Friday, August 30, 2019
We can control Social Networks, dixit Marshall McLuhan
M. McLuhan brings Jericho’s
Mediatic Walls Down
Marshall
McLuhan understood and explained that television was a new media that had no
equal because it required, requested, demanded from the audience instant
all-sensorial absolute "like" or "not like."
It has nothing to do with intellectual values, debate or mental arguments. It is only the reaction of all your senses at what yous ee, first and foremost, what you hear and what you feel. If you feel comfortable, you like it. You do not zap and you say it is genially true, no matter what is being said. Remember Hitler in Munich.
Zuckerberg understood this marvellously and he invented the Social Network, a new medium carried by a TV screen attached to a computer's Central Processing Unit and connected to the Internet. It gives the users the feeling of absolute freedom and it is entirely governed by what you see, what you like, what you do not like, what you hear from time to time.
Seeing is the utmost manipulation of one's mind because seeing has the capability of short-circuiting the other senses and particularly the sixcth sense of the Buddhists, the mind.
Then you do not think, you like; you do not ponder and weigh arguments, you like. And if you do not click "like" as expected, then you do not like, hence this is rejected from your data profile and the adverts of our Zuckerberg will be customised to your likes. And he will make money, a lot of money. You are the bait that attracts advertisers with your gullible "likes.".
The next stage came when Brexiters and Trump-supporters decide'd to use social networks to activate their campaigns. It worked marvellously and we know the mess that came out of it.
Signed August 30, 2019.
Payday is close. But who will pay the bill? Ask Trump and Boris Johnson. They have a fair idea that they will not personally pay it.
It has nothing to do with intellectual values, debate or mental arguments. It is only the reaction of all your senses at what yous ee, first and foremost, what you hear and what you feel. If you feel comfortable, you like it. You do not zap and you say it is genially true, no matter what is being said. Remember Hitler in Munich.
Zuckerberg understood this marvellously and he invented the Social Network, a new medium carried by a TV screen attached to a computer's Central Processing Unit and connected to the Internet. It gives the users the feeling of absolute freedom and it is entirely governed by what you see, what you like, what you do not like, what you hear from time to time.
Seeing is the utmost manipulation of one's mind because seeing has the capability of short-circuiting the other senses and particularly the sixcth sense of the Buddhists, the mind.
Then you do not think, you like; you do not ponder and weigh arguments, you like. And if you do not click "like" as expected, then you do not like, hence this is rejected from your data profile and the adverts of our Zuckerberg will be customised to your likes. And he will make money, a lot of money. You are the bait that attracts advertisers with your gullible "likes.".
The next stage came when Brexiters and Trump-supporters decide'd to use social networks to activate their campaigns. It worked marvellously and we know the mess that came out of it.
Signed August 30, 2019.
Payday is close. But who will pay the bill? Ask Trump and Boris Johnson. They have a fair idea that they will not personally pay it.
Discussion Request
It
is high time we go back to Marshall McLuhan and understand he has seen an
essential element about television and it is this very element that is used by
politicians after the inventors of social networks to marshall their campaigns.
This main quality is "all-sensorial agreement." It has become instant
"like" on Facebook, the very-well-named: you judge of things only on
the face you can get of them in a railways or bus station photo machine that
has forgotten its Artificial Intelligence at home, the home of dumb machines.
What
do you think we can do with these media and social networks since they are here
to stay, with a selection that will come with taxes and back payments in all
the countries in the world and will only keep three or four super-powers in
mass-social-communication?
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: Medium.com
Sunday, August 25, 2019
Justin Macron vs Emmanuel Trudeau
Global English Self Learning
GLOBAL
ENGLISH COMMUNICATION
As
Good As Emmanuel Macron Not Too Far From Justin Trudeau.
In Biarritz, Some of the most important people of the West - and exclusively the West - without India, China, Russia, and many other BRICS or not-BRICS - the most common language is English spoken by them all. French has only two fans, Macron and Trudeau and both can be fluent in English, Trudeau slightly more. Without English, the west is a jungle.
In the East, Asia, Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, and many others, all absent from Biarritz because not invited, without English life is just hell on earth.
