Pt.2

You may remember this melody from this year’s performances – in fact I think we started performing it last year already. It’s the rumba section, located at the end of a new tangos that doesn’t have a title yet.

I started humming the melody in the control room, then played it on the Flamenco guitar, then tried it on the electric guitar, but it really came together when I improvised a counterpoint to the Flamenco guiar melody on the electric. After listening a bunch of times I wrote this and this.

Percussion and keyboards will be added, but the breakdown section of just Flamenco guitar, electric guitar and kick drum will remain as is.

SD3

Urban Flamenco, the third album by Stephen Duros, is now available in the LL. Sometime in late November the album will become available from all the usual digital vendors and streaming services, such as iTunes, amazon.com, MOG, Spotify and so on.

Stephen will sell a small edition of 50 signed CDs from his website. These should become available by the middle of November. Check his website for more information.

Money Movements

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world – New Scientist
The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere. But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world’s transnational corporations (TNCs).

“Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” says James Glattfelder. “Our analysis is reality-based.

SD3

Urban Flamenco, the third album by Stephen Duros, is now available in the LL. Sometime in late November the album will become available from all the usual digital vendors and streaming services, such as iTunes, amazon.com, MOG, Spotify and so on.

Stephen will sell a small edition of 50 signed CDs from his website. These should become available by the middle of November. Check his website for more information.

Siri Responses

A friend of mine loves talking to Siri, a feature of the new iPhone 4S. Here are a few responses she told me about:

me: Will you marry me?
Siri: Let’s just be friends, ok.

me: how tall are you?
Siri: tall enough to bring computational knowledge to the whole world

me: what are you wearing?
Siri: aluminosilicate glass and steel, nice, huh?