Sunday, June 30, 2019

Algol: Just saw composer Leif Segerstam's hair for 1st time & Googled if he's a hippy:) Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade op.35 Sinfónica de Galicia * * * Thoughts about online music-making excellence, whether Scottish Country Dancing music, Scottish Drumming … jamming, or classical chamber music in group video conferencing software for music-making & re best STEM & Arts CC-4 OCW-centric @WorldUnivAndSch? Wiki-add * * * Principal of the National Piping Centre, Roddy MacLeod in Glasgow, Scotland, Piping lessons at National Piping Centre with Finlay MacDonald, head of Piping Studies there * * * NEW RECORDINGS for learning the Scottish Small Pipes in the key of A from the College of Piping's Green Tutor (Vol. 1) ... a kind of TUNE TUTORIAL


College of Piping's Highland Bagpipe Green Tutor (Vol 1)
https://images.app.goo.gl/mn42xrQLfhkB6Ssi9 … NEW RECORDINGS for learning Scottish Small Pipes in the key of A using this Tutor ... a kind of TUNE TUTORIAL - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos … - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/algol-just-saw-composer-leif-segerstams.html … by @scottmacleod  @WorldUnivAndSch ~


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Thoughts about online music-making excellence, whether jamming with Grateful Dead https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead … or classical chamber music https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School … & group video conferencing software for music-making & re best STEM & Arts CC-4 OCW-centric @WorldUnivAndSch? Wiki-add them





https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1143888654290448384


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Just saw composer Leif Segerstam's hair for 1st time & Googled if he's a hippy:) Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade op.35 Sinfónica de Galicia https://youtu.be/zY4w4_W30aQ  "The listener is a musical satellite docking to a mother ship, & then you are online, kind of! Laughs" http://www.kcstudio.com/segerstam.html ~




https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1144620851381149696




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1144620539584999424


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Do you know any of Leif Segerstam's 327 symphonies - https://youtu.be/2v7Ht2W8Z6E ? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Music_Composition … - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Segerstam … He has a diploma from Juilliard in the '60s :)
See, too https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2011/nov/17/leif-segerstam-prolific-finnish-composer … Is he a /Hippies? http://www.kcstudio.com/segerstam.html  ~
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1144620851381149696 … ~



https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1144623803005190145


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Finnish composer Leif Segerstam
http://www.auroramusic.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/leif.jpg …
https://youtu.be/2v7Ht2W8Z6E
He's composed 327 symphonies & explores the NOW of music
http://www.kcstudio.com/segerstam.html
(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hippies )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Segerstam …
@TheOpenBand @sgkmacleod
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Music_Composition … @WorldUnivAndSch ~




https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1144631772962947077



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Thoughts about online music-making excellence, whether Scottish Country Dancing music, Scottish Drumming
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Drumming … jamming, or classical chamber music https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School … & group video conferencing software for music-making & re best STEM & Arts CC-4 OCW-centric @WorldUnivAndSch? Wiki-add




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1143889679948763136



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Greetings, Bagpipe Facts, how about various bagpipe Wikipedia articles (since this is for sharing, and are also updated by all of us often) in various languages too for further bagpipe information & facts? I hope these help too https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials … &
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe … ~




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1144589723068817409






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Just emailed yesterday evening the Principal of the National Piping Centre, Roddy MacLeod in Glasgow, to inquire about lessons with him. See too - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1142668818130468864. Am curious almost with regard too to Roddy (or someone there) to become somehow a producer for my "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small piping CD next year in addition to lessons.  (https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1142668500667785222 too). See my email to Roddy below.

L, Scott



Dear Mr. Roddy MacLeod, and the National Piping Centre,


Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area! I'm writing to inquire whether it might be possible please to study with you (or possibly Finlay MacDonald) on Scottish Small Pipes, if I were to sign up for Skype lessons?

