The Minarets in Ansel Adams: Computer Music, 3 Laptop, 2 Mobile Phone Orchestras, Hop into virtual worlds for music learning, teaching & jamming, too

Here are some of Great subjects at World Univ & Sch -

"iPhone as musical instrument" subject -

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/IPhone_as_musical_instrument


"Computer Music" subject, with 3 Laptop Orchestras, 2 Mobile Phone orchestras + -

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Music

and here's a free, open Stanford course on ... how to write programs for the iPhone -

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Individual_courses.



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Anyone can Teach, Learn and Create at 'edit this page' World University & School.



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Here's World University and School's 'Virtual Choir' subject, a model for jamming and music-making: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir



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And I think people will be able to hop into virtual worlds for music learning, teaching and jamming, too, even ...


in the World University and School Music School -

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School
























(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/minarets-in-ansel-adams-computer-music.html - July 5, 2010)

Hippocampus kuda: Both actual and virtual Harbin may articulate in new ways in the context of the Network Society, Harbin is singular

Harbin ethnography:


... new forms of counterculture emerging from the 1960s in virtual Harbin, in new ways, is something ethnography can uniquely represent.


While both actual and virtual Harbin may articulate in new ways, as countercultural 'places,' in my interpretation, in the context of the Network Society (Castells 2000), I want to suggest that Harbin is also singular (Kopytoff) in a variety of ways, vis-a-vis the 'virtual.' There have been times since 1972 when the Harbin valley has created/has been its own 'world,' akin to a nation state, or a city-state, as a separate hippie, tribal entity (an institutional, land-based polity?) – i.e. 'Harbin' (also Heart Consciousness Church, sort of) - independent from the State of California, Lake County and the U.S.A, etc. (Harbin is pretty loose/watery). Since I first visited Harbin in 1993 or 1994 to the present, and despite the theft of my laptop computer with 14 Harbin chapters and the beginnings of virtual Harbin in Open Simulator, I've come to understand Harbin in multiple ways. Its remoteness, its emergence from the 1960s in California, its independence-mindedness, and particularly its pools all give form to multiple ways in which Harbin residents and visitors think of Harbin as its own world and as unique, a key aspect of its culture. It's this singularity that I hope to observe and interpret as Harbin's milieu emerges in virtual Harbin.

Vis-a-vis Harbin's singularity (Kopytoff), commodification and its (counter-)culture, while Harbin is a successful Hot Springs' Retreat Center business ...













(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/hippocampus-kuda-both-actual-and.html - July 4, 2010)

Lava Arch: Certifiably lunatick software development? WUaS Wild & Wonderful Software Focus, 4th of July Question

Certifiably lunatick software development ? ... sounds like this could lead to wild and wonderful software, something the 'edit this page' World University & School will focus on ... here's great, free, open Educational Software at http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software


'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' are 2 examples of certifiably lunatick textual 'software' ... there's a long trajectory of humans creating 'lunatick software' in the form of literature, opera, drama, art etc. but not much in multimedia (Packer and Jordan) that I've seen ...


Oedipus, Lear, Don Giovanni?


Sophocles, Shakespeare and Mozart as lunatics? Don't know ... don't think so ... not very much historical record about this, although they did successfully represent artistically and textually aspects of what some would call lunac ... And these authors certainly were creative ...





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Were those really munitions going off in 1776 in British frigates in Boston Harbor (and due to Guerrilla sabotage) ? ... an historical question on the 4th of July ...



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People to People Teaching & Learning as well as Abundant, Open, Free MIT, Berkeley, Yale, & Stanford + courses at 'edit this page' http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/ Teach, Learn, Add & Create

























(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/lava-arch-certifiably-lunatick-software.html - July 4, 2010)

Polar Bear: Check out the 'Loving Bliss Eliciting' subject at WUaS, Video of Stanford Comparative Literature & Philosophy Professor Rorty abt Ecstasy

Dear Friends,

The World University & School wiki is growing. Check out the 'Loving Bliss Eliciting' subject at WUaS, for example: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology). The video of Stanford Comparative Literature and Philosophy Professor Richard Rorty (who died in 2006) on Dutch television is interesting. From a far-reaching pragmatist philosopher's perspective, he examines how people might elicit bliss (around the 27 minute mark).

