To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com
Shady Side Academy Homecoming. - Fascinating to learn, Sue, that Shady Side is going through its 10 year accreditation process ...
President Griffith, Trixie Sabundayo (head of school), Sue Whitney (math teacher & please forward this email to her), All,
Nice to meet you and see you again at the SSA remembrance this morning.
Fascinating to learn, Sue, that Shady Side is going through its 10 year accreditation process with Middle States Commission on Higher Education, a process CC4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki World University and School is seeking to begin this autumn. Free to students' ocw.mit.edu -centric on a new Google for Education platform Bachelor degrees - for Shady Side students potentially - will emerge from this I think.
Fascinating too Sue to learn that you were in the Peace Corps In Malawi, Africa, and as MIT OCW -centric wiki World University and School seeks to create major online Universities in all 200 countries and in their main languages for free degrees and wiki schools for open wiki teaching and learning too eg at Malawi World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and here is the very beginning of somewhat close Cameroon World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Cameroon (not yet in French or English to speak of).
How might we explore this, potentially together somehow? Looking forward to staying in touch.
Sincerely, abolition-ally, Friendly regards, Scott
Am going to be exploring making Lego WeDo 2.0 robots around 5pm at 201 ... and maybe Hootenanny singing too ... with an invitation to explore improvisation-ally too ... Both are pretty play fun things to do :) ... Hoping you're having good travels to NYC via NJ AirBNB, Frederic.
Questions of culture came up in both playing again with fun Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 kit ... getting back into building robots' fun beyond with the Lego tutorials - with a new tutorial from Youtube. And Robocamp (from Hungary maybe) maybe made a kind of racist tutorial in building a Gorilla robot. And CMU seems to engage Robocamp too.
America and aspects of its culture or alternative culture and in academics too in particular have some heightened focus on non-racism, non-classism and non sexism ... In my thinking ... And since the 60s and 70s ... And their freedom seeking movements (the student movement, etc).
And the Harmonium and Shruti box too may have their origins in Vienna in central Europe near Hungary too around 1818 - someone named Haeckl I think I read - in a Harmonium tutorial book I got in India in 2014 with the Harmonium in India. ... In the middle of colonialism (a major project of critique by social scientists since at least the 1960s). ... and while India may have absorbed it and added these instruments to Indian Raga for example - per the tutorial too - Indians weren't critiquing colonialism (racism) as they made raga, instead were kind of enslaved by colonialism tragically.
How to learn the Harmonium improvisation -wise (where Raga is an improvisational music too)? And in a fun and playful way ... And at World Univ & Sch too? (I didn't search in Google for example, but I think the Peter Norvig Google AI thinking is very aware of not being racist ... What do you think?
Raises questions about teaching and learning and cultural or countercultural expressions - eg Rock and Roll out of the '60s and 70s is a great cultural expression of a kind of freedom seeking and creative transformative music.
And how to give rise to new creative expressions, and at World Univ & Sch too, and with great energy ... and not create new forms of slavery (like sex trafficking of women kids, men, others) or colonialism, and which is somehow liberating of people?
Interesting accreditation collaboration opportunity between Shady Side and World University may have emerged this morning - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/10/blue-bird-of-paradise.html - in going to a remembrance at Shady Side Academy Homecoming almost a kind of Church service (where the SSA chapel however is kind of closed and locked up curiously). Shady Side Academy also lived through the revolutionary 1960s and 70s and is very aware of I think issues of race, class and gender, and equality diversity and what education can do ... Here's an unique expression of such a vision in the 10/15/22 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting and recently in Blog otherwise ...
" Agenda item 17
How best to grow cultures-societies of free universal education & learning that could be transformative positively of Pgh and SF Bay Area & CA societies that lead to asylum-seeking, for example ... Maybe there's an opportunity in America with its abolitionist 1862 Emancipation Proclamation & free public k-12 education and 1960s' civil rights, for example ... (Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970s in Pittsburgh in the 2020s out of SSA somehow too is kind of the vision) ... Via an iterating Internet in a realistic virtual earth for everything and generating loving bliss neurophysiology too :)
Not sure how the Shruti box could substitute for the guitar .... Or The harmonium be used to sing the blues ... but could be played with with its keyboard
Scott
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connecting with the 'societies' of either place, - now in PA on asylum journey
Ma, Kenneth, Larry, Pin, Ed, All,
Shady Side Academy Homecoming nearly over - seeking of life partner to begin family continues ...