I've played the Great Highland Bagpipe, and now the SSP for about 5 years, (giving up the GHB due to an ear condition) for more than 40 years, and also have specific tunes I'd like to develop. Thank you. And I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely, Scott MacLeod
SF Bay Area
http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm


Bagpipe Tutorials: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

Great Highland Bagpipe: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe

Pibroch, Piobaireachd or Ceòl Mór: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r

Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes



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Would like too to get a faculty position at Stanford, and then explore becoming president of CMU (Carnegie Mellon University), based on my growing experience as President at World University and School, and even with regards to online World Univ and Sch in Google Hangouts for bringing excellent teachers and music in mind. (I could see Scot Alasdair Tait's extraordinary Stanford Masterclass in chamber music working remarkably in Hangouts for example. (It was also very much like a conversation, somehow transposed from psychodynamic psychotherapy into teaching excellent chamber music groups and musicians). Heading toward further excellence thanks to the Web with World Univ & Sch - in music and in academic subjects is something to grow, and potentially re CMU. How best to lead for the excellence I experience at Stanford, as well as potentially at CMU - and online too (re WUaS)? - and re John Hennessy's book "Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey" -
https://books.google.com/books/about/Leading_Matters.html?id=BQJtDwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description
- and re further communication with him. In what way could World University and School take (talk too) this in remarkable new directions, I wonder?

The Scottish Country Dancing music we played last night at Open Band is more complex than previously: interesting opportunity re flow experiences - 'challenge at the right level re enjoyment' and Czikszentmihalyi's "Flow" book,  and re playing beforehand too.

Piping lessons at National Piping Centre with Finlay MacDonald, head of Piping Studies there (https://youtu.be/SHLabexNS-Y -
https://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/learn/teaching-staff -
http://elearning.thepipingcentre.co.uk/teachers/finlay-macdonald/ -
https://rghardiebagpipes.com/finlay-macdonald/), poetry book and World Univ and Sch ahead this summer and autumn .... I think ... Finlay's a pretty solid Glaswegian, and smart/canny - and may know Lorne MacDougall whom I enjoyed a benefitted from taking lessons with fairly recently. May be recording a lot to Youtube in preparation for 10 lessons which would be great (out on my porch even) re my upcoming CD.

Thoughts about excellence, group video conferencing software for music-making (in an online classical music school at World Uni) and CMU, for example, - and re MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch?

Heard a very great talk today at noon by someone from West Bengal, with a Berkeley Ph.D., who is now a Stanford Post Doc (see below)) ... with so much relevance for studying meditation in the Harbin warm pool re oximetry with flexible sensors. More about this soon, and very nice to talk ...

Talk with you soon, Ma! And have a great week :)

L, Scott


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Hi M,

Made a foray into recording again here -
https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod

Scots Wha Ha'e - First Measure - from The College of Piping Green Tutor on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/LmarClyJHng

Scots Wha Ha'e - Second Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/ZLHNzkkeO2Q

I have in mind learners of The Scottish Small Pipes, and hope to record all of the Green Tutors' tunes + some to get started ... and then the tunes I have in mind for the Scottish Small Pipes' CD in 2020 ...

Finlay has a music degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Glasgow, is the head of piping studies at NPC, and plays with bellows' small pipes and similar which are all big pluses. I enjoyed his playing here too - https://finlaymacdonaldmusic.co.uk ... Time to sign up for lessons with NPC and see if I can study with him in Skype. Lessons are an opportunity to think about the music too via conversation.


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Hi M,

Apple MacBook's microphone leaves something to be desired

Seeing these Walsh small pipe recordings

Marches on Walsh Smallpipes in A (Delrin)
https://youtu.be/418Bq2kNdwQ

Jigs on Walsh Blackwood Smallpipes
https://youtu.be/DYGSNmkGdhM (like The Glasgow Police Pipers tune at the close of this set, which I've played before)

... gives me some ideas for mic-ing anew as well as an appreciation of my non-Blackwood smallpipes, with a fuller rounder more harmonic sound I feel. (Yet perhaps they're somehow clearer I got a sense of at the end).



I made two more recordings today ...

The Brown Haired Maiden - First Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/JMBQYdHX4pw

The Brown Haired Maiden - Second Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/tqLK_M-kn74

I'm also not using my 3rd middle drone to create newly a chord, and which means I think that I have to choose piping tunes on sheet music in A, when they're not all in A actually.

How was your week? How are you?

L, Scott


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Hi M,

Wanted to clarify how to tell what a key a piece of piping sheet music is in in College of Piping Tutor + (since piping music can be in 3 or 4 different keys I think, and is often not marked with sharps or flats). Found, to begin -

"To find the name of a key signature with sharps, look at the sharp farthest to the right. The key signature is the note a half step above that last sharp. Key signatures can specify major or minor keys. To determine the name of a minor key, find the name of the key in major and then count backwards three half steps."
The Method Behind the Music › ...
Scales and Key Signatures - The Method Behind the Music
https://method-behind-the-music.com/theory/scalesandkeys/#sigs

I found these videos particularly helpful -

Key Signatures Made Easy -
https://youtu.be/G20foMzvczc

The Circle of Fifths - How to Actually Use It -
https://youtu.be/d1aJ6HixSe0

Check them out ... :)

Now how to learn to play games with Circle of Fifths? :)

How's your weekend going?

