Glad to see your comment. I remember you from your work with World Magazine and that you kindly shared some of my work at the time. Hope the interview goes great!
I'm supposed to use it for a piece at spinmagazine.com that will run close to the release date of his new album. So the Q&A itself won't drop, just the parts most conducive to narrative flow.
Not bad for the strictly enforced 20 minutes that I was granted. A question or two of mine misfired, a few more got the precise information that I was seeking. So it goes. I interview someone else associated with Starr's latest projects on Thursday. Between the two, I should have what I need.
I’m currently trying my best to follow in Ted’s footsteps—I got accepted to Oxford for my BPhil (basically a master’s equivalent in philosophy) a few weeks ago and am waiting to hear back on some scholarships. If nothing else, at least I can tell people I got in, lol.
Fascinating! I’m from Northeast Louisiana, where some of the earliest earthworks are found (some 5,000 years old), and not far from Poverty Point, which is probably the first city in North America.
I was researching Indigenous earthworks, including the ancient Mounds near you, before discovering this legacy of Indigenous stonework in the northeast. I still hope to one day visit Poverty Point & some of the other earthworks in your area.
Message me if you’d like to see some of my photographs from Poverty Point. I’ve hosted a number of landscape photography workshops there. It’s utterly spellbinding, clearly a place of great revelation.
I’m in the early stages of taking a leap of faith into a Music Career! Hoping to piece together a combination of gigs, sessions, and lessons on guitar, banjo, bass, and (my true love) harmonica. If you know any musicians in New England who have ever had the thought “this project I’m working on needs blues harp,” direct them to http://instagram.com/elise_blues :)
I am 56 years old.....and I am not a musician, but wanted to learn how to play an instrument. I started learning clawhammer style banjo 8 months ago. A light bulb turned on in my head and creativity starting flowing out of me like I have never experienced in my life. I made an album of original songs somehow in just a few months. Oh, and I did not use AI for any of it!!! You are never too old to start creating stuff!
Producing and hosting a 5 hour radio program for tonight celebrating the music of Billie Holiday in the first 20 minutes of each hour. Jazz From Blue Lake airs every weeknight starting at 10 eastern and repeats on our Jazz stream the next day (what, you don’t want to stay up to 3 am w me?) over www.bluelakeradio.org
Very nice. Have a great practice! 10pm-3am .We’re including the new batch of Resonance Records releases for record store day: Yusef Lateef, Ahmad Jamal, etc, live at The Jazz Showcase in Chicago.
I recently wrote an essay on Tourette Syndrome, AI Tics, and the War for Originality. An excerpt: "My life stands in stark contrast to the metronomic, tight, polished nature of AI writing, which follows similar patterns and takes the road always taken as opposed to that trod much less often.
AI is a failure-avoidance machine. It won’t make a typo. It won’t say something cringe. It won’t ramble or stammer or deliver a line full of ummms or uhhhs or likes or you knows. It will keep you polished, and that polish, which is quite literally a thin veneer of protection, is starting to look less like competence and more like a tell.
My tics are just the punctuation of my reality. And, for sometimes better or oftentimes worse, they cannot be faked."
I've come to appreciate this my own live music. My voice cracks. I play the wrong chord. I forget my own lyrics and make up stuff, mumble, or repeat the previous lyrics. Lately its become less of source of imperfection, but more of sense of authenticity.
i just read your story and it's awesome. Adding strategic imperfections to emails is something i should try 😂😂 then again, AI might even replicate that too...
I used to work so hard to make sure my work emails were mistake-free, thank you for giving me permission not to stress about that anymore! Your article was informative and I read every word..
I hold an American passport, but live in New Zealand. It's the best place to be for me at this point in my life. It' s been a while since I triggered jealousy in someone, so I'm going to take it as a compliment. Cheers!
Right on, thank you so much! It was a really fun project to compose/perform/record, though...other than the whole 'aligning the schedules of 12 busy professional musicians' thing. That part, no as fun. :) Thanks for listening and the kind words.
I host a podcast called "Coffin Talk" that is dedicated to exploring "the meaning of death." So far, I have interviewed 276 guests to find out what they each think happens when we die. It's a labor of love, but we're always looking for more guests, so please contact me if you are interested.
Here's a link to a primer for anyone interested, and THANKS, TED!
Just listened to your episode with Lynn Bunch. Great example of how an approach focused on life purpose and stepping into existential responsibility through action and alignment can unstick an existential depression.
I'm doing research on creativity (or lack thereof) in secondary music education. I've had my high school girls' choir improvising for a month now and they are incredible!
And though I am not interviewing Ringo Starr today, this research did uncover a story about bandmates, McCartney and Harrison... apparently their school music teacher didn't think they had talent. (Robinson's Liverpool Ted talk on Schools and Creativity)
As a musician (not trained as a music teacher, and with all due respect to teachers), I think music is undervalued as a way to develop creative capacity.
