possibilities coding-wise for pipers - on the Scottish Small Pipes' chanter in the key of A - to play with this ... with this Youtube concert to a Google AI Music Project ... newly transformed to work with Piobaireachd melodies
Andrew, (PM Stuart Liddell, All),
Thanks for the invitation to the Glennfiddich Piping Championship in Blair Atholl, Scotland, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or all places - and virtually (Did we see the beginnings of an emerging Virtual Blair Castle in Scotland ... which could get wild in potentially developing "multimedia rooms" even with holograms of these 10 pipers?)! Glad to make this Celtic celebration and gathering. Great to learn too that you were at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, last weekend giving some piping talks there, and playing for a drummer in a competition, and that you also played in Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band this August in the Worlds' (World Pipe Band Championship) ... and where Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band won again! Glad to learn that you know Stuart Liddell fairly well too. :) (You can see recordings of me taking Scottish Small Pipes' lessons with him, with a focus on Piobaireachds, recently, here -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - and in the WUaS /Bagpipe_Tutorials' wiki school / subject too, I think, or on the Piobaireachd page or similar -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials). Glen Brown's, Alex Gandy's and Fred Morrison's piping moved me the most, with Glen Brown's even bringing a little tear to my eye, somewhere in the middle of his Piobaireachd (can't name the movement variation ... but might be elicit-able again if I were to see the recording, for example), AND in appreciating the kind of Piobaireachd rant in Alex Gandy's Taorluath and Crunluath movements.
What do you think? -
What do those 3 judges of this Glenfiddich piping competition think together, in their CONSENSUS decisions, and conversationally too, I wonder? ... It would be great for teaching and learning "competition GHB bagpiping" (a whole culture shaping a 'sound' and "creating a music" and raising the technical standards of GHB piping, I think ) ... But how to think outside this 'box' I wonder too ... and head in new directions with Scottish bagpiping? ... I liked the quiet smile on Fred Morrison's face as he closed the Glenfiddich Piping Championship with his MSR ... and how CONSCIOUS he seemed playing ... and playing the reel slowly ... and musically! (Am giving some thought to questions of consciousness in a variety of ways ... and regarding Scottish culture this is an interesting new field or area for further thinking, and meditating ... :) Was Fred Morrison 'meditating' as he played his Piobaireachd ... (blog post
Wrote a little ditty about Stuart Liddell piping at the Glenfinnan in 2014 here -
Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2014: Stuart Liddell, Piobaireachd
The Lament for Colin Roy Mackenzie, Angus MacKay setting.
Learning Piobaireachd,
As meditation,
Listening to the drones,
like a circular circuit,
and stilling one's mind,
I chant,
bodymind
heading to oneness,
inner releasing action
unfolding with the breath :)Cheers, Scott
Regarding potentially exploring further conversation and communication and collaboration between MIT OCW-centric World University and School's Music School ... and the CMU Pipe Band, and even the CMU Music School too (potentially) which you may have alluded to ... as well as regarding Humanoid Robotics' Musicians (like Toyota's Trumpet player robot, and the THR3 ,and CMU's McBlare too) ... and a #
RealisticVirtualEarthForRoboti
cs -
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click - for developing this ... as well as for potentially TALKING - again as iterating realistic Avatar Bots - WITH, in a Realistic Virtual Earth For History, Donald Mor MacCrimmon, and Patrick Og MacCrimmon, and the 8 other MacCrimmons and all the other amazing pipers out of the depths of Scottish history, whom we might be able to hear play, and watch compose ... as iterating avatar bots, and with evidence, and innovative interpretations with virtual reality, how to proceed? This would be a brand new approach to academic scholarship in Bagpiping especially ... regarding a RealisticVirtualEarthForHistor
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https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click!