L, Scott



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Afternoon, M,

Recorded 2 further tunes ...

The High Road to Gairloch - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/fDZUPQFuVxQ

The High Road to Gairloch - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/ohwGdOwR3LA


Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/hrRFoppFTjI

Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/T5BuL3LuBrQ

May replay Highland Laddie ... am observing my perfectionism coming up ... yet on the other hand, I may seek to relax in these regards ... https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod ... Good to build gradually toward my "Piping Honey in the Bag" CD ... and will look into lessons probably tomorrow ...



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Hi M, 

Recorded 2 tunes + further in the College of Piping's Green Tutor - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos (& see below). I've recorded 6 of the 14 tunes in the CoP tutor so far, and will finish recording the rest as a kind of tune tutorial for the Scottish Small Pipes with an A chanter. Time to sign up for piping lessons I think with the National Piping Centre. 

Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)

Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)


The Carles Wi' The Breeks - First Measure - 6/8 Slow Air

The Carles Wi' The Breeks - Second Measure - 6/8 Slow Air


The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - First Measure - 2/4 March

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Second Measure - 2/4 March

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Third Measure - 2/4 March

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Fourth Measure - 2/4 March

How was your day? And how are you? 

L, Scott






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From February 2019 


Hi Ma,

Burns' night continued ... re piping

I learned from Julia or Juliet I think her name is - the Scot who recited Tam O"Shanter which mentions the word cuttysark, in the poem, that 'cutty' means 'short' and 'sark' means 'skirt' ... makes me wonder too further about other origins for Cuttyhunk (beyond as a derivative from the Wampanoag word for lands' end, something like Pocutohunconoh ) ...

Here's the video and some photos:

video of the end of Tam O’Shanter:
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1090322435604238336

Jamie Tanner, the MC: 2nd from right:
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1090321023382126592
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1090325142926852096
Jamie and his wife have a creative eye / minds with regard to Scots' garb ...


Ellen Lovell, standing taking photos
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1090324576645505024
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1090321244266713088

Got home late, woke up early ... seeking to pipe some today (and how to grow this online interactively? ... eg I could and may record the College of Piping Green Tutor's tunes to Youtube playing them on the small pipes in A, so that other pipers could play with them digitally when learning, and then build from there to playing other tunes I enjoy a lot ... and then build interactively from there ... sun's shining, why not now? ... out on the porch, with the nice ridge in the background? ... may do so ... :) ...

How's your day going? And how are you?


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Hi M,

I think I emailed this to you before - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/01/northern-carmine-bee-eater-glad-to-have.html ... Nice to hear from Marilyn & Bill Stocker about Burns' Night last night. Marilyn repaired my kilt a few years ago, and did an excellent job. She's originally from Canada, and Bill is a retired anesthesiologist:

Dear Friends,
Thank you very much for the great Robert Burns’ party last night. We had such a good time. Marianna, the haggis was delicious as was all the food. Jamie( with Star’s  helpful humorous translation) gave a great dramatic recitation. Juliet, you made Tam O’Shanter come alive. Scott, your piping added just the right touch of atmosphere. Kathy, thanks to you and all the band for the music during the dance and for Auld Lang Syne too. Star, your “ Afton Water” was beautifully sung. Dilip, thanks for the very enjoyable dances and excellent teaching.
It was a delightful evening.
Marilyn and Bill

Not so clear how to seek, circulate and then connect with a partner ... (George A could be an interesting problem-solver / thinker in questions like this, interestingly). Waiting to begin to generate resources myself may be only part of the question, and circulating another ... but actually connecting in a natural way ... thinking I'm seeking a kind of same-ness somehow ... Hmm :)

At this Bobby Burns' night celebration I played the first tune in the little procession well, but not so much the second tune "Honey in the Bag" - and I'm thinking of naming my debut CD "Honey in the Bag" ... SEE BELOW too ...

How was your day?

