tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37120722011-04-21T13:04:29.362-07:00The Phoenix Bird<b>An Experimentally Conceptualized,<br>
Multi-Sensory, "OMNIMedia" Symphony,<br>
and (Live) Performance-Art Event</b><br>
including an Interactive Sound/Light InstallationPABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-1059443792796075262003-07-28T18:56:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.445-07:00
The Phoenix Bird Project
is founded on this premise:
Too many students of the Arts and Music, are NOT using technology to increase the scope of their participation in creative endeavors and/or in the production of their artistic expressions.
The primary purpose of this website is to address this by developing resources for the students themselves, as well as their teachers, and to generatePABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-903118822003-03-07T10:54:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.471-07:00
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"The End of the Beginning"
The Phoenix Bird when living, had no voice,
(Yet) when death approached, it's melody was heard;
And because the Bird, was left without a choice,
To live again, my eyes and ears could not abide the Bird's farewell
The end, in fire PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-901309122003-03-04T13:41:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.486-07:00
Sleep now in the fire.
- Rage Against The Machine
Topic:
A HANDHELD PROGRAM GUIDE FOR THE CONCERT HALL?
The classical music equivalent of opera supertitles and museum audioguides
The Concert Companion navigates audience members through a symphony performance. Created by Roland Valliere with software developed by Kinoma and Tribeworks, the PDA-based system receives information via wireless PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-866365392002-12-28T15:05:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.501-07:00
Life is one big road with lots of signs
So when you riding thru the ruts
Don't complicate your mind.
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.
Don't bury your thoughts.
Put your vision to reality, Yeah!
- BOB MARLEY -from the song "Wake Up and Live"
Topic:
NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Re-inventing the tools to create expressive sounds
Around 10 years ago, the innovative musician Yo-Yo Ma performedPABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-827023172002-10-08T12:41:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.515-07:00The idea is to produce things that are as strange and mysterious to you as the first music you ever heard.
- Brian Eno
"Variously labelled over his career either as a dilettante, pseudo-intellectual meddler in other people's work, or as a visionary artist and superhuman facilitator, Brian Eno eludes capture by remaining steps ahead of the men with the labels. His position in the culture of PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-825771272002-10-05T19:15:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.529-07:00If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have and my own preconceived, silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.
- John McLaughlin
Laetitia Sonami is a composer, PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-823823392002-10-01T14:10:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.543-07:00Through vibration comes motion. Through motion comes color. Through color comes tone.
- Pythagoras
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley
Topic:
KID 606
Intelligent Dance Music
Called IDM by those hipster kind of kids that play music remixes consisting of bleeps, bloops and machine hum, recorded and mastered to the hard drive on a PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-822488472002-09-28T15:29:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.563-07:00Music is the eye of the ear.
- Thomas Draxe
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-821609602002-09-26T13:28:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.576-07:00Without music life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The MacArthur Foundation Awards, commonly known as the "genius" grants --given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation-- are presented to men and women in the arts, sciences and academia on an annual basis. The award winners receive an annual check of $100,000 for five years, to be used however they want. One of this PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-821034842002-09-25T10:39:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.606-07:00Music is the universal language of mankind.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
- William Congreve
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
From the beginning, I have avoided categorizing The Phoenix Bird Symphony with any distinct label. I intend to produce it as recordedPABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-820005822002-09-23T10:01:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.638-07:00In art, truth and reality begin
when one no longer understands
what one is doing or what one knows,
and when there remains an energy
that is all the stronger
for being constrained,
controlled and compressed.
- Henri Matisse
In new media production as in all art, I find myself restructuring and reordering information to form a continuity of idea. The process of memory-retrieval, performed PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-819215882002-09-21T12:02:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.654-07:00If there was a prescription for "How to remain stressed out all of the time"...
it would be compounded of equal parts of:
- self-imposed personal standards as high as Mt. Everest
- daring to compare yourself to the great masters and their accomplishments
- merciless judgements of your own imperfections and mistakes
- assessing your value as a human being by prematurely forcasting the outcomePABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-819205822002-09-21T11:31:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.668-07:00The Great Instrument is uncompleted. The Great Tone has inaudible sound.
- Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
Topic:
WHAT MAKES A GREAT COMPOSER?
Under the most difficult circumstances for a creative musician, that of total deafness, Ludwig van Beethoven achieved more than any other composer in better, similar or worse circumstances.