Health insurance coverage questions in PA on asylum journey still loom (having gotten new PA driver's license and car license plate recently) too.
And in meeting SSA classmate Ed Wilson from 1979 yesterday, a finance director of some large companies (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-wilson-4412456), CMU alumnus too (and who reminded me a bit of CMU professor and former neighbor of my parents' the cheery smart Dennis Epple), where Ed has family in Colorado out west, a house still in Palm Springs, CO, a house in Canada, and a house in Pgh on Mt Washington ... if I and World Univ & Sch move back into a newly safe Canyon 94516 in September 2023 (with a pretty 32 to 25 YO MD wife, who's been seeking a partner for a while) ... would it make sense to think about getting a house in Pgh in some years too (since my resources are still so so limited, or non existent, in developing WUaS for a song)? And CMU alum real estate agent Craig Melichar just sent another house possibility along in Pgh for $35,000 which I can't afford -
New preprint from the lab! Using the STEM CELL ZOO, we recapitulated the SEGMENTATION CLOCKS of SIX mammals: mouse, marmoset, rabbit, human, cow & rhinoceros! With the power of 6 species, we found several scaling laws of the segmentation clock periods.https://t.co/RDJ1bntaMW 1/ pic.twitter.com/PZriExQ3W2
Thanks to brilliant English geneticist Ewan Birney retweet (he's A head too of EMBL - https://www.embl.org/about/).
... with 6 possible Physical-Digital species in the World Univ & Sch Academic Medical Center with Warm Water Cure with WUaS Longevity Genetics' Institute up on the ridge in Canyon 94516 in Sept 2023 ...
Did WUaS (or for finding a life partner) OUTREACH wearing my kilt and kit to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra last Friday 8 days ago work? Read about this humorously here http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/10/nodding-trillium.html "hey laddie, why are you wearing your kilt" (or similar)"
Re a Shruti box hootenanny & Lego Robotics' code-in build out ...
Stephon and Frederic,
Wanna get together for a Shruti box hootenanny, or a Lego Robotics' kit code-in with the WeDo 2.0 Lego Robotics' kit, and its block programming language (with the Scratch programming language working with the newer Lego Robotics' Spike Prime kit I think), sometime ... or a Bengal spice chai tea parley? :) Sunday afternoon at 5 or possibly? Just putting this out there ... might need some co-voices for the hootenanny :) ... The Shruti box is an India drone instrument, and the Harmonium I have too, also from India, also has a bellow's drone, but with keys for making individual tones. Haven't used either of them very much since I got them on a trip to India in 2013-2014 :)
Musical Robotics' cheers,
Scott
You can play with Scratch here at the CC-4 licensed (free, open)
Re a Shruti box hootenanny & Lego Robotics' code-in build out ...
Am not really sure what a hootenanny is, but could be possibly where people get together to hoot-sing as a kind of jam or riff even, from the 1920s (as i im@gine it:). Stephon just says he may have done this before in a kinda classical way (& it could be a hoot with different guides or leads or inputs esp:).
Found some new videos on how to play with Lego WeDo 2 robotics WITH the Scratch drag and drop programming language (below) and will try to set this up for my Maczbook Air for Sunday play ...
Unfortunately I won't be in Pittsburgh from friday to wednesday
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Hope you have good travels, Frederic ... not sure what's up with Shruti box hootenanny & Lego Robotics' kit code-in building play on Sunday. Will let you know.
Sincerely, Scott
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Going to Shady Side Academy
Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
8:35 AM (2 hours ago)
to Janie
Good morning, Ma,
How are you? And how was your week?
