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Sustainable economical order

What should be done to save the planet : If the present number of Earths population is preserved and is reduced only by the means of birth controll, then:

• Birthgiving is licenced. To enhance quality of population , genetically or socially unfit homes will be denied offspring. So that several birth licences can be allowed to families of quality.
• Energy production must be drastically reduced. Electricity is allowed only for the most necessary lighting and communications.
• Food: Hunting is made more efficient. Human diet will include rats and invertebrate animals. Agriculture moves to small un-mechanized units. All human manure is used as fertilizer.
• Traffic is mostly done with bicycles and rowing boats. Private cars are confiscated. Long-distance travel is done with sparse mass transport. Trees will be planted on most roads.
• Foreign affairs: All mass immigration and most of import-export trade must stop. Cross-border travel is allowed only for small numbers of diplomats and correspondents.
• Business will mostly end . Manufacture is allowed only for well argumented needs. All major manufacturing capacity is state owned. Products will be durable and last for generations.
• Science and schooling: Education will concentrate on practical skills. All competition is rooted out. Technological research is reduced to extreme minimum. But every child will learn how to clean a fish in a way that only the big shiny bones are left over.

Basil Kirchin must have realised early on that the sounds within sounds are the sounds that resoundingly sound sound. But then again, he was a virtuosic drummer.

Here, in his own words, he describes his 1973 record Quantum:

_IF SOMEONE COMES AND ASKS YOU TO WRITE ABOUT A MANNED TRIP TO MARS, OUT OF THE ALMOST INFINITE AMOUNT OF DIFFERENT AREAS AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS, HOW ON EARTH DOES ONE SORT OUT WHICH TO WRITE ABOUT...ANY ONE OF THEM WOULD NEED PAGES..."QUANTUM" PRESENTS THE SAME PROBLEM, BUT, I SUDDENLY CAUGHT MYSELF THINKING HOW NICE IT WOULD BE IF INSTEAD OF GETTING HUNG UP WITH THE "A C T U A L I T Y" OF EVERYTHING INVOLVED, I JUST REFLECTED WITH YOU ON SOME OF MY FONDEST "FEELINGS" BORN OF THE INDESCRIBABLE TRIP IT BECAME...MOMENTS THAT BRING ME A LITTLE "GLOW" AND WHICH WILL ALSO SERVE TO HELP THE UNDERSTANDING NEEDED FOR "QUANTUM" BECAUSE THEY WOULD BECOME LITTLE MOMENTS OF FAMILIARITY WITHIN THE "EN MASSE" AND ALL THE MOVEMENTS / PARTS OF THE DIFFERENT "LANDSCAPES" IN BETWEEN...SO, MY SIX PRETORIAN GUARD (MUSICIANS), IN PARTICULAR THE FOUR MINDS OF EVAN PARKER, GRAHAM LYONS, KENNY WHEELER AND DARRYL RUNSWICK...MOST OF WHAT THEY PLAY IS "NOT ON THE INSTRUMENT", BUT JUST FOR THE RECORD, SOPRANO SAX, BASSOON, FLUGEL HORN AND BASS...THE SOUNDS MADE BY ALL OUR ANIMALS, AMPLIFIED INSECTS, BIRDS, AND THE TRAM WHICH ON A RAINY DAY IN ZURICH WHEN TURNING A PARTICULAR CORNER WOULD BECOME A COMPLETE ORCHESTRA WITH SECTIONS WHEN "BROUGHT OUT"...THE BIRDS WHO SING "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN" (IN AMONG THE OTHERS) AT THE START OF PART ONE...THE KIDS OF SCHURMATT...SCHURMATT IS IN A VALLEY IN SWITZERLAND WHICH IS INHABITED ONLY BY AUTISTIC CHILDREN, THEIR CARERS, TEACHERS, AND CONTAINS THEIR FLATS, SCHOOLS, GYM, SWIMMING POOL, SHOP ETC AND BEFORE I MET HER, MY WIFE ESTHER HAD A CLASS OF NINE OF HER WON...SPREAD OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS I SPENT AROUND A YEAR, IN AND OUT, RECORDING THE SOUNDS THESE CHILDREN MAKE WHEN TRYING TO COMMUNICATE...MUSIC IS SOUND AND AS SUCH IS TOTALLY SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF QUANTUM PHYSICS...IF ONE GOES "DOWN AND DOWN" THROUGH THE MOLECULES ATOMS PROTONS NEUTRONS ELECTRONS TO THE TWO HUNDRED SUB-DIVISIONS OF QUARKS AND PHOTONS, PLUS ALL THEIR "ANTI'S", WHAT WAS WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF THE HUMAN EAR HAS LONG SINCE DROPPED AWAY AND WHAT BEFORE WAS ABOVE THE LIMITS OF THE HUMAN EAR ARE NOW DRAWN DOWN TO THE LEVEL A HUMAN BEING CAN HEAR...SO, IN EFFECT ONE IS HEARING THINGS NO HUMAN EARS HAVE HEARD BEFORE...THEN THERE ARE SOME OF THE "DUET" PARTS...EVANS DUET WITH THE BIRD AT THE START OF PART TWO, PLUS THE DUET BETWEEN ANREAS (LEFT SPEAKER) AND GABY (RIGHT SPEAKER)...AGAIN, ANDREAS'S DUET WITH THE ROCK GUITARIST WHO IN ONE PLACE SOUNDS AS IF HE'S TRYING TO STRANGLE ANDREAS WHO AT THAT PRECISE MOMENT SOUNDS AS IF HE ACTUALLY WAS BEING STRANGLED...IN PART ONE IN CERTAIN PLACES THERE IS AN ENORMOUS ARCO TYPE BASS SECTION SOUND, IT'S JUST TWO HORNBILLS...THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN BASSOON AND GEESE WHERE ONE SIMPLY CAN NOT TELL WHICH IS WHICH AS THE GEESE FRAGMENT THEIR NOTES PRODUCING NORMAL HARMONICS AS WELL AS CHAIN REACTION HARMONICS TOO...THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN BASS, BASSOON AND ONE OF THE KIDS CALLED DORIS...SOME OF THE ACTUAL MELODY'S / PHRASES SHE INTONES ARE WORTHY OF COLTRANE AND ERIC DOLPHY...THE AMAZEMENT I STILL FEEL WHEN, HEARING HOW "FREE" IT SOUNDS (YET) KNOWING IT'S ACCURATE TO A TWENTY FOURTH OF A SECOND, EVERYTHING RECORDED TO CLICK TRACK AND ON FILM, NOT TAPE INITIALLY, AND IT ALL ACTUALLY STAYS TOGETHER!...THE BEGINNING OF PART SIC (NOT YET RELEASED) IS SIMPLY ONE BOY, ON HIS OWN NOTHING ADDED, AND WHAT GOES OFF IN THE HUMAN BODY WHEN WE TALK IS TRULY UNIMAGINABLE... BASIL KIRCHIN 2003
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I'm having an easy, mellow time of it this morning because of this:

http://www.ektrorecords.com/jukebox.html

I'm particularly fond of the Pharaoh Overlord tracks and the Haikara tracks.

Oh and the ones off this:

from the synopsis for Bove's book, The World Is Not For Sale: Farmers Against Junkfood:

famed not only for his passion for politics but also for his Roquefort cheese.

In following the Tour de France and the protests that interrupted Mr. Armstrong I constantly hear Media drop the name Jos� Bov� with the only qualifying information "radical farmer" and no mention of what the protests signify. From the website FoodFirst (perhaps comrades-in-arm with SlowFood?) I found his biography rich with the fight against GMOs, corporate agribusiness and the ruin of small farmers.

During the 1970s in his native France, Bove and his wife helped to organize land occupations to prevent the expansion of military bases onto farmland in the Larzac plateau, and in 1976 he spent three weeks in prison for his role in the invasion of a military outpost. In 1987, he and colleagues established the Confederation Paysanne (CP), an organization composed of and for French small farmers and for their continued existence. The following year, Bove and the CP organized an event in Paris -- "Plowing the Champs Elysees" -- to protest EU farm policies. And, in a move that led to international fame and a six-week stay in prison, Bove organized and helped in the partial demolition of a half-constructed McDonald's in his hometown of Millau in 1999. On many occasions, he has also demonstrated his internationalism in defiance of governmental authority. For example in 2001, he and 1,000 Brazilian peasants uprooted three acres of Monsanto's genetically-modified soy in Rio Grande do Sul, and as a result he was deported.

The Ornette pictures relate to our conversation on Tuesday night as to when he put out his work (50s or 60s). The Krapels photographs I randomly found while stolling through the hillside of the web and were too good to let lie alone.

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Have you seen what people are doing with their Xbox's?

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By e-mail, Mr. Steil, the German leader of the Xbox Linux project, declared: "In very simple words: The Xbox is cheaper than a PC. The Xbox is a lot smaller than a PC. The Xbox looks better (next to a TV set). The Xbox is more silent. Therefore it's an ideal Linux computer in the living room."_

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I felt the awesome power of marching band music for the first time about two years ago on the steps of the Low Library at Columbia. Just a bunch of kids belting out some tunes that were total thrashers. I couldn't believe how much i identified with the thump of the music, and as I glanced around, it was apparent that everyone around me felt it, too. Monica's show on WFMU highlights southern black marching bands and their inclusive funkiness. Well worth listening to some of her archives.

On technologically moral grounds I couldn't sit by (even 2000-some miles away) and let a human movement be solely represented by hoops and the balls thrown and doing the throwing through. Thomas was right in his estimation of my spent Saturday. I most likely had my feet in the PAcific Ocean pondering the sameness of everything while the differences were screaming so beligerantly (and in stereo no less) when he typed or thought that.

At the moment I am listening to the psych sounds of Fairport Convention:

though SAV has us on steady diet of ELO, Elton John, Jimmy Buffett, REO Speedwagon and the new (Smog).