02009-03-16 | Music
The Stretta Procedure: Why Music?
The first people to understand how music really works were the ancient Greeks. And this is going to fascinate you; the Greeks said that music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin. Astronomy was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent, external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects. Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us. Let me give you some examples of how this works.
(Via the music of sound)
Read on…
02009-03-14 | Internet
Stephen Duros
It only took a year or two (internet-time)…
02009-03-14 | Uncategorized
Woke up to snow. Big snow flakes were falling all around, without any chance of resting on the ground for more than an instant, for the ground was too warm. A few flakes could cling to branches, to the piñon needles, for a little while. Within a couple of hours they were all gone.
Finished Bruce Sterling’s book The Caryatids. I read the Kindle edition on my iPhone – iTunes has a free Amazon Kindle application for the iPhone – and was surprised how easy and even enjoyable reading from the iPhone was. I also didn’t like the book much and was glad not even a little branch of a tree had to give its life for it. Plus, I saved 7 bucks by buying the Kindle edition instead of the hardcover. :-) While there are books that I want to own in their traditional form, because I want to re-read them or loan them to friends, I definitely think I will buy more Kindle books. (((and then there are currently rumors that Apple is digitizing books for a new iTunes-Book store and a new combination netbook/e-reader)))
Afternoon: practicing guitar and learning parts for the tour. People often expect me to remember the music, since I wrote it, but I don’t. When we played Winding Road last year, or was it the year before, I learned the music from the Opium Songbook.
Read this quote in an email a friend wrote and traced the source to a Dave Smalley. Fitting words for 2009: culture, education, economy, transportation, jobs – it all points to this:
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.
— Dave E. Smalley
Here is a little tip: bookmark http://ottmarliebert.com/backstage instead of http://ottmarliebert.com/friends. Sometimes one has to enter the password twice when one enters at the friends address, but that never happens at the backstage address. Also, you might want to add friends@ottmarliebert.com to your email address book – you will receive an email with a new password from that address at the beginning of each month.
02009-03-14 | Quotes, World
Read this quote in an email a friend wrote and traced the source to a Dave Smalley. Fitting words for 2009: culture, education, economy, transportation, jobs – it all points to this:
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.
— Dave E. Smalley
02009-03-13 | Uncategorized
Breakfast with Jon @ Counter Culture. My fixed gear bike was locked up outside. The weather was cold, but sunny and by the time I headed home it was getting too warm for a shirt and a jacket. But, winter might come back briefly as there are snow storm warnings for Santa Fe – for tonight and Saturday.
In the afternoon I added Jon’s new fretless electric bass guitar parts for Sao Paulo – I am re-mixing The Santa Fe Sessions for a 2010 release. Sounds amazing.
A glass of wine (1997 Merry Edwards Pinot Noir) on top of my iPhone running the free Amazon Kindle application – I am reading Bruce Sterling’s latest novel. I like reading from the iPhone. I think it will be really nice to be able to carry a dozen books on the phone when we are touring. Jon also finds the iPhone easy to read from, but K doesn’t like it at all. Being able to have a bunch of books on the iPhone will be fantastic for international tours – by the way it looks like I will do another Solo tour in Germany in October, followed by a visit to Milan. Hope to have dates to share within a couple of weeks.