So Start learning English, persevere and find the proper guide in that adventure. Many tools are available or suggested in the various sites contained in these pages.
Be curious and creative!
In Biarritz, Some of the most important people of the West - and exclusively the West - without India, China, Russia, and many other BRICS or not-BRICS - the most common language is English spoken by them all. French has only two fans, Macron and Trudeau and both can be fluent in English, Trudeau slightly more. Without English, the west is a jungle.
In the East, Asia, Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, and many others, all absent from Biarritz because not invited, without English life is just hell on earth.
So Start learning English, persevere and find the proper guide in that adventure. Many tools are available or suggested in the various sites contained in these pages.
Be curious and creative!
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: Medium.com
Friday, August 23, 2019
Sustainable Music = Durable Life
Music Will Survive You
Music Never Ends
Revisited
Music is an adventure. It can choke your
life out of touch with the world. It can build around you and in your mind a
world that is so real you may even forget to breathe. And music is at its best
when voices tell a story haunted by the music itself. I even think that ballet
is even more powerful since it offers the audience the bodies of the dancers
for this audience to admire them, dream of them, desire them within the shrine
of the dramatic story told by the voices and wrapped up in the music itself.
And a silence comes in this sound world. The voices just suspend their gliding in the air and the dancers freeze in suspended movement. In such an instant of total suspension the mind, the soul, the senses, all are thrilled into admiration and ecstasy. And the silence comes to an end. Bliss comes back. Blessed be the music that never ends and only suspends its flight for one beat or half a beat.
In the following numerous pages, whose number grows every quarter or so and will go on growing forever, or at least till death us parts, the newer pages are often at the top and open the collection. And this time it is John Adams and his operas that give the first opening salvo. More will come later. I am on Stravinsky right now. That will come later and I guess I could many older episodes. And enjoy the numerous pictures of this Musical Heaven.
I can’t resist and give the reference to the book Ivan Eve and I have published together on Handel’s Agrippina and countertenors in opera. That should be the appetizer. Just enjoy it intensely.
Olliergues August 23, 2019
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
And a silence comes in this sound world. The voices just suspend their gliding in the air and the dancers freeze in suspended movement. In such an instant of total suspension the mind, the soul, the senses, all are thrilled into admiration and ecstasy. And the silence comes to an end. Bliss comes back. Blessed be the music that never ends and only suspends its flight for one beat or half a beat.
In the following numerous pages, whose number grows every quarter or so and will go on growing forever, or at least till death us parts, the newer pages are often at the top and open the collection. And this time it is John Adams and his operas that give the first opening salvo. More will come later. I am on Stravinsky right now. That will come later and I guess I could many older episodes. And enjoy the numerous pictures of this Musical Heaven.
I can’t resist and give the reference to the book Ivan Eve and I have published together on Handel’s Agrippina and countertenors in opera. That should be the appetizer. Just enjoy it intensely.
Olliergues August 23, 2019
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
TABLE OF CONTENTS
71 pages –
15,000 words
ONE
HANDEL'S AGRIPPINA MODERN INTERPRETATIONS AND THE ROLE OF COUNTERTENORS
[Format Kindle]
TWO
Beautiful Music is Spiritual and Prophetic
You cannot chain
John Adams to his chair 6 John ADAMS and the Opera
A retrospective of all operas composed and produced by
John Adams both on stage or on screen.