And regarding World Univ & Sch SLIPPING IN to rank #1 in multiple university rankings (eg in US News and World Reports, Chronicle of Higher Education, etc)
and with WUaS upcoming WUaS MSCHE accreditation process (which accredits CMU too) THANKS to the CREATIVE COMMONS 4 licensed MIT OpenCourseWare (IN 7 LANGUAGES) that WUaS is growing from AND WITH, and comparable ALSO to what Stanford University - in adapting to Stanford students in Computer Science (see video about Stanford creating a world class computer science department, with many of its department heads, since ~1965, which I attended, and where Donald Knuth signed my Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book's bookmark too) did relative to MIT and all the great universities on the eastern seaboard of the USA, and potentially Oxbridge too, for example, I think the Celitc connection could help, since I'm a little in communication with John Hennessy, Stanford's president for about 16 years until a few years ago - now chair of Alphabet, Google's parent company - during which Stanford seems to have become ranked right at the top in various University ratings ... so he knows how to get a university to rank #1 works ... and in working with so many Stanford and CA stakeholders for ex., ... and I think he identifies Celtic, or Irish, or Irish American, significantly, in part, - & way out in California ... and regarding your, Andrew, being from Ballygowan, northern Ireland (do you have some Ulster Scots' background?), and regarding, IDENTITY questions too, ie re "The Power of IDENTITY" questions (Manuel Castells' 2nd book in his "The Information Age" trilogy) ... and regarding IDENTITY questions, as an anthropologist of Physical-Digital, Actual-Virtual alternative culturally Harbin Hot Springs out in the different world of California, like Stanford, too.
Here's the Allman Brothers' Cow Palace SF '73 with Jerry Garcia concert which I'd like to riff and noodle around with beginning around 2:30 minutes with Scottish Small Pipes even with Piobaireachd melodies ... and potentially with machine learning ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNAmXz8kc6I ... Please share with your pipers' Alex (Alexandra - in Computer Science as an undergrad at CMU) and her identical twin sister Elizabeth, also at CMU, and also in your pipe band (are they minoring in bagpiping, and are they Scottish-Japanese Americans too? ... Alex said their Dad too is a CMU alum interestingly ) ... As we were talking, I was sharing the CS thinking to go from the Youtube URL (Google) to something like the Google JS Bach project with all its AI and machine learning or similar ... and then with the great Rock and Roll energy of this concert ... begin to open and explore possibilities coding-wise for pipers - on the Scottish Small Pipes' chanter in the key of A - to play with this ... with this Youtube concert to a Google AI Music Project ... newly transformed to work with Piobaireachd melodies ... and eventually printing TO sheet music so that a Piper could read these notes ... and begin to improvise around with noodling and riffing ... (and how to teach noodling, riffing, jamming, and improvising at World Univ & Sch is a related question ... with computer science and digitization processes in very creative ways?:) ... (Am interested in this potentially for my 3rd Scottish Small Pipes' album) ... And might Alex and Elizabeth like to matriculate at MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch for online 7 year PhDs after completing their next 2 years at CMU and getting their Bachelor's degrees?
And regarding pipers' playing ... even as a kind of meditation ... and as a feedback loop ... from the brain .... out the fingers from the chanter ... into the ears ... to ELICIT certain brain states or neurophysiology ... like euphoria ... or bliss or even loving bliss neurophysiology ... how to explore further with consciousness and thinking and CS :)
Great to meet you #CMUProfOfPiping, Andrew,
Scott
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all these recent piping threads, in yesterday's blog post - :)
Very nice to meet you, Andrew! Looking forward to further connecting :)
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Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
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Glenfiddich Championship Watch Party This Saturday!
https://mailchi.mp/9758102f6e00/dmhspnpwhw-12367296?e=93957eea44
Scott,
Here’s the info for the watch party below. I can’t see too many people showing up since it’s so early, but I know at least a handful of “die hard pipers” that are definitely coming.
Andrew
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| Hello, Pittsburgh Piping Society! The day is almost here! We hope that you’ll be up bright and early with us at 5am EST on October 29, 2022, to watch and cheer on one of our PPS founders and Carnegie Mellon University graduate, Nick Hudson, as he makes his competitive debut at the esteemed Glenfiddich Championships.
