Stange loops and plans

I started reading the book ‘I am a strange loop’, by Douglas Hofstadter. He is also the author of ‘Gödel, Esher, Bach’ (which i haven’t read). I already foresee this book ending up as one of my very favorites. Hofstadter is a great philosopher, scientist and also an excellent writer.

I will surely write more about how my reading of this book will proceed.

The topics discussed in Hofstadter’s books touch very well upon matters i often think about: ‘What is conciousness?’, ‘What is an ‘I’ or ‘self?’ It is already more than clear to me that a human being operates (or tries to do so) on what seem to be much different layers, neuro-physiologically, chemically and obiously in many more ways.

Could my music and paintings help people become more open and aware to the delicate complicatednesses of experience? At least this is what I most of all would like to achieve. I want to make pure-hearted, spontaneous explorations into as different sides of ‘self’ as possible. I make spontaneous immense cuts through cakes of a few meters high and then clearly expose the layers on the fresh cutting edges.

Imagine that for a few seconds or even longer you are totally seized by tone scales, as if what happens on the different tones, that seem to float almost in empty space, is a complete world of itself. Would such not help becoming more aware of different levels or functions of oneself? Imagine experiences like that, in the same way as standing with each of your feet on different chords or notes or color intervals, you could distinguish between much different ways of ‘hearing’ that you find yourself doing more or less simultaneously. The music/art could also help you to be able to distinguish more different kinds of ‘seeing’. Would all thus not stimulate curiousness about what really is your ‘self’?

I don't think any hurry should be involved in this, but really, i really like the process of slowly becoming aware and slowly becoming more able to put down the 'common facts' that blind you and me, our conditionings, our limited education and our superstitions, things that bore us but that we cause ourselves, etc. and understand that life is really amazing and that there are mysteries and matters worth researching in everything around and in us.

things to do (short term):
• finish the music for a friend’s short film
• finish an application for linguistic fieldwork with the Jingpo
• finish the latest pieces of music and post them on the internet as “BLOG MUSIC”

for the upcoming puppetry event (early August) with Jingpo children:
• get used to editing/composing music on my laptop instead of my big computer, find a reasonable set of themes
• get used to hand puppets (not necessarily as a ventriloquist)
• some networking and organizing





A Webpage for the Prop Roots Program
Around the day i published this blog i also started a webpage on facebook specially for our Prop Roots Program and my other public activities. (It is also accessible for people that don't have a facebook account.) This is the link:
www.facebook.com/PropRoots