Simply by clicking 'edit this page,' you are all welcome, of course, to add content, teach, learn and create at WUaS, as well. All of our specialized knowledges may come in very usefully over time. Enjoy :)

World University and School would next like to hire a community builder intern, information technology intern, a fundraising intern, and, starting in January 2011, a graduate student instructor to grade papers for WUaS. For this World University & School needs funding.

Since we have incorporated as a charity/nonprofit in the State of California, we now have a form of recognition, which I hope we can parley in to knowledge and financial resources.

World University and School welcomes your ideas and suggestions.

Sincerely,
Scott

Of Beauty and Consolation: Part 23 – Richard Rorty

 

Patrick White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSdyxKyHrU











(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/polar-bear-check-out-loving-bliss.html - July 3, 2010)

Wilderness Love: Here, she is 'blissing,' and they're playing together so mutually and beautifully - 'flow' - MMmmmm

Here, she is 'blissing,' and they're playing together so mutually and beautifully - 'flow' - MMmmmm ... Guitar four-hands? Now, wait a minute ... they are really playing together :) ...








www.dailymotion.com/video/xaavt9_yyte-gitary-konuyturmak-ben-buna-de_music


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Lovely music, as well ...


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A model for bliss cultivation?



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I added this video as a model to the Loving Bliss Eliciting subject at the free, open World Univ & Sch - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/wilderness-love-here-she-is-blissing.html - July 2, 2010)

Scottish Lone Tree: I bagpiped yesterday for a Druid Memorial Service in the SF Bay Area, Farewell to Morag

I bagpiped yesterday for a Druid Memorial Service in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Farewell, Morag


scottmacleod.com/piping.htm
























(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/scottish-lone-tree-i-bagpiped-yesterday.html - July 2, 2010)

Bonobo Communication: The internet is a chimp hoot - in what ways can we make it a loving chimp hoot?

The internet is a chimp hoot - in what ways can we make it a loving chimp hoot? ...


... since we - Homo sapiens - are in many ways fairly similar to chimpanzees, both common chimps (Pan troglodytes) and Bonobo chimps (Pan paniscus), especially when compared with most of the other estimated 3-100 million species. Homo sapiens can symbolize in sophisticated ways - including via the internet - thanks originally, probably, to the development of the larynx evolutionarily (Deacon 1997). (Chimps use computers - for example, see the TED Talk by Bonobos reseacher Sue Savage-Rumbaugh entitled "Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man" www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8nDJaH-fVE - and there are probably some chimps that communicate over the internet, too).


Can we learn to make it more of a 'Bonobo chimp' hoot (peaceable, egalitarian, very sexual & matriarchal - behaviors selected for by evolutionary biology), rather than a 'common chimp' hoot (with their violence, aggression and war, also behaviors selected for by evolutionary biology in this species), with which humans with all of our wars seem to share some affinities. But humans can learn in sophisticated ways, and especially symbolically.

(Here's the World University & School Primatology subject: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Primatology).

What would a loving human chimp hoot look like, and on the internet and via other media, as well? {It would probably involve nonviolence as culture}.


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Chimp Hoot: Face-to-face Teaching & Learning is great, familiar & social. Avatar-to-avatar Teaching & Learning will facilitate symbol & idea exchange but in different ways

scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/06/chimp-hoot-face-to-face-teaching.html



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Another photo of Bonobos communication













(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/bonobo-communication-internet-is-chimp.html - July 2, 2010)

Argentavis magnificens: Music for Free, SOFTWARE CREATIVITY at WUaS, So MANY open, free MIT, Berkeley, Yale, & Stanford courses + SO MUCH MORE

Pandora.com for FREE music? You'll find it here at open, free, 'edit this page' World University & School - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software


What free online Music sites would you add to this section at the free, open, 'edit this page' World University and School? worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Music_Appreciation_Software.