Time: 5am to 1pm Admission: Free! Goodlander will not have food available. However, feel free to bring your own or order in! Our host just asks that we respect their establishment and clean up after ourselves. Cocktails and beer will be available for purchase starting at 7am as well as nonalcoholic drinks. Since 1974, The Glenfiddich Piping Championship has brought the top ten prize winners in the UK--from all over the world--together at Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, Scotland.
In fact, James H. McIntosh M.B.E, in whose memory we facilitate the piobaireachd scholarship, was the first winner of the Glenfiddich Piping Championship in 1974 (at that time called Grant’s Invitational Solo Piping Championship).
I am sure you will agree that earning one of the ten spots is quite an accomplishement!
Can't wait to see you there!
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Jimmy McIntosh's influence in the Pittsburgh region is long lasting and undeniable. Recognizing his impact Pittsburgh Piping Society is proud to help facilitate the Jimmy McIntosh Piobaireachd Scholarship.
Jimmy devoted his life to teaching piobaireachd, and he conveyed the music as he was taught by Bob Brown and Bob Nicol, the "Bobs of Balmoral," a tradition going back to the MacCrimmons of the Isle of Skye.
Many of Jimmy's students have achieved great success,winning the top prizes in Scotland and North America. It was Jimmy's wish to create a scholarship enabling promising pipers to learn from those he taught in the Balmoral Tradition, so they might continue to carry the torch that was handed to him by Brown and Nicol. |
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Dear Ligonier Highland Games' friends, Carnegie Mellon Pipes and Drums' band from 2007, Scotophiles, Piobaireachd afficianadoes, All,
As the CMU director of its Pipe Band, Andrew Carlisle, just shared with this Glenfiddich Piping Championship watch party announcement, beginning at 5am Eastern standard time, on Saturday, 10/29/22:
Hello, Pittsburgh Piping Society! The day is almost here! We hope that you’ll be up bright and early with us at 5am EST on October 29, 2022, to watch and cheer on one of our PPS founders and Carnegie Mellon University graduate, Nick Hudson, as he makes his competitive debut at the esteemed Glenfiddich Championships.
Time: 5am to 1pm
Admission: Free!
Some interesting videos of champion piper, with a CMU bagpiping degree, Nick Hudson, who is one of 10 people competing this Saturday at the Glenfiddich:
Nick Hudson - medley - 2016 Metro Cup
https://youtu.be/lAPLt_QesgU
Nick Hudson - Nation's Only Graduating Bagpipe Major (2009)
Looking forward to meeting some of you then and here in Pittsburgh at the virtual Glenfiddich, in an iterating virtual Blair castle, in Blair Atholl, Scotland, and check out the flyer.
As Aye, and with very best wishes,
Scott
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#ScottishSmallPiping & #RealRealTime #MusicMaking Online >Upcoming
PPS
And in an innovative way, potentially with Humanoid Robotics, bagpipe, and other musical instruments -
#HumanoidRobot #WUaStrumpet #WUaSbagpipe player #ToyotaTrumpeter
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#AmecaRobot
#THR3 robot bagpiper:
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#AmecaRobot
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Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes -
Bagpipe Tutorials -
Great Highland Bagpipe -
Pibroch, Piobaireachd or Ceòl_Mór -
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Professor, President, CEO, Presiding Clerk & Founder
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
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Dear Andrew, (Stuart Liddell, Joyce MacFarlane-McIntosh), And All,
Greetings from Pittsburgh. I was coming to CMU Pipe Band practices in 2006 & 2007, while living in Pittsburgh, and have just returned to Pittsburgh from California and the SF Bay Area again. While I'm now playing the Scottish small pipes only (due to a fairly recently developed ear condition), and am working on creating my second Scottish Small Pipes' album, this one of Piobaireachd / Ceol Mor, "Honey Piobaireachd," to release in December (with the first one, "Honey in the Bag," of Ceol Beag -
https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/, both accessible from here -
http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ), I'm writing to inquire whether it might be possible please to come to CMU Pipe Band practices or similar now that the relatively quiet non-Highland Games' season is arriving. (My Walsh Scottish Small Pipes have chanters in A, B flat and D). I saved the email addresses from the CMU Pipe Band in around 2007 (and will see how many bounce backs emerge), - and am also including in this email inquiry Stuart Liddell, a recent teacher of mine, and Joyce MacFarlane-McIntosh, a teacher of mine in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, whom I was delighted to just meet again at the Ligonier Highland Games after about 45 years. It was great to see some of you too at the Ligonier Highland Games this year especially (blogging some about this here -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/09/melancholy-thistle.html).