L, Scott



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Posted some about seeking National Piping Centre lessons possibly with Finlay plus Stanford Music + here  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/scottish-cairn-terriers-would-like-too.html ... Am thinking to get back into both lessons, and recording, for a Scottish Small Piping CD in 2020, to begin by recording on my SSP chanter in A (different from GHB practice chanter in B flat - http://www.themacleods.net/qanda/skmqa019.htm) all the tunes in the Green College of Piping tutor for other students  who might be learning both SSP and using this CoP Green Tutor. (Both in Glasgow, the College of Piping and the National Piping Centre merged into the NPC in 2018 after decades - https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/glasgow-college-and-piping-centre-merge/). I may explore recording these same tunes with may new D chanter, and transposing the music where needed with MuseScore - and to get more of a feel for the D chanter played with sheet music (something to explore, maybe with Finlay).

Here's my S.G.K. MacLeod video channel -
https://www.youtube.com/sgkmacleod (much for bagpiping, now going back some years)

and accessible from here - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm (what do you think of these page, when you read through it)?


Glad to write that:
From next November I will be also the Rector in a new University in Germany: Germany @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany  & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/German_language … in German. WUaS is proceeding with licensing for free Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees, first in English, then Law, MD & IB degrees. German language in some years.


- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1143988658476732416

L, Scott

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping



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New recordings of tunes on Scottish Small Pipes in the College of Piping's Green Tutor - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos. I've recorded the 10 tunes in the lessons out of 14 tunes in the CoP tutor so far - as a kind of tune tutorial for the Scottish Small Pipes with an A chanter.


Scots Wha Ha'e - First Measure - from The College of Piping Green Tutor on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/LmarClyJHng

Scots Wha Ha'e - Second Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/ZLHNzkkeO2Q



The Brown Haired Maiden - First Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/JMBQYdHX4pw

The Brown Haired Maiden - Second Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/tqLK_M-kn74



The High Road to Gairloch - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/fDZUPQFuVxQ

The High Road to Gairloch - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/ohwGdOwR3LA



Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/hrRFoppFTjI

Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/T5BuL3LuBrQ



Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)
https://youtu.be/6c4JRHzfGOg

Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)
https://youtu.be/P9DjYPcjngw



The Carles Wi' The Breeks - First Measure - 6/8 Slow Air
https://youtu.be/0yj7tjOQG5g

The Carles Wi' The Breeks - Second Measure - 6/8 Slow Air
https://youtu.be/Rk9UTrqSwcc



The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/VZHoE-L8rB8

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/FBAd2MzU2CM

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Third Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/fLUnYL3baDA

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Fourth Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/BE6fYa8j9Bs



The Earl of Mansfield - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/vExepuv9XwY

The Earl of Mansfield - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/AoeVorO2Drg

The Earl of Mansfield - Third Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/fqKqdoxC3HI



Inverness Rant - First Measure - Strathspey
https://youtu.be/QmutM1URIrM

Inverness Rant - Second Measure - Strathspey
https://youtu.be/X9NFuJfzOPI



The Piper of Drummond - First Measure - 4/4 Reel
https://youtu.be/sb3e7ulbrFg

The Piper of Drummond - Second Measure - 4/4 Reel
https://youtu.be/sSKm7MIAhdc



The Green Hills of Tyrol - First Measure - 3/4 Retreat March
https://youtu.be/xPmZZHnk3uA

The Green Hills of Tyrol - Second Measure - 3/4 Retreat March
https://youtu.be/oQucLhRH1bQ



Green Hills of Tyrol is the last tune among the lessons in the College of Piping's Green Tutor (Vol. 1), and with the preceding 10 tunes in this series, played on Scottish Small Pipes on an A Chanter, you could now newly study and learn from the Green Tutor on the Scottish Small Pipes.

https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod
http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

- https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos



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NEW RECORDINGS for learning the Scottish Small Pipes in the key of A using the College of Piping's Green Tutor (Vol. 1) ... a kind of TUNE TUTORIAL - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/algol-just-saw-composer-leif-segerstams.html by @scottmacleod (@sgkmacleod) > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials & @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1145523090606026752

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1145522478577418240

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College of Piping's Highland Bagpipe Green Tutor (Vol 1)
https://images.app.goo.gl/mn42xrQLfhkB6Ssi9 … NEW RECORDINGS for learning Scottish Small Pipes in the key of A using this Tutor ... a kind of TUNE TUTORIAL - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos … - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/algol-just-saw-composer-leif-segerstams.html … by @scottmacleod  @WorldUnivAndSch ~



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For the 4 tunes at the Back of the Book (College of Piping Tutor Vol. 1), and all 14 tunes, see:

