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PATRICK IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN.
Friday 26 February 2010
Thursday 25 February 2010
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Monday 22 February 2010
Saturday 20 February 2010
The NME are the NME the enemy?
They tend to like a lot of diverse music which is beautiful, and some of what is written makes sense, but like a lot of press I think have opinions, just to cause arguement.
A band they love who I love called "Micachu and The Shapes" sound like The Velvet Underground, but still pushing boundaries taking risks, that polished music stopped taking.
Some sounds terrible the production, well not terrible I think its charming how Lo Fi it is but ask the masses they'll think its noise have four listens to this song and its strangely catchy, The NME are not the enemy but friends to all us who love strange yet beautiful music, they hate boring blandness, and the U.K quite likes middle of the roadness, so there we go the NME are fine with me, how ever its written, i like how it tries to put as many adjectives and adverbs on every page it can its enjoyable.
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A band they love who I love called "Micachu and The Shapes" sound like The Velvet Underground, but still pushing boundaries taking risks, that polished music stopped taking.
Some sounds terrible the production, well not terrible I think its charming how Lo Fi it is but ask the masses they'll think its noise have four listens to this song and its strangely catchy, The NME are not the enemy but friends to all us who love strange yet beautiful music, they hate boring blandness, and the U.K quite likes middle of the roadness, so there we go the NME are fine with me, how ever its written, i like how it tries to put as many adjectives and adverbs on every page it can its enjoyable.
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In recent times Band Names have improved here's evidence.
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Freakin awesome, but they noise pop, think it sounds like a lot of other things, still ace though.
Freakin awesome, but they noise pop, think it sounds like a lot of other things, still ace though.
Richard Hawley.
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Us from down south, don't have people we love, we don't have institutions, but think of Manchester you think of Morrisey, Sheffield Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley, timeless beautiful a commentary that isn't momentary, it just soundtracks the soul in an amazing way. I guess down south we have Paul Weller, and a few others, but the north seems to take these people to heart, there the family.
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Us from down south, don't have people we love, we don't have institutions, but think of Manchester you think of Morrisey, Sheffield Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley, timeless beautiful a commentary that isn't momentary, it just soundtracks the soul in an amazing way. I guess down south we have Paul Weller, and a few others, but the north seems to take these people to heart, there the family.
Piano Orchestra
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She shares all these similar idea's its basically about recycling, but recycling nature in to love songs, using things close to home as metaphors, I am basically going through the albums of 2009 list on NME.com today and finding what I like, and shall explore that more.
There is also this band called Cymbals eat Guitars, 1. its one of the best band names ever and they sound like the pixies, very raw I have only started listening to there album but its becoming a favourite so far.
She shares all these similar idea's its basically about recycling, but recycling nature in to love songs, using things close to home as metaphors, I am basically going through the albums of 2009 list on NME.com today and finding what I like, and shall explore that more.
There is also this band called Cymbals eat Guitars, 1. its one of the best band names ever and they sound like the pixies, very raw I have only started listening to there album but its becoming a favourite so far.
Friday 19 February 2010
Philosophy.
EPISTEMOLOGY
Epistemology is the study of the valid forms of knowledge. It comes from the Greek "episteme" which means knowledge. It is sometimes called "theory of knowledge". It must be noted that epistemology as a distinct branch of philosophy is of recent origin. Usually Descartes is considered the first philosopher to seriously work in epistemology. The validity of knowledge was more or less taken for granted by previous philosophers. It was only when Descartes began to systematically doubt the veracity of knowledge that problems of knowledge became apparent.
The problems considered in epistemology are:
SKEPTICISM
This is the view that questions whether valid or reliable knowledge is ever attainable by a human being. Some skeptics stated that nothing can be known. Other skeptics stated that they did not know whether knowledge was possible; they suspended judgment on the issue. Some of the common examples used by skeptics are the illusions and deceptions of our senses. Others point to the complexity of any experience and ask how you can know what is the essence or real nature of the things you are experiencing.
