Essays

Artist As Shaman

By Dank Fart The Pirate Poet at January 20, 2012 | 12:10 pm | 1 Comments

The shaman shed light upon the reflection of the inner world. They led and organized the community through the inward journey towards self-knowledge. It was through their teachings that people were instructed upon the ways of self-discovery. Their knowledge was passed down from generation to generation, connecting them to their ancestors who roamed the celestial realms more...

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Deep Sounds: We Are Something The Planet Is Doing

By Michael Garfield at January 17, 2012 | 10:35 am | 1 Comments

MUSIC: "Eschatons" (featuring Andrew McNew) Download it HERE for free! TRANSCRIPT: I believe that the definitive image of the early 21st Century will be of a sphere -- of the Earth from space -- of the cosmic plenitude and wholeness of a full belly and breast and basket, and a recognition of the archetypal as-above-so-below-ness that we are embedded in, that we more...

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Lake Tahoe New Years Extravaganza 2011-2012

By E. Rock Jamwok at January 10, 2012 | 10:08 am | 0 Comment

It's been a long and trying journey to finally make it to my promised land. After two years in grad school in Massachusetts and an exhilarating summer that took me through California, Oregon, New York, Colorado, and Utah - which included, but was not limited to, fulfilling stops at Lightning in a Bottle, Raindance, The Bounce, Re:Generation, The Big Up, the STS9 more...

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Deep Sounds: We Get Around – The Sacred Geography of 21st Century Renaissance Civilization

By Michael Garfield at December 21, 2011 | 10:24 am | 2 Comments

Originally published at The Renaissance Project “As viewed by astronauts from the moon, the earth lacks those lines of sociopolitical division that are so prominent on maps. And as recognized here below, the web of interlacing socioeconomic interdependencies that now enfold the planet is of one life. All that is required is a general change of vision to accord with more...

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Art is the Medicine, Culture is the Dis-ease

By Dank Fart The Pirate Poet at December 18, 2011 | 3:17 pm | 0 Comment

This was inspired by Sonic Blossom, Oct. 14-15 2011 at Cervantes Masterpiece Ball Room, Denver, CO. Alchemy oozes from the speakers in sonic vibrations sending the crowd into ecstatic movement. Swimming through a sea of people, anything is possible. I leave behind the fake life to discover something deeper and untold. Thought ceases as I reach a point of pure more...

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Deep Sounds: “And Now, Faster-Than-Light Culture” – Michael Garfield

By Michael Garfield at December 3, 2011 | 11:41 am | 2 Comments

The following originally appeared on Acceler8or.com and RealitySandwich.com The recent discovery at CERN of neutrinos traveling faster than light – poetically announced on the autumnal equinox, when Venus goes direct in Scorpio as the evening star and Persephone emerges from the Underworld in our mythic imagination – has physics forums buzzing about the more...

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When the Music Had to Stop – Ranchsauce Essay Pt. 3

By dizzurt at August 27, 2011 | 4:02 pm | 1 Comments

"No matter how lost you are, music can bring you home." -"The Music Never Stopped", the film Since I received my radio here at South Bay Correctional, I have had to establish a humbled approach to my music exploration. MP3 players have yet to be recognized as necessary for inmates. I personally believe that if rehabilitation is a goal of the correctional system, more...

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The Music Never Stopped – An Essay from Ranchsauce! Pts. 1 & 2

By Drift Dodgers at July 5, 2011 | 10:12 pm | 4 Comments

“Keep on dancin’ through the daylight, Greet the mornin’ air with song No one’s noticed, but the band’s all packed and gone. Was it ever here at all?” - Grateful Dead “The Music Never Stopped” Whether we are conscious of it or not, the strands of our being hum and resonate through sound. The Gods embedded humanity with musical more...

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Deep Sounds: The Problem & Promise of Festivals

By Drift Dodgers at May 21, 2011 | 5:18 pm | 0 Comment

"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called." - Buckminster Fuller “Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.” - Jean Piaget Read comments and join the discussion more...

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Deep Sounds: The Symmetry of Cause & Effect

By Michael Garfield at February 27, 2011 | 6:43 pm | 0 Comment

[caption id="attachment_15130" align="aligncenter" width="496" caption="Time Spiral - painted live by Michael Garfield at Wakarusa Festival 2010"][/caption] As if the accelerating pace of the 21st Century were not enough, I am starting to suspect that the common notion of time as frantic but comfortably linear is hopelessly naïve – that in order to adequately more...

