Check out http://www.aliotango.com/ His Tango Multiple idea uses paint !

Nice wrapping paper designs by the way. Thought of a revised one for wallpaper? Esp the carp pattern?
Don’t know who/where to show them. They look groovy, for contemporary wallpaper patterns.
K

What beautiful vehicles music and dance , it is wonderful to explore things that bring forth such emotion, I love the quote by Agnes De Mille ‘ To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more beautiful, more powerful.
and ‘Musc is a moral law, it gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. I don’t know who first said that but I wish it was me.

Do you know me? I doubt it, linking Maverick to that late 80’s T Cruise movie I see , that and rock guitar, wow you must know some fascinating people!

On the youtube front check Tender Surrender by Steve Vai,
this guys ability to provoke emotion is legendary.

Nicely produced blog.

In music as an example, the groundbreaking guitarists of the late 60’s and early 70’s took the root influences of early american blues players and turned the music scence on its head, all the rules were cast aside and the result was the incendiary playing of musicians such as Jimi Hendrix, dissonance,tritones,harmonics and the use of extreme but controlled feedback ensured that things were changed forever, he rarely ever played the same number in the same way twice, it was all about feel and mood and little to do with rigid note choice, sounded amazing, still does, but theoretically some of the songs, Hey Joe for instance, do not follow conventional chord practise yet such is the delivery that the ear is unconcerned and mightily pleased.
Sometimes there is a convention of culture i.e use of scales with flat 2nd interval from the root then the 4th and flat 5th , the start of a Japanese ‘iwato’ scale , play it up and down and it will sound familiar but not western, the intervals are very eastern sounding, dissonant/unresolved but they work, much in the same way as the question and answer structure of the blues.
I guess we improvise constantly when we speak using socially accepted convention some of the time sprinkled with the more ‘heart driven’ stuff at times which is just who we are , this cuts across into everything we do , music , dance and on.

Congrats on the distinction , well deserved.

I’m a friend of Ted Bell’s and came Tangoing with you both once, I really enjoyed it but things got busy and I left it at three sessions.. I’m thrilled to find this blog as it encompasses all the things I’m interested in, dance, technology, language and etc. I’ve just applied to Uni to do Physiotherapy but not sure my heart’s in it. I love the look of the MA you’re doing at NUCA and have considered Graphic Design myself and you’ve inspired me to reconsider doing graphic design as I’m very interested in moving image and dance on film for the future. If you have any time I would love to hear more about what brought you to this point, it may help me decide what to do! Many many thanks!

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