Happy Birthday on Saturday 5/19/2012 to Exile on Main St. I heart you.
Amazing sound collage meets instrumental from the venerable David Byrne.
“London’s tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.”
Description of project by David Byrne:
I brought along some field recording gear to use while I was staying in the lovely pod/room/boat. I went out during the day and recorded sounds that I thought might be useful and evocative. It turned out that most of the sounds—even the church organ in Southwark Cathedral—seemed to converge around a common rhythm. It’s a bit too good to be true—that every large city should have its own rhythm, but here it is. I let the sounds dictate the groove, the tempo, and then I simply played along.
Here are where the sounds come from:
Strawberry seller: Borough Market
Train: Southwark
Woman Evangelist: Spitalfields Market
Organ: Southwark Cathedral
Jackhammer: near Waterloo
Footsteps: mine, embankment
Thames waves: near Surrey water
The videos are from all over. I took lots of photos around town while walking about, but I felt that moving images complemented London’s groove a little better.
DB
western chelsea
Rocket Juice and the Moon - Hey Fatala (featuring Fatoumata Diawara)
Pitchfork reported today that Jay Electronica’s Dear Moleskine has been leaked in it’s completed version. Excellent. This is a video that was released in ‘09 as something of a teaser for the track. Click the link to listen to the stellar Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge). http://soundcloud.com/roberto_g/jay-electronica-act-1-eternal-sunshine-the-pledge Let’s get that Act II out ASAP.
Dub FX ‘NO REST FOR THE WICKED’ feat. CAde & Mahesh Vinayakram Samples, beat box, vocals, all done live take style by layering and looping. Great stuff. If you don’t know Dub FX, check the video and then check this out to see the method: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bioYs6oAD8g
In Defense of the Re-blog: To the Makers of Music - All Worlds, All Times
Mark Dukach at Huckberry posted this incredibly interesting article about Carl Sagan’s efforts to create the “Golden Record,” a record that would play sounds that summed up life on earth. The record was placed on the Voyager 1 and 2 during their mission into the uncharted territory and was meant to be used in case the Voyagers stumbled upon life on other planets.
Click here to listen to samples. Click here to read Mark Dukach’s blog posting.
Read This Book: Freedom from the Known
“You cannot look through an ideology, through a screen of words, through hopes and fears. The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no concept at all. He lives only in what is.” - J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
While digging through my bookshelves this weekend I had the good fortune of coming across this book. I’ve read this multiple times over the years, and each time, pull a different layer of meaning from it. Call it understanding, experience, age, cosmic alignment, or lack of reading comprehension (90% sure that this is not the case. Almost.) So here is my first reading recommendation.
A brief version of his history:
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born into poverty in 1895 in southern India. He was an unusually compassionate and intellectual boy, and at age fourteen was recognized as the pre-destined “World Teacher” by the mystical Theosophical Society, which adopted him and sent him to England and France to be educated and eventually assume his role as their leader. However, in 1929 at the age of 34 he shocked the Theosophical Society by renouncing his role as the World Teacher, arguing that religious doctrines and organizations stood in the way of real truth. ”Because you have placed beliefs before life, creeds before life, dogmas before life, religions before life, there is stagnation. Can you bind the waters of the sea or gather the winds in you fists?”
Remember, self help is the only type of help there is. Pick up the book. Mr. Krishnamurti’s thoughts on Freedom and the Self are enlightened, informed and gloriously free of doctrine. Empty your cup, open your mind and begin to learn your true self.
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“You are the world, the neighbour, the friend, the so-called enemy. If you would understand, you must first understand yourself, for in you is the root of all understanding. In you is the beginning and the end.” “If you are very clear, if you are inwardly a light unto yourself, you will never follow anyone” — J. Krishnamurti
“I’ve always been buffeted by circumstances because I thought of myself as a human being affected by my outside conditioning. Now I realize that I am the power that commands the feeling of my mind and from which circumstances grow.” - Bruce Lee
“A learned man once went to a Zen teacher to inquire about Zen. As the Zen teacher explained, the learned man would frequently interrupt him with remarks like, “Oh, yes, we have that too….” and so on. Finally the Zen teacher stopped talking and began to serve tea to the learned man. He poured the cup full, and then kept pouring until the cup overflowed. “Enough!” the learned man once more interrupted. “No more can go into the cup!” “Indeed, I see,” answered the Zen teacher. “If you do not first empty the cup, how can you taste my cup of tea?””