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Deep Sounds : Best Seat In The House – The Future of Live Music

By Michael Garfield at January 31, 2011 | 11:57 pm | 0 Comment

(Originally published at H+ Magazine...visit for comments!) M31 "Andromeda" Galaxy...where even more awesome concerts are happening right now. – It’s 2006, and I am now accustomed to the jumbo screens to either side of the main stage at any given major music festival. I still remember having no choice but to elbow my way to the front if I wanted a better more...

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Deep Sounds: Live Art Is Nonsense

By Michael Garfield at January 27, 2011 | 12:54 am | 0 Comment

(Originally published at D/Visible Magazine, this is Part Five in the ongoing essay series on live art, Painting While Dancing.) Setting up an easel at concerts and inviting people to watch as you paint (or sculpt, or arrange flowers, or whatever art form you do that is more typically hidden from prospective audiences) is…different. Most art forms are kept more...

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RAGE 101 – Bisco Power Mission

By dizzurt at November 20, 2010 | 4:52 am | 0 Comment

From the Disco Biscuits Press Release: Less than a year after The Disco Biscuits played a sold-out show in New York to raise money toward the purchase of solar panels for a school, the band visited the Albert M. Greenfield Elementary School in Philadelphia yesterday to see the results of their work. “Bisco Power Mission,” a joint project between The Disco more...

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WAKA-aRe-U.S.A (Part 4 of 4)

By ranchsauce at June 27, 2010 | 10:00 am | 1 Comments

My friends who did not make the long drive from dreary New England to the spacious mountains of Ozark, Arkansauce have all been asking me what Wakarusa was like. I try to think of different ways to describe this year's festival, but can only reply that "it was a fantasy land." It was my second trip to the magical Mulberry Mountain, and I am convinced that it exists as more...

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Boing Boing Boing v3.0 (SkyHigh with Nexus)

By D~R Dyaphonoyze at June 14, 2010 | 9:49 am | 3 Comments

When I was told about an event put on by NEXUS involving their Funktion One sound system, a warehouse stocked wall to wall with trampolines and a 6 person coed dodgeball tournament, I was hesitant to believe it (much less consider driving the 14 hour round trip to Santa Clara, CA for one night). Upon further investigation, and a little arm twisting by my comrade more...

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What Keeps Me Comin’ Back

By Drift Dodgers at May 11, 2010 | 9:17 pm | 6 Comments

There is a sense of pride and accomplishment that comes with being part of a legendary moment in music. That is why we go so far out of our way for events that may turn out to be epic, or will perhaps just contain one great moment that becomes famous or simply unforgettable to the people that were there. What makes these rare occasions priceless is that they are one more...

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Phish Out West ;) The Scene at Festival 8 (Part 1 of 2)

By Oh Werd at November 30, 2009 | 8:57 pm | 4 Comments

Phinally the date arrived! On Thursday October 29th, at 9am, my phlight to the West coast had taken off from JFK airport in New York City. Little did i know, while boarding, of the unique experience that would soon follow. I could feel the excitement from the moment we stepped foot on the plane. As we climbed through the aisle to take our seats, we could hear the more...

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Phish Brings The Heat To The Desert – Festival 8 Review

By Drift Dodgers at November 30, 2009 | 8:50 pm | 8 Comments

Stream / Download these while you read: Tweezer Split Open and Melt THE Story of the Ghost Fluffhead Mike's Song > 2001 McGrupp & The Watchful Hosemasters (Acoustic) The Curtain (Acoustic) And grab the rest at LivePhish They started slow, playing the obligatory, warming up, the consummate showmen, setting expectations low so they could blow them more...

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It’s Music to My Robot Ears: Are Electronic Musicians Really Musicians?

By ranchsauce at November 28, 2009 | 5:54 pm | 11 Comments

As computer technology rapidly advanced over the last half century, our access to various forms of information and function- previously available only to experts in a specific field- expanded with the same rigor. The development of music software, computer music systems, and personal computers (most recently portable high-speed laptops) provide trained musicians and more...

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