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...]
Google Something Better
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...]
We’re In A Culture War
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...]
Hope Takes The Lead
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...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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, … [Read more...]