helt vildt heldigt, kenneth krabat

Major Investments

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:44:00 +0100

Read Quote of James Walker’s answer to Life: What are the top 10 things that we should be informed about, in life? on Quora

- You spend a third of your life asleep, nearly as long on your feet, and are constantly digesting food. As such invest in a good bed, good shoes, and good quality food.

Auto-Upload to FTP folder with Cyberduck

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:27:00 +0100

[Don’t know, if Windows users will have any use of this. Sorry.)

I use this on a Mac OSX.4.11 installation, and it should work all the way up to OSX.8.

The Cyberduck FTP upload AppleScript, which chrispie.com had modified, I have further modified and now very flattering call AutoUpload2FTPwCyberduck. This means it does not sync - it simply auto-uploads things, which are added to a designated folder.

Once you have placed the script in (HD)/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts, and attached the script to a folder of your choice via Folder Actions (Ctrl+Folder Actions), AU2FTPwC goes to work.

WHAT IT DOES

- It monitors your folder of choice.
- Upon registering activity in the folder it waits 5 minutes (in case you are saving a file directly in this folder; you can edit the script to shorten or lengthen the reaction time)
- Then it readies your FTP server log-on info - name, password, connection protocol (FTP) and the name of the folder, you wish to upload to,
- and passes the log-on information on to Cyberduck (with an ample 5 minutes to wake up, to prevent the script from hanging, in case you uninstalled Cyberduck)
- with the command to miniaturize its upload window,
- log on to the designated FTP server and upload the folder content,
- disconnect the FTP connection
- and quit itself.

—

Open a new document in Script Editor and insert the following. Edit the info in bold, and then save it in (HD)/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts:

— > From here

— Copyright (c) 2004 David Kocher. All rights reserved.
— http://cyberduck.ch/
—
— This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
— it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
— the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
— (at your option) any later version.
—
— This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
— but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
— MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
— GNU General Public License for more details.
—
— Bug fixes, suggestions and comments should be sent to:
— dkocher@cyberduck.ch

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
    delay 300
    set theServer to “your.FTP.server”
    set theUser to “yourlogon”
    set thePassword to “yourpassword”
    set theProtocol to “ftp”
    set theUploadFolder to “youruploadfolder”

— NB: Create the upload folder on your server, before using the script.

    set the item_count to the number of items in the added_items
    if the item_count is greater than 0 then
        with timeout of 300 seconds
            tell application “Cyberduck”
                set theBrowser to (make new browser)
                set miniaturized of window 1 to true
                tell (theBrowser)
                    set encoding to “UTF-8”
                    connect to theServer with protocol theProtocol as user theUser with initial folder theUploadFolder
                    repeat with theFile in added_items
                        upload item theFile
                    end repeat
                    disconnect
                end tell
                tell (theBrowser) to close
            end tell
        end timeout
    end if
end adding folder items to

X-MAS HEART GENERATOR Personalize your cut-out and braid X-mas...

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:17:00 +0100

X-MAS HEART GENERATOR

Personalize your cut-out and braid X-mas hearts with a message of your own. Generator page is in Danish, but give it at try anyway; it’s straight forward.

http://www.cs.au.dk/~gerth/julehjerter/

Start easy with one letter on one side and none on the other. Some letters become like barbs, which make the heart hard to braid… :-)

. and : creates a one-character space and line shift, respectively

Grey area in the template indicates cut-out. Full lines indicate where to cut. Fold between the dottet lines, so the full lines are folded inwards. The two parts of the heart are placed with the two x’s on top of each other, with the circled x not visible inside the heart. (It is important to begin in the right way, due to the holes in the letters “A”, “B”, “D” etc.).

Remember: Have fun.

PS: You need a browser with SVG capabilities to see the final design.

Don't let them do the watching for you. [Fwd: They want to ██████ the Internet]

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:21:00 +0100

Since my ISP will not let me protect my email friends by sending this BBC, I will make it public here:

Kære gode menneske på nettet,

Dear good person on the net,

In two days international powers convene to try and put a central control mechanism on the Internet.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?bdOyaab&v=20018

This will mean further invasion into personal privacy and freedom of expression. Also - control of the net necessitates “intervention mechanisms”, which will slow down all Internet connections.

