Absolutely nothing, but there's something wrong with the mindset that people are using in classical music to justify these concerts. For starters, they are not 'beneath' your musicians - if anything, it's an opportunity for them to play music that they like to listen to in their own time. Lots of professional musicians still listen to mainstream pop, and enjoy it. Pop musicians and show singers aren't cash cows that play inferior music, they're a massive part of your overal

Abstract Māori oral histories describe encounters with patupaiarehe and tūrehu — reclusive, lightly pigmented, mountain-dwelling peoples present before the arrival of major waka lineages. Scholarship has often interpreted these beings as mythic or symbolic. This paper offers a different, integrative account: that these traditions may encode cultural memory of early, small-scale Polynesian settlement groups , predating the well-documented mass arrival wave of the 13th century;

I'm watching it slowly. One episode a day or so. What people really want to know is what I reckon of the AI. In a word, uncanny valley. Peter's budget dwarfs mine, but it's still similar. 3-5 second loops of stills brought to life, except for a few ambitious ones. Some colourisation, obviously, but my Carmen shots were pretty similar in quality. I don't have the grunt for upscaling and noise reduction. - If we fed a bunch of Carmen video footage into the machine, we migh

Below is a unified, technically accurate explanation  of how Michelina's 13-step + gap (1220c) Māori tonal system — and the Polynesian 7/8-step systems — have deep implications for sailing, navigation, and knowledge structures across the Pacific. This is the clearest formulation  yet, now that the mathematics are stable. The key is this: Music provides the memory architecture, rhythm, and structural logic for encoding star positions, swell patterns, and directional rules. 1.

Finally, the deepest principle might be: Intelligence is the capacity to bind past, present, and future into coherent, regenerative patterns. This manifests as: intergenerational whakapapa maramataka cycles musical structure AI embeddings ecological feedback systems cultural transmission memory compression architectures political evolution identity and narrative construction In all cases, intelligence is temporal, recursive, and relational .

The history of musical tuning and harmonic theory is often told as a story of discovery — a moment when Pythagoras, experimenting with string lengths, revealed that musical intervals obey mathematical ratios. Yet this account neglects the deeper truth that human beings already possessed an intuitive sense of pitch and harmonic relation long before any written system of measurement. The monochord was not an invention of harmony, but a translation of a universal, embodied perc

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Amanda Michelina (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāti Oneone, Ngāti Irakehu) This essay is the third in a series of essays on Māori music: https://www.amandamichelinasprogressiveparty.com/post/uneven-intervals-and-musical-hubs-a-comparative-study-of-m%C4%81ori-and-persian-traditions https://www.amandamichelinasprogressiveparty.com/post/mari-hamunata-and-the-hybrid-waiata-tradition Introduction The study of Māori music has too often been framed through analytical categories im

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