Blue-spotted jawfish: College of Piping's Green Tutor (Vol. 1), and with the preceding 10 tunes in this series, played on Scottish Small Pipes on an A Chanter, you could now newly study and learn from the Green Tutor on the Scottish Small Pipes, Bagpipe Tutorials - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes Great Highland Bagpipe - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe ~

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/blue-spotted-jawfish-college-of-pipings.html




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Saturday, June 29, 2019

Adenium obesum: Forehead wearable sensors, and Headbands for studying the brain, and meditation, 'Pegman' in the lower left corner of Google Streetview will grow in to realistic virtual avatar bots onto which we'll be able to put virtual soft, skin-like, organic optoelectronic sensors for wearable oximetry, and virtual thin film ASICs for flexible wearables * * * @WorldUnivAndSch just joined Handshake as an employer (Very great way to hire student externs, when WUaS gets money). Affiliated with 23 of greatest universities in the US: MIT, Yale, Princeton, Brown, including 3 Quaker colleges


Dear Yasser, (Prashant, and Tim),

Thanks for your excellent Stanford "Soft, skin-like, organic optoelectronic sensors for wearable oximetry" talk, Yasser - https://events.stanford.edu/events/841/84184/ ... (and Prashant for your "eWear Seminar: Thin film ASICs for flexible wearables" talk yesterday - https://events.stanford.edu/events/842/84236/). And nice to see you again, Yasser, and to meet you, Prashant.

Yasser, I'm writing to follow up about my questions after your talk plus some other related items (and including Prashant and Tim Fiore MD, Chief Science Officer of the HUMM head band - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-fiori-780b7a84/ & https://www.medgadget.com/2018/12/edge-headset-for-enhanced-learning-and-memory-interview-with-dr-tim-fiori-co-founder-of-humm.html) re possible collaborations.

Am interested in the forehead sensor you mentioned yesterday for studying oximetry, and with regard to an eventual headband even.

Am curious too if we might all develop a study of meditation building on Herbert Benson MD's ~1972 study, but in new and different ways vis-a-vis oximetry. I think Benson was attempting to study meditation scientifically and came up with relaxation response as a biological-response approach definitionally.  (Inner releasing action, are some of the words I use). How to measure and study this further?

For Benson "Blood lactate levels decreased during and after meditation. Oxygen consumption was deeper than during sleep, Symptoms of the body under stress. Dr. Cannon ..."
http://www.relaxationresponse.org/Presentation.htm (See too: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/10/relaxation).

I'm particularly interested in adding an aspect to such a new study brainstorming-wise, and by studying the relaxation response newly in warm water In the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool, differentially from the relaxation response on terra firma (i.e. without soaking in warm pool).

Using a forehead oximetry soft, skin-like sensor (eventually into a head band in order to study other aspects of meditation), how might we develop both or your sensor / eWearable's knowledge and approaches in these directions?

And might we explore eventual mapping of the brain (with lasers you mentioned as  a possibility, Yasser) and in particular, brainstorming-wise re -

"In what ways could we map the folds & contours brain for MEDITATION in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool (a de facto relaxation response meditation) @HarbinBook ? HUMM head bands, like this mapping the sea floor (see quad view) https://twitter.com/EVNautilus/status/1141751771032719360 … ? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences … ~"


https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1141762919341776901 (Am the founder and head of MIT OCW-centric World University and School, and seeking to create a realistic virtual earth for STEM research at the Google Streetview, cellular, and atomic levels for this - think Google's Project Baseline too).

Conceptually and brainstorming-wise, NEXT pack the HUMM headband full of A) sensors including lasers for mapping, and studying the brain scientifically, (depression too re hormones-approach which you mentioned Stanford Medicine is looking at Yasser), and B) wifi to transmit its data into avatar bot brains in a realistic virtual earth (such as in a realistic virtual Harbin)

Shall we all write scientific paper together, first focusing on the relaxation response in warm water - and re oximetry? We may need a few further co-authors for the science, graphs, statistics etc.

And Yasser, and Prashant and Tim, would you like to meet for a cup of tea at Stanford Medicine to explore some of this further. A focus on writing a scientific paper could aid all of our academic and technology careers. And studying meditation is a very worthy scientific goal.  (Am interested further in exploring studying consciousness scientifically in these regards as well - and perhaps Prof Michael Pitts at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, as well as Prof. Nathalia King there, both studying consciousness too, might be collaborators in some regards).

