California mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus californicus): Stag, Allman Bros' R&R music's energy, and Piobaireachd * * * A Tweet with 2 tie dye Covid-19 pandemic handkerchief mask pics, more UU & Quaker than English ... With related creative blog posts -

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Stag, Allman Bros' R&R music's energy, and Piobaireachd

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

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11:12 AM (17 minutes ago)

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Dear Stuart,

Here's the picture, a Tweet, and some related ideas :) ...

A stag, for 1st time, came up to my window while I'm playing '73 Allman Bros at abt 3:20 - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - touched his antler (2 point) to it twice, lay down, & seems to be listening. #ScottishSmallPipes & riffing with #Piobaireachd @PMStuartLiddell @scottmacleod? :)

A stag, for 1st time, came up to my window while I'm playing '73 Allman Bros at abt 3:20 - https://t.co/qBjLQcYjMk - touched his antler (2 point) to it twice, lay down, & seems to be listening. #ScottishSmallPipes& riffing with #Piobaireachd @PMStuartLiddell @scottmacleod? :) pic.twitter.com/71gfFZpAGs
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Stuart,

in a related innovative exploratory vein, I turned on my SoundCorset tuner (with metronome), with this Allman Bros' music playing, and saw a new kind of sheet music, as various notes - eg A, E, G, B, D, - flashed on the screen. Sought to play some of these notes on the A SSP chanter as they flashed by (not yet Piobaireachd melodies ... but perhaps in a while ... with you thinking??? )

How to engage machine learning to adapt such Allman Bros' musical energy to play Piobaireachd with, I think, is one direction I'm inquiring about?

With very best wishes, Scott

Again,

Dear Stuart,

A stag (or male deer), for the first time ever, came up under the deck which is the roof to my garden patio, - while I'm playing the Allman Bros '73 at about 3:20 - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - touched his antler (2 point) to the window twice, and seems to be listening. He then laid down as close as possible, facing out (for the view?) and seems to be listening now even, with his ears back toward the music coming out this MacBook Air laptop computer (as I listen to this music and commune with him:). (I don't think I'm anthropomorphizing regarding his listening). I can see the Golden Gate Bridge beyond him (just took a picture, and will send), and I think it's the energy of the music. Now how to riff Piobaireachd-wise further with this Allman Bros' (is a question I'm returning to, and energy-wise:)?

Any chance we might schedule a lesson this week?

Wednesday or Thursday, 5pm Scotland time?

all the best,

Scott

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Dear Stuart,

Thanks again for your piping and lesson emails.

Attended two timely Fettes College Old Fettesian Association (OFA) meetings last week, including arising at 2:30am PT for the Saturday Annual General Meeting (at 11am Scotland). Am wondering if they'll even take on developing MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch for free-to-students' online degrees at the Bachelor and PhD levels and for Fettes students interested in Computer Science, and in any of the 32 ocw.mit.edu departments, as well. And might you become the first faculty at World University, - and on the wiki side (see Minute 2 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/calendula-officinalis-minutes-for-91821.html).

Where I find a lot of ground for creative bagpipe and Piobaireachd thinking is with regards to an idea of counterculture even, and even regarding William James' 1902 lectures at the Univ of Edinburgh on the Varieties of Religious Experience (the name of his book, which is also in the Great Books of the Western World series, if I recall correctly). He was a young Harvard professor at the time, I think, and apparently taught the first ever psychology course at Harvard too. His first chapter seems to focus on neurology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience - (and I have a neurophysiology blog label possibly in some of these regards - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/neurophysiology).

By counterculture and religious experience, I have these 4 examples in mind - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/black-footed-ferret-mustela-nigripes_0885055734.html (which juxtapose, in a positive way, cultural experiences of religion, with positive, for some, alternative religious experiences). I'm also wondering, as I think I've mentioned or written before to you, if classical Piobaireachd is a kind of religious experience in Scotland, and for Scots, and listeners, - for example at Blair Atholl castle and the Northern Gathering and such similarly. What do you think? And in some of these regards, then, what would countercultural Piobaireachd be like - creativity-wise, and informed too perhaps in conversation with Rock and Roll 'energy' yet piping wise (as you to my ear play so so remarkably) too. I have in mind Gordon Duncan's - may I call it this? - countercultural light music (Ceol Beag), in a sense, such as Thunderstruck, which you play so extraordinarily, and many of the tunes he wrote as well. They seem to come out of this alternative (rebellious as well) thinking, high energy creative energy somehow which appeals to people in different and freeing ways compared with traditional piping light music. What do you think? ('Excuse me while I kiss the skye" as Jimi Hendrix sang ... but in a slightly different way than when you play Piobaireachd and Light MUsic, and touch the sky:)

The stag stayed around, lying on the ground just outside my window, and as the music moved to the Grateful Dead music I shared with you as well. Curious in an ongoing way how to begin to somehow take a Piobarieachding the Blues, even, lead in playing with the energy of such music, constructed in slightly different ways. Might these be interesting queries for you? Might I learn something in these regards from you, in conversation with you, from your teaching, your modeling even, which could even become the basis for my upcoming Piobarieachd album, possibly way way out of the box, say, with ten Piobaireachd pieces, totally transformed, but recognizable, and so all played in a newly created genre in a sense, which draw people in rock and roll wise even :) ... to an alternative religious experience even of bagpiping When I went out to eat a salad for lunch on the garden patio, the stag got up and wandered off, music still playing. Am curious whether I have a new music-appreciation 'friend.' - and will be glad if he comes back for another wee listen to some happening rock and roll ... maybe even with me playing or riffing with it. :)

Cheers,

Scott

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