Let's talk about context, sources, and links....

[Important to fact-check not by simply following someone's link because it will obviously support their position. Use search engines.]

Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

[Publishing is a statement of quality when expensive and inaccessible. When it's cheap and ubiquitous, quality is determined after the fact, by how people point to it.]

Let's talk about tactics to reach a different hesitant demographic....

[Contrarians can try to describe who's benefiting from this conspiracy without saying 'they', being specific.]

[Intuition may not always be accurate, or people might not be listening to it.]

Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping (1968)

Reminds me of Alice Coltrane’s music, but maybe more chill.

Amon Tobin: How Do You Live (2021)

Two favourites: the titular track, noisy with a fat bass, badass drumming, and kaleidoscopic timbres; and This Living Hand, with a sort of scribbling or tickling turned into a rhythm.

Joyce Moreno: Novelo

From Hard Bossa (1999). Over the last two weeks, I’ve repeatedly listened to this (featured in #012). The modern jazz waltz feel stands out to me now, and I’m absorbing the harmonies and intricate voice-leading.

Envy

[Envy-contempt sublimation is the transformation of envy into something more flattering or socially acceptable.]

Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Science of Stress, Testosterone & Free Will

[Higher aggression and sexual activity is a cause of, rather than an effect of testosterone.]

The Pat Metheny Interview

[More-so than my guitar player thing, I do music, and closely after, I'm a band leader. I try to create spaces for other people to do interesting things.]

[You can go to college for four years to study harmony, or rhythm, but not melody.]

[Improvise using the structure of Happy Birthday.]

[Melody is the way things go together. As you flow easily in conversation, flow from one musical idea to another.]

[Melody can be a way to share a cool thing you found, introducing and describing and showing examples.]

[I want to understand how the music I love works.]

[Every night I would take ten pages of notes about the songs we played.]

[Most of the people who are going to check your stuff out are not born yet.]

[I never play any two notes at the same volume.]

Free Schools Are the Future of Education

What if the modern world had a church in schools for lifelong learning?

Male Rivalry: Sex, Testosterone and Antlers

[Women do problem-solving while cooking together but it isn't considered as such.]

The Transformative Power Of A Single Invitation

[What was a time in the last year where you felt most alive? What's a big life lesson you learned and how did you learn it? How are you similar or different from who you were as a sixteen year old?]

[To only express hopes, dreams, or values in the form of invitations.]

Maede Shafiie: گروه نوازی تنبک

Maede Shafiie leads this group of five Iranian women playing tombak with hypnotic hand coordination.

Nate Wood: It’s Enough (2021 single)

From the fOUR project. One person playing drums, bass, and synth in 5 meter, while singing, plus “recorded live in 1 pass with no overdubs, click track or pre-recorded backing tracks”. What else??

Sam Gendel When I Am Laid In Earf

From Fresh Bread (2021) pairs baroque harmony and voice-leading with a computer-generated voice on autotune. Hella eerie.

Chancha Via Circuito: Bienaventuranza (2018)

Old favourite reverberating inside me the over last few days. I have never forgotten my first impression from hearing this years ago: the feeling of a wide-open space gradually expanding, physical heaviness (as if this were a solid object) created from sparse texture. This digital cumbia from Argentina has a certain rawness from traditional instruments and especially the voice, combined with natural ambience, and electronic sounds.