• Where one puts the mind

Where one puts the mind
by Longi, Helio, Stringer and Halo E with one anon

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Where one puts the mind. From a Ninjam session 2012-05-30 with Lonji, Helio, Stringer, and myself Halo E. I have also created an Indaba Music session from this and am eager to collaborate further and complete the rest of it. Note, the Ninjam session output is CC BY-NC-SA 2.5; however the words are from The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho - Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master. (My copy is from 1986 and can probably still be found online, but I see there’s a new 2012 edition just released as well, here or elsewhere.)

Cool article about the Elevens

Description of the significance of an Eleven Eleven experience. Tonight I had an Eleven Eleven Eleven flash. If indeed it does herald a moment of increased awareness, I welcome it whole heartedly :-). New discoveries await on the other side.

Drummond - A Falta Que Ama

Apparently I used this in Ninjam a few saturdays ago; JooZz just played it back in session and it wasn’t bad :-).

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NINJAM Moment - Prisoner of False Dreams

Later last night, I found myself mumbling the words from my previous post during a NINJAM live improvisation.  Here’s a quick extract of that part.  Co-creators of this were vox-lox-guitar, nick, and anon (aka Rob).  There was a some great playing, including a blistering guitar solo by Rob later on (not in this clip) and some great ambient lead guitar licks from vox-lox which reminded me of No Quarter in a way.  Nick was on drums, bringing life to the drum loop I was running.  I think I might have to write some more lyrics along these lines and see if a full song comes of it.  Great jam guys.  NINJAM rocks.

We are all subject to an empire of illusion,
Slumbering through life beneath a veil of confusion.
Wake up and see… this world is not what it seems.
Wake and be free… prisoner of false dreams.
Wake up and see or repeat after me:
“Excuse me sir, may I have some more distractions please?”

- These words are from my own pen. Those verbalized by street poet / post-modern beat poet Speeches Beyond are his own and are also true. Video by FTH (true too).

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Ninjam Moment -The Heart Sutra

First few stanzas from the Heart Sutra, extracted and remixed from an initial live improvised exploration last night. The rest of the words need to be arranged, but this much seemed to work decently. The mantra also seemed to fit.*

Contributing musicians: anon, karlpopper, storman, stringer, me.

* Gaté, gaté, paragaté, parasamgaté, bodhi svaha.


Amon Tobin’s ISAM… The only apt description is “Wow!” Alas, sold out at the Vogue before I even knew about it! Must be an amazing show. Minds will expand for the watching. Some may explode.

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Witness with wonder the dot matrix water printer fountain clock at Osaka Station, and tell me you don’t want one for your living room!

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E se eu pudesse voar? (Traveling Minds)

Once, there was a young lady who traveled far beyond the confines of ordinary space and time. She lived enclosed within herself, in a land isolated from all that she knew, alone with her silence and its empty noise.  One day, in this land of isolation, stricken by a powerful desire to return home, she began to wonder, “And what if I could fly?”

And so, by the strength of her yearning, suddenly she sprouted wings and was carried aloft. Words cannot express the incredible things she saw, the joy and tranquility and lightness that she felt. She lost herself and she found herself again. No one knows how long she was gone; time behaves differently in the realms she visited. But she did return to tell her story…

This song is the tale of that young lady, the girl who became a bird. The words were originally part of the illustrated book “E se eu pudesse voar? (Uma aventura do Menina-pássaro)” by mixed-media artist Beatriz Carvalho. The instrumental music comes from Indaba Music session “(Traveling Minds) We Are Alive Right Now” managed by Electric Mars Blue and includes violin by Kevan Paul, flute by Jeremy Hofer, guitar by Nathan G., and I believe drums by Josh Gaddy.

Very cool. (In case of any doubt, let me clarify that this is not me!)

Nice spinal curvature too ;-).

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We will be called Rochambeau for this one show. The other bands called Rochambeau don’t need to know. At least the ground rules are already established for determining who gets to keep the name, in the event of a dispute… (First kick to the incumbents; we are not afraid. We will be ready for all challengers with Mula Bandha engaged.)

We will be called Rochambeau for this one show. The other bands called Rochambeau don’t need to know. At least the ground rules are already established for determining who gets to keep the name, in the event of a dispute…

(First kick to the incumbents; we are not afraid. We will be ready for all challengers with Mula Bandha engaged.)

meus irmãos de um tempo atraz, agora irmãos #metralhas