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SWARMING MONDAY: 18.05.2020

SUN RA QUOTES:

"Everybody respected him because he had something different and everybody could hear it and see it, but they couldn't do it" > authenticity (costumes, experience, myth, imaginary)

"In my music I speak about unknown things, impossible things, ancient things, potential things"

"What you say has many meanings. it means only what you understand that it means, but that doesnt limit what it actually means"

"A catalyst changes everything, but remains unchanged"

"you are all instruments, everybody is supposed to be playing his part in this vast artistry of the cosmos"

Experienced next to inexperienced

You can’t have music that doesn’t have ugly in it

For Ra, myth is what poet Jay Wright calls a “mode of knowledge”; it is a “medium to understanding” that is quite closely linked to the grand events of the day.

ON IMAGINATION

Propagating: plant a seed and continue to take it to the next level
Aware of the notion of impossibility: and how it shapes idea's (imagination)
soundscape of quotes and word with different layers of meaning
anatomy of mythos
creating an imaginary vision that is collective
'renaming'

Fiction

isolation vs imagination (space travel)
power of sci-fi
notion of 'ghosts'
epistemological systems in the west as dominant - impossible in a certain mindset and frame
some cultures have other mindsets (instead of the Age of Enlightenment and humanism as central)

> Extracting things from the earth: (colonialism, violence, capitalism)