02006-06-24 | Design, Music, Ottmar
I want to show the song titles on the back of the CD package, so that people can see them without having to open the package. As a result there won’t be space for a blurb about the music. We will order stickers locally which will be applied to the front of the CD package, on top of the shrinkwrapping. I have two quotes that will fit nicely:
Ottmar Liebert’s new CD of solo acoustic guitar – the ghosts of Spanish flamenco within the dreamscapes of the New World. One Guitar: 13 tracks of contemplation, meditation, exhalation, levitation… and exquisite solitude. – CoultureCourt.com
Music that is haunting in its beauty and depth. Highly recommended! – Ken Wilber
Thanks Ken. I appreciate it!
And I could not resist LR’s poetic description of the album for CultureCourt: ghosts of spanish flamenco… levitation… but my favorite is exquisite solitude…
02006-06-24 | Technology, World
Net Neutrality: This is serious | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
When I invented the Web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.
I blogged on net neutrality before, and so did a lot of other people. (see e.g. Danny Weitzner, SaveTheInternet.com, etc.) Since then, some telecommunications companies spent a lot of money on public relations and TV ads, and the US House seems to have wavered from the path of preserving net neutrality. There has been some misinformation spread about. So here are some clarifications.
Continue to read this entry by Tim Berners-Lee – and yes, he really invented the WWW.
Lawrence Lessig writes this:
One clue to this Net Neutrality debate is to watch what kind of souls are on each side of the debate. The pro-NN contingent is filled with the people who actually built the Net — from Vint Cerf to Google to eBay — and those who profit from the competition enabled by the Net — e.g., Microsoft. The anti-NN contingent is filled with the entities that either never got the Net, or fought like hell to control it — telecom, and cable companies.
02006-06-23 | Music
Culture Court preview:
2 tracks from Santa Fe jazz bassist Jon Gagan’s forthcoming (September) CD Transit II.
Travelogue: a brain scan of a jazzer on the move, maybe jammin’ at the U.N.: various spectral flavors from the traditions of Brazil, India, Spain, and U.S strobe in the montage. The groove is funky bossa
Read LR’s review of the album
02006-06-22 | Music, Recording
Rahim called me yesterday morning. He had a blast performing at the Kennedy Center. The Kennedy Center has a nice video of the performance.
We made plans to record an album with Jon Gagan and Barrett Martin this Summer.
02006-06-21 | Design, Music
Met with the designer today. The cover for One Guitar is done. The shot above was taken about an hour or two before it was done… I should be able to send everything off to the pressing plant on Monday or Tuesday.
What I especially like about the cover is that the photo was taken by a member of the audience at the solo performance in Seattle in April.
