Category: Research
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How to keep track of my artistic research?
Since I started working with music as an ecosystem, I ran into a problem: How can I keep track of all the different variations/spinoffs/mutations? I needed a kind of coding system, and after some thought, I came up with the following. Color codes as a naming system The thought of giving the improvisations a number…
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Music as an ecosystem?
What happens if we create and experience music as a kind of ecosystem? Improvising on the piano, using what I would call intuitive intelligence, I am developing a method for using my body, hands, arms, and mind to create a kind of sound ecosystem. This is how this improvisation came into existence: Next step is…
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Homemade instruments, inequality and new worlds
Siloé, a culturally rich but dangerous neighborhood in Cali, Colombia, hosts musician Moíses Zamora Mesu’s project, Los Tambores de Siloé. He teaches local children to play music using homemade instruments, fostering skills and community. This initiative offers an alternative to violence, striving to transform lives within a challenging environment.
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Autism is an environmentalism
While reading and summarizing Descola’s giant work Beyond nature and culture, I have been ‘side-reading’ some stuff about autism. Reading the book Women from another planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism has made me think some additional thoughts to my reading of Descola. Women from another planet? is a book, collectively written by a group…
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On being an independent researcher
Being an independent researcher presents significant challenges such as time constraints and limited access to resources. However, it allows for freedom from the politicized nature of mainstream academia. This independence fosters critical thinking and supports those marginalized by conventional educational environments, enabling empowering and innovative approaches to research.
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Is Spinoza an analogist, naturalist or … animist? – A pocket memo…
As a part of my ‘pocket research design 2‘, I am reading Descola’s Beyond Nature and Culture (see my selective pocket summary in progress here). While reading, ideas for my coming synthesis/pocket essay are beginning to condensate in my brain. Descola is a structuralist, (see my discussion here) and in order to take advantage of…
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Reading Descola – a doubtful pitstop…. (memo)
As I have promised (myself) in my second pocket research design, I am reading French Anthropologist Philippe Descola’s book “Beyond Nature and Culture”, while writing a ‘selective pocket summary’ here. And while reading: thinking… I am attacking Descola’s mammoth work from various angles at the time. I am reading it as a pdf, in English…
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Pocket research design 2: Pre-modern forager societies vs Spinoza’s polis. A model for a more sustainable way of life in our time?
As a part of my ‘pocket research program’, titled “Can we reason with nature?”, this is my second pocket research design. Here, I would like to follow up on a point, that Australian professor in environmental philosophy Freya Mathews raises in her article “Towards a Deeper Philosophy of Biomimicry” (read my pocket summary here): “The outlines…
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Will knowing nature make us better humans? Pocket research design 1
This is a ‘pocket research design’, where I outline the question whether knowing nature will make humans treat each other and our surroundings better.
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On my ‘pocket research method’ and hamster wheels
Since my life is pretty much a hamster wheel, and my time for working on getting my ideas in order is limited to the two times 1 hour commuting time I have to my job, daily, there is a limit as to how thoroughly I can work on these ideas. I therefore have to find…
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