When does the CMU Pipe Band meet, and where, please, if it might be possible to join a community of pipers here, and for the GHB, Scottish small pipes, Piobaireachd and Ceol Beag bagpiping knowledge conversation especially. Thank you.
With very best wishes,
Scott
Some World Univ & Sch wiki schools for bagpiping (in English so far, but planned too potentially in Gaelic s) -
Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ceòl_Mór -
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Professor, President, CEO, Presiding Clerk & Founder
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
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Hi Scott,
I don’t believe we have met. If we have, I do apologise.
You’re welcome to come along to a CMU practice sometime. We meet Mondays 7pm to 9pm in the CUC Studio Theatre. It’s a black box theatre close to the main building door on Forbes Avenue.
You might also be interested in joining / coming along to the Pittsburgh Piping Society - a non-profit that I helped form 7-8 years ago. It basically meets every other month in a bar and serves as an opportunity for pipers or all breads and abilities to come and have a tune in an encouraging environment. We are actually having a ”Glenfiddich watch party” this Saturday if you are interested. It is at “Goodlander” bar in the Larimer area. If you are an early riser it starts at 5am with the time difference and is free of charge. Will probably run until noonish. Drinks can be purchased from 7am legally. It’s a bar that belongs to a friend of mine that is also a piper.
Hopefully we can meet at some point. Best wishes,
Andrew
Andrew Carlisle
Professor of Music
Director of Piping
Office of the Dean: Student Affairs |
School of Music: College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University
Cohen University Center Information Desk #110
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Office: (412) 268-8613
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Dear Andrew,
Thanks so much for your email, and great to e-meet you. What a great idea, the "Glen Fiddich watch party," at Goodlander's bar in Pittsburgh's Larimer area (less than a mile from where I lived with my parents in the 1970s as a teenager, on Juniata Court in Pt Breeze going to SSA high school in Fox Chapel, - and occasionally attending CMU Pipe Band practices in a gymnasium there with silver-haired Bob Hamilton as PM if I recall correctly). I think I'll try to attend this virtual Glen Fiddich piping championship arriving sometime between 5am ET and 6, for the adventure of this -
Looking forward to meeting you then and here in Pittsburgh at the virtual Glen Fiddich, in an iterating virtual Blair Atholl castle.
With best regards,
Scott
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The Glenfiddich Championship 2022 pipers - Twitters~posts with pics !
The Glenfiddich Championship 2022 pipers, Blair Atholl, Scotland:
Jack Lee, Canada
Callum Beaumont
Glenn Brown
Jamie Forrester
Alex Gandy, Canada
Nick Hudson, USA
Willie McCallum
Angus D. MacColl
Fred Morrison
Connor Sinclair (on screen in pic, viewed from #PghPA)
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The #GlenfiddichChampionship 2022 pipers Blair Atholl, Scotland: Jack Lee
Callum Beaumont
Glenn Brown
Jamie Forrester
Alex Gandy
Nick Hudson
Willie McCallum
Angus D. MacColl
Fred Morrison
Connor Sinclair on screen from #PghPA
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The #GlenfiddichChampionship 2022 pipers, Scotland:
Jack Lee
Callum Beaumont
Glenn Brown
Jamie Forrester
Alex Gandy
Nick Hudson
Willie McCallum
Angus D. MacColl
Fred Morrison
Connor Sinclair, #PghPA #ProfAndrewCarlisle's back
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Watching the #GlenfiddichChampionship 2022 in #VirtualBlairCastle, Blair Atholl, #Scotland, from #PghPA (in a 1st ever for me) #GlenfiddichBagpiping #WatchParty That's #CMUProfOfPiping #ProfAndrewCarlisle
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