1- Monday, August 25, 2014, You must be a fool to
believe you are making history
JOHN ADAMS –
ELLIE CAULKINS OPERA HOUSE – DENVER, COLORADO – MARIN ALSOP – COLORADO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA – COLORADO OPERA CHORUS – 2008 – NIXON
IN CHINA – 1987
2- Friday, August 29, 2014, It's a shame Mao is
depicted as an invalid sex-obsessed old
ranter and raver
JOHN ADAMS –
ALICE GOODMAN – PETER SELLARS – THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA, CHORUS, AND BALLET – JOHN ADAMS conducting –
FEBRUARY 12, 2011 live capture – 2012 DVD BLU-RAY DISC – NIXON IN CHINA – ISBN 075597960884
3- Saturday, September 06, 2014, Chinese Communism has
deep roots in rural class struggle
XIE JIN – THE RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN – 1961
4- Saturday, September 06, 2014, This ballet was quite
ahead of its time and has become a Chinese classic
Wangchun Shi – Hongwei Dai –
THE RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN – 1970
5- Wednesday, September 24, 2014, Neither anti-Semitic nor
pro-Palestinian
JOHN ADAMS – THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER – ORCHESTRA OF
THE OPÉRA DE LYON – 1991 – ELEKTRA NONESUCH – 1992
6- Friday, September 26, 2014, This film betrays the
opera with the benediction of the composer
JOHN ADAMS – THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER
– LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – CONDUCTED BY JOHN ADAMS – DIRECTED BY
PENNY WOOLCOCK – 2003 – DVD
7- Thursday, August 28, 2014, A video opera that tells us a quite famous story: Jesus is being reborn
JOHN ADAMS –
KENT NAGANO – PETER SELLARS– DEUTSCHES SYMPHONIE-ORCHESTER BERLIN – EL NINO – THÉÂTRE MUSICAL DE
PARIS-CHÂTELET – PREMIERED DECEMBER 2000 – DVD 2001
8- Friday, August 22, 2014, 9/11 will always be
subliminally engraved in our memories, as long as the video of the event can be
seen
JOHN ADAMS
– NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC – LORIN MAAZEL, CONDUCTOR – ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS – 2002
9- Thursday,
August 21, 2014, A miracle of
religious and cultural mixing
JOHN ADAMS – A FLOWERING TREE
– LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – SCHOLA CANTORUM VENEZUELA –
2006
10- Friday, September 05, 2014, Most symbolical and
pessimistic tale about war and no peace
JOHN ADAMS – DOCTOR ATOMIC – SAN
FRANCISCO – OCTOBER 1st 2005 – DE NEDERLANDSE OPERA – 2007
11- Tuesday, August 05, 2014, This Passion is talking
to us in the modern world
JOHN ADAMS – THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY
– 2012 – GUSTAVO DUDAMEL – LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC & LOS ANGELES CHORALE –
2014
THREE-A
MUSIC – MUSICA – MUSIQUE – MUSIK
A universal
language
BENJAMIN BRITTEN’S
OPERAS
THREE-B
Benjamin BRITTEN @ Théâtres du Monde n° 27 (2017)
http://www.theatresdumonde.com/mn_revue.html
THREE-C
Britten's Operas Survival Psychopomp Death
0. Introduction p.
2
1. Paul Bunyan 1941-1976 p.
5
2. Peter Grimes 1945 p.
13
3. Rape of Lucretia 1946 p.
18
4. Albert Herring 1947 p.
23
5. Saint Nicolas 1948 p.
30
6. The Little Sweep 1949 p.
33
7. Billy Budd 1951 p.
39
8. Canticle II: Abraham
and Isaac 1952 p.
43
9. Gloriana 1953 p.
45
10. Turn of the Screw 1954 p.
51
11. Prince of Pagodas 1957 p.
74
12. Noye’s Fludde 1958 p.
75
13. Midsummer Night’s
Dream 1960 p.
79
14. War Requiem 1962 p.
92
15. Curlew River 1964 p.
104
16. Burning Fiery Furnace
1966 p.
109
17. The Golden Vanity 1966 p.
119
18. Prodigal Son 1968 p.
120
19. The Children’s Crusade
1969 p.
