Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Loch Tay (Scotland): Creative friends ~ quite a sketch by John Cleese (Romance with a Double Bass - 1974), Pt 4 * (Touches on, hilariously, interesting themes of nudity too, regarding British mores & more ... and re my 'Naked Harbin Ethnography' book * Interesting to see a picture of Cleese's mother here - 'Monty Python star John Cleese blames his 'tyrant' mother for problems with his four marriages' * (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 ... :), * * * Piobaireachd Rock and Roll Blues with Stuart Liddell

 

Creative friends ~


Hi Ma, my creative friends, All, 

This is quite a sketch by John Cleese (Romance with a Double Bass - 1974), Pt 4 -  
(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 :)

(Touches on, hilariously, interesting themes of nudity too, regarding British or English - but not hippy or naturist - mores & more ... and re my 'Naked Harbin Ethnography' book esp - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)

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?:)

> https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1432772770052468737?s=20


Interesting to see a picture of Cleese's mother here - 
'Monty Python star John Cleese blames his 'tyrant' mother for problems with his four marriages' 
(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 :))

Scott



August 23, 2021 - 

Dear Stuart (Liddell, piper extraordinaire, and my current bagpiping teacher) - 

Thank you for your email. A week on Wednesday would be fine for me. 5pm on 9/1/21 Scotland time? 

Regarding integrating your teachings further, and per - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm - I'm beginning a daily piping practicing journal to chart goals re: 

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. 

Aiming to create an album of Piobaireachd by years' end - most beautifully played, with parallels to https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ (which I may re-record from memory, and with what I learn from you too) ...

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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Lesson with Stuart Liddell in the morning from Scotland :)





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