All Entries Tagged With: "musing"
The importance of being empirical
After blogging last time about the importance of avoiding stress and maintaining some sort of balance, this time I find myself thinking about just how important it is for me to keep playing. I have recently rediscovered my passion for several musical traditions that I hadn’t been engaged with for several years. The reason for [...]
Avoiding stress in the 21st Century rush
Read a very interesting post today by Jason Teitelman at http://www.blogcatalog.com/community/technology-and-stress-unplug-yourself/ I probably have a rather strange perspective now with my interests and experience (in no particular order) in music technology, education, teaching, management, research but yet also – full time student and father of 3 boys (ages 7 6 and 4) – also full [...]
Who's music is it anyway?
Found myself reading ignatia’s blog today which discusses connectivism (which could be thought of as a particular approach to thinking and acting with technology) and what simmilarities it shares with interpretivism and critical social science. While many interesting questions are raised I came across the following which relates to my thinking here on Music technology in [...]
Spare hour tomorrow?
(Text fromTED at http://www.ted.com/webcast/watch/event/peacesummit) Watch Karen Armstrong live from the Vancouver Peace Summit Sunday, September 27 1:00-3:30 PDT TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong joins four Nobel Peace laureates, including the Dalai Lama, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire and Betty Williams, moderated by Mary Robinson, at the Dalai Lama Center’s Vancouver Peace Summit to introduce the story [...]
A global perspective?
At a conference recently I had a really interesting conversation about the word ‘Global’, its usage and meaning. In the car on the way home I decided to blog about this as I think it has some relevence as we hear talk in the web about a ‘Global community’, and ‘Global networks’ – what do [...]
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