Going to Shady Side Academy yesterday was pretty fun - somehow I felt less lonely than I do at times (to the beginning of Homecoming and a ribbon cutting ceremony for new sports' field) ... But I have some worries about the fund raising relationship ... since I don't feel sometimes like I have enough money, and question such giving of money eg not for tuition (for high school). Yet thanks for the 2/4 deps. this past week again where I do have a few resources now (& in my asylum-seeking move back to Pittsburgh for example). I also wonder about a developing CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki WorldUniversityAndSchool.org relationship with Shady Side Academy, and am thinking donating could help this (eg could SSA become a customer of the WUaS Educational Services' bookstores / robotic stores. And I also think it's possible I'll meet a life partner and wife, and mom-to-be out of Shady Side circles. The 10/15/22 WUaS News and Q&A I sent out yesterday was possibly great and creative and potentially transformative & earth shaking in a positive way, - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/10/owl-barn-sat-101522-agenda-and-news-for.html?m=0 & glad too to be able to talk about World University and School with some SSA alumni esp. I also was glad to meet Bart Griffith, SSA's president, whom I liked. I mentioned to a former teacher of Latin there, Alex Howson, through 1973 and then college counselor when I was there, but I don't recall him very clearly, and who taught Latin before my time, about the possibility of living beyond 123 years old and aging reversal genetics too - and World University and School's Wikis for open teaching and learning possibilities to keep 135 year olds' minds active, for ex. - another good SSA-WUaS collaboration focus.
GLAD to have studied at Shady Side in the 1970s, and to have gone to this maybe 1st Homecoming ever, although, as a bit of a hippy+minded rebel, and questioning of institutions (maybe like Dad, and out of the 1960s & 1970s too), have not always been glad I went there.
Writing about all of this puts some of this SSA thinking in a new perspective or light.
Looking forward to seeing you for lunch this week.
Circulating to meet a life partner who's a great fit continues, newly in Pittsburgh, asylum-wise, too and in whistle blowing & in calling for abolition.
Good to connect at Shady Side - and thank you for making it possible for me to study there, Ma - in the 1970s!
Love, abolition-ally, warm regards, Scott
Will Augmented Reality, VR, and similar help make much of Pittsburgh beautiful possibly again (re all the billboards and blight of spreading little businesses, malls etc) - at least in how we see it while traveling around it - 'virtual trees' thru our digital glasses? :) - and from our homes too (traveling anywhere to beautiful places via Google Street View and Smart TV .. and help us find and get out to beautiful places?)
Will Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency free money daily with UBI experiments help lessen possible poverty in Pgh?
Could World University and School with Shady Side Academy help educate, and offer an opportunity to 'move up', for the 300,000 people of Pittsburgh, as well as the 2.35 million people in the Pgh metropolitan area - where all these Pittsburghers could also become wiki teachers at WUaS:)?
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From friend T.L.
Hello Scott! How is life in Pitts? Settling in ok? . . . Read and really enjoyed Klara and the Sun on the trip. Thanks so much! Certainly melancholy wasn't it. Hope all is well!
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HI T! Great to hear from you, and thank you again for our re-UNION in ...! 🙂 Good to have gone to a Shady Side Academy high school Homecoming yesterday re settling in ok. Thanks for your great peace-work in Yemen! Any budding wiki-teachers of subjects they love to Youtube video, for ex., from the people who have mobile phones - about anything, in Arabic or English, which might also help the peace process along? (eg re Peace - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects or https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies or farming, or literature or ethnographic insights into Yemeni peoples?:) Klara and the Sun is described as a Masterpiece here with 15 other possible related books - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/09/northern-harrier.html - none of which I've looked into yet 🙂 And "Klara and the Sun" ... is a gentle melancholy though, don't you think? How to develop flourishing happy Humanoid Robotics in Pittsburgh at World Univ & Sch is a question that came up in talking with Shady Side folks yesterday. 🙂 Hike one of the weekends before it gets too too cold halfway between Washington DC and Pitts? Love, Scott
Appreciating much of what I'm learning from you ... (Allman Brothers' with piping riffing on all 3 SSP chanters ... has ongoing appeal for exploring ... )
Found this, yesterday - and it reminds me a lot! of the amazingly wide range of 'philosophies' that have found their ways to Harbin in the forms of books (or people) like this .... right out of 1960s and '70s thinking ... liking this ... and will explore further. ... eclectic, and somewhat New Age even :)
The Inner of Game of Tennis (1972)
Timothy Gallwey
"A phenomenon when first published in 1972, the Inner Game was a real revelation. Instead of serving up technique, it concentrated on the fact that, as Gallwey wrote, "Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game." The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played not against, but within the mind of the player, and its principal obstacles are self-doubt and anxiety. Gallwey's revolutionary thinking, built on a foundation of Zen thinking and humanistic psychology, was really a primer on how to get out of your own way to let your best game emerge. It was sports psychology before the two words were pressed against each other and codified into an accepted discipline.