RATIONALISM
This is the view that valid knowledge comes only through the mind. Rationalists hold that the mind knows truths that were not placed there by sensory experience. There are innate ideas which you can know independent of your sensory experience. Mathematics and geometry are examples of abstract truths which are known with certainty, even though the physical illustrations of these truths may vary. An early example was the Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 B.C.), who stated that ideas have an existence independent of human minds. These independently-existing ideas are the only reality in the universe since they are absolute and unchanging. Valid knowledge comes then when the mind grasps these ideas. Another famous philosopher was the Frenchman Rene Descartes (1596-1650) who went through a period of skepticism in his life and then came to the conclusion that only ideas which were clear and distinct to the mind represented valid knowledge. Other well-known rationalist philosophers of this era were Spinoza (1632-1677) a Dutchman, whose philosophical writings were arranged like a geometry book, with axioms and postulates used to prove every part of his philosophy, and Leibniz (1646-1716), a German philosopher who proposed a system of symbolic calculations along with his view that the world was rationally ordered with a "pre-established harmony."
EMPIRICISM
This is the view that valid knowledge comes only through the five senses. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) held the view that whatever was in the mind was first in the senses. It was a group of philosophers who came after the rationalist Descartes who made the greatest contributions to empiricism. John Locke (1632-1714) was an English philosopher who compared the mind to a blank tablet. When a person is born they know nothing. As they go through life, the experiences they have with their five senses write information on the tablet of their mind. Locke held a representational view of knowledge. Ideas in our mind are representatives of the things in the real world. If they accurately represent these things we can say we have valid knowledge. However only some of the qualities or characteristics in objects were objective: these were size, shape and weight. Other qualities of objects were subjective, that is, they are created by our individual mind: these subjective or secondary qualities are smell, taste, texture, color and sound. The empiricist philosopher after Locke was George Berkeley (1685-1753) an Irishman, who carried Locke's empiricism even further by stating that the qualities of objects which Locke said were objective were really subjective. This meant that all perceptions were subjective and led to Berkeley's view that "esse est percipi" which means "to be is to be perceived". Something can exist only if it is being perceived by someone. The last famous empiricist is David Hume (1711-1776) a Scottish philosopher. Hume applied empiricism to many favorite ideas, with devastating results. For example, he denied causality. He stated that while we perceive a physical happening such as a ball being thrown and then another physical happening such as that ball striking another ball we never at any time perceive the "cause" of the event. For Hume the term "cause" was an empty word which we use only out of habit.
KANT
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher who attempted to combine rationalism and empiricism. It is called the "form and matter" epistemology. A statue can have a form such as Abraham Lincoln and a matter such as marble; you need both a form and a matter to have a statue. So in knowledge you need a form, which are categories of the mind, and matter which are the data of sensations. You need both of these to have knowledge. It is similar to wearing rose-colored glasses. You have visual sensations and they are colored by the glasses. Of course with the mind you cannot take of your glasses.
W.V.O. QUINE
Quine is a contemporary philosopher who argued that the sharp distinction between analytic truths (true because of the meaning of the concepts) and synthetic truths (true because of facts) cannot be maintained.
From http://www.philosophyclass.com/epistemology.htm
I have recently been researching philosophy and shall explain why soon enough, my ideas and what I am thinking about for a dissertation, basically what influences ideas is the theme.
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The problems considered in epistemology are:
- Is genuine knowledge attainable at all? Is the skeptic right?
- What are the limits of knowledge?
- From what faculties of the mind does knowledge originate?
- Which method should be used to obtain valid knowledge?
- How do you justify a priori statements?
- Where is the boundary between the subjective and objective factors?
- What is the nature of truth?
SKEPTICISM
This is the view that questions whether valid or reliable knowledge is ever attainable by a human being. Some skeptics stated that nothing can be known. Other skeptics stated that they did not know whether knowledge was possible; they suspended judgment on the issue. Some of the common examples used by skeptics are the illusions and deceptions of our senses. Others point to the complexity of any experience and ask how you can know what is the essence or real nature of the things you are experiencing.
RATIONALISM
This is the view that valid knowledge comes only through the mind. Rationalists hold that the mind knows truths that were not placed there by sensory experience. There are innate ideas which you can know independent of your sensory experience. Mathematics and geometry are examples of abstract truths which are known with certainty, even though the physical illustrations of these truths may vary. An early example was the Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 B.C.), who stated that ideas have an existence independent of human minds. These independently-existing ideas are the only reality in the universe since they are absolute and unchanging. Valid knowledge comes then when the mind grasps these ideas. Another famous philosopher was the Frenchman Rene Descartes (1596-1650) who went through a period of skepticism in his life and then came to the conclusion that only ideas which were clear and distinct to the mind represented valid knowledge. Other well-known rationalist philosophers of this era were Spinoza (1632-1677) a Dutchman, whose philosophical writings were arranged like a geometry book, with axioms and postulates used to prove every part of his philosophy, and Leibniz (1646-1716), a German philosopher who proposed a system of symbolic calculations along with his view that the world was rationally ordered with a "pre-established harmony."