Thanks for your excellent Stanford talks, Yasser and Prashant, and your excellent Stanford HUMM headband demonstration, Tim.

Shall we meet to talk sometime soon, Yasser? (Will you be in the US for a while longer, Prashant?) And are you in Berkeley, Tim?

Let's communicate in email about this further, and potentially meet as well.

Namaste, cheers, and All the best, Scott



Check out the Harbin Gate in this realistic virtual earth (Google Streetview) ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg and "amble" down the road "4 miles" to "walk" around Middletown, California ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ . Part of the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin and realistic virtual earth - at the atomic and cellular levels too with machine learning - will involve developing approaches for all scientists to brain science(all STEM related digital modeling questions). 'Pegman' in the lower left corner will grow in to realistic virtual avatar bots onto which we'll be able to put virtual soft, skin-like, organic optoelectronic sensors for wearable oximetry, and virtual thin film ASICs for flexible wearables.


Some blog posts about all of your talks/presentations are here -  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Brain.

e.g.
Yasser: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/columbidae-from-next-november-i-will-be.html

Prashant: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/bristlecone-pine-blockchain-for-multi.html

Tim: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/death-valley-pupfish-reed-prof-nathalia.html


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I may email Dr. Herbert Benson MD himself ... and ask him about his thoughts for designing such a study. 


Although I haven't found any of the scientific papers Benson published about his 'relaxation response' studies, including experimental apparatus, here are some more related articles -






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"Soft, skin-like, organic optoelectronic sensors for wearable oximetry"
Yasser Khan, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
https://events.stanford.edu/events/841/84184/

In this talk, I will focus on wearable soft sensors for oximetry. Conventional oximeters use expensive and rigid optoelectronic components that restrict sensing locations to fingertips or earlobes. To address these limitations, we demonstrated an all-organic optoelectronic sensor for transmission-mode pulse oximetry. This transmission-mode probe demonstrated that oximetry can be performed with organic optoelectronics. However, to realize the true potential of organic optoelectronics for oximetry, a reflection-mode operation is essential that allows sensor placement on different parts of the body. In the latter part of the talk, I will discuss design, sensing methodology, and fabrication of a flexible and printed sensor array, which senses reflected light from tissue. Due to the ability to place the sensor in diverse places, the sensor is promising for novel medical sensing applications such as mapping oxygenation in tissues, wounds, or transplanted organs. Finally, I will wrap up the talk by listing recent progress and future directions in soft biophotonic sensing.



https://profiles.stanford.edu/yasser-khan

http://web.stanford.edu/~ymkhan/assets/cv/yasser_khan_academic_cv.pdf

http://web.stanford.edu/~ymkhan/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasifkhan/



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Thanks too, Prashant Agarwal, for your Stanford "eWear Seminar: Thin film ASICs for flexible wearables" talk yesterday - https://events.stanford.edu/events/842/84236/).

One of the key challenges for wearables is that one-size-fits-all does not work. Most of the focus on customization and personalization of the wearables has been on the software and data analysis fronts. The hardware (sensors, readout, signal conditioning and processing, etc) is typically common across all the units of specific version of specific wearables. Human body has inherent variability from person to person as well as across different sites on the body. Thus, the hardware should ideally be customized across persons and across sites of body to ensure that high quality data can be captured. However, customization of hardware is constraint by high time and cost required and the trade-offs involved in customizability, cost, performance and power. This talk will present imec’s work in thin film ASICs that can enable hardware customization at lower cost and manufacturing turn-around times as well as enable flexible and skin-conformable form factors.

Prashant Agrawal received his PhD (Electrical Engineering) from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2015 and MS (Computers Science & Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2009. He is currently the Program Manager for Thin Film Electronics at Imec Belgium. Prior to this, he had been Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Imec between 2015-18 during which he managed technical and business development activities, and fund raising for internal ventures. He worked as Senior R&D Engineer in the Hyperspectral Imaging Group at Imec (Belgium) between 2014-2015 and as Technical Staff Member in the HPC Group at IBM Research India between 2006-2009.

About imec:
Imec (imec-int.com) is a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, energy and education.