The new edition of this remarkable work--Billie Jean King called the original her tennis bible--refines Gallwey's theories on concentration, gamesmanship, breaking bad habits, learning to trust yourself on the court, and awareness. "No matter what a person's complaint when he has a lesson with me, I have found the most beneficial first step," he stressed, "is to encourage him to see and feel what he is doing--that is, to increase his awareness of what actually is." "
World Univ & Sch seeks to develop physical-digital bookstores in all 200 countries and in all 7139 known living languages, and relating to the WUaS Press - with machine learning, - ... as WUaS seeks to collaborate with Google. Any chance you might begin to write a book about bagpiping, Stuart ? :)
Here's the Google Meet URL for tomorrow - meet.google.com/vet-tpwr-jge - at 5p Scotland time (9am Pacific Time, I think:)
(I never heard back from Brìghde Chambieul so it'll be just me in the lesson I think ... ) Thank you - and I learn very much from you, Stuart! :)
For tomorrow - Corrienessan's Salute (crunluath breabach) and ... all as one in a new Piobaireachd rock and roll mode (see below)?
The Company's Lament
MacKintosh's Banner
Glengarry's Lament
Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The Little Spree (crunluath fosgailte)
another (crunluath fosgailte) ?
Corrienessan's Salute (crunluath breabach)
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles (crunluath breabach)
And a new exploratory tentative, very tentative, title of my upcoming Piobaireachd album - "Piobaireachd Rock and Roll" :))?
Further questions too about keys of tunes, both light music and Piobaireachd and keys of chanters (regarding the A, D and B flat chanters I have)?
Long arm strokes for steadiness of blowing, on both SSP bellows, and bag ... re meditation regarding your extraordinarily steady drones (see below)?
Scott
PS
Can we continue a bit further with The Cameronian Rant on Wednesday - newly by memory, and regarding charting goals too per what we've talked about ?
PPS
What do you think? -
Is bagpiping a relaxation response meditation practicing opportunity for you, Stuart, de facto, where you kind of 'lock in' to a meditation inner stillness oneness in your physical attuning with his extraordinarily steady drones, as the music he plays on his chanter, listening and feeling-wise, comes out beautifully and naturally, with the intermediaries of sheet music, or metronome etc.? :)) ...
While I've explored this before, I think long arm strokes on the SSP bellows is one technique to even out the blip re the other bag arm at full bag to less full bag ... how to best learn this steadiness of drones as meditation WITH LONG ARM pressure strokes (on both arms) ... What do you think?
For learning Light Music on Scottish Small PIpes, if the opportunity arises tomorrow, further - 'The Cameronian Rant'
:)
PPPS
Am exploring creatively a new approach to Piobaireachd - idea-wise (sort of with the rock and roll spirit - and per your playing "Thunderstruck" and other Gordon Duncan tunes, and similar so extraordinarily) - and perhaps we could somehow the following ...
What tunes to play on this potential SSP Piobaireachd album? ? ?
The Company's Lament
MacKintosh's Banner
Glengarry's Lament
Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The Little Spree (crunluath fosgailte)
another (crunluath fosgailte) ?
Corrienessan's Salute (crunluath breabach)
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles (crunluath breabach)
... and how best to play them with an AI synthesis of something like the Allman Bros' in 1973 at Cow Palace in SF ~
https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I ~ for "Piobaireachd Rock & Roll," the new tentative title of my next SSP album, by year's end, I hope.
