Thought for the Day (Sept 1)

Subject: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: Peter T.
Date: 01 Sep 99 - 10:02 AM

"Korean chong-ak music is different from Western music in that it does not focus on the "beat" or the "pulse", taken one assumes from the human heartbeat. Instead, it takes its cue from the other fundamental rhythm, the breath. Its tempo is set to a cycle of inhaling and exhaling, and tends to be sedate and contemplative. Wind instruments, the movement of hands over gentle strings, and the attempt to weave harmonies with nature through close listening and slight shifts in resonance to "pick up" nature's responses -- these are what chong-ak is about."
-- adapted from "Korean Music Harmony With Nature", Han Myung-hee (1999).

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 Sep 99 - 10:20 AM

I have always felt that it was this sort of feeling that Pachabel was trying for in his Canon. I could always hear the breathing. I think this may be at least partially responsible for its immense popularity. For those who might have never heard it - or at least known that they were hearing it in countless TV commercials - here is a MIDI file of it. Not bad for a MIDI. It is the last item on the list of MIDI's at this site.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 Sep 99 - 10:29 AM

Oops! Forgot to do the clicky:

Pachabel's Canon

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Sep 99 - 12:20 PM

And, of coourse it brings to mind the Tibetan monks and their chanting. I had the honour of helping to host them, here, twice. The first time, after serving them breakfast and drinking hot SALTY butter tea with them, we went into the sanctuary built of stone in the Episcopal church which hosted them. There they stood singing their morning prayers. Sent chills up and down my spine. The breath is very important.

Also, as in tai chi, chi gung and other exercise practises. There is one I do now, from a Vietnamese monk, which concentrates solely on the breath, at first. For me, because of my many years of practising meditation fosuccing on teh rbeath first, it brings an instant calm and attunement, when I remember in the midst of stress to concentrate on that!

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Sep 99 - 12:28 PM

Have you considered focusing on dyslexic typing? **BG**

Spaw

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Sep 99 - 12:50 PM

LOL!!! Oh, what would we do without the humour of typos??

katlaughing&phosuccingonmynayvel!

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: Peter T.
Date: 01 Sep 99 - 02:22 PM

Wow, is phosucking navelgazing like sucking photons of light out from the umbilical long distance cord back to Adam and Eve? Too Tibetan.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Sep 99 - 02:32 PM

Still LOLWROTF!!! You guys are a DEE Lite!

This is esp. funny considering a local brouhaha at a recent city council meeting. A regular attendee used the word "suck", as in "this sucks". The mayor of Casper got his drawers all bunched up over it, calling it obscene and not fit for such public meetings. WW's paper put out a short & sweet little editorial about the word "suck" pointing out its many, non-sexual connotations. Now there have been letters to the editor, from both camps, flying fast and furious. The most recent think the mayor should get his mind out of the gutter, while others decry the lack of civil discourse. Ah, me.....if they'd only mudcat, there might be hope.

Back to the art of phosuccing....

katgoingcrosseyedtryingtoseehernavel!

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 Sep 99 - 02:39 PM

I have found that a bit of specificity points the more sensitive types toward the light. I once heard someone say, "This sucks blue-green gas!" I have used it ever since with no admonitions from the gallery of the pompous.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Sep 99 - 02:49 PM

Allan..you are on a roll, today! I love it and will use it from now on! But.....I NEVER attend council meetings!

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: Neil Lowe
Date: 02 Sep 99 - 08:44 AM

....I can hear the late Duane Allman breathing as he casually recorded "Little Martha" (also there is a fan or something motorized running in the background)...it all added to the charm of the song...

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Sep 99 - 12:51 PM

katofthecrosseyedcountenance...I thought the local folk police had banned 'navelgazing'!!...raise your eyes, I say! raise them and look outward and upward!!...to the mountain tops...to the stars!! now-- be careful...don't trip over anything...*grin*

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Sept 1)
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Sep 99 - 03:41 PM

Oops! Aarrrggghhhhh! That's what I get for listening to you, BillD-the HamsterMaster! Now I've broken a toe! Out and up? Uh....it feels as though my eyes are gonna roll outta m'head, now. Were they 'sposed to move together, instead of independently???? I lost the phosucous!

katwhonowiswalleyedbecauseofbadadvice!