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Webcress 2017

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Webcress is now designed for greater content flexibility to record my odyssey to unite a range of interests. There always will be more questions than answers. I claim no authority on any of the topics, just an intense curiosity and willingness to question just about everything. A post will begin as I understand the topic […]

Straw Dogs

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It’s times like these that I look to the photographic process for some sanity. I truly ache for the mental health of this country. We are like positive and negative charged particles being sucked into a black hole consuming all empathy and compassion and leaving only petrified ideological self-righteousness. In the seventies, I turned to […]

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Henri Cartier-Bresson is the gold-standard for capturing the moment on film. Bresson’s trademark was the black border of the clear unexposed film to demonstrate total compositional control in the moment. A lost artifact in today’s world of digital photography.

Music Studies

Sebastian Bach’s 333rd Birthday

In celebration of this year’s 9/16 tuplet birthday I am nearing completion of my Sibelius transcriptions for iPad of his Well Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2. So far this year I have completed The Art of the Fuge and the Goldberg Variations. Today I will complete both No. 16 Prelude & Fugues in G Minor.


Music Syntax

Consonance & Dissonance

Tonality in the form of consonance and dissonance are the building blocks of harmony in music. They are created when two or more tones are played simultaneously. Unison, third, fifth, sixth, octave, and the intervals made up of these and the octave are consonances. Some of these are perfect consonances, the others imperfect. The unison, third, and fifth are perfect. The sixth, and third are imperfect. The remaining intervals, like the second, fourth, diminished fifth, tritone, seventh, and the intervals made up of these and the octave, are dissonances.


A progression through a variety of these intervals creates an emotional response in the listener that we call music. The progression of intervals is created by the motion of the tones (voices) within the intervals in three possible movements: Direct, Contrary, or Oblique.

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Differentiation

Differentiation is the identification of the specific from the general. It can happen biologically—the eye evolves to sense a range of specific wavelengths from the general spectrum of white light. Differentiation is part of survival for all forms of life. In humans, however, it became very complex as the species developed into tribal, agrarian, and urban societies, each with norms based on a core mythology to maintain stability. These norms enable societies to develop a cultural … [Read More...]

The Wayfarer by Bosch

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Wisdom of the Daodejing

Daodejing 32

Existence is infinite, not to be defined. And though it seem but a bit of wood in your hand, to carve as you please, it is not to be lightly played with and laid down.

When rulers adhered to the way of life, they were upheld by natural loyalty. Heaven and earth were joined and made fertile, life was a freshness of rain—subject to none, free to all.

But men of culture came, with their grades and their distinctions; and as soon as such differences had been devised no one knew where to end them. Though the one who does know the end of all such differences is the sound man.

Existence might be likened to the course of many rivers reaching the one sea.

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