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World University would like to focus academically on SOFTWARE CREATIVITY


... building wild and wonderful software.


Best examples of this ... Google? virtual worlds?



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There are so MANY open, free MIT, Berkeley, Yale, & Stanford courses + SO MUCH MORE to 'edit this page' worlduniversity.wikia.com where you also can Teach, Learn & Create




















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/argentavis-magnificens-music-for-free.html - July 1, 2010)

Toucan: Virtual Harbin's emergence from actual Harbin reflects ongoing expressions of the 'Network Society,' Culture finds new form in virtual Harbin

(The book "Naked Harbin Ethnography" is published in 2016 .... )

Harbin ethnography: 

 ... gives form to actual Harbin's countercultural milieu in a particular virtual world. 

Virtual Harbin's emergence from actual Harbin reflects ongoing expressions of the 'network society' (Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, 2000, and Castells, The Internet Galaxy), where sociocultural processes – counterculture, in this interpretation - that have found form at actual Harbin Hot Springs since 1972 now find new form in multimedia in virtual Harbin. The significance of the scope and scale of virtual worlds, and their role in human life, relative to, for example, the nation-state (Anderson, Imagined Communities, in Boellstorff 2008: 24)) or to the printing press and the widespread emergence of texts and literacy, as well as pre-world wide web (and pre-internet) media, needs further study (http://webnographers.org/books). Both national identity as well as forms of social interaction and narrativity can be argued to change dramatically relative to these other process. The pace of change of giving form to these new forms of sociality are also difficult to assess at present. The possibility to create, with information technologies, new forms of counterculture emerging from the 1960s in virtual Harbin, in new ways, is something ethnography can uniquely represent. 

While both actual and virtual Harbin may articulate in new ways, as countercultural 'places,' in my interpretation, in the context of the Network Society, I want to suggest that Harbin is also singular (Kopytoff) in a variety of ways, vis-a-vis virtuality ... 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toucan

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ramphastidae

 (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/06/toucan-irtual-harbins-emergence-from.html - June 30, 2010)

Turmeric: Virtual Harbin comes to instantiate a kind of parallel-to-actual-Harbin form of human-relating & communication, Culture, Digital 'Making'

Harbin ethnography:

... (In the process, this book also comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's “Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human”).

The Making of Virtual Harbin as Ethnographic Field Site emerges from both the actual Harbin Hot Springs and its milieu, and the development of virtual worlds' software, making possible the ongoing making of representations of places and avatars, as well as open-ended, avatars-to-avatars communication, among many other novel forms of digital multimedia. Virtual Harbin thus comes to instantiate a kind of correspondence-to-actual-Harbin form of human-relating and communication, mediated by representations of 'place' and avatars. Virtual Harbin thus gives new form to socio-cultural processes of tool use, now digital, in two ways: 1) people/end users can make virtual Harbin islands quite easily, and 2) avatars can easily make Harbin-related virtual things on virtual Harbin island. Despite the relative complexity of virtual world software and programs themselves, the ease of making such virtual places as virtual Harbin, in Second Life and Open Simulator, gives form, too, to a “virtual worldview” (Boellstorff 2008: 24), akin, perhaps, to a related kind of “Lego-building-block worldview.” The relative ease of constructing things in Second Life has lead to a wide community of builders, who, together, have constructed the very large number of virtual islands, places, avatars, clothing, houses, art and the many other remarkable 'builds,' in Second Life. Like wiki (editable web pages) information technologies, a key aspect of this 'virtual worldview' is its collaborative aspect due to a large community of participants and a shared set of digital tools and approaches, defined by the software. So virtual Harbin not only emerges from actual Harbin but from a shared, group understanding of these Second Life and Open Simulator virtual worlds. Virtual Harbin's community in Second Life's community, gives form to actual Harbin's countercultural milieu in a particular virtual worlds.

Virtual Harbin's emergence from actual Harbin reflects ongoing expressions of the 'networked society,' (Castells 2000) ....








(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/06/turmeric-virtual-harbin-comes-to.html - June 29, 2010)