The story of his life is one of great tragedy and mystery. His music is PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-818775932002-09-20T09:43:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.684-07:00Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan
You know what I really like about cyberspace? The rumors. Such as the recent so-called fact that the Vatican had been bought out by Microsoft.... One world, one operating system! ...from the The Nerve Bible performance, 1996
- Laurie Anderson
the First International "Performance Art" Superstar
PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-816830142002-09-16T11:36:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.701-07:00The creative act is not performed by the artist alone;
the spectator brings the work in contact with the
external world by deciphering and interpreting
its inner qualifications and thus adds
his contribution to the creative act.
- Marcel Duchamp
Topic:
THE PHOENIX BIRD REDEFINED
Descriptions of Compositional Thinking and Real-Time Performance
The Phoenix Bird was composed in 1977, and in PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-816032712002-09-14T12:25:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.714-07:00"I shall go forth, against all sorts of things, towards bright, strong and righteous aims, towards a genuine art that loves mankind, lives with his joys, his grief and his sufferings."
- Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky was one of the so-called "mighty five" composers that came together in St Petersburg in the 1860's to create music with a truly Russian voice which would speak in loud PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-814080742002-09-10T08:38:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.728-07:00What lies behind us
and what lies before us are tiny matters
when compared to what lies within us.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Joseph II — Holy Roman Emperor (1741 - 1790) "Too many notes."
Joseph's comments were to Mozart regarding his opera Die entfûhrung aus dem Serail [The Escape from the Seraglio]. According to Niemetschek's bio of "Woofie," Joseph was charmed by the stirring music, PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-813431302002-09-08T21:54:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.747-07:00"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
--Arthur C. Clarke
"Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-812866902002-09-07T12:30:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.764-07:00"If you can be free of conventions, that is extraordinary; if you intentionally value the unusual, that is not extraordinary but weird."
-(Huanchu Daoren, c.1600 trans. by Thomas Cleary)
PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-812706012002-09-06T23:55:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.787-07:00"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
- Pablo Picasso.
Pablo Picasso created paintings, sculptures, prints, and ceramics and is famous for his pioneering work in cubism. During his 75 year career, he continued his creative output at a prolific pace and with a vital energy more equivalent to today's accelerated technological and cultural changes, than to his own comtempory PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-812204642002-09-05T20:51:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.837-07:00"Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas."
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Arnold Schoenberg had considerable influence over the course of music in the 20th century, particularly through his development and promulgation of theories of composition in which unity in a work is provided by the use of a determined series, PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-811530772002-09-04T12:49:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.855-07:00The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma
-- like the days when everything used to sound like that.
Some people crave baseball -- I find this unfathomable --
but I can easily understand
why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon.
Information is not knowledge,
Knowledge is not wisdom,
Wisdom is not truth,
Truth is not beauty,
Beauty is not love,
Love PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-811029932002-09-03T12:34:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.874-07:00The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Claude Debussy, at the age of ten, was sent to the Conservatory in Paris to study piano, music theory, and composition. In his twenties, he won the Prix de Rome prize with his composition L'enfant prodigue. Debussy continued to compose and in 1894, he completed one of his most PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-810301222002-09-02T06:53:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.889-07:00Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
- Helmut Walcha
Memorizing all of Bach's music is so difficult that only a few musicians have ever done it. As for Helmut Walcha, it took about 15 years. What is extraordinary about Helmut, is that he did this as a blind person. His vision loss -caused by chronic keratitis- became total PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-809926732002-09-01T07:37:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.906-07:00Once upon a time
There was a little boy
And he went outside
- a Partchism
The musical ideas of Harry Partch (1901-1974), with his individualistic and innovative theories about microtonalities, natural acoustic resonance (just intonation) and expanded melodic and harmonic possibilities, included speech integrated with music. To perform his own music, he had to invent one-of-a-kind, hand-built PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-809623602002-08-31T10:32:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.925-07:00Definition of Music:
A complex organization of sounds that is set down by the composer, incorrectly interpreted by the conductor, who is ignored by the musicians, the result of which is misunderstood by the audience.; )
...in their playing you hear not only precision, color and balance, but thunder, lightning and the language of the heart."
Boston Globe critic description of a performance PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-809199092002-08-30T08:26:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.940-07:00Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
- Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland -the pioneer of "American" music- was a composer whose works ranged in style from jazz influenced to classical modernist. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, when Americans were rarely recognized as PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-808717292002-08-29T08:02:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.954-07:00"Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already."
- Gustav Mahler, (to Bruno Walter who had stopped to admire mountain scenery in rural Austria.)
