Not A Swirling Vortex
But who am I fooling? I am not a swirling vortex of energy right now. My motivation is close to zero, and the following picture captures my present state almost to perfection. Yes, even the light and the atmospheric haze are part of it:
I have concluded that my best plan is to take a hiatus like I did in late 2008.
Furthermore, my focus is shifting away from blogging and toward You-Tubing. At first, my YouTube channel was a side project. But now it is taking on a life of its own (281 subscribers currently), and the blog is becoming. . . well, a backwater. (See the picture above).
So. . I will not be blogging much for a while. However, I will put energy into YouTube sermons, and every time I post one, I will publish the text version here.
But mostly, I will be reading, studying and thinking a lot.
Commenting will remain open, and I will check the e-mail as always.
I'm plumb tuckered, and I'm outta here. For a while, anyways.
Later.
~Fidelbogen~
posted by Fidelbogen at 6:27 PM
13 Comments:
Rest well, and the vineyard will surely be worked while you do.
@Anon: I thank you kindly.
@Scarecrow, if you are reading this:
How do ya like that musical selection; ain't it a gem? It's a tone poem as good as "Flight of the Bumblebee", and ought to be just as famous. -- Telemann lived in the early 1700s, but he was musically way ahead of his time at times. There was nothing that man couldn't do with a tune!
But anyways. . . doncha think "Tourbillon" would make a great audio track for a Scarecrow video?
("Tourbillon" means whirlpool or whirlwind.)
Damn! Sounds exactly like rushing, swirling water.
It has a roar, and a reverb.
If you like the way music shows forth emotions, you should read Susanne K. Langer's chapter in 'Philosophy In A New Key'. Here is what a critic wrote about her piece:
http://www.anthonyflood.com/gardnerlanger.htm
[quote] But amid these somewhat disappointing chapters stands one that has exerted a tremendous influence on many individuals: Langer’s account of the significance of music. Langer rightly sensed that music was a symbolic system but that it did not directly communicate either reference (for example, the sound of waves) or feelings (for example, the composer’s own sense of happiness or anger). She proposed that what music presented was the “forms of feelings”—the tensions, ambiguities, contrasts, and conflicts that permeate our feeling life but do not lend themselves to description in words or logical formulas. The composer presents in spaced tones his knowledge of the whole of human feeling life, and such nonarticulate symbols constitute the appeal and mystery of music. In a passage that conveys the seductive appeal as well as the maddening ambiguity of her prose, the philosopher suggests:
[Langer]The real power of music lies in the fact that it can be “true” to the life of feeling in a way that language cannot; for its significant forms have that ambivalence of content which words cannot have. . . . Music is revealing, where words are obscuring, because it can have not only a content, but a transient play of contents. It can articulate feelings without becoming wedded to them. The assignment of meanings is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking. The imagination that responds to music is personal and associative and logical, tinged with affect, tinged with bodily rhythm, tinged with dream, but concerned with a wealth of formulations for its wealth of wordless knowledge, its whole knowledge of emotional and organic experience, of vital impulse, balance, conflict, the ways of living and dying and feeling. Because no assignment of meaning is conventional, none is permanent beyond the sound that passes; yet the brief association was a flash of understanding. The lasting effect is, like the first effect of speech on the development of the mind, to make things conceivable rather than to store up propositions. (pp. 206-207)[Langer finish]
Taking music as the prototype of the arts, Langer suggested that this knowledge of feeling life constitutes the perennial attraction of artistic symbols; herein lie the reasons we treasure those statements and works that to the logical empiricist have no meaning at all.[Finish quote].
I tried to read the rest of Langer's writings and found them disappointing. But the above insight was right on.
Anon- Dionysus
@Anon-Dionysus:
I thank you for sharing that passage, 'twas most illuminating, and I'll look up Langer's book next time I am near a public library!
I have always been a strong believer in the mystic power of music to connect us to a higher realm -- or, unfortunately depending on the case -- trap us in a lower realm.
A power to be tapped, in any event.
Fidelbogen
my good man you write well and I frequently visit your blog for respite from the devilry that surrounds me and many ordinary men these days.
"My motivation is close to zero, and the following picture captures my present state almost to perfection. Yes, even the light and the atmospheric haze "
I feel the same way just trying to survive, having experienced only injustice upon injustice insult upon insult. Now survivng on little or nothing.
Take a well earned rest meditate and God Bless you sir. As your words helped this emabattled soul.
Truth liberates and after this sorry affair God grant all of us ghosting men may merrily meet in heaven or some earthly precursor to heaven!!!Many blessing on all your endeavours to create truth well told.
@Anon:
Your words do me honor, and I am glad that I can be of help in my modest way.
Speaking of lowered motivation, here's a utube video on depression- things are suggested here about depression that break all the usual cliches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcnExcHX2S0
I shall miss you my friend. Take a good rest. Get strong and come back fighting once the seeds of inspiration have had time to grow in your fertile and good mind. Better to rest than to burn out.
I shall look for your return because I value your mind and your reasoning.
@George:
I might be back sooner than you think. A long article and YouTube are slated for completion in the near future.
@Fidelbogen
That's good to hear.
@Fidelbogen:
I just bastardized a telemann musical.
So, I'll take a look into this vortex thing you mention...
Also, If you are interested, I have made a program that "render's ones voice"...
I have several permutations, balls connected with lightning (the lightning zaps more brightly between the balls as the voice is louder), a spike that grows larger as the voice is louder, many others...
Sorry it took me so long to get around to reading the comments here.
I am anxious to do another animusic style video - just pondering a song to use...
@Crowe: Howzabout a link to that thing you "bastardized"? ;)
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