New albums of string quartets and more featuring Anamorphosis (#3), Refugium (#9), and the Tango (#7):
Chamber Music 2 (2001-2023)
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Chamber Music (1996-2011)
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gazing out our window at the sparkling sky-reflected still bay water and a pile of once-hotel rubble after yesterday's implosive fireworks.
/r/buddhism: 🙃
"CR Lama told me that the best practitioners of dharma are somewhat simple and stupid. Their minds are not busy all the time. They don't have a sense of mastery, or feel that they have to be in charge, and so they just do the practice.
from D.T. Suziki's 'Buddha of Infinite Light':
life may travel between planets on celestial debris. microorganisms can survive remarkably more extreme conditions than expected, and raises questions about origins of life.😎
Some of the new Hubble observations show the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, in the finest detail ever seen. The nebula lies some 4,400 light-years away from Earth.
Some of the new Hubble observations show the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, in the finest detail ever seen. The nebula lies some 4,400 light-years away from Earth.
A recording of my 4th SQ ('98) that brings out the phase-shifting folky dissonances and fiddle patterns. 🤠
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
New paper confirms this astounding story:
JWST Confirmation of a Runaway Supermassive Black Hole via Its Supersonic Bow Shock
I asked James Drew once why he wrote music. He sat there for a few minutes sipping a beer, as he always did at our lessons, and then said, "Jeff, there is an enormous, invisible order to this world. Music serves to glorify that order and is the greatest gift any human can give back to the world." 🫠
New doc about the newly renovated Chelsea Hotel, where Elsie's abstract expressionist dad, Alfred Russell, lived from the 70's until he died in 2007.
No-greed surpasses charity
by P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang)
No-greed surpasses charity.
No-delusion surpasses concentration.
No-ill will surpasses morality.
No-self-centered thinking surpasses cultivating connections.
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We all ride together in the boat of wisdom.
this is not political... politics requires voting and accurate counting as a common sense science! 🫣
if you are anywhere near remotely involved in ending this deportation crisis, you need to read this gracious and poetic thank you note:
This newly processed image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. It is a preplanetary nebula, a structure of gas and dust created as a Sun-like star approaches the end of its life. The Egg that we see now will eventually hatch, revealing a white dwarf at its centre and leaving its shell to become a spectacular planetary nebula.Many preplanetary nebulae are relatively dim and hard to spot. They are made of layers of gas ejected by the star, but that star is not yet hot enough to ionise the gas and cause it to glow. The Egg Nebula is relatively unique, easily visible as a sparkling jewelled egg in space. Powerful beams of starlight blast out of the inner cloud, two a-side, giving a breathtaking illumination to this cosmic structure. Fast-moving outflows of hot molecular hydrogen also emerge from within the dust cloud, visible just at the base of the searchlight beams. These outflows glow with infrared light, which is shown in this image by orange highlights.The central cloud of dust is surrounded by concentric rings, themselves made up from thin, faint arcs of gas. These were created by successive outbursts from the central star, which ejected a little more material from its outer surface every few hundred years. The beams of starlight are reflected by these layers of gas, creating an appearance like ripples on the surface of water. The way that gas molecules reflect and scatter light gives a bluish colour to the arcs. The reflected starlight reveals important details about the central star, which is impossible to view directly in its dusty shell.[Image description: In the centre an opaque cloud of grey gas hides a star. Two strong beams of light from the star emerge from large holes in both sides of the cloud. The central cloud is surrounded by concentric, wispy shells of gas, illuminated by the star’s light. The shells reflect extra light where they’re hit by the twin beams. A crowd of smaller stars with cross-shaped sp…
Image produced from exposures in visible and infrared light from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3
Gorgeous new image of the Egg Nebula, with the earlier Hubble image, a very young preplanetary nebula, a structure of gas and dust created as a Sun-like star approaches the end of its life.
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new piano music, written in 2022 available: piano preludes, #24, 25:
Piano Prelude No.24
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Piano Prelude No.25
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New recording: Piano Prelude No.25
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And then this: do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. And there too a great deal has to be gone through, as gradually you struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. The range tends to narrow down, but it gets much more real. In the end, as you yourself mention in passing, it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything.