As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together more than 4,000 brilliant minds from over 97 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, and offices in China, India and Japan. In 2018, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 583 million euro.
Imec is a registered trademark for the activities of IMEC International (a legal entity set up under Belgian law as a "stichting van openbaar nut”), imec Belgium (IMEC vzw supported by the Government of Flanders), imec the Netherlands (Stichting IMEC Nederland, part of Holst Centre which is supported by the Dutch Government), imec Taiwan (IMEC Taiwan Co.), imec China (IMEC Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd), imec India (Imec India Private Limited), and imec Florida (IMEC USA nanoelectronics design center).



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@WorldUnivAndSch just joined Handshake as an employer (Very great way to hire student externs, when WUaS gets money). Affiliated with 23 of greatest universities in the US: MIT, Yale, Princeton, Brown, including 3 Quaker colleges:
https://app.joinhandshake.com/employers/447700
~https://app.joinhandshake.com/users/19861050~


https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1145041222882324480
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1145041589556744192


Just joined Handshake with World University and School, as an employer (for free) ... wow ... very great way to hire students (when WUaS gets money). Was able to affiliate with 23 of the greatest universities in the US (including 3 Quaker colleges). Began this process by adding my Reed College ID into Handshake ... Handshake is very well organized and thought out for what it does ... "Handshake is the college career network of the future, built to transform the recruiting experience for college students, career centers and employers."

Here are the beginnings:
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Friday, June 28, 2019

Bristlecone pine: Blockchain for Multi-lingual wiki best STEM CC-4 OCW Universities & Schools? How best to code #blockchain into @WorldUnivAndSch in all 300 languages of @wikidata for University degrees - and potentially anticipating a single #cryptocurrency w #UBI? - & in 7111 known living langs?, With QUANTUM computing * * * I think the course I teach on Society, Information Technology and the Global University - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - will be able to inform some of the questions that emerge as blockchains are deployed, and with regards to Quantum computing as well * * * Stanford Wearables Prashant Agrawal "eWear Seminar: Thin film ASICs for flexible wearables," With Google releasing Bristlecone Quantum Computer chip, ten years out where do you think Quantum computing is heading with the wearables you talked about. And of the 5 technologies or platforms you described, "Google Announces 'Bristlecone' Quantum Computing Chip ..."


Blockchain for Multi-lingual wiki best STEM CC-4 OCW Universities & Schools? How best to code #blockchain into @WorldUnivAndSch in all 300 languages of @wikidata for University degrees - and potentially anticipating a single #cryptocurrency w #UBI? - & in 7111 known living langs?


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1144401625714311168



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With QUANTUM computing: Blockchain for Multi-lingual wiki best STEM CC-4 OCW Universities & Schools? How best to code #blockchain into @WorldUnivAndSch in all 300 languages of @wikidata for University degrees anticipating a SINGLE #cryptocurrency w #UBI & in 200 nation states?


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1144608452666257410


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I think the course I teach on Society, Information Technology and the Global University - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - will be able to inform some of the questions that emerge as blockchains are deployed, and with regards to Quantum computing as well. 







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Stanford Wearables Prashant Agrawal "Thin film ASICs for flexible wearables” June 28 2019



Asked a question this morning in a great Stanford Wearables talk, (to this effect): 

With Google releasing Bristlecone Quantum Computer chip, ten years out where do you think Quantum computing is heading with the wearables you talked about. And of the 5 technologies or platforms you described which ones would you think Quantum could develop on (the talk was recorded, and Angela McIntyre is the person who directs this series as the Executive Director of the Stanford Wearable Electronics (eWEAR) - https://profiles.stanford.edu/angela-mcintyre). 


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Google Announces 'Bristlecone' Quantum Computing Chip ...


https://www.extremetech.com › Extreme


Mar 6, 2018 - Google has just announced a new “Bristlecone” custom quantum computing chip that could lead to a major breakthrough known as “quantum ...

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eWear Seminar: Thin film ASICs for flexible wearables
Sponsored by Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative


Event Details:
One of the key challenges for wearables is that one-size-fits-all does not work. Most of the focus on customization and personalization of the wearables has been on the software and data analysis fronts. The hardware (sensors, readout, signal conditioning and processing, etc) is typically common across all the units of specific version of specific wearables. Human body has inherent variability from person to person as well as across different sites on the body. Thus, the hardware should ideally be customized across persons and across sites of body to ensure that high quality data can be captured. However, customization of hardware is constraint by high time and cost required and the trade-offs involved in customizability, cost, performance and power. This talk will present imec’s work in thin film ASICs that can enable hardware customization at lower cost and manufacturing turn-around times as well as enable flexible and skin-conformable form factors.