Limitations of both access and bandwidth today constitute punishment. “Three strikes and you’re out” and the Syrian national internet turned off are nasty examples of this kind of control. But exclusion tactics, isolation and repression of possible-media-shared are just the beginning of what Internet control is about.

Basically putting surveillance on everyone means mistrusting human communication - a belief that human communication is detrimental to human survival. Is that plain stupid, an expression of power hunger, or just a very, very fearful way of looking at the world?

Imagine the worst kind of surveillance you can, and you will have people out there negotiating to make it happen. The strive to control the Internet and your doings on the net is very real.

IF we want a world, where understanding of human differences and similarities is passed on to our children, we need a globally connected world, where openness and responsibility is the first order - and not fear of isolation, censorship or incarceration for speaking our mind.

Global communication DOES come with a price - the demand that each and every one of us stay critical of our joint communication. But if I or you do nothing about the plans to control global communication, in effect we prevent everyone prsent and future from learning about everyone. Learning how to become a global person will stop being an exploration and a thing of freedom and joy. And become a thing of fear.

Please sign this avaaz petition and pass on the email below or all of it. Doing so is part of assuming the responsibility of global communication that these power-brokers say we cannot handle ourselves.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?bdOyaab&v=20018

kærlig hilsen,

kenneth

Start på videresendt besked:

Fra: “Pascal V - Avaaz.org” <avaaz@avaaz.org>

Dato: 10. dec 2012 17.55.10 CET

Til: “krabat” <krabat>

Emne: They want to ██████ the Internet

Dear Avaazers,

Authoritarian regimes are pushing for governmental control over the internet in a binding global treaty. If they succeed, the internet could become less open, more costly and much slower. We’ve stopped threats like this before, and we can again — but only with a massive global outcry. Sign the petition and share with everyone you know:

Right now at a UN meeting in Dubai, authoritarian regimes are pushing for full governmental control of the Internet in a binding global treaty — if they succeed, the internet could become less open, more costly and much slower. We have only 2 days to stop them.

The Internet has been an amazing example of people power — allowing us to connect, speak out and pressure leaders like never before. That’s largely because it’s been governed to date by users and non-profits and not governments. But now countries like Russia, China and United Arab Emirates are trying to rewrite a major telecom treaty called the ITR to bring the Internet under its control — the web would then be shaped by government interests and not by us, the users. Tim Berners Lee, one of the “fathers of the Internet,” has warned that this could increase censorship online and invade our privacy. But if we object with a massive people-powered petition, we can strengthen the hand of countries fighting this power grab.

We have stopped attacks like this before and can do it again before the treaty text is locked this week. A wave of opposition to a new ITR is already building — sign the petition to tell governments hands off our Internet! and then forward this email to everyone you know — when we hit 1 million signers, it’ll be delivered straight to the delegates at this cozy meeting:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?bdOyaab&v=20018

The meeting to update the ITR (International Telecommunication Regulations) is being convened by a UN body called the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Normally, it wouldn’t merit much attention, but Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and others are trying to use the meeting to increase government control of the Internet through proposals that would allow for access to be cut off more easily, threaten privacy, legitimize monitoring and traffic-blocking, and introduce new fees to access content online.

At the moment, our Internet has no central regulatory body, but various non-profit organisations work together to manage different technological, commercial and political interests to allow the Internet to run. The current model is certainly not without its flaws. US dominance and corporate influence highlight the need for reform, but changes should not be dictated from an opaque governments-only treaty body. They should emerge from an open and transparent, people-powered process — putting the interests of us users in the center.

The ITU does extremely important work — expanding affordable access for poor countries and securing networks — but it’s not the right place to make changes to how the Internet operates. Let’s ensure that our Internet stays free and governed by the public and show the ITU and the world that we won’t stay silent in the face of this Internet attack. Click below to sign and then share this email widely:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?bdOyaab&v=20018

Avaaz members have come together before to save the free web — and won. More than 3 million of us demanded the US kill a bill that would have given the government the right to shut down any website, helping push the White House to drop its support. In the EU, the European Parliament responded after 2.8 million of us called on them to drop ACTA, another threat to the free net. Together, now we can do it again.

