tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post1900524182502298204..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Is it me or is it the music ?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-36865629967858285392009-08-21T14:57:17.450+01:002009-08-21T14:57:17.450+01:00Great post. Particularly like how it gets at how w...Great post. Particularly like how it gets at how we can refresh our hearing/listening by trying new things then going back to old familiars. It's so easy to fall into ruts, both in music making and in music listening, and when we do we're missing a lot that's out there. <br /><br />All the new brain research shows how it can rewire itself in various ways depending on how we use it.<br /><br />Also appreciate the clarification on "acoustic". I'd noticed the singular form was creeping in and didn't understand why.<br /><br />Wonderful to hear Findhorn still there.Lyle Sanford, RMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-20531072181404173452009-08-21T11:42:12.624+01:002009-08-21T11:42:12.624+01:00Incidentally it takes a Frenchman (albeit living i...Incidentally it takes a Frenchman (albeit living in Switzerland) to know that in English <b>acoustics</b>, when used to describe the characteristics of an auditorium, is a plural noun.<br /><br />The common, and wrong, usage by BBC announcers and others these days is <b>the acoustic of the hall.</b>Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-40721478108454796362009-08-21T11:30:45.381+01:002009-08-21T11:30:45.381+01:00In the context of alternative communities with mus...In the context of alternative communities with musical connections I should have mentioned the Halycon Theosophical Community in California. <br /><br />Dane Rudhyar was a key figure in it, and Henry Cowell was influenced by it -<br /><br />http://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/11/dane-rudhyar-music-and-mysticism.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com