I'm supposed to be interviewing Ringo Starr in two hours and twenty minutes.
You win.
Glad to see your comment. I remember you from your work with World Magazine and that you kindly shared some of my work at the time. Hope the interview goes great!
Where will this interview drop?
I'm supposed to use it for a piece at spinmagazine.com that will run close to the release date of his new album. So the Q&A itself won't drop, just the parts most conducive to narrative flow.
That'll be nice. Tell him we all now know John was joking about his percussion skill and he was one of the best ones.
I quite like the new singles. Looking forward to the full record. Tell him I said hey
Amazing!
Amazing! Is this for a book? :)
That was four hours ago. How did it go!
Not bad for the strictly enforced 20 minutes that I was granted. A question or two of mine misfired, a few more got the precise information that I was seeking. So it goes. I interview someone else associated with Starr's latest projects on Thursday. Between the two, I should have what I need.
Welp, not going to beat that!
Laying the groundwork for an AI-free publishing press...
Awesome! Can you describe this more...? (you can email me at tiffany@humancreative.org)
My husband and I will share details on School of the Unconformed :)
Great! Subscribed.
You go, girl!
I've been reading School of Unconformed for a while, love it so much! I included your publication, guys, to my latest post with reading recommendations 🙌https://mariagotchenya.substack.com/p/my-reading-diet-this-winter?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2jj66m
I love It! Best of luck!
I love this!
I’m about to release my debut LP with my nu-jazz trio! We’re so proud ❤️ still not out yet but soon: https://www.future3.eu/
Awesome. The bassline on NoSlip at 1:50 made smile. Band sounds great, thanks for sharing!
Very cool stuff. Gorgeous, actually.
New music. Yay!
Thank you so much, everyone! Wasn’t expecting such a nice response :) I’ll let you all know once it’s out ❤️
I’m currently trying my best to follow in Ted’s footsteps—I got accepted to Oxford for my BPhil (basically a master’s equivalent in philosophy) a few weeks ago and am waiting to hear back on some scholarships. If nothing else, at least I can tell people I got in, lol.
Good luck, Patrick! The world could use more Teds.
I’m researching and investigating the little-known legacy of Indigenous Stonework in the Northeast — did you know the oldest stone construction in Massachusetts was a 4000-year-old Indigenous-built stone wall found by archaeologists in the 1970’s in a Rockshelter in Marlborough, MA? Never well-publicized. https://ancientstonemysteries.substack.com/p/ancient-stone-mysteries-of-new-england-350?r=1gv1v&utm_medium=ios
Fascinating! I’m from Northeast Louisiana, where some of the earliest earthworks are found (some 5,000 years old), and not far from Poverty Point, which is probably the first city in North America.
I was researching Indigenous earthworks, including the ancient Mounds near you, before discovering this legacy of Indigenous stonework in the northeast. I still hope to one day visit Poverty Point & some of the other earthworks in your area.
Message me if you’d like to see some of my photographs from Poverty Point. I’ve hosted a number of landscape photography workshops there. It’s utterly spellbinding, clearly a place of great revelation.
Thank you! I’m in the middle of something right now but would like to see your photographs in the future.
I loved your project, very special.
My husband https://substack.com/@benweirdo would looooooove this.
My father in law would go mad for this!
Keep on exploring, there is much to find in the woods of New England.
I’m in the early stages of taking a leap of faith into a Music Career! Hoping to piece together a combination of gigs, sessions, and lessons on guitar, banjo, bass, and (my true love) harmonica. If you know any musicians in New England who have ever had the thought “this project I’m working on needs blues harp,” direct them to http://instagram.com/elise_blues :)
Good luck, as an aging bassman living in the, "pucker brush," in Maine I know how hard it is to get a group going. Persevere.
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I am documenting ideological subversion in museums. The Victims of Communism Museum is a stark contrast with the National Portrait Gallery: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/victims-of-communism-museum-portrait-gallery
That museum gets a mention in my latest novel.
I would be curious your thoughts on the (British) Imperial War Museum?
I am 56 years old.....and I am not a musician, but wanted to learn how to play an instrument. I started learning clawhammer style banjo 8 months ago. A light bulb turned on in my head and creativity starting flowing out of me like I have never experienced in my life. I made an album of original songs somehow in just a few months. Oh, and I did not use AI for any of it!!! You are never too old to start creating stuff!
https://on.soundcloud.com/X4laAO20DR3MesQKqE
thanks for sharing and your story telling Greg. There's a sparse beauty to your playing.
Thank you! The 'sparse' style was out of necessity...since I can't quite sing and play at the same time :)
Producing and hosting a 5 hour radio program for tonight celebrating the music of Billie Holiday in the first 20 minutes of each hour. Jazz From Blue Lake airs every weeknight starting at 10 eastern and repeats on our Jazz stream the next day (what, you don’t want to stay up to 3 am w me?) over www.bluelakeradio.org
(what, you don’t want to stay up to 3 am w me?)