... and as I seek for World Univ & Sch goals to align with Google's goals, and for WUaS to begin to collaborate with Google ... but haven't heard back from Bill Roberts' yet (friend, and former landlord who suggested an approach for me to develop a career at Google to develop WUaS ).
Maybe Google could help with the AI synthesis of the Allman Bros /73 for bagpiping Piobaireachd Rock and Roll accompaniment ... where I just play the above said tunes, and new AI music software adds great rock and roll blues accompaniment (nee drums:) ...
See you tomorrow, Stuart, sir! :)
PPPPS
In a quite related vein, just shared this with my mother, some creative old friends (and new ones too, where DEL at the close refers to ..... .... ..:) -
Hi Ma, my creative friends, All,
This is quite a sketch by John Cleese (Romance with a Double Bass - 1974), Pt 4 -
I suppose I must start an Onlyfans to show you Part 4! Romance with a Double Bass (1974) pic.twitter.com/NvLE6Jufwz
(and the other preceding parts are on his Twitter feed too:) ... he's Tweeting some amazing 'best ofs' ... since the 1960s even ... and even the adverts can be astoundingly great and smart :) ... dig for the Monty Python's :)
Retweeted this Cleese, with a little further creative exploratorium - 'A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, having a dip in the river. The princess is' Based on Anton Chekhov story https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072095/plotsummary >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Comedy @WorldUnivAndSch Create sketch in #RealisticVirtualHarbin @JohnCleese @HarbinBook?:)
(before aging reversal genetic drug therapies are coming along)
- and his 4 wives as well ... he and quite a few of his wives explored psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in some depth it seems, but they seem to have moved on ... (so perhaps the bloom went off the psychotherapeutic rose for them ... :),
I'm thinking he's saying his mother was a tyrant in the Daily Mail article for comic effect :) ... Am being a bit distracted - from practicing my Scottish small pipes, nee piano :) - laughing with the brilliant Cleese's genius, while working on my 2nd Scottish small pipes' album, this one of Piobaireachd (and hopefully coming into conversation somehow with the Allman Bros' in 1973 at Cow Palace in SF ~ https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I ... maybe with machine learning)
What tunes to play on this potential SSP Piobaireachd album? ? ?
The Company's Lament
MacKintosh's Banner
Glengarry's Lament
Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The Little Spree (crunluath fosgailte)
another (crunluath fosgailte) ?
Corrienessan's Salute (crunluath breabach)
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles (crunluath breabach)
... and how best to play them with an AI synthesis of something like the Allman Bros' in 1973 at Cow Palace in SF ~ https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I ~ for "Piobaireachd Rock & Roll," the new tentative title of my next SSP album by year's end, I hope.
... and as I seek for World Univ & Sch goals to align with Google's goals, and for WUaS to begin to collaborate with Google ... but haven't heard back from Bill Roberts' yet (friend, and former landlord who suggested an approach for me to develop a career at Google to develop WUaS ).
Maybe Google could help with the AI synthesis of the Allman Bros /73 for bagpiping Piobaireachd Rock and Roll accompaniment ... where I just play the above said tunes, and new AI music software adds great rock and roll blues accompaniment (nee drums:) ...
(DEL could not fit in my pipe case, this I know for sure :))
2 Write out a schedule, a plan with goals. (Choose pieces you enjoy playing – S.M.). Yo-yo Ma says, never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind.
3 Set goals to chart development.
Memorizing piping music, from sheet music, is a clear way to "never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind" which I think you've expressed in a number of other ways in the past with me.
I'd like too to work also on playing the 4 Piobaireachd in the CoP Yellow Tutor - Piobaireachd Vol. 4 ... with a focus on beauty, perhaps with parallels with what you 'do' with Ceol Beag or light music, regarding your extraordinary bagpiping.
What tunes to play on this potential SSP Piobaireachd album? ? ?
The Company's Lament
MacKintosh's Banner
Glengarry's Lament
Lament for Aladdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The Little Spree (crunluath fosgailte)
another (crunluath fosgailte) ?
