I read that John set a string off so that his mother would know it was him. I also suspect they used another A than 440hz. Listening to an album in 430hz, and it sounds closer (I didn't tune up for my demos). Paul says that it was A = 434hz.

Fancypants answer: it's called the iconosphere. Read about that in a Chagall book. ChatGPT: The iconosphere is a concept from visual culture and media theory. It refers to the total environment of images that surrounds us—paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, religious icons, digital media, etc. Think of it as the “atmosphere of images” we live inside, shaping how we see the world, remember things, and construct meaning. https://lexicon.mimesisjournals.com/inter

The song began life as I Rely on You, then other people told me to change the title. I thought it was too pretentious, but eventually gave in. The imagery was South Island stuff, as I miss the frosts and the cold. - As far as I'm aware, I've never said "I love you" in a song. Why? At a New Year's party in the 2010's, my brother and I met an Estonian bloke. He told us that most Estonians are fluent in English, but they never use those words, as they have a power that does

Is one of my obsessions as a writer, particularly in a pop lyric. The second person is underrated as a narrative mode. John and Paul were all about that in their Beatles lyrics. Wrote a high school story in second person that would make a neat Fable. Waiting to exhume my hard drives.

Notwithstanding that the only way I could enter most English-speaking countries is if the promoters bribed their governments, I think most tours are invented by parasitic leeches that live off the income of other people's songs. All the things that make live gigs magical are taken away if you do stadium rock. Paul and I are talking about the kind of tour that his solo gig is suggesting. Exclusive, in theatres where amplification is tasteful (when necessary). 700-2000 seats.

A: ML was used in the Te Kore video sequence (Runway), and in the synth tracks that accompanied some of the films (NotePerformer). I write them out like I would for real musicians, then NotePerformer generates a convincing output that articulates the music using ML if articulations aren't provided. Deep Dream Generator was used to bring stills to life, and for generative AI, such as the little skits about the eggs frying on the stove, or the No Disguises loop. Those are ju

That's a common reaction to the films. Working For Each Other is similar to my oeuvre. It makes me think of a sci-fi book: Beggars In Spain. We're hoping that it will improve voter turnout in Te Riu-A-Māui. - I call them psychedelic films: they're soul-revealing. When people tell me how they felt, that's when I get to read their mind. The loops entrain people, and the images provide a meditative focus (yantra). All the clever channel inverts paint the lyrics and add a se

People keep focussing on the theatre part of musicals; let's focus on the music. - Scores that are as good as the old warhorses. An expectation that actors and singers should know a thing or two about music. Pit bands with 20 musicians. Singers that can phrase the music rather than singing notes. Conductors that can balance the demands of the pit and the players. - How do the scores improve? By forgetting the last 40 years of gentrification. Songs that aren't written by

When reading music became a default. In Italy and Spain, it isn't. Until after World War II, opera was usually in the language of the country it was done in, rather than surtitles. As a result, people didn't need to read. Conductors and repetiteurs were able to focus on tone rather than diction. Vocal training can be done by ear, and most rock singers do it that way. Ezio Pinza couldn't read. Neither could lots of the star Broadway singers. - I'm a fluent reader and comp

That's an interesting analysis of The Perfumed Garden. It's actually a slightly different minor second. k-Ni (Kumudvatī). It's a bit flatter than the equal tempered note, so it sounds loving. Think of it like an alternate tonic. - In my string quartet, the note is more like Tīvra (flatter minor second). The limma is the 90 cent interval which makes Scorrevole distinctive.

You all know Steve Barr blackmailed me, but you helped him escape a trial. The reason I'm readying myself for court is tens of thousands of dollars of lost income. VUW, Red Scare and Mr. Barr are the people responsible for this lost income. My expectation is that you will deny them income in a similar fashion. - I want to see some clear wording from the NZ Film Commission regarding IP. It must state that there have been a number of projects with uncertain provenance being

Intrinsic Motive Pulse, Relational Perception, and Object-Mediated Synchrony. 1. Abstract This document proposes a unified framework for Distributed Non-Verbal Synchrony (DNS) : a mode of cognition in which intention, affect, timing, and expectation become aligned across individuals through phase-locking of embodied rhythmic processes. DNS is grounded in developmental psychology via Trevarthen’s Intrinsic Motive Pulse (IMP) and supported by evidence from elite musical perf

Putting it on the record diminishes the effectiveness slightly, but it's a no-brainer. All organising should be done by handwritten notes, with devices in another room. Almost all notes should be burned after the meeting, unless it's for the activists. Sweep for hidden cameras. They're almost pinhole-sized now. With written notes, that's barely an issue. Ensure that it's done in a huddle. Came up with this re: Minto and PSNA, but it wasn't necessary.

Weeded Out , Polynesian Third Genders, and the Refusal of Spectacle Abstract This essay examines the relationship between gender nonconformity and celebrity through a comparative framework that juxtaposes Western visibility-based gender politics with Polynesian third-gender ontologies. Using the screenplay Weeded Out as a primary creative–philosophical text, the essay argues that contemporary celebrity culture functions as a technology of exposure that is structurally incom

I believe that the most, perhaps only, complete way to take in the news without spin is to rely almost entirely on written accounts. That's a habit I formed in 2019. Sound and video can easily become manipulative, regardless of intent. The response to my new film is a reflection of my wee theory: if Stuff or RNZ or The Spinoff had run a web article with some stills, nobody would have cared. Reuters bulletins are great, but their standard is much higher than local papers.

Difficult question. I read the Bentov book in my psychonaut days, and that's essentially what I believe. In that reality, it makes perfect sense that cultivating an altered state might ultimately create a frequency that matches a being (atua) at another frequency. The actual day had a mild amount of 50% THC weed, and one day of fasting. They primed the room with a rug that resembles the National Library logo. They gave me a couple of days to process the ancestry. What happ

Yeah, it's a feature film. It's the first protest film that wasn't part of the AMPP series or The Dakumentary, but it builds off several previous Palestine rallies and the 2024 hīkoi film. - All volunteers, obviously. That's what makes it exciting. Wasn't cheap, but nobody was funding it. - It's relying on things like graphic matches and perspective matches to compress time. The big shot in the middle lasts 16 minutes. My take is is that the R100 auto exposure mimics hu

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