My Saviour
A semi-epic poem featuring pop guns, ice capades, surfing, the collapse of all known universes, Carlos CastaQuixote, the Mona Lisa, the Cheshire Cat, Jack Nicholson and possibly Satan……
Practising Joy (through the festive season of long nights)
‘What is Joy? and ‘How do you Practise Joy’? I posed these questions to the CSI community and received many generous and wise responses. These are my reflections on that, as well as the role of ‘choice’ in joy, and practising joy.
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Curiosity & Vulnerability
Because curiosity requires and creates vulnerability, it requires bravery and courage. Bravery and courage are the attributes of warriors. So, to remain steadfastly curious, you need to be a warrior.
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Marvels & Miracles
The odds of my birth. That single sperm cell, out of the initial millions of genetically diverse cells, is the one and the only that makes it into the egg. And that this conceptional unlikelihood – the odds already so rare and outrageously far-fetched that even a gambler in despair would shun them – has
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‘Ten Questions on DIVE’ from BarczaBlog
Leslie Barcza sent me ten questions based on the compositions for DIVE.
They were great questions, allowing me to do a little more digging into the motivations and themes for the compositions………………………………………………………………………….
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Fascism & ‘The Wild’ in ‘DIVE: Odes for Lighea’
Is the tale a premise for the struggle between ‘fascism’ and ‘the wild’? Is fascism a polarity to the wild? Or is the tension between the two more complex? What do we mean by ‘fascism’? And what do we mean by ‘the wild’?
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What is Translibrium?
‘Trans’ comes from the Greek ‘across’, and ‘librium’ is from the Greek ‘libra’ which connotes both balance (equilibrium) and freedom (‘libre’, liberty). Whereas ‘homeostasis’ assumes a return to an initial state as a descriptor of health, ‘translibrium’ assumes continuous adaptation as a requisite for survival.
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Enantiodromia
“In the greatest tension, the greatest creation,
and the greatest creation is the gravest danger,
and destruction is tension held taut beyond limitation…
FLAME OF CHANGE
WELDERS FLAME
FLAMES TO BURN THE PAST AWAY”
A spoken word piece on creativity, tension and transformation layed over an accidental funk improv.
Howlings – ambient electroacoustica
Howlings’ is comprised of three electronic works sharing aspects of minimalism and ambient music – limited sound sources, gradual evolutions and repetition – and yet all can be poignantly dramatic, sometimes explosively so…
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Addictions & angels
Addictions are dark angels you must wrestle to win their blessing.
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