Corrienessan's Salute (crunluath breabach)
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles (crunluath breabach)
Other tremendous Piobaireachd which would complement the above pieces? 10 pieces total, or more?
How to think further about all of this - and in terms of most beautiful Piobaireachd, as well as playing them creatively, having learned from you, in most beautiful ways? I think your thinking and teaching could open new possibilities in these regards :) Thank you Stuart sir!
Best regards,
Scott
Dear Stuart
Regarding thee lovely unique - bright and mellow - sounding Scottish Small Pipes, would be interested in developing the sound and recording too of my Walsh SSP, inspired by Brìghde Chaimbeul -
200 bliadhna bhon a rugadh Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Big Mary of the Songs) One of the greatest poets in history..this is a melody of one of my favourites ‘Nuair Bha Mi Òg’ (When I Was Young) #MàiriMhòr200 https://t.co/MdSMB1FQgc
Thoughts about this, and home recording too ? ie, If I were to do one thing technically to improve the recording sound on my MacBook Air of my SSP, what might it be? (Get a new better microphone, different software than Audacity, a sound proof space, etc. - am inclined to think in terms of MacBook Air recording only:) ...
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Dear Stuart,
Experimentally, took to a little noodling with
'Noodling with Allman Bros Band w Jerry Garcia Cow Palace 73 are 2hrs 32mins' (attached .mp3 file ... recorded with Audacity ... as the Allman Bros' 73 played on Youtube from MacBook Air laptop speakers)
was enjoyable, (if a little self-conscious due to the recording, and beginning this exploration) ... but beginning around 2hours and 32 minutes, it's in tune with an A chanter (SSP or practice chanter too) ... Would welcome your thinking about noodling with this ... a bit out of the box ... and yet I can also hear the great potential with this Allman Bros' tune for noodling with SSP or practice chanter !
Now how to create such riffing or noodling band music-making opportunities for each of these different 10 or so Piobaireachd (below) I wonder ... (And are these Piobaireachd in different keys?) ... and what kind of related-to-this-song back-up band rhythms, and music, with hypothetical AI machine learning I wonder ?
Thanks (for your patience) in this exploration :)
Scott
So, could I somehow turn each of these Piobaireachd somehow into Piobaireachd Rock and Roll Blues (inspired by Gordon Duncan partly - and hearing piping and rock and roll together in my mind,- but quite differently ... and preserving aspects the extraordinary Piobaireachd form ... even with its non-mensurality, light or heavy, somehow) but perhaps also adding or inventing the Piobaireaching Blues' Lamenting musical form ?
The Company's Lament
MacKintosh's Banner
Glengarry's Lament
Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The Little Spree (crunluath fosgailte)
another (crunluath fosgailte) ?
Corrienessan's Salute (crunluath breabach)
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles (crunluath breabach)
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and experimenting here :)
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Dear Stuart,
Am hoping you might find these explorations interesting, and opening creativity-wise too.
Just played (experimentally Piobaireachd-wise further) the urlars of
1
Corrienessan's Salute
2
The Little Spree
3
The Desperate Battle
with this same track (is it Bo Diddley? I think so) around 2 hours 53 minutes - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - to see what would happen ... and while it didn't really work tune-wise, music-wise, or rhythm-wise, ... key-wise they were all ok ... (and is Corrienessan's Salute in the key of A, The Little Spree in B, and the Desperate Battle Piobaireachd in the key of A - since they end on these notes?) ... Experimenting around further ... re finding or even creating a kind of rock and roll with blues back up music-making that even might work with these 3 Piobaireachd ... (I might even ask members of Open Band to explore making such new Piobaireachd Rock and Roll Blues' accompaniment music, and this is the Open Band's Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1432772770052468737?s=20 - with a very funny Romance with a Double Bass 1974 John Cleese outtake, and I explore playing baselines to Scottish Country Dance music with the Pink and Blue books by Liz Donaldson for Scottish Country Dancers in Berkeley ... when it happens, post corona-virus pandemic :0)
Will likely record my 2nd SSP album, this one of Piobaireachd, here by year's end ... with just Piobaireachd on the SSP ... with your super tutelage! Thank you!
