Thus Spoke

Glen River

Thus Spoke River

Quotations

"You can not go to the snake that bit you for a cure to the venom."

" The Seventh Discipline is a stage of learning based on compariative studies. "

"Stillness is not absence or nothingness. It is a balence of energies."

" The foundation of interdisciplinary studies is arriving at universal dynamics sustained by cross-referencing."

" A centered awareness moving freely across disciplines is the keystone of the mature interdisciplinary. The ability to zoom into specifics of a unfamiliar discipline and quickly orient an organizational overview is the flower in the interdisciplinary garden."

"Any path, whether electronic, legal, logical, or theoretical, is defined by causal impetus, environmental regulation, and completion of cycle. "

"The insights necessary to create a path, or alter a path, spring from the analytic process. Conceptual organization combined with advanced discipline knowledge and the skills to gather critical application information, are key to successful analysis. "

" As most obviously exemplified by Leonardo Da Vinci, art and science are bound from the core of discovering existence. "

"Methods and materials for the artist are the science in the discipline of painting. "

"Physical applications, intellectual organization, and theory are documented by many authors, including; Ralph Mayer 1957, Sir Charls Lock Eastlake 1869, and Cennino Cennini published in 1400, (The Artist's Handbook)"

"As literature, art enters the domains of documentary, theology, psychology, symbolic studies, and human history."

" While periodic trends may produce artists specializing in commercial applications, the master artist continues the profound investigation of our existence. "

" The digital domain as new media is another chapter in the science of art. The human scale migrating into a newly defined universe continues the marriage of art and science."

" Music as performance is the discipline of the musician. Music as original creation is the role of the composer. "

" The tradition of crossing historic borders are widely accepted in contemporary music. "

" The quality of high esthetics remains a personal definition. "

" Mathematics is the foundation for organizing time in both composition and performance. "

" Musicians sometimes refer to the science and art of performance as "chops and groove." "Chops" refer to degree of expert skills, and "groove" refer to attainment of poetic spirit. "

" Composition depends on knowledge, organization, and spirit. "

"Just as I cross borders in disciplines, I also cross genres in music."

" The advancements of technology has made music a leader in the migration to the computer environment. "

" Tools such as MIDI instruments, synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, and multi-track recording bridge the gap between art and science. "

"A good metaphor will maintain it's meaning in variable environments. "

" Telling a story is the writers craft. Evoking a primal response is the poets craft. In both, arriving at an essential center is the kernel necessary for the work to unfold. "

" As in other disciplines my way in writing is in multiple genres. Action-adventure, science-fiction, murder mystery, allegorical fantasy, non-fiction, memoir, plays, movie scripts, and the forever flexible poetry. "

" Everyone knows that movie making is for an audience. Not when you strap a camera on a rover and send it to Mars. That is pure research movie making. "

"My movie process is closer to exploratory discovery. I have made many movies which fit normal definitions, however with few exceptions they were part of a larger process of art investigation. "

" Many "Documentaries" as interviews with artists are actually one conversation crossing over a group of artists. "

" In exploratory music, systems are basic to the creative process. "

"Sound At The Mountain" was a project building a multiplex voice. I chained off a Fender Stratocaster with a MIDI converter to Arp Avatar, Rolland GR 300, Specter 360, 3 Oberhime expander modules, Minimoog, echoplex, split guitar signals via direct box, to many effects processors and used 4 Rolland 6 channel mixers to sub mix and bus to a master mixer output to active parametric 3 way crossover to BGW Try-Amping to 2 Cerwin-Vega big speakers. I played with various configurations for a few months. "

" From the beginning of enjoying music and art, it was obvious I was not going to join anybodies army. The idea of upholding and defending a genre to the exclusion of all others seemed ridiculous. "

" From Gerardus Mercator, Hermeneutics, and universal physics came the obvervation of the sphere in spirol-orbital path in time as the organisational basis of existence. "

" The concept of spherical thinking accepts complexity as a necessary process to 'Make the world look right.' "

" Similar to the Mercator Projection a process of assignment of relative values is a starting point in spherical thinking. "

" By expanding a sphere to include a greater context often predicts with greater accuracy the outcome of actions. "

" A basic question in adding a spherical context is what is the polar opposite of what we are looking at? "

" Cross disciplinary explorations not only describe context of individuality but also indicate patters of universal constants which replicate themselves in localized context. "