Dear Angela & Victor (Yoginis) ~ 
Yoga Concert: Metamorphosis - Yoga Lene in Sweden with musicians from Gothenburg Symphony




Angela, Victor, Patricia, Andrew, Satya, Linda, Yogina Teachers, All,

MMmmm. .. appreciating the creativity here in teaching Yoga meditation too, with music -and on the Web. Performativity again in Yoga teaching too (or meditation indirectly re piper Stuart Liddell, A&V, All?), and while Yoga Lene here is doing something remarkable, when she first starts teaching Yoga, her face seems a little tensed, pained or similar? (Swedish unique thinking, content exceptionalism too -  with Yoga also? - and all in English! ~Victor! :) ... all in a time of global quarantining!

Yoga Concert: Metamorphosis - Yoga Lene in Sweden with musicians from Gothenburg Symphony
'Welcome to a yoga pass with live music played by musicians from Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Lene Skomedal, Yoga Lene.'

https://www.gso.se/en/gsoplay/video/yogaconcert/

Yoga Lene seems to be teaching about and to classical western music too! Where is the raga here? :)

Appreciating the global metaphors she engages Swedish-wise in Yoga:)

Warm regards, Scotty




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READ THE INTERVIEW IN OPUS MAGAZINE

LENE SKOMEDAL
Founder

MUSICIAN AND YOGA TEACHER

I live in Gothenburg and work mainly as a freelancing horn player, but I am also a yoga instructor. I combine my two passions, music and yoga ...
https://www.yogalene.com/about



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new hippie shirt ... wore it on a walk in Canyon






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Hi Ma,

Not yet afternoon here ... is it pretty by you? How are you?

Got a beautiful hippie psychedelic shirt at Walmart Friday evening with lots of pinks, yellows, blues and oranges, - made in Vietnam - and which is XXL ... wasn't sure even if, or when, I'd wear it. And then low and behold, when I went for a walk yesterday evening, I put it on over a T-shirt, not yet washed ... and it fit well, and was kinda nice to boot. (No concerns either about sociality - and I'm somehow interested in, engaged with this aesthetic, taste-wise too, - even as my hair is getting a little longer in this quarantine time). I think the price listed at the store was something like $13.97, but the automatic check out register at WM sold it to me for $7 - what a good deal. Still unsure at the store when and how I'd wear it (and how I'd wash it too, since it was made in another country, and didn't have washing instructions - but I bought it also since it might help people in Vietnam too financially). And re norms, too, I was wondering if I'd wear it, but felt free to do so - socioculturally - in my solitary walk, in solitary Canyon (which has its 'plusses') to wear this shirt yesterday, and liked it. ... nice walk too on the far side of the Monroes overlooking Moraga! (Too much thinking here, Ma? :)

It's been a piping morning here (listening-wise), with lots of Stuart Liddell, and as I get further along learning about my new smartphone - with much better voice-integration than previous phone - I spoke to Google Assistant (which seemed to pop up at a good time) last night to set my alarm for 7:30 this morning - and re being productive Google Assistant said too. ... And so I didn't turn off the alarm in the other room this morning by voice, but I may begin using Google Assistant and this tinkling alarm to set playing times for bagpiping throughout the course of the day ... Now how could I also make this process of practicing more social, I wonder? :)

Love, Scott


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Regards, Scott


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Another tremendous version of Mason's Apron: 




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New GHB dance-form alert - waltzes! 




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By the way, two lessons ago, I think my tenor drone, when playing the D chanter, was out of tune :) Did you hear this? - and re listening to tuning and taking time, too, to tune - even in live piping situations ...

Cheers,
Scott

Just getting into the canny, too, innovative, and risk-taking (Scots' wise), Fred Morrison here -

https://youtu.be/eQAl7kQpikY (Fred Morrison - Live from The Celtic Center) ... and thanks too to Skye Richendrfer's intro to this and "The Valley of the Deer" performance introducing Stuart Liddell and the other 2 Glen Fiddich winners ...


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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm


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Back to Stuart Liddell, here too as a kind of 'film-maker sage' (at least represented this way, in part) ... so somehow 'wise' ... I don't think I've sent this your way yet:




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Scottish small pipes' theory

Scottish small pipes' theory
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Scott MacLeod
Sun, Aug 2, 1:42 PM (2 days ago)
to Taylor, Scott

Taylor,

Another great! video which I just stumbled upon (re behind the scenes' view, and Scottish piping thinking / theorizing):

Behind the scenes at the Glenfiddich (2015)
https://youtu.be/qDJz4ngesT4

At 3:30 Jack Lee here talks about having recorded all the Piobaireachs from all Vols 1-15. And I'm recalling how he's basically had the tape recorded going whenever he plays (which I sent you too) ... so am seeking here to get into this again (potentially EVERY time) ... and because with this one can get direct feedback about one's own playing and theorize how to play in new ways! :)

Another sheet music theory item re A & D chanters - and quirk too perhaps Scottish small pipes, (and possibly Great Highland Pipes???): on the Scottish small pipes - and I was just playing at the piano keyboard with SSP - the SSP low A sounds an octave below than what is written on sheet music! But in your explorations using sheet music, I encourage you at first to write out the 2 SSP chanter scales like the piping sheet music in the CoP Tutors.

However, re the CoP Tutors, I also encourage you - newly - for the A chanter to write in 2 sharps into the Key Signature on C & F on every line - which refers to A mixolydian (and is actually signifying the key of D:) . Check out some other GHB sheet music online to see this notation in the staves.

We'll get to the D (and B flat) chanters' key signatures later (unless you want to explore this on your own too). (Might you eventually get a B flat SSP Walsh chanter?)

Cheers, Scott

PS
From musicalmacflower@gmail.com I'll send you the sheet music for Scotsaire Hornpipe which has the sharps written in ... for the A chanter!






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