sound vs religion/ceremony/trance/community
languages
trips; real & dreamed
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..Ethnomusicology, listening w/ ears, regression/progression or tradition/innovation, blahblah, COOL SHADEZ FER THE SUMMER, my bike, Vietnamese karaoke, Christ candles, monkey dancing, monkey chanting, oiseaux, cooking, aromatherapy, Hypnagogia, nutrition obsession, red wine, laughing until I cry (this happens often). So many questions!
The very-serious and the never-serious. And all those who fall in-between. Binaural beatz. Also, anyone who can help me learn how to make a sound on the ney/nay...
..Jethro Tull (first favorite band), minimalism, free jazz and the ideologies that its many forms encompass, magic oneohtrix point never, jazz innovators in general, improvisation of many sorts, futurism, modernism, serialism, microtonal music, m. concrete, aleatory. Big sounds, sounds that send chills down my spine! Musics of Africa, Bali, the Middle East and the Andes. Various types of Sufi musics, Inuit musics (would like to learn to throat-sing).
..Les Enfants du Paradis, Space is the Place, Nothing is Easy, Goin' Down the Road, The Last Unicorn, Blackmail, Ghost World, The Apartment, The Mask (in 3D!), Living Dolls, Sound??, African Guitar (Vestapol), any footage of trance induced by sound (so if you have any, give).
..ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks and Geeks, Taxi, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Mighty Mouse (Bakshi version), Degrassi (Junior) High, and even Degrassi: The Next Generation (that's my second TNG), Blind Date, WWII-era Popeye, plastic surgery specials (the more invasive, the better), ANTM, things with Andy Kaufman, Bill Murray, Chris Farley.
..F: Heart of Darkness; The Dubliners; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Borges; Love and Rockets; R. Crumb; Dan Clowes; Chris Ware. NF: The Diaries of Anais Nin; Writings of Alan Lomax; New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique; Meditation for Little People; Genesis of a Music; Silence; Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't; Nothing is True - Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin; Sync or Swarm; Journeys of a Sufi Musician; Orientalism; Richard Meltzer in small doses.