Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘culture’

Hope Takes The Lead

In Boulder, I used to the ride the bus every morning to my job with an older gentlemen named Charles. I tell you this because I was happy to see his story go viral in a video yesterday.

Exposure: From Friction To Freedom

A simple observation lies at the heart of the Exposure book: that as different areas of culture start flowing in digital networks, it becomes self-defeating for artists, publishers, labels, and also regular people to insist for control over the distribution of their own creations. Although the fact is simple, its repercussions are only starting to [...]

GarageBand Changing The Face Of Music Creation

GarageBand is bringing music to the masses in a way that is very easy… You feel that you are in a creative mode right away. There are always people that want higher-quality recording, but the basic fundamentals need to be delivered in a simple package and that’s what GarageBand does.
Some good conversation about GarageBand over [...]

Steve Pavlina In The Postmodern Sludge

First off, I enjoy reading Steve Pavlina’s blog. For the most part, it’s great stuff.
But this latest post is anti-hierarchy, relativist postmodern sludge. He’s concluding that all discerning thought is nothing more than social conditioning and fear-based attachments. Take a look at his simplistic syllogisms.
Death of a loved one = tragedy. Death of a [...]

The Golden Mean in Harmony Part 2: Tritones: The Devil’s interval

Tritones: The Devil’s musical interval:
If you look at the relative stability of each scale degree in Western harmony you’ll see that the 4th and 7th are the most instable. In order of stability to instability it looks like this:
1, 5, 3, 6, 2, 4, 7
So 4 and 7 provide the most tension as 4 wants [...]