EMPIRICISM
This is the view that valid knowledge comes only through the five senses. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) held the view that whatever was in the mind was first in the senses. It was a group of philosophers who came after the rationalist Descartes who made the greatest contributions to empiricism. John Locke (1632-1714) was an English philosopher who compared the mind to a blank tablet. When a person is born they know nothing. As they go through life, the experiences they have with their five senses write information on the tablet of their mind. Locke held a representational view of knowledge. Ideas in our mind are representatives of the things in the real world. If they accurately represent these things we can say we have valid knowledge. However only some of the qualities or characteristics in objects were objective: these were size, shape and weight. Other qualities of objects were subjective, that is, they are created by our individual mind: these subjective or secondary qualities are smell, taste, texture, color and sound. The empiricist philosopher after Locke was George Berkeley (1685-1753) an Irishman, who carried Locke's empiricism even further by stating that the qualities of objects which Locke said were objective were really subjective. This meant that all perceptions were subjective and led to Berkeley's view that "esse est percipi" which means "to be is to be perceived". Something can exist only if it is being perceived by someone. The last famous empiricist is David Hume (1711-1776) a Scottish philosopher. Hume applied empiricism to many favorite ideas, with devastating results. For example, he denied causality. He stated that while we perceive a physical happening such as a ball being thrown and then another physical happening such as that ball striking another ball we never at any time perceive the "cause" of the event. For Hume the term "cause" was an empty word which we use only out of habit.
KANT
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher who attempted to combine rationalism and empiricism. It is called the "form and matter" epistemology. A statue can have a form such as Abraham Lincoln and a matter such as marble; you need both a form and a matter to have a statue. So in knowledge you need a form, which are categories of the mind, and matter which are the data of sensations. You need both of these to have knowledge. It is similar to wearing rose-colored glasses. You have visual sensations and they are colored by the glasses. Of course with the mind you cannot take of your glasses.
W.V.O. QUINE
Quine is a contemporary philosopher who argued that the sharp distinction between analytic truths (true because of the meaning of the concepts) and synthetic truths (true because of facts) cannot be maintained.
From http://www.philosophyclass.com/epistemology.htm
I have recently been researching philosophy and shall explain why soon enough, my ideas and what I am thinking about for a dissertation, basically what influences ideas is the theme.
Zero Carbon house.
I have recently been researching how to be Greener, quite a bit. I care for the planet, and like Polar Bears, so don't want them to have no ice to live on, so I like ecological things like this
An amazing idea, shetland is so remote, I'd like to do this but somehow in a city, not sure how?
http://www.zerocarbonhouse.com/Home.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/may/19/reas.zero.carbon.house
An amazing idea, shetland is so remote, I'd like to do this but somehow in a city, not sure how?
http://www.zerocarbonhouse.com/Home.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/may/19/reas.zero.carbon.house
My Love the Eco Warrior.
I like to live sustainably, and shall more, when I am older, shall have a vegetable patch and all those ecological things you need to be green, I shall live in a Windmill. And have a dog and cycle everywhere, have a car powered by water, and my home shall be full of inventions like "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
If I am a singer that gets successful or a performer, I shall tour ecologically and economically, and plant trees, only play small theatres, and festivals, My dreams one day shall come true, and I shall never worry about money, because I won't need that much, hopefully, I shall be generous to charity, make artwork for museums that can be played with, I shall not be a Carbon Weevil !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nALyKU_N5x0&feature=player_embedded
If I am a singer that gets successful or a performer, I shall tour ecologically and economically, and plant trees, only play small theatres, and festivals, My dreams one day shall come true, and I shall never worry about money, because I won't need that much, hopefully, I shall be generous to charity, make artwork for museums that can be played with, I shall not be a Carbon Weevil !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nALyKU_N5x0&feature=player_embedded
Thursday 18 February 2010
What makes Genius.
http://bbc.co.uk/i/qzlbv/
Does are Enviroment influence how we grow up, are we initially Geniuses etc, shall explain my views to the documentary.
Does are Enviroment influence how we grow up, are we initially Geniuses etc, shall explain my views to the documentary.
