Writings

  • IntentionPresenceGoodwillCommon PracticePlaying In TunePlaying In TimeListening 1.              Intention. Our entry to the Circle is intentional. One simple, practical example: when entering the room, crossing the liminal threshold into the sacred space of the Circle, we pay attention to our first footfall. Our attendance is not by accident, nor is our participation arbitrary. This implies that…

    Seven Assumptions For Work In The Circle
  • The Art And Science Of Heckling

    The performance was a hoot. Actually, lots of hoots. More, an ongoing Hooting Event. The performance that took place was by the audience, with the Level One Performance Team spectators at their own show. But this time, at least for a performance in the Gandara auditorium, there were no plates of nuts, or bowls of soft and juicy fruit…

    The Art And Science Of Heckling
  • What’s A Vicious Queen?

    A Vicious Queen Is A Warrior Queen. Their work is to protect the space,protect the people,protect the peace. A Vicious Queen is prepared to fight, so conflict is less likely. Robert FrippSaturday 20th. April, 2024The World Needs Us Right Now ICasa De Retiro Nuestra Señora Del Tránsito.Lunlunta, Mendoza, Argentina

    What’s A Vicious Queen?
  • Dying Is Not Death

    Rising, reflecting on how Creative and Conscious Intelligence might act in the world, this at a time when Higher Intelligence is necessary. Global solutions require global intelligence, noting (necessarily) this implies global solutions manifest locally; but the direction does not emerge from top-down central-direction (e.g. government mandated micro-control). The birth of The Orchestra, emerging from…

    Dying Is Not Death
  • A Successful Group

    A recent point of interest is the nature of groups, how and why they form, the mechanics of the members working together, how this influences / directs the outcomes/results/ repercussions, particularly musically. In any successful group: 1. The whole is more than the subject of the parts. 2. The music played by the group is…

    A Successful Group
  • Life Is Messy

    1. Life is what we’re given, living is what we do with it. 2. Life is messy. 3. Living seeks to make sense of the mess. 4. And then we die. 5. There are different qualities of living. 6. There are different qualities of dying. 7. The quality of our dying is very much the…

    Life Is Messy
  • Every Moment Of Every Day

    Performance is inherently unlikely. Performance in a context mediated by commerce, within a culture shaped by commercial values, is impossible. Yet, for this working player with an ongoing travelling life (other than at this juncture in our uncertain times), something miraculously takes place nearly every night that KC steps onstage. Likely, this something is different for each…

    Every Moment Of Every Day