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Music Videos: Geniuses of Percussive Guitar
Michael
I love playing the guitar - especially in the polyphonic, percussive style known as "two-hand tapping" - and it's artists like these whose exceptional talent helps keep me inspired and passionate about my learning. These... More »
Featured on KW's Blog: "The Engine of Development" & Controversy
Michael
So this is it, folks: it isn't exactly what I'd call "publication in a peer-reviewed journal," but I am now a featured guest on Ken Wilber's blog. Which I guess means he found the essay... More »
Afterword to Paul Lonely's Suicide Dictionary
Michael
[ Paul Lonely asked me to write a foreword for his incredible new book, the first volume of Suicide Dictionary , when it started to look like Ken Wilber's health might not permit him to... More »
Love Beyond Life: A Review of The Fountain
Michael
Science fiction is a strange beast. Extending from space fantasy devoid of the sparest scientific pretense to mind-meltingly technical "hard sci-fi" seemingly penned for post-docs, the genre is a container for speculation and existential musing... More »
Visionary Instruments: an ode to the Chapman Stick
Michael
Unlike with previous instruments in this column, I have a long-standing and personal relationship with the invention I'll be discussing this week. It's called the Chapman Stick , and it was one of the most... More »
Finding the Music in Noise
Michael
As should now be apparent from my essays on the Light Harp and on Tantric Listening , if I am a seeker of anything, it is of music in what is considered nonmusical. Consequently, I... More »
Psychoactive Vibes
Michael
Psychoactive Vibes: Light and Sound in Navigating the Spectrum of States by Michael Garfield States of Consciousness (David Zeitler, JFKU), May 2007 Abstract: Light and sound have long been used as both art and science,... More »
What Is "Visionary Music?"
Michael
First, a little exposition: The word "visionary" comes from the Latin "videre" ["to see"]. It describes the quality of seeing the future or other transcendent visions, sometimes in a dream or trance, and thinking or... More »
The Dream Is Valid: A Benefit Compilation for Kiva.org
Michael
"The problem is not desire. It's that your desires are too small." - Sri Nisargadatta So this is it. After almost a year in the making (but mostly in the waiting), the Zaadz Visionary Music... More »
Visionary Instruments: Tenori-on and Monome
Michael
Hopefully I don't have to do much convincing to establish with the readers of this blog that the computer is indeed a legit instrument. In fact, by some accounts , the computer might be the... More »
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April 2008