Wednesday 17 February 2010
Monday 15 February 2010
MIDIFIDLER
I have been in the studio collaborating with my producer musician friend George, working on some of my radio friendly songs, they always start acoustic, we're currently doing dark trip hop electro versions of some of them that are similar to Mata Hari the band I'm in so shall put it all together and get an animation made about the story all the songs tell together.
Its been great fun, how ever the Neve unit one day is your best friend the next day it dies. So is a little tempriemental, but some of what we've done sounds ace, quite experimental.
I like the Sleaze Jazz stuff of Nick Cave and Tom Waits and the Gospel music of Mahalia Jackson, if I could make a gospel record would be great fun, go to an old church with loads of mics a piano in a small room a big room, choirs, organs string quartets.
But also do stripped back versions, so using a small chapel, start acoustic would be so good, a great release, I love anthemic gospel music that just washes over you, so one day I shall do that invite all my musical friends to help me, will be a huge party. I'll do it in the summer. awesome.
Its been great fun, how ever the Neve unit one day is your best friend the next day it dies. So is a little tempriemental, but some of what we've done sounds ace, quite experimental.
I like the Sleaze Jazz stuff of Nick Cave and Tom Waits and the Gospel music of Mahalia Jackson, if I could make a gospel record would be great fun, go to an old church with loads of mics a piano in a small room a big room, choirs, organs string quartets.
But also do stripped back versions, so using a small chapel, start acoustic would be so good, a great release, I love anthemic gospel music that just washes over you, so one day I shall do that invite all my musical friends to help me, will be a huge party. I'll do it in the summer. awesome.
The internet.
Has browsing, ruined us, is anything ever read, imagine if the internet was a book, well its pretty unmanageable to read the whole thing, some would say impossible. its temporary in places, changes daily, the internet is more like an archive of newspaper, than a library its full of information on pretty much everything, but a lot changes history changes daily.
This is Missing something,
If you perceive everything in the world differently, and everyone in the world perceives, and views everything in different ways and peoples opinion isn't wrong or right, but opinion, I still think this is missing something of any credit.
History can't be flicked through, I know its suppose to be humourous but well there we go, school boys have fun.
Sunday 14 February 2010
Because of Stumble on Fire fox, I'm seeing more of the world.
You say what you like it stumbles upon things then you research that, it may send you to a blog or a blog of a blog or a bands website or the secret pages of a world that should never be seen, but sometimes its genius, I now can search the internet have more fun, learn more, its just a starting point for further endeavours.
Last Night I had an Incredible time witnessing the talent of Tune Yards, she is a singer song writer yodeler from America some where, was a great night, shes very individual its humourous and percussive, and the songs are catchy but quirky, I love that shes not mainstream, she'll be one of those cult things, gets played on late night radio plays on jools holland, but hopefully, doesn't get scared by fame and turn in to a middle of the road silly billy, and continue doing all sorts.
Last Night I had an Incredible time witnessing the talent of Tune Yards, she is a singer song writer yodeler from America some where, was a great night, shes very individual its humourous and percussive, and the songs are catchy but quirky, I love that shes not mainstream, she'll be one of those cult things, gets played on late night radio plays on jools holland, but hopefully, doesn't get scared by fame and turn in to a middle of the road silly billy, and continue doing all sorts.
Saturday 13 February 2010
Edwyn Butler and The Piano
I have spent all week in Nexus about an hour every day having lunch practicing my piece for The Neck of The Woods exhibition, when It came to the night, I stunned people apparently.
Because Nexus Art Cafe is a non alcoholic venue I became quite cockey when people complemented me at the end, I must have thought well there not drunk I must have been good.
It was different for sure, I didn't invite many friends because I knew it would be a wierd one, I played Hit the Road Jack, Aint no Sunshine then bashed at a piano walked off waited for applause, second go I played Amy Winehouse Back to Black, then went in to a cocnkney knees up, that didn't get much of a response, but the last one the "sing along" but as we're in Manchester no one wanted to join in, but It was fun singing loudly playing loosly playing Buffalo Springfield"For What its Worth",
It was good fun and more conventional than I had been planning, I was going to do a gospel medley then a dance anthem medley, but thought I'll do classics that can win over the crowd drinking tea. The noisy coffee machine added some sort of atmosphere.
I'm terribly fond of Piano's and they shall feature quite heavily in my work.
Because Nexus Art Cafe is a non alcoholic venue I became quite cockey when people complemented me at the end, I must have thought well there not drunk I must have been good.