FYI, here's what I've been learning Corrienessan's Salute from, as well as your instruction last time. Would be interested in learning further how best to 'take' this tune directly from you & Andrew's recording (when I'm in doubt) ... Appreciating too the Inner Game of Tennis in these regards which you teach from -
Here's the Google Meet URL for September 1, 2021 again - meet.google.com/vet-tpwr-jge - at 5p Scotland time (9am Pacific Time, I think:) Thank you!
Best regards, Scott
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Found this, yesterday - and it reminds me a lot! of the amazingly wide range of 'philosophies' that have found their ways to Harbin in the forms of books (or people) like this .... right out of 1960s and '70s thinking ... liking this ... and will explore further. ... eclectic, and somewhat New Age even :)
The Inner of Game of Tennis (1972)
Timothy Gallwey
A phenomenon when first published in 1972, the Inner Game was a real revelation. Instead of serving up technique, it concentrated on the fact that, as Gallwey wrote, "Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game." The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played not against, but within the mind of the player, and its principal obstacles are self-doubt and anxiety. Gallwey's revolutionary thinking, built on a foundation of Zen thinking and humanistic psychology, was really a primer on how to get out of your own way to let your best game emerge. It was sports psychology before the two words were pressed against each other and codified into an accepted discipline. The new edition of this remarkable work--Billie Jean King called the original her tennis bible--refines Gallwey's theories on concentration, gamesmanship, breaking bad habits, learning to trust yourself on the court, and awareness. "No matter what a person's complaint when he has a lesson with me, I have found the most beneficial first step," he stressed, "is to encourage him to see and feel what he is doing--that is, to increase his awareness of what actually is."
World Univ & Sch seeks to develop physical-digital bookstores in all 200 countries and in all 7139 known living languages, and relating to the WUaS Press - with machine learning, - ... as WUaS seeks to collaborate with Google. Any chance you might begin to write a book about bagpiping, Stuart ? :)
--
- Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Th September 2, 2021
Dear Stuart,
Thanks for our learning conversation yesterday, and -
A further riffing question:
How would you (or I) riff with the Grateful Dead's 'Caution Jam' here -
(which sounds like it could be in a chanter key, but which I haven't tried playing with yet ... would listen first, then explore riffing ... and even with Piobaireachd motifs ...which you know so well! :))
"Grateful Dead Live at Shrine Auditorium on 1968-08-23" (where the Shrine Auditorium is in LA, and is still operating it appears:)
Wanna work up a piping riffing duet performance or show, playing somehow with AI synthesized Allman Bros' and Grateful Dead on bagpipes - with A, D, and B flat (and other chanters) ... and see if we can get a gig at Shrine Auditorium in a year or two? :)
"PIobaireachding the Blues" was an earlier tentative title for my first Piobaireachd SSP album ... (better than Piobaireachd Rock and Roll) ... but I have a ways to go on this journey, with much piping ahead :) ... slower too than some R&R:)
Didn't get the World Univ & Sch Minutes out yesterday ... a few further items with the state of California came up and WUaS's newer legal entity (a for profit general stock company in California ) ... but I will pretty soon.
How's your week going, Stuart, and what do you have ahead of you this weekend? (I won't make it to the Caledonian Games at nearby Pleasanton over US Labor Day weekend, 9/4 & 5 ... maybe when I connect with a life partner to be, ... and we can go to the Pleasanton Games together:)
Scott's an anthropologist of #PhysicalDigital Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church @HarbinBook (on #TwitterX), as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who is currently writing "Society, Info Tech & the Global Univ", who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal & extreme longevity drug therapies emerging (with FDA approval), philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of info tech & counterculture :) - scottmacleod.com; Am also the president or head of, and professor at, best STEAM CC OCW wiki World Univ & Sch & Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,159 living languages with machine translation, (aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can #WikiTeach, or #WikiLearn, or #WikiCreate - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (See too "Yoga Notations": http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html). Identity-wise, a Nontheist f/Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and a player of Scottish bagpipes, & an academic
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