The child's view of heaven, as described in the German folk-poem Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Magic Horn) was the inspiration for much of Mahler's work, culminating in his Fourth Symphony. Mahler originally set this poem to music as an PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-808599872002-08-28T23:26:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.966-07:00The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
- Igor Stravinsky
Born in Russia in 1882, Igor Stravinsky studied with Rimsky-Korsakov, and was influenced by Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Glazunov, Debussy and Dukas. This unusual mixture of influences lies behind The Firebird (1910), PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-808579962002-08-28T22:18:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.980-07:00"In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones-when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now-perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-807934442002-08-27T14:32:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:11.994-07:00In a study conducted by a team of researchers at MIT...
The Conductor's Jacket was used to acquire physiological data including respiration, heart rate, temperature, skin conductance, and electromyography, as well as body movements and hand gestures used by several professional conductors and musicians during rehearsals and performances. This project is intended to answer certain fundamental PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-807787582002-08-27T08:23:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.008-07:00"Contrary to the general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs!"
- Edgar Varese
Topic:
MUSIQUE CONCRETE
There are three categories of Electronic music:
- Musique concrete
- Synthesizer music
- Computer music
Music concrete involves using the found sounds in nature, distorted in various ways, to create music. When performed Live, it becomes an PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-807461822002-08-26T14:55:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.021-07:00The desired effect for immersive quality in the Ambience of the performance will be greatly ehanced through the use of properly cued, realistic sounds.
A common method of obtaining realistic sounds is to record or sample a real sound for later playback on demand under computer control. The rate at which sound is sampled is very important, and depending upon the application, very low rates can bePABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-807429912002-08-26T13:33:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.035-07:00In my musical background, I have previously been exposed to the Alexander Technique.
F. M. Alexander, the founder of the technique, was a performer who discovered the basic principles of human coordination and evolved his technique in the quest to improve his own performance. Interestingly, the basic principle holds for all vertebrates and has been documented by scientists working with various PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-807390422002-08-26T11:52:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.051-07:00
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-806629532002-08-24T12:42:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.071-07:00Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
--William Butler Yeats PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-806270682002-08-23T13:04:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.095-07:00I sometimes wish to be able to transcribe directly
the ideas in my head onto the recording medium.
Edgard Varese had much the same attitude, as shown here:
"I find myself frustrated at every moment by the poverty of the means of expression at my disposal. I myself would like, for expressing my personal conceptions, a completely new means of expression. A sound machine (and not a machine for PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-806254322002-08-23T12:20:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.107-07:00Ferruccio Busoni said:
"Every notation is, in itself, the transcription of an abstract idea.
The instant the pen seizes it, the idea loses its original form."
[ Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music, c. 1907] PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-806225232002-08-23T11:04:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.124-07:00 I’m such a workaholic that the only way I can even make friends with people is by interviewing them or spending time with people in working situations. It’s how I get to know somebody on the level that I might really be interested in knowing them. Even my dialogues or correspondence with friends in foreign countries usually happens just because I have something else to get accomplished and they PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-805873212002-08-22T15:24:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.139-07:00Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
--Katherine Anne Porter (1894-1980) US novelist, short-story writer PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-804861122002-08-20T11:50:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.157-07:00My research shows that world-wide folklore has many references to Birds, as protagonists and powerful beings...
The Legend: Many tales are told of Raven, who can be compared to Prometheus; both were credited with giving the power of fire to the people of the earth. The raven is said to have stolen the sun. The Raven is also known as a trickster that can change form to accomplish a task, in the PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-804765392002-08-20T07:52:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.175-07:00It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
--Eric AndersonPABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-804372542002-08-19T10:57:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.201-07:00The CAMERATA program at the University of Arizona has a published roster of professional degree students (including soloists and ensembles) that may be a resource for additional instrumental parts. I will get in touch with specific musicians and/or groups to enquire if they would be interested in performing in the Phoenix Bird Symphony. This has some exciting implications for the project!
PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-804363642002-08-19T10:36:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.248-07:00
The American Orff-Schulwerk Association is a professional organization of music and movement educators dedicated to the creative teaching approach developed by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman. They believe that learning about music - learning to sing and play, to hear and understand, to move and create - should be an active and joyful experience.
I am doing some research and attempting to get PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-804286772002-08-19T07:12:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:59:12.270-07:00I like this line by Samuel Johnson:
"The purpose of art is to help us better to enjoy our lives, or better to endure them." PABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712072.post-804164852002-08-18T22:15:00.000-07:002007-07-16T15:24:40.085-07:00Created by PABlo aka Paul Alan Bley___________ArtistAuthorComposerEntrepreneurInventorFuturistSculptorTechnologistCopyright 2002-2007 All Rights ReservedAll Wrongs ReversedPABlo Bley aka Paul Alan Bleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037525129585701911noreply@blogger.com0