THE MEDIUM

me....but remember that sometimes I'm tuned to the music of the spheres and sometimes I'm tuned to my own bullshit.....The Lady or the Tiger! One always speaks the truth, the other tries to escape its prison. The old folk legend of the Angel and Lucifer is part of our collective memory and Humanity's propensity for this dualism, which may have originated before pre-frontal cortex, entrenched deep within the genetic coils of the medulla or even the brain-stem, beneath, commanding the frontal lobes to "Obey". The disintegration of this largely unconscious linkage leads to Art or Madness......perhaps.....even to Wisdom or Folly.

\\ The work of Werner Durand and his collaborations with Dhrupad singer, Amelia Cuni continually intrigue me. Durand has performed works based on the sounds of buzzing bees and has a large repertoire of South Pacific, African and Indonesian-inspired music, performed on instruments of his own imagination.......reminding me of the work of the Master, Harry Parch. Atlanta's Klimchak is another of my favorite music artists. Imagination, Concept, Expression....... Great music that resonates against the membrane between mystery and madness. Remnants From Paradise by Werner Durand

Self-cultivation, with due regard to others, is the sole and sufficient object of human life; however, this can only take place in the light of wisdom......otherwise, blind ambitions attempt to fill the void, predicated by the urgency to expand, contracted with lack of sentiment and contrite with self-importance. CD2-JS Bach-Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord by Ingrid Matthews and Byron Schenkman