Friday, April 23, 2004

In the Sun It's just a flower in the sun. I don't know how this plant hangs on - it never gets any water - but it keeps on blooming, year after year after year after year aft ... [101-365] 6:53:02 PM

OL Spotting: The Acoustic Storm with Jeff Parets Ottmar Liebert and Carlos Santana's recording of Samba Pa Ti was played last week on The Acoustic Storm, show number 286. The song appears on the album Solo Para Ti. The Acoustic Storm Radio Program is moving across the country. WWUZ-FM in Richmond-Fredericksburg, Virginia is on The Acoustic Storm Radio Network. Classic Rock 96.9 will be airing the show Sunday mornings from 7-10 (EST). KIHT (Classic Hits, K-HITS 96) runs The Acoustic Storm every Sunday evening in St. Louis from 8-10 CST. As a bonus, K-HITS streams live on the web at http://www.k-hits.com. Of course, Phoenix listeners can listen to The Acoustic Storm on KSLX (100.7) Sunday mornings from 7-10. Visit the Acoustic Storm official website at http://www.AcousticStorm.com 6:48:30 PM

Phoenix Microcinema - No Festival Required Part 17 No Festival Required Part 17. I've completed another poster for No Festival Required. This one made me wish I could see the movies these stills come from before I need to design the poster. There is always an advantage to not seeing it: I... [Fresh News] 6:25:13 PM

Creative Collective, From Ottmar Liebert's Weblog Creative Collective. What if you take your creative process and move it beyond your brain and into the collective. That collective experience that so defines a particular time and culture and leaves its imprint in all music from such an era is present in so much great music. I suspect that once one taps into that source it can be explored and expressed in so many different ways. I don't understand the brain, I do not understand the higher levels, but we can still experience those levels and enjoys the fruits that it may offer. The brain must be a silent motor that takes us into deep thought without thinking. - Fred ? 4/22/04; 10:40:21 PM I believe William Burroughs said once that an idea, any idea, doesn't belong to a person, but to a time period. There are many good arguments that can be made for this theory, one of them being Patent filings. People in different parts of the world often made similar inventions within a relatively small time-frame. Some of those inventions were more successful than others, but the basic idea seemed to knock on many people's door. I believe this is true for the electric light bulb, the typewriter and many other inventions. Of course, the same is also true for musical ideas and concepts. I had proof of that a few years ago in Singapore, where I had been flown to record with an Asian percussionist. I found that the Indian percussionist, the Chinese A+R person, the Japanese engineer and I all shared a similar vision of world music. That was a powerful experience. I wrote about musicians being the canaries in the mine-shaft recently, because artists can anticipate many changes about to happen in Science or even in society in general...if musicians from different continents can make MUSIC together, then eventually all peoples will be able to communicate... I have always thought that there is a curve to all music...if the curve is too far ahead of society you are considered a crackpot and too far out and few will want to listen to you. If the curve of your music is behind the curve of society you are yesterday's news, and in my opinion the place you want to be is just slightly ahead of the curve. This way you are doing something that is different and stands out, but it isn't too different... Until NF, my music was always slightly too far out, but with NF I unconsciously got it right. I say unconsciously because it seems to me that one cannot plan this stuff...you just have to trust your muse.... [Ottmar Liebert] 6:13:39 PM