Thomas Merton's letter to a young activist:
'Do not depend on the hope of results... concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself.'
jimandnancyforest.com/2014/10/mert...
Leave it to a Jesuit to praise dish-washing as revelation, Father James Martin on how his real world working life inspired him:
A line of baby stars follow a shock wave, inter-galactic consequences of the first confirmed rogue supermassive black hole, probably ejected during a galactic merger.
youtu.be/2imlUyTyJD4
as these frightening times progress, staying positive at ALL tmes and remembering always that there is absolutely no benefit from harming yourself, or others, is the ONLY way. 🙏🙏
ODE TO FRANCISCO SALINAS To Francisco Salinas Catedrático de Música de la Universidad de Salamanca The air becomes serene and is clothed in beauty and strange radiance, Salinas, when there sounds the incomparable music governed by your skilled hand. At that heavenly sound my soul, that is sunk in forgetfulness, recovers its judgement and the lost memory of its first, exalted origin. And as it knows itself, it improves its fate and thought; it disdains the gold that the blind multitude worships, and perishable, deceitful beauty. It traverses the ether until it reaches the highest sphere, and there it hears another mode of imperishable music, the first, the source of all.
It sees how the Great Master, playing this immense cither, with skilled movement produces the sacred sound by wich this eternal temple is sustained. And as it is composed of concordant numbers, it emits a consonant response, and from their vying is mingled the sweetest harmony. Here the soul steers through a sea of sweetness, and at last sinks so deep within, that it hears or feels no strange or rare event. O blessed trance! O death that gives life! O sweet oblivion! Could I but remain in your repose without being restored ever to these low and abject senses! To this bliss I call you glory of Apollo's sacred choir, friends whom I love beyond all treasure, since all visible things are sorrowful tears. Oh, may your music, Salinas, sound everlastingly in my ears; hearing it, my senses awaken to God's goodness, and to all else remain oblivious.
revising my ittle song for sop. and sq, El aire se serena, that i wrote for a 1986 tulane req. but was never ultimately premiered. a setting of a 16th c. spanish religious poem celebrating a musician.
A Francisco Salinas by Fray Luis de León
Original text: www.poesi.as/fll03.htm
for those that understand, it's enough...
“The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption."
-- Martin Luther King
toad sits in water surrounded by hopeful vocalizations...
toad sits in water surrounded by hopeful vocalizations... 😎
“My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot.” He added that they were not pessimistic. “I only ask this – how did you feel when you came out of the movie theatre after watching my film? Did you feel stronger or weaker? That’s the main question. I want you to be stronger.”
RIP Bela Tarr, w/an extraordinary clarification:
“My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot. I only ask this, how did you feel when you came out of the movie theatre after watching my film? Did you feel stronger or weaker? That’s the main question. I want you to be stronger."
Our wedding photograph, 43 years ago, badly xerox'ed, taken in a Royal St. video arcade photobooth. When you move by Greyhound it's amazing anything gets kept...
Our wedding photograph, 44 years ago, badly xerox'ed, taken in a Royal St. video arcade photobooth. When you move by Greyhound it's amazing anything gets kept...
Rome restaurant menu gazing w/Elsie in 2005?
Been a busy few days of birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries: We celebrated 44 years of marriage yesterday!
Rome restaurant menu gazing w/Elsie in 2005?
Tehran protester stops a police motorcycle column.
Better shot of this very brave man:
In the first subtype, patients had high levels of sNfL early on in the disease, with visible damage in a part of the brain called the corpus callosum. They also developed brain lesions quickly. This type appears to be more aggressive and active, scientists said. In the second subtype, patients showed brain shrinkage in areas like the limbic cortex and deep grey matter before sNfL levels went up. This type seems to be slower, with overt damage occurring later.
In the first subtype, patients had high levels of sNfL early on in the disease, with visible damage in a part of the brain called the corpus callosum. They also developed brain lesions quickly. This type appears to be more aggressive and active, scientists said.
