

Books:

Politics, theatre, history, pre-history, philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, theology and.............Franz Kafka, Leo Tolstoy, Gabrial Garcia Marqeuz, Italo Calvino, Laurie Lee, John Wyndham, Naomi Klien, John Pilger, Adam Curtis, Dostoyevsky... HOWARD ZINN - ON HUMAN NATURE & AGGRESSIONglumbert.comTHE FOUNDING FATHERS COMMUNIST MANIFESTOON YOU THE PEOPLE

Heroes:

Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Jacob Moreno, Milton Erickson, Albert Adler, Erich Fromm, Viktor Frankl, James Gilligan, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Pierre-Joseph Proudon, John Pilger, Adam Curtis, Marshall McLuhan Bertrand Russell, Gore Vidal, Richard Dawkins, Paul Kurtz, Charles Darwin, Richard Leaky, Richard Bandler, John Grinder, Morse Peckham, Tony Buzan, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Francisco Goya, Henri Matisse , RussellMills, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, G.I.Gurdjieff, P.D.Ospensky, J.G. Bennett, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Robert Wilson, The Living Theatre, Keith Johnstone, Augusto Boal, Eugenio Barba, Jerzey Grotowski, Konstantin Stanislavski, Vsevoled Meyerhold, Peter Brooks, Shakespeare, Marlow, Tommy Cooper, Spike Milligan, Buster Keaton, The Marx Brothers. THE ILLNESS OF SELF ESTEEM - REBT ERIC FROMM 'TO HAVE OR TO BE' MARSHALL MCLUHAN 'THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY CBS INTERVIEW PART 1 NOAM CHOMSKY CBS INTERVIEW PART 2Jan Komski's Story.SAM HARRIS 'THE END OF FAITH'

My Blog

Shame: Violence as Symbolic Language

Shame: Violence as a Symbolic Language Masculine culture has historically seen the need for care, love, vulnerability and the other emotions associated with emotional support as unmanly.  To expe...
Posted by Alun on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:35:00 PST

The Ethics of Humanism without Religion

The Ethics of Humanism Without Religion by Paul Kurtz The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 23, Number 1. The question is constantly asked: What is the ethics of humanism? Ca...
Posted by Alun on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:53:00 PST

Appeasing The Preditor God

Appeasing The Predator-God; Psychodrama, Theatre and Blood Sacrifice   Alun Mountford (C) 2001   "Culture is in the nervous fluids, not in books, paintings, statues or dance" Antonin Artaud...
Posted by Alun on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:38:00 PST

What is it to be 'governed'?

'To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated, regimented, closed down, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, evaluated, censored, commanded; all by crea...
Posted by Alun on Fri, 11 May 2007 10:27:00 PST

Violence Is Not A Natural Law

Violence Is Not Law of Nature Seville Statement on Violence (1986) The difficult task we face at the beginning of 2004 is 'not to get used to war'. This includes recalling everything that has been ac...
Posted by Alun on Fri, 11 May 2007 09:58:00 PST