124
20. Owen Wingrave 1970 p.
126
21. Death in Venice 1973 p.
136
FOUR
Happy the one who can leave in due
time
FIVE
Yvan, Lionel, Stéphane Belmondo
Yusef Lateef
Un jazz de souffrance dans
un écrin méditerranéen (5 critiques en français)
Suffering, Morbid, Islamic,
Mediterranean Jazz (1 critique en anglais)
Intro in
English
6 recent CDs
Belmondo's, brothers, sons and father, and Yusef Lateef
&
1- LIONEL BELMONDO – L’HYMNE AU SOLEIL – CLAIR OBSCUR – 2011
2- LIONEL BELMONDO – HYMNE AU SOLEIL – CHŒUR NATIONAL DE LETTONIE –
CLAIRIÈRES DANS LE CIEL - 2011
3- LIONEL
BELMONDO TRIO – EUROPEAN STANDARDS - 2012
4- LIONEL &
STÉPHANE BELMONDO –YUSEF LATEEF – INFLUENCE - 2005
5- STEPHANE
BELMONDO – THE SAME AS IT NEVER WAS BEFORE - 2011
6- BELMONDO
FAMILY SEXTET – MEDITERRANEAN SOUND – 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Radio Craponne sur YouTube
LOUPS GAROUS ET
VAMPIRES
Les
chroniques quotidiennes que l'on obtient sur tous les médias et en particulier
sur les réseaux sociaux ne sont que des histoires de violences, de tueries, de
guerres, de tout ce que vous pouvez imaginer qui met en péril la vie des
autres, toujours des autres bien sûr, et cela vise à vous faire peur.
Pourquoi vous faire peur?
Mais pour une simple raison. L''ordre établi prospère quand la peur règne sur tous les horizons. Est-ce à dire que la littérature d'horreur, la littérature fantastique, la littérature du crime et pretendûment policière, y compris quand ils passent sur les médias télévisuels ou internet, ne sont que des complices de l'ordre établi qui produit la violence, la haine, le racisme et la guerre?
J'en ai bien peur, surtout quand ils prétendent ne pas faire de politique. Vous savez: "Moi, ni républicain, ni démocrate, ni extrême de quoi que ce soit, simplement pour le respect pour chacun d'entre nous de notre territoire, de notre culture, de nos traditions, car après tout, nous sommes tous ici des descendants des Gaulois Caucasiens Blancs Chrétiens Indo-Européens grands amateurs de cochon, de vin et de maisons closes, qui d'ailleurs devraient être largement ouvertes pour permettre la chasse au plaisir tous les jours et toutes les nuits., sans le moindre contrôle pour l'obtention des armes nécessaires à ces plaisirs."
Laissez-les jouir en paix!
Pourquoi vous faire peur?
Mais pour une simple raison. L''ordre établi prospère quand la peur règne sur tous les horizons. Est-ce à dire que la littérature d'horreur, la littérature fantastique, la littérature du crime et pretendûment policière, y compris quand ils passent sur les médias télévisuels ou internet, ne sont que des complices de l'ordre établi qui produit la violence, la haine, le racisme et la guerre?
J'en ai bien peur, surtout quand ils prétendent ne pas faire de politique. Vous savez: "Moi, ni républicain, ni démocrate, ni extrême de quoi que ce soit, simplement pour le respect pour chacun d'entre nous de notre territoire, de notre culture, de nos traditions, car après tout, nous sommes tous ici des descendants des Gaulois Caucasiens Blancs Chrétiens Indo-Européens grands amateurs de cochon, de vin et de maisons closes, qui d'ailleurs devraient être largement ouvertes pour permettre la chasse au plaisir tous les jours et toutes les nuits., sans le moindre contrôle pour l'obtention des armes nécessaires à ces plaisirs."
Laissez-les jouir en paix!
Radio Craponne 1998-1999
La Chaise-Dieu 3015
Science fiction musicale de Jacques
Coulardeau
en quatre parties
© 2018 pour la présente vidéo
Mise en forme en 2019 technique et
grapphique par Annnunzio Coulardeau
sur des oeuvres plastiques originales
propres.
Mise en voix et mise en forme technique
audio par Jacques Coulardeau et Christophe Semez en 1998-99 pour diffusion
différée sur Radio Craponne, Craponne, Haute Loire
LA CHAISE-DIEU 3015
Première partie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn_s35jZp8
Deuxième partie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqVjOXLO9IU
Troisième partie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOwT8uzVq5w
Quatrième partie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS5sGhl6kJY&t=13s
RADIO
CRAPONNE 1998-1999
LES
RAILS DE L’ENFER
Science fiction musicale de Jacques
Coulardeau
en quatre parties
© 2018 pour la présente vidéo
Mise en forme en 2019 technique et
grapphique par Annnunzio Coulardeau
sur des oeuvres plastiques originales
propres.
