354 entries from "Brasilia"

Shaolin Afronauts: Flight Of The Ancient (2011)

Afrojazz, wild honky saxophone solos, dorian modes, to which you can dance for 45 minutes straight.

Ilessi: Dama de Espadas (2020)

Complex, vital, emotional, and very not-weak-sauce: Dama de Espadas is a bold, rough and sassy blues in Portuguese; Oração pro Gil has onomatopoeic cantations over an African groove; the sort of hard rock vibe in Vivo ou Morto took me by surprise.

Josué Costa In Concert

Imagine walking into a park and seeing a professional Brazilian guitarist sitting alone in a gazebo practicing his own complex jazz and classical compositions, in a pandemic, in a city where people don’t normally sit alone in parks and practice guitar. I'm grateful this musician shared his music (and let me listen with social distancing).

Jacob Collier: Moon River (a cappella, 2019)

Sublime celestial splendor sung by the chorus of a thousand stars. Not sure how I missed it but I think one cannot die before hearing this. I am still working my way through his in-depth hour-and-a-half music nerdery around the creation of this masterpiece.

Home on the Internet

[Twitter enables direct exchange between thoughts, independent of the people.]

[Twitter and TikTok enable content threads.]

[When me and the person I know are conversing on twitter, the third person that doesn't know is is watching. A performance for our shared mutuals.]

[We went from an oral culture where everything disappears, to a written culture, and now as text is less necessary we are moving toward an oral culture where everything is permanent.]

[People LARPing doing their day job in the real world to earn the money that enables them to participate in their imagined world, like Burning Man.]

[People pretending that they want things in public because they think other people want them is the source of many problems.]

[Lying is more cognitively demanding, you actually burn more sugar.]

[Every child is like a traveller arriving from somewhere else.]

[How to encourage a group to feel the camaraderie of 'we did it'?]

[Peer maker group.]

[Introduce yourself, what are you working on, what programming language.]

[What did you learn, add this week? challenges?]

[Anyone do marketing?]

[Users talk with makers.]

[Most people don't try stuff? Encourage serendipity.]

[Build measure learn.]

[Integrating this into your practice.]

How to LEARN ANY LANGUAGE on Your Own (Fast!)

[Walk around with the target language playing and try to repeat back phrases that you hear.]

[Digital garden + zero data implies a dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs.]

[Getting more people involved can be a path to mentoring others.]

[What's the purpose of everything? in the code… in the app…]

LOGIC SESSION BREAKDOWN: "Moon River"

[I like to have a chord planned and then add as many notes to it as possible until it's too much, and then take some away.]

[I used to listen to Take 6 and sing the note I wish was there, the 7th note.]

[Textbook voicings die specifically because they are 'correct'.]

Open-source doesn't mean build it only in the ways defined by software tools like GitHub: we can meet up, talk about it, help each other, organize together in our own ways.

Dopplebanger: Pussylicker

Mashes up three different songs with electronic grooves and well-placed cowbell.

Lil Nas X: MONTERO (2021)

Outside my milieu, genre-wise, but it’s a bodyshaker that deserves to be blasted on good speakers. The artist explores their sexuality with visual metaphors and vibrant colours.

Amy Winehouse: Cupid

From The Ska EP (2008) might be the song that gets me into ska—I would describe it as ‘uplifting’.

Don Cherry: Lito

From Live At The Bracknell Jazz Festival (1986). Featuring flinging tongues, African grooves, and drummer Ed Blackwell.

Ron Everett: Glitter of the City (1977)

Traditional jazz and swing sounds with weird stuff, and I dug several tracks: Royal Walk_ with warbly instrumentals, loops, screeching, spoken word; Tipsy Lady’s blues/hip-hop and old school drums; Pretty Little Girl’s singing off-key Latin vibe; the 8-bit bossa nova of Untitled No. 4.

Joana Queiroz: Memórias (2019)

Live performance where she builds sound structures with loop pedals and various clarinets, accompanied at times by graceful dancing. Sublime colouring in the photography and clothing.

Joana Queiroz: Performance sonora

Live improvised “sound performance” from 2021. There’s something pure and unfiltered about a human being making music with an acoustic instrument while walking through nature. Accompanying is the sound of birds, dogs, air, footsteps, singing, a self-playing accordion, a fireplace, frogs…