Prashant Agrawal received his PhD (Electrical Engineering) from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2015 and MS (Computers Science & Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2009. He is currently the Program Manager for Thin Film Electronics at Imec Belgium. Prior to this, he had been Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Imec between 2015-18 during which he managed technical and business development activities, and fund raising for internal ventures. He worked as Senior R&D Engineer in the Hyperspectral Imaging Group at Imec (Belgium) between 2014-2015 and as Technical Staff Member in the HPC Group at IBM Research India between 2006-2009.

About imec:

Imec (imec-int.com) is a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, energy and education.

As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together more than 4,000 brilliant minds from over 97 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, and offices in China, India and Japan. In 2018, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 583 million euro.

Imec is a registered trademark for the activities of IMEC International (a legal entity set up under Belgian law as a "stichting van openbaar nut”), imec Belgium (IMEC vzw supported by the Government of Flanders), imec the Netherlands (Stichting IMEC Nederland, part of Holst Centre which is supported by the Dutch Government), imec Taiwan (IMEC Taiwan Co.), imec China (IMEC Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd), imec India (Imec India Private Limited), and imec Florida (IMEC USA nanoelectronics design center).








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Thursday, June 27, 2019

Camellia: Wikidata * * * From next November I will be also the Rector in a new University in Germany: Germany World Univ and Sch * * * @WorldUnivAndSch plans to create Library Resources' wikis https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources in all ~300 languages of @wikidata & in all ~200 nation states https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States & 7111 living languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages @sgkmacleod #LibraryResources for adding free online libraries



Dear Lydia (Wikidata Product Manager), Hilary, Michael (Stanford Vice Provost), Klaus, Katherine (Director of Wikimedia), Roland (Stanford Law Professor) and Larry (chair of World University & School's Board),

I have received a number of curious emails from Stanford Libraries recently ostensibly for introducing Dr. Klaus Ceynowa (Director of the German National Library) and Hilary Thorsen (Chair of the Wikidata Affinity Group at Stanford Libraries) to one another, I think, - see: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/galanthus-nivalis-libraries-in-wikibase.html - which then proceed to alienate ("ban") me from A) Stanford Libraries themselves, from B) the "Wikimedia movement," and from C) a specific Google Group, the LD4 Google Group. I met Klaus in a Stanford Libraries' event. I responded to the first email (from M.C.) to Michael Keller with - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/achiote-bixa-orellana-wikidata-affinity.html. And I responded most recently (to P.S.) with:

"Your email has been received.

From next November I will be also the Rector in a new University in Germany" (see below).


While this introduction is potentially very helpful for both the GNL and the Wikidata Affinity Group, it's hard to see how World University and School's donation of WUaS to Wikidata as "back end" for co-development (in 2015), and then having received our WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki (in 2017) as "front end" - re the WUaS Library Resources' wikis ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources (and WUaS's ~ 725 wiki pages in English so far; see, for ex. - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects and planned in Wikidata's 300 languages, and then planned in 7,111 known living languages) - can develop further within the "Wikimedia movement," given this alienation.

Having drafted a WUaS Library Resources' presentation for the bi-weekly Wikidata Affinity Group per Hilary, Stanford Wikimedian-in-Residence (see - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/06/agenda-news-for-open-wuas-monthly.html), and the possibility of giving it in the June 18th Wikidata Affinity Group (which is now operating with a Linked Data 4 - LD4 grant, I think), this is currently on hold.

Lydia,,given these fluctuating group affiliations, and curious (spurious & unjust) "bans," in what ways could World University and School's Library Resources (and all of WUaS) develop in Wikidata and MediaWiki newly together (so that they become interoperable) from your perspective, and thus significantly benefit both Stanford Libraries and the GNL, given too this recent WUaS alienation from the "Wikimedia movement" development? Thank you so much.

Sincerely, Scott MacLeod


From next November I will be also the Rector in a new University in Germany: Germany World Univ and Sch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany  & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/German_language … planned in German. WUaS is proceeding with licensing for free Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees, first in English, then Law, MD & IB degrees. German language in some years.




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Sunday, June 30, 2019

Dear Michael, and All,

I've blogged about some of this here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/camellia-wikidata-from-next-november-i.html. What's the Stanford Libraries' process please by which I might appeal some of these curious 'alienations' I have received emails from?

Thank you.

Sincerely, Scott

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1145396637356810243

- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1145397162265600000


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