ITimelessness And Succession The creative moment takes place where timelessness and the stream of successive events meet. This moment is where, experienced from within the time stream, time stands still. When we move more fully into that moment, where time ends. This is where we were, before we were born. Robert FrippFriday 17th. February, 2006Mount…

Although I have no authority, I give myself permission to have authority in the affairs of my own life. If someone wishes to comment usefully on those affairs, better they have an equal, comparable or, preferably, greater authority. When we recognise in someone a “greater authority” to our own, wise to seek them out and…

A principle is universal, a rule is inflexible, a law is invariable Music so wishes to be heard that sometimes it calls on unlikely characters to give it voice, and to give it ears. This wishing-to-be-heard calls into existence the Performance Event; where music, musician, and audience may come together as one, in Communion. This…

A common assumption of the counter culture was that music can change the world, and this was a primary moving force in the formation of King Crimson. So, the good news: music can change the world. The bad news: it comes with musicians. Part of this common assumption was also that, even simply by listening…

Dear Crafty, When things are going really, really well it doesn’t always feel that things are going really, really well. So good to persist just knowing that things are going really, really well. Robert FrippThursday 22nd. December 2022Bredonborough, Middle England

If music is a benevolent presence constantly and readily available to all, how are we constantly and readily available to music? We need to be present to music. This implies, we have to be present to ourselves. So, how?  If we disagree with the possibility that music is a benevolent presence, we have to be…

Affirmation One: The benevolence of the Creative Impulse is inexpressible. We cannot know this benevolence, while accepting that Benevolence knows us better than we know ourselves. Affirmation Two: Love cannot bear that even one soul be denied its place in Paradise. Affirmation Three: In strange and uncertain times, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But…