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Wynton Marsalis Testifies Before A Congressional Committee. Arts = Jobs

May 2, 2009 By Graham English

On March 31, 2009, Arts Advocacy Day, Americans for the Arts gathered a panel of acclaimed artists and experts to call on Congress for continuing and additional support and funding for the arts and arts education in America. This hearing, entitled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: Arts, congress, culture, economy, education, jazz, Wynton Marsalis

Google Something Better

March 30, 2009 By Graham English

This is just a little challenge. John Battelle wrote about the "database of intentions" in his book, The Search. If you look at our search history, it tells us who we are and what we value. Our Google searches are the artifacts of our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Opinion, Prose Tagged With: culture, database of intentions, Google, history, John Battelle, search, values

We’re In A Culture War

February 13, 2009 By Graham English

Peter Kirn is shaking it up and inspiring me to think about what actions I need to take in response to the diminishing importance of the arts in our culture. My question is fundamental: why can’t the arts and “entertainment” be considered part of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Opinion, Prose Tagged With: Arts, Create Digital Music, culture, economy, Peter Kirn, Politics

Hope Takes The Lead

October 29, 2008 By Graham English

These are defining moments for America. We hardly seem very United these days. What's been interesting for me is to see how these two very different campaigns choose to deliver their messages in the closing hours. Marketers know that emotions make … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Opinion, Prose Tagged With: America, Arts, Barack Obama, Boulder, Copywriting, culture, emotions, hope, John McCain, Language, marketing, USA, videos, YouTube

Exposure: From Friction To Freedom

June 22, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Opinion, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Art, creativity, culture, Media

GarageBand Changing The Face Of Music Creation

June 22, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prose, Technology Tagged With: culture, GarageBand, Logic Pro, music production, Protools, software

Steve Pavlina In The Postmodern Sludge

June 1, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Opinion, Prose Tagged With: boomeritis, culture, four quadrants, hierarchy, levels, perspectives, pluralism, postmodernism, Spiral Dynamics, values

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

April 28, 2006 By Graham English

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, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: AQAL, consciousness, culture, dissonance, golden mean, golden section, harmony, Integral, intervals, octave, phi, tritone, Western harmony

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