Here we call that 8pm. I'll see if it can stream it tonight after practice :) Thanks for sharing!
Very nice. Have a great practice! 10pm-3am .We’re including the new batch of Resonance Records releases for record store day: Yusef Lateef, Ahmad Jamal, etc, live at The Jazz Showcase in Chicago.
Thanks for all the “likes,” everyone. And just a note to say we have an app. Search Blue Lake Public Radio
I'm performing a live comedy cooking show in Brooklyn, New York this weekend 4/10-11. It was a sold out show at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest and I'm running in NYC. Come on out if you live in the area! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/enjoy-your-meal-cory-cavin-tickets-1985324959397
Amazing. Break an egg! ;)
yes, there we go!
Food and funny!? Sounds awesome
Love that combo!
I recently wrote an essay on Tourette Syndrome, AI Tics, and the War for Originality. An excerpt: "My life stands in stark contrast to the metronomic, tight, polished nature of AI writing, which follows similar patterns and takes the road always taken as opposed to that trod much less often.
AI is a failure-avoidance machine. It won’t make a typo. It won’t say something cringe. It won’t ramble or stammer or deliver a line full of ummms or uhhhs or likes or you knows. It will keep you polished, and that polish, which is quite literally a thin veneer of protection, is starting to look less like competence and more like a tell.
My tics are just the punctuation of my reality. And, for sometimes better or oftentimes worse, they cannot be faked."
More: https://www.whitenoise.email/p/when-the-tic-is-the-tell
This is great.
I've come to appreciate this my own live music. My voice cracks. I play the wrong chord. I forget my own lyrics and make up stuff, mumble, or repeat the previous lyrics. Lately its become less of source of imperfection, but more of sense of authenticity.
thanks for sharing. I'm subscribed!
Thank you Marc!
i just read your story and it's awesome. Adding strategic imperfections to emails is something i should try 😂😂 then again, AI might even replicate that too...
Thank you!!
I used to work so hard to make sure my work emails were mistake-free, thank you for giving me permission not to stress about that anymore! Your article was informative and I read every word..
Thank you for reading along!!
Brilliant and original piece of writing, Tom.
Thank you!
I'm having a weekly lunch with friends, and all we do is eat and talk with each other. It's one of the best events of the week.
I live abroad and meeting with close friends and family is one of the things I miss the most. Healthily jealous of you, Tom.
I hold an American passport, but live in New Zealand. It's the best place to be for me at this point in my life. It' s been a while since I triggered jealousy in someone, so I'm going to take it as a compliment. Cheers!
Last fall I recorded a 74 minute suite I composed for 12 musicians (5 horns, piano, bass, cello, and 4 drummer/mallet percussionists): https://nathanclevenger.bandcamp.com/album/astrolabe
Thanks in advance to anyone who cares to take a listen!
Listening now...Love how it touches on and merges so many idioms. Very fun to listen to.
Right on, thank you so much! It was a really fun project to compose/perform/record, though...other than the whole 'aligning the schedules of 12 busy professional musicians' thing. That part, no as fun. :) Thanks for listening and the kind words.
I Will listen soon
Thank you!
Love it!! Will purchase ASAP!
Hey, that's so kind of you, thank you and delighted to hear you dig it.
Liking it!
That's very kind of you to say; thanks for listening!
I host a podcast called "Coffin Talk" that is dedicated to exploring "the meaning of death." So far, I have interviewed 276 guests to find out what they each think happens when we die. It's a labor of love, but we're always looking for more guests, so please contact me if you are interested.
Here's a link to a primer for anyone interested, and THANKS, TED!
https://mikeyopp.substack.com/p/what-the-is-coffin-talk
I’m writing about existential depression so I’ll check this out.
Just listened to your episode with Lynn Bunch. Great example of how an approach focused on life purpose and stepping into existential responsibility through action and alignment can unstick an existential depression.
Just started a pub here. Literature, music, visual art, thought. Other fragments and odds and ends. Was inspired by recent Brad Mehldau post:
https://pal0mar.substack.com/p/impersonal-best?r=lzbbf&utm_medium=ios
I'm doing research on creativity (or lack thereof) in secondary music education. I've had my high school girls' choir improvising for a month now and they are incredible!
And though I am not interviewing Ringo Starr today, this research did uncover a story about bandmates, McCartney and Harrison... apparently their school music teacher didn't think they had talent. (Robinson's Liverpool Ted talk on Schools and Creativity)
As a musician (not trained as a music teacher, and with all due respect to teachers), I think music is undervalued as a way to develop creative capacity.
Yes!! It’s so important! It’s not just creativity for one area of our lives it’s for everywhere!
exactly!