Mise en voix et mise en forme technique
audio par Jacques Coulardeau et Christophe Semez en 1998-99 pour diffusion
différée sur Radio Craponne, Craponne, Haute Loire
LES
RAILS DE L’ENFER
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Jacques Coulardeau-Ivan Eve-&-Serban Enache
Ranting and Panting in a Raving
World
THE RANTING BEAUTY OF RAVING MAD
We, Ivan and I, are so deeply dipped into Asian reality and the future of this planet that after a while we do not know what is happening around us, if some in this world are dumb enough to set the world afire just for the privilege of pretending they will never accept to become number two, or even number three within five to ten years. The same are ready to do the same thing just to keep their white supremacy in their own countries where ethnic and religious minorities are little by little crawling up the social ladder and becoming the global majority in these western havens of all kinds of fundamentalist, bigot, racist, sexist extremists who are just frightened by the perspective of having to share power with people of color or Muslims.
So we live divided between the beauty of ranting and imagining what the world may become tomorrow and the madness of raving what those who are on the decline may cause to that world tomorrow morning after a night of sleepless twitting.
One has the justified right to be afraid.
One has the right and the duty to dream.
One has the right to believe in love and happiness.
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU, Olliergues October 18, 2018
Thursday, August 15, 2019
The Mayan tragedy comes to a rebirth
Mayas: War, Sacrifice,
Renascence, Drama
The
Mayas were one great civilization in America before the arrival of the
Spaniards. These Conquistadores brought smallpox first, then military conquest,
then Christianity. That meant the wiping out of an enormous proportion of the
population; the burning of thousands of books, known as codices, and only four
survived; and finally the control, management and banning of their traditional
oral culture.
In spite of that tyrannical violence, and it happened in something like fifty years, the Mayas resisted in all possible ways and first of all culturally. They kept their languages, their music, and their musical instruments. They kept their mythological literature and wrote it down from memory. They kept their dramatic tradition but unluckily only a handful of plays were transcribed from memory and have survived in versions more or less adapted to Christianity, hence censored and deeply modified.
Rabinal Achi is one of them and it is being produced and played in Maya-land. Yet the Mayas still have to face tremendous discrimination and even persecution. They used to have an escape toward the USA. But Trump has seen to its not being possible anymore. And yet they do not practice human sacrifice anymore. But That's how Trump and the white supremacists still see them.
Enjoy and meditate. More is to come.
In spite of that tyrannical violence, and it happened in something like fifty years, the Mayas resisted in all possible ways and first of all culturally. They kept their languages, their music, and their musical instruments. They kept their mythological literature and wrote it down from memory. They kept their dramatic tradition but unluckily only a handful of plays were transcribed from memory and have survived in versions more or less adapted to Christianity, hence censored and deeply modified.
Rabinal Achi is one of them and it is being produced and played in Maya-land. Yet the Mayas still have to face tremendous discrimination and even persecution. They used to have an escape toward the USA. But Trump has seen to its not being possible anymore. And yet they do not practice human sacrifice anymore. But That's how Trump and the white supremacists still see them.
Enjoy and meditate. More is to come.
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: Medium.com
Trece-un nouraș pe sus / Little cloud passing by
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Grasp It All and lose your trail
Jean Clottes, Chauvet and
Paleolithic Shamanism
Working
on Jean Clottes is a great pleasure because of his personal views on
Paleolithic art in Sout-West Europe (France, Spain, and Portugal mainly) and in
this book written and published after forty years of work in the field Jean
Clottes tries to summarize his own life in archaeology. Unluckily he does not
open up the necessary doors that could bring in what has been done since the
year 2000, which he mostly ignores because he has not been in the field then
and he moved in his life too much as an archaeological tourist in many sites
all over the world that all have cave art or rock art, including some that have
not been yet dated like Baja California in Mexico. We would criticize
students if they did that under our guidance because that is not a good method.
Things were different before and after the peak of the glaciation, just for one
remark. So projecting back retrospectively present time shamanism in Southern
Africa onto this Paleolithic art, before the peak and after the peak of the Ice
Age equally is very debatable.
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: Medium.com