It was different for sure, I didn't invite many friends because I knew it would be a wierd one, I played Hit the Road Jack, Aint no Sunshine then bashed at a piano walked off waited for applause, second go I played Amy Winehouse Back to Black, then went in to a cocnkney knees up, that didn't get much of a response, but the last one the "sing along" but as we're in Manchester no one wanted to join in, but It was fun singing loudly playing loosly playing Buffalo Springfield"For What its Worth",
It was good fun and more conventional than I had been planning, I was going to do a gospel medley then a dance anthem medley, but thought I'll do classics that can win over the crowd drinking tea. The noisy coffee machine added some sort of atmosphere.
I'm terribly fond of Piano's and they shall feature quite heavily in my work.
Tuesday 9 February 2010
DAVID BOWIE THE MUSICAL. and Other Performances.
I have been asked to curate an event for eurocultured festival, as part of my internship with Spearfish in May.
My friend Fiona is writing David Bowie the musical, and it shall be one of the high lights of the event. The event I am curating shall be a jumble of everything I love, a lot of Interactive Arts students shall present work and there shall be performances from some of Manchester up and coming talent, the space is still in the works, and so are a few things but its very exciting.
This week I am performing at the Neck of The Woods exhibition opening at Nexus art cafe, my proposal was accepted, I'm popping in through the week, to practice, my montage, its all about community. The songs I have chosen have a certain musical history and little jokes, I am doing afew surprising things to connect them, and shall surprise the audience with what I am performing, It is being Filmed so shall be put up in the exhibition, But The comedy will be in the cockney songs and the surprise screaming of sorts or maybe not we shall see.
After this all my concentration is on Mill 24, I have an hour performance and I am making self playing found object instruments, I wanted to combine my love of Wallace and Gromit and Quirky inventions with music and performance, so I'm making a machine that makes beautiful music mechanically, and its all influence by the record player.
It shall be a record player that propels a wheel that has playing cards in its spokes to play a harp that shall be sampled by a guitar effect then reversed, then layered, there will also be a fan played guitar, the vibrations of the fan shall strum the guitar, or resonate it.
My proposal was to make a found sound orchestra, but make beautiful music, not just chaos, try to make loving clarity from chaos, I will write the words before with the influence of the music, but shall also improvise some words that have been written with out the influence, so some is pre concieved and some isn't a few juxtapositions, I am planning and rehearsing and experimenting with all the machines for the performance, it combines all the things I love in a individual way and If it fails then It has a lovely connection to one of my Favourite artists work Jean Tinguely Homage to New York.
Recently I have been In the studio with the band we have a couple of songs done which are just getting mastered, its experimental, but not so much it won't get played on radio, we got compared to old Kings Of Leon and Sonic Youth, but also sigur ros, showing how diverse it all is, still finding the sound, but now we can use future works a lot now because our bassist goes there, so we can do some more recording get an album done quickly send demos to bands and management all that, see what happens, not sure if its what I wan't to do I sometimes love it, but sometimes can't stand it, love performing live, and recording how ever stressful is usually a laugh, but I'm not Rock and Roll, or a front man, I don't have that big an ego, though I do think the band should be called Edwyn Butler HA!
This week I am performing at the Neck of The Woods exhibition opening at Nexus art cafe, my proposal was accepted, I'm popping in through the week, to practice, my montage, its all about community. The songs I have chosen have a certain musical history and little jokes, I am doing afew surprising things to connect them, and shall surprise the audience with what I am performing, It is being Filmed so shall be put up in the exhibition, But The comedy will be in the cockney songs and the surprise screaming of sorts or maybe not we shall see.
After this all my concentration is on Mill 24, I have an hour performance and I am making self playing found object instruments, I wanted to combine my love of Wallace and Gromit and Quirky inventions with music and performance, so I'm making a machine that makes beautiful music mechanically, and its all influence by the record player.
It shall be a record player that propels a wheel that has playing cards in its spokes to play a harp that shall be sampled by a guitar effect then reversed, then layered, there will also be a fan played guitar, the vibrations of the fan shall strum the guitar, or resonate it.
My proposal was to make a found sound orchestra, but make beautiful music, not just chaos, try to make loving clarity from chaos, I will write the words before with the influence of the music, but shall also improvise some words that have been written with out the influence, so some is pre concieved and some isn't a few juxtapositions, I am planning and rehearsing and experimenting with all the machines for the performance, it combines all the things I love in a individual way and If it fails then It has a lovely connection to one of my Favourite artists work Jean Tinguely Homage to New York.
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