With hope,

Pascal, Ian, Paul, Luca, Caroline, Ricken, Kya and the rest of the Avaaz team

SOURCES

Cerf and Berners Lee Criticize ITU Conference (IT Pro Portal):
http://www.itproportal.com/2012/12/05/sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-criticism-of-un-internet-regulation-talks/#ixzz2EDlH06f5

ITU and Google face off at Dubai conference over future of the internet (Guardian):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/03/telecoms-unitednations

Keep the Internet Open (New York Times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opinion/keep-the-internet-open.html?_r=1&

Proposal for global regulation of web (Financial Times):
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1b114d8c-422e-11e2-bb3a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2EdnmBAXI

Who controls the Internet? (Guardian):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/17/who-rules-internet

Support the Avaaz Community!We’re entirely funded by donations and receive no money from governments or corporations. Our dedicated team ensures even the smallest contributions go a long way.

Avaaz.org is a 17-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people shape global decision-making. (“Avaaz” means “voice” or “song” in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 19 countries on 6 continents and operates in 14 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz’s biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact or call us at +1-888-922-8229 (US).

"Reality is who you are."

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:33:00 +0100

“Reality is who you are.”

- Kenneth Krabat, Poet, Denmark.

KK Is working with a concept of consciousness also followed by Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, Ram Dass and a host of oriental philosophers:

Reality is both perceived and projected by the individual.

Reality is a plural consisting of all and everything an individual perceives as real.

Shared reality is an agreement.

The concept of consensus is therefore either one person’s reality or an agreement.

Fear vs. Angst

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:49:00 +0100

In today’s ListServe Claire wrote of dealing with fear in her life.

Lately I’ve been digging into some deeply rooted fears and thought patterns that were established long before I can remember. It’s been a terrifying, humbling, hilarious and enlightening process. I’d like to encourage you to notice your fears when they arise and spend some time thinking about what fears and fear mean to you.

Do your fears inspire you, challenge you or leave you feeling stuck?

Is fear something to be conquered, managed, ignored or befriended?

How does fear impact your relationships, goals and health?

Her advice for looking at fear rang a bell, an old bell, which inspired me to write her back:

Would you ignore, conquer or manage a person in your life, who has always been there for you; who knows what you are good and bad at; who has protected you and helped you survive ordeals physically, emotionally and mentally, to give you pause, so you could return stronger and more aware, better rehearsed, better prepared, better balanced, more in tune with yourself?

Don’t make the mistake of confusing fear with angst - Fear is the sum of your ambitions, desires, needs, dreams and their fulfillment in the world, which you (continously) grow up in. Angst is the result of never having had the space to pull back from danger.

Fear you listen to as you would to a dear friend - as an adult you need not take your friend’s advice - but to deal with Angst you need to break down age-old walls and set a trapped younger version of yourself free to follow her fear’s advice.

Fear is your friend; it shows you which world CAN protect you, based on your mutual experience. Angst is your cage, a fixed world, which fear cannot help you escape.

Your Fear is always there with advice. You can regard Angst as Fear plus Desperation, but as it is often without voice or reason, there is rarely a chance to communicate directly with your Angst. Diminishing Angst relies on your whole being being comforted and shown and entrusted with personal power to help yourself. Diminishing Fear you just have to take responsibility for your actions, respect what you do and have done, and need to do in order to survive - at present.

You can always learn. You can always grow stronger and more in tune with your ideals. But first you must reside in the present; this is what Fear provokes and is provoked by, and which Angst prevents.

In 20+ tiny videos you will see the reactions of the people, who...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:07:00 +0200

In 20+ tiny videos you will see the reactions of the people, who are subjected to “Emily’s video”.

“Emily’s video” itself escapes finding. By and by that is enough. Which is cool. Humanity and empathy outshines curiosity.

In order to see the whole series, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGatMdAIQqQ&feature=relmfu

For me this proves that ART means “being alive in the world of people” - for who makes ART, when you really look at it?

Cliffhanger Theatre of late

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:56:48 +0200

Cliffhanger Theatre of late:

Will he fall, will he jump, is that dastardly hero not… yet done for?

[Any seeming similarity to modern day politics is probably either un-intended or just a thought.]

P. Sainath

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:08:00 +0200

P. Sainath:

The West subsidize industries (f.ex. cotton) with more than they earn - in order to maintain standards of living in their respective populations - in simultaneous and total disregard of the effects of these subsidies on developing countries and the people depending on these industries.

It’s ever more “OUR cuture and the culture of those NOT like us”.

The Indian journalist P. Sainath is struggling to - among many other causes - create awareness about the thousands of Indian farmers since 1995 committing suicide from desperation with their inability to provide for their families by (unsubsidized) farming, the only work for millions of illiterate people in India - while the Indian government pays the already rich millions to create jobs for the educated in the big cities.

Like HE says, WE could mime: Our western capitalism has maintained a standard in our way of life for almost 80 years, but the cost is a growing divide between us and the immobile illiterate poor. Basically we are killing them by being a bad example to our selves, because we want to live at least as well as our neighbours, if not better.

The thing is we are growing to be neighbours with everyone on this planet. The 80-year old habits may soon need to die hard - if not by voluntary action on an individual basis, then by proxy from inequality adjusting itself the way all imbalances adjust themselves in Nature. The survival-ready will be the favoured ones.

Rich people in all the countries of the world are taking steps to be those favoured ones. Not the middle-class. Not the intelligentsia. Not the creatives. Not the business builders. But the rich in money and influence. Those, who can buy you, because you have no influence.

Can you see it coming? Will you let it happen? Will you be the poor?

Time Travel - notes of a present, not a prediction

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:35:36 +0200

When reading this:

Have you noticed an increased focus in written medias on both science and fiction relating to the concept of Time Travel?

What say ye? Are we approaching an, as yet, unvoiced collective desire to travel in time, in the guise of a meme?

Quotes of importance to History, the dear.

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:06:37 +0200

IF you, like me, are without a History, you must make one up, in order to have a Future.
— Kenneth Krabat

IF you don’t care about a Future, don’t care about your History.

— Kenneth Krabat

IF your Present is really your Present, and not an intermediate state of loss and gain, you have no need of advice.

— Kenneth Krabat

THE SECRET HISTORY OF CULT MOVIES - a Biblical tale of the Holy Unlikely

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:18:00 +0200

Based in Copenhagen since the early 90’s Jack Stevenson among other subjects from the weird and wonderful world of people abusing celluloid to it’s finest has written an unusual book about Danish Lars von Trier. But before Jack Stevenson came to notoriety, he wrote a lot of very personal and intense essays on film, which are dead links today. Due to the verisimilitude of thewaybackmachine most of these essays are preserved for posterity.

For example

THE SECRET HISTORY OF CULT MOVIES

- a Biblical tale of the Holy Unlikely

can be located at wayback.archive.org/web [still in Beta] - where you can also locate all of his other brilliant essays on seldom seen aspects of films and film genres - or by clicking here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000823071310/http://hjem.get2net.dk/jack_stevenson/cult.htm

If an URL comes up empty, try searching for that specific URL directly at the archive homepage. It’s possible you have arrived at a link page, after the site has been shut down, but before waybackmachine has stopped coming by.

The World Council of 12.12.21*

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:22:00 +0200

On an internet page in a forum-like environment make a Claim of concern affecting everyone, as you see it. Then pin-point your cause for alarm with your choice of evidence, give advice as to a solution and have the rest of the world contest or support it.

This is a World Council.

*****

IF you are interested in developing this idea, or you want to use the idea, please pool your energies with your peers. I will gladly work with you, if the frame stays as simple as below: “A Body of Advice”, nothing more, nothing less. If you want to just develop the idea as a National Body of Advice, or a local, company, or institutional BoA, be my guest.

krabat at menneske dot dk

*****

TWC, The World Council of 12.12.21

TWC is not a World Government, it is a Council. A Body of Advice consisting of all the people in the world interested in arguing the importance and relevance of a specific conflict, occurrence, plan or methodology to the World as a whole - a CLAIM pin-pointed to and argued by a named individual.

Location: Web server

Access: All

Participant Claim [in a forum like over-view, but very easy to get the gist of every single-line entry]:

- Name the essence of your claim [eg. Palo Alto dam, Locust, AIDS, Child Soldiers, Fascism, Internet LockDown, X-country, Education, US Security Policy, Crude Oil etc.] Be very precise.

- Brief Synopsis [(Locusts) ”in Sudan”, (Fascism) ”on the March i X-country”, (Education) ”is more important than food as seen over time”, (X-country): ”War is brewing, oil threatened”, etc] Be personal, but global in mind.

- Country of origin of the Claim [if relevant]

- Year/date of Claim

- Year(/date) of origin of Claim

- Claim in brief [reason for relevance to the whole world]

- Evidence [History, Science, Philosophy, Video etc. in links]

—- Evidence synopsis [”Finds pointing to connection between …”, ”Sartre’s position on the matter, etc] You don’t have to prove all and everything; just point to the matter with a relevant explanation and let the rest of the world do theirs.

- Advice [in brief]

—- suggested solution

—- perceived consequences of your Advice

—- requisites of execution of Advice

—- timeframe until Claim resolved at best

Opposition to Claim [in brief]

—- Evidence to the opposite [History, Science, Philosophy, Video etc]

—- [no advice from opposition, but the option to make a counterclaim][Possibly deleting opposition? See below.]

Support of Claim [in brief]

—- Evidence to support [History, Science, Philosophy, Video etc]

—- [no advice from opposition, but the option to make a counterclaim][Possibly deleting opposition? See below.]

Counter-Claim

—- It is better to state you own Claim, if you absolutely disagree with a Claim, rather than argue inside a Claim-thread.

*****

DESIGN OF SITE

- you earn more characters to describe support or opposition with (initially 500?)

- you will be peer reviewed on a scale from 1 to 99 [based on: from realistic to hogwash; relevance to the world at large; timeframe realistic; requisites realistic; WAS it support or really a counterclaim]

—- your claim is greyed out on global view, if relevance falls below a threshold relevant to the Globe, but stays visible within your national ISP-sphere (VPN permitted?)

- only 6 claims a year the ﬁrst year for all

—- if rating rises above xx, more claim reports are awarded from the second year and on.

- reviews of a claim will show to be from supporters or opposition [possibly via a 2 or 3D clickable matrix rather than separate click boxes]

- If you make a counterclaim, your voiced opposition to a claim is greyed out.

—- [how make connection between opposition to a claim and actual counterclaim?][Is it necessary to grey out opposition? Possibly to reduce info load for users?]

- A Claim is never “right” or “wrong”. A Claim is initially considered an opinion from a concerned member of the Human Species regarding local/National initiatives of importance or immanent danger to all humans. Peers can come to regard a Claim as of lesser importance/not immediately relevant to the Globe, or as too subjective or just plain silly, or as trolling - all expressed in review by numbers as stated above.

*****

FIXED TAGS, max 2 pr. claim (preferably just one?)

WAR

ENVIRONMENT

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

COMMUNICATION

DISEASE

EDUCATION

LOCAL CONFLICT

REFERENDUM

ELECTION

LAW

MULTINATIONAL

ISOLATION

CONSTRUCTION

DISASTER

MEDICAL

TRANSPORTION

NUTRITION

etc.

*****

* The World Council of 12.12.21 - I believe the world is NOT coming to an end, but a fresh beginning could take its course from this date. You know - sympathetic magic: Input fear, get fear. Input positivity, get positivity. Very simple.

Keith Kenniff writes music for movies. He is also a major...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:00:00 +0200

Keith Kenniff writes music for movies. He is also a major mix-master making sample laws obviously redundant in all their stiffling idiocracy. Listen to this mix and tell me if it wasn’t worth it. Then go and seek out each individual composer and live their bodies of work.

Here as well as there is art, here as well as there is heart.

0 - 0:30 Henry Purcell - Suite en sol majeur (Z 660) - Prelude

0:30 - 4:22 Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach, Knee Play 1

4:22 - 12:14 Lou Harrison - Symphony No. 2, i. Tears of the Angel Israfel

12:14 - 15:06 Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel 3

15:06 - 16:40 Howard Skempton (perf. John Tilbury) - Toccata

16:40 - 20:19 Henryk Gorecki - 3 olden style pieces, iii.

20:19 - 23:01 George Crumb - Music for a Summer Evening: Music of the Starry Night

23:01 - 30:13 Henry Purcell - When I am Laid in Earth (from Dido and Aeneas)

30:13 - 35:42 John Adams - Grand Pianola Music: Part 1b

35:42 - 38:37 Gyorgy Ligeti - Atmospheres, for Large Orchestra

38:37 - 40:16 Avet Terterian - Symphony no 1, ii.

40:16 - 44:15 Steve Reich - You Are (variations): Ehmore M’Aht, V’Ahsay Harbay (Say Little and Do Much)

44:15 - 45:03 Dimitri Shostakovich - Prelude no. 2 in A minor (op.27)

45:03 - 48:24 Igor Stravinsky - Mass for Chorus and Double Wind Quintet - Sanctus - Benedictus

48:24 - 52:05 Gabriel Faure - Requiem: In Paradisum

Miranda July: deleted scene from her 2nd full-feature movie,...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:40:00 +0200

Miranda July: deleted scene from her 2nd full-feature movie, “The Future”, individually titled “Tips for the easily distracted”.

I love this director. Her quirky mind makes me feel alive in a world of … yes, distractions, seeing things I forgot can be seen.

Do find Me you and everyone we know (2005) and The Future (2011), if you in any way react positively to the above excerpt.

Grøn morgenmad

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:53:22 +0200

Grøn morgenmad:

Man behøver ikke være vegetar for at holde af grøntsager, bønner og linser. Og det smager super godt, også som morgenmad.

You are (becoming) owned!

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:21:00 +0200

Imagine not legally being able to sell your own stuff! Your grandmother’s designer rocker, your iPhone 6, your Stuff-a-bear at a garage sale, because the law grants the intellectual right’s holder the legal right to decide, how your used item is disposed of and at what price…!

WHICH ONE THING would you try to peddle in the street, if this law was passed - in a worldwide garage sale?

From an email received from Demand Progress:

Friends, I’m passing along this email from Demand Progress about an important upcoming Supreme Court case that affects all Americans.

The world needs the help of Americans: Once again, the film studios and record companies that tried to censor the Internet are up to no good. The same business lobbyists who backed SOPA are trying to stop you from reselling most of the things that you own — and President Obama has taken their side.

Please click here to tell Obama to side with Internet users and consumers — not with big business and Hollywood.

A few months ago Demand Progress — joined by over 100,000 Internet users and a coalition of public interest groups — asked President Obama to take action and protect consumers’ rights to resell their own things.

The Supreme Court is currently hearing a case (Kirstaeng v. Wiley) that will decide whether you have the right to sell your iPod, books, and other goods on eBay and Craigslist — or even at your own yard sale.

But the entertainment industry lobbyists at the MPAA and RIAA have filed a brief in the Supreme Court mocking consumers’ concerns — just like they did during the SOPA Fight.

These special interests admit that they want the Supreme Court to decide against the interests of ordinary Americans and protect the music and film industries’ “ability to control entry into distinct markets.”

You heard that right — Hollywood admits that controlling their CD and DVD markets is more important than consumer rights.

Click here to tell Obama and Congress to side with us — not with big businesses that want to control whether we can resell the things we own.

Amazingly, the Obama administration agrees and has rejected the pleas of thousands of ordinary consumers.

The White House’s solicitor general filed a legal brief rejecting our arguments and allowing big businesses to sue people for reselling their things online.

Click here to tell Obama to withdraw his brief, and side with consumers — not big business.

Thanks.

-Demand Progress

The Supreme Court will hear this case in a couple of weeks, so please get your friends involved right away:

If you’re already on Facebook, click here to share with your friends.

If you’re already on Twitter, click here to tweet about the campaign: Tweet

WHICH ONE THING would you try to peddle in the street, if this law was passed - in a worldwide garage sale?

Maybe you are Partched? (Harry Partch in public)

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:05:00 +0200

Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for instruments he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation.

Interested in the potential musicality of speech, Partch worked out his first extended scales to notate the inflections of the speaking voice. He built his adapted viola to demonstrate the concept. In London on a grant he met the poet W. B. Yeats with the intention of gaining his permission to write an opera based on his translation of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. He took another instrument he had built, an adapted guitar, to the meeting, and accompanied himself in one of his own songs on it. Yeats was enthusiastic, saying “a play done entirely in this way, with this wonderful instrument, and with this type of music, might really be sensational”, and giving Partch’s idea his blessing.

Partch set about building more instruments with which to realise his opera. However, his grant money ran out, and, back in the United States, he began to live as a hobo, travelling around on trains and taking casual work where he could find it. He continued in this way for ten years, writing about his experiences in journals that were later collected together under the title Bitter Music.

Read a Better Biography than the above.

—

MUSIC, ESSAYS, DOCU and INTERVIEWS IN PUBLIC

@ scribd

Harry Partch’s 43 Tone Scale and Other Super Just Scales

—

@ microtonal-synthesis.com

- The Quality of Vitality: Music by Harry Partch

- The Instruments of Harry Partch

- The 43 tone per octave just intonation scale of Harry Partch

—

@ Corporeal Meadows

Harry Partch - an American Original

@ Ubu.com

Sound Sculpture, ed. John Grayson [PDF, 24mb]

PART II: HERITAGES & ATTITUDES

HARRY PARTCH: Monophonic Just Intonation (excerpted)

HARRY PARTCH: No Barriers

UbuWeb Podcast #4: The Tellus cassettes

This podcast features narrated selections from the series including Louise Lawler, Jerome Rothenberg, Gregory Whitehead, Glenn Branca, Harry Partch and Paul Bowles.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/BestDecadeEver.mp3

A Bibliography of Recorded Works by Artists (Dan Lander and Micah Lexier)

• Partch, Harry. Genesis of a Music. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1949

A Discography of Recorded Works by Artists (Dan Lander and Micah Lexier)

• Partch, Harry. Delusion of the Fury. LP. New York: CBS Masterworks, 1971.

The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch (2002)

Director: Darren Chesworth

Year: 2002

Time: 59 mins

Music: Harry Partch

http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/video/flash/Partch-Harry_The-Outsider.flv 345MB

From “Eye of Sound”:
His obsession with the subjective human voice and the musicality of speech; his partly relativistic deconstruction of the twelve-note scale as an arbitrary straitjacket; his ethnographic sensibility towards different modes of conceiving language, tuning and existence; his need to create channels suited for his new microtonal chromatic universe; his expansion into convergent fields of expression such as film, theatre and dance; and his desire to capture the vernacular as a locus for the textures of being - all these probably make Partch’s the most encompassing of modern creative utopias.

Such an overarching project of existence and creation, obviously, could hardly be comprised in an one-hour documentary, and it would take a considerable amount of creativity and an unflinching focus to cast a shadow of justice over Partch’s vision in such a short time. One aspect that could have been jettisoned is, as usual, the biographic mode, the linear movement from A to Z that suggests apparently logic explanations and connections for processes and objects that are far from logical and linear, supported by an invisible voice-over narration that simulates contextualization and sequence. Narrative becomes a form of containment and disambiguation: Partch’s struggle with devitalized modes of composition and the 12-tone octave is all of a sudden brought into light by the reading of one single book, On the Sensation of Tone by H. Helmholtz, and his “discovery” of the arbitrary nature of the Western scale smoothly harmonised with his several inner and outer “deviances”, sexuality included; inversely, Partch’s long-celebrated and romanticised decision to follow a hobo trail for almost a decade is simply glossed as a reaction to the Great Depression and left strangely disconnected from the surrounding acts. There are the usual statements by friends, patrons and composers, such as Lou Harrison, Gavin Bryars, John Schneider, Phillip Blackburn, and Phillip Glass, adding very little to our understanding of Partch’s universe, and it is from biographers and archivists that the most illuminating comments stem from. While the focus on the apparent eccentricity of the man seems to be a fruitless compromise with the conventions of current personality cults - including a minor polemic with Cage to boot -, it is not surprising that the most rewarding sections focus on the technical aspects of his work, microtonality being efficiently summarised bur perhaps not fully explored in its symbolic reach. The eclipse of “the truth of just intonation” was seen by Partch as a conspiracy in which “pure” musical structures had been corrupted and dilluted by a powerful but stifling hierarchical model, one that curtailed freedom and fostered forms of conformism. This supposedly pure tuning of ancient Greek tradition, which Partch tried to build into his microtonal edifice, and its promises of a wider access to the the truth that is supposed to inhere in the human voice, holds some of the keys for the composer’s universe: a romantic search for a temps perdu, thought to be found both in ancient traditions and non-Western contemporary societies, guided, as ever, by a subversive desire to implode homeland strictures.

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@ Archive.org

Harry Partch Memorial (September 5, 1974)

http://archive.org/download/AM_1974_09_05/AM_1974_09_05_ed_vbr.mp3

Harry Partch - Twelve Instrusions

http://archive.org/details/HarryPartch-TwelveIntrusions

http://archive.org/download/HarryPartch-TwelveIntrusions/HarryPartch-TwelveIntrusions_ed_vbr.mp3

Evenings on the Roof 1-6, Radio Docu series by Peter Yates, 1966

1 is an excerpt from one of Partch’s pieces followed by a 1960 interview of Partch by Peter Yates, in which he discusses his career.

http://archive.org/details/ER_1966_09_01

http://archive.org/download/ER_1966_09_01/ER_1966_09_01_16_vbr.mp3

2 “Revelation in the Courthouse Park” a piece of musical theater based on The Bacchae by Euripides

part a

http://archive.org/download/ER_1966_08_27/ER_1966_08_27_A_16_vbr.mp3

part b

http://archive.org/download/ER_1966_08_27/ER_1966_08_27_B_16_vbr.mp3

3 “The Bewitched”, a dance satire

http://archive.org/details/EveningsonRoofNo3

http://archive.org/download/EveningsonRoofNo3/EveningsonRoofNo3_vbr.mp3

4 Evenings on the Roof (September 6, 1965) (is missing?)

Harry Partch introduces himself, his 43-tone scale, and demonstrates his instruments.

Music selections in this episode played and sung by Partch, from Gate 5 Records:
[9:09] wordless piece marked “steady in an ancient phrygian scale”
[10:27] wordless piece marked “steady in a Greek enharmonic scale”
[12:20] “The Rose”
[13:58] “The Crane” based on a text by Lao Tze
[15:35] “The Wind”
[17:13] “The Waterfall”
[18:17] “The Letter” based on a depression-era letter from a hobo
[21:03] “The Street” about gritty street life

5 ”Exhibition of Gymnasts”, ”Even Wild Horses”, and [??]

http://archive.org/details/ER_1966_09_06

http://archive.org/download/ER_1966_09_06/ER_1966_09_06_16_vbr.mp3

6 ”Oedipus”

http://archive.org/details/ER_1966_09_11

http://archive.org/download/ER_1966_09_11/ER_1966_09_11_16_vbr.mp3

Harry Partch, 30 years of lyrical and dramatic music.

A selection of songs by Harry Partch. The Poems by Li Po include: A midnight farewell; Before the cast of wine; An encounter in the field; On hearing the flute at Lo-cheng; The intruder; I am a peach tree. Windsong is an excerpt from the soundtrack for the film of the same name. It is a modern rendering of the ancient myth of Daphne and Apollo.

http://archive.org/details/G_XXXX_XX_XX

http://archive.org/download/G_XXXX_XX_XX/G_XXXX_XX_XX_16_vbr.mp3

Internet Archive Avant Garde Project installment agp57 “The World of Harry Partch.

http://archive.org/details/agp57

http://archive.org/download/agp57/Partch01Daphne.flac 89.2 MB

http://archive.org/download/agp57/Partch02Barstow.flac 46.6 MB

http://archive.org/download/agp57/Partch03Castor.flac 91.3 MB

Sampling Harry partch’s Instruments

http://archive.org/details/BretHaroldHartPartch-edAgain

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@ various

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Harry+Partch

http://www.discogs.com/Harry-Partch-The-Music-Of-Harry-Partch/release/1755794

Harry Partch ringtones…

http://www.madringtones.org/tone/135112-Harry-Partch:-Two-Studies-on-Ancient-Greek-Scales

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OTHER

Rough Diamond

Symphonic con brio using the Partch 13-limit tonality diamond as a scale.

http://archive.org/details/RoughDiamond

http://archive.org/download/RoughDiamond/Genewardsmith-RoughDiamond.ogg

The Best Mangos In the World! (Outside of being there in person...

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:31:13 +0200

The Best Mangos In the World!

(Outside of being there in person to pick the ripe fruit off of the tree and digg your whole head into as many as you can possibly devour, of course.)

Genvejen til forståelse

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:20:49 +0200

Først må man arbejde hårdt for at samle data, meget hårdt, dag efter dag efter dag i årevis, og så en aften i en rus eller efter sex eller yoga eller terapi, hvor kroppen for én gangs skyld flader helt ud, følger en indsigt, der fylder hele universet og skaber et udsigtspunkt i satellithøjde, men når dén rus lægger sig og ruderne eller brillerne ikke længere dugger, er man kun knap blevet et enkelt atom